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Well for starters the manufacturers warranty wont be valid. That appears to be a slimline tray ? I can only assume it’s been placed on a timber frame to make it easier to run the waste pipe above the floor boards ? If so that’s lazy work. I am not a plumber but did my parents bathroom and installed a slimline tray and lifted the flooring and waste pipe noticed the joists and laid 18mm ply and bedded the tray into that flat surface which is I’m sure the proper way to do that. why has the installer done it that way ? You’ve posted elsewhere regarding the dodgy screen support arm. Is your installer a professional plumber both these things are raising red flags for me I’m afraid. Sometimes waste pipes may need to run above the floor level, in which case there is no point in buying a slimline tray that’s why deep trays exist.

Shower trays are normally bedded on mortar (or flexible tile adhesive for thin beds). I believe this is to reduce the risk of the tray cracking by providing distributed support. If your installer hasn't bedded the tray you have to wonder what sort of job he is doing elsewhere.

Hi all, Finally, we managed to start the job this morning. They dug out the old curb and installed a new one. Tarmac will be done by this Tuesday. They moved that car last night and replaced it with another one, and after they parked the other car and went inside their house, the only good thing was that I found out which house the car belonged to. It was so dramatic this morning when the contractors came and went to knock on their door, but they didn’t open it. It was 8:30 in the morning. Again, they waited another 10 minutes and received no reply. The contractors said they didn’t think they would move the car, and they were about to leave. I decided to call the police, and today they were so helpful. They called the registered keeper and told them to move the car. By that time, I also went there and asked them to move, and finally they moved the car. Once they started working, most of the neighbours came out, and they were not happy with the sound they caused. They demanded to see the permission from the builder, and the builder showed it to them. Most of the neighbours went in after seeing the permission, but one awful neighbour started arguing with me; he said I checked the council website and there was nothing he could see regarding the permission. Bla Bla Bla, finally, I told him that I didn’t want to explain to you anything; if you have any problems, call the police, and he silently went inside. I have installed a camera there, and now I can see that each time they pass, they stand there, looking at the curb, and moan. I hope they will settle within a few weeks or months. Anyway, I felt so happy.

Okay thanks and thanks everyone who helped me with this issue I’ll get my installer to get it touch with the supplier to sort this out

How about this. Excuse the lousy picture. Build the extension as shown in yellow. It does not join the existing extension. Yes you have to go outside and then back in through a door to get to the new extension. Then later (with PP) build the link, which is little more than put a door on the back and a roof over the link. Easy if the foundation work is done at the time of the main build.

if you want a street gate it will have to be a slider as you will not be allowed a gate opening onto the pavement/road. I have just built one using kit available on the internet.

OK - you may have to watch a James Bond film! The T-shaped thing that Roulette croupiers use to move the chips around the table (hence my invention of the verb 'to croup') can be replicated to push semi-dry sand/cement mix round instead of Roulette chips. It avoids your installer having to grow longer arms. I think @Pocster's reference to peace of mind to be gained from filling under the tray refers to the possibility of the tray cracking if it is simply 'hung' (as your pic shows) and not supported.

I'd be very cautious of 2 layers of polythene as it has very low vapour permanbility. You will risk trapping moisture. You will be at risk of degrading the timbers. Fit the PIR as carefully as you can. Use a foam that won't shrink over time. Some FM330 would work but it's not the cheapest. This will suffice but let the joists open to the air below. Then put an airtightness membrane over the top. Seal it correctly and it'll really limit the amount of internal airborne vapour getting to the joists. You can use the tape to secure it to the wall or else lap it up the walls and nail some expanded metal mesh over the top and render for an airtight finish.

If I remember correctly the neighbours objection was against losing on street parking which has been settled, any other change will not effect that point.

Ooh that looks good, more “reality” than “grand” 👍

I’m not sure why you would use plasterboard boxers There all pretty crap

Hmmm... so the tray is already fixed in. You do want to bed in a semi-dry mix of sand-cement as per the instructions you posted. My tray was not raised on a frame so I had to guess the height of the s/cem mix and luckily got it right. In your case you could just use a T-piece of wood/ply and push it in like a croupier shifting chips (no, not the edible ones).

What happened to the idea of build it so the new extension does not quite reach the old extension so it would qualify? Then later apply for PP to bridge the tiny gap between the two PD extensions? Build footings etc to allow that right from the start.

Did you put in a double concrete beam, or engineering brick footings below that part of the beam and block as part of the original construction to allow for an internal block work wall? If not the answer is no, you can only use stud work as @nod said above. You can't retro fit blockwork walls as an after thought.

Not a lot going on in Wales.

Definitely want to bed that - I used flexible tile adhesive on mine . Bedded to marine ply sheet which in turn was glued and screwed to battons .

So your not going to bed it down on a mortar mix then ?

We haven't quite landed on a final design. Next week the designer is converting layout and front elevation drawings into 3D drawings, as soon as I have these I will share. We are building near Donington, Spalding. Thanks for the offer of help.

That’s seems a really terrible design of shower screen support. Just buy a normal one that goes across to attach to the wall with the window. A bit of work to fill the holes and colour match the filler for sure but it being a marble design you might get away with it, or get in one of those smart repair people who are very good at that sort of thing.

In case it is of help to someone, we had no option but to use only 25mm-thick PIR boards on the exterior of our brick, solid-wall, Victorian house, each board's edges sealed with foam, and then all overlaid with TLX thermal blanket. Our narrow soffits, and tops of our windows being immediately adjacent to the soffits, meant we had to confine ourselves to the above method, overlaid with timber cladding. The thermal benefit indoors of the above method has already been considerable. We're looking forward to the depths of next winter.

I found that the 75mm fits neatly into the 90mm and the seals work as well. So I have just used tescon tape around the joint to be sure it won't come apart.

<Stands up> We live in an estate - a Persimmon one in fact - and love it here. <Sits down to a reassuring ripple of clapping from the amassed circle of new friends, and nods of acceptance now that I've finally been able to say such a thing out loud> Joking aside, having spent many years renovating various Victorian properties and developed skills, knowledge and experience of pretty much every aspect (including, unexpectedly, building construction photography which found its way into the Haynes Victorian House Manual!) we never expected to end up in a new build (or rather 3 years old at the time). However, an estate agent suggested we had a look round even just to rule such a property out so we did and something just felt 'right' to both of us when we did. We bought it and 14 years on have absolutely no regrets. Indeed, I can easily see us staying another 14 as it suits us (small family now) perfectly. Perhaps we've been lucky with having the show home but the house is very well built. Having extended it and retrofitted MVHR I've seen almost every last inch of the building fabric - inside and out - and the build quality is absolutely fine. I'm a fussy bugger too - non-aligned screw heads are all that's required to keep me awake at night. Compared to every single one of the older properties we've renovated it is world's apart. People say 'They don't make them like they used to' and all I can say is 'Thank God for that!'. It performs well and is an absolute dream to work on. It turns out things can be built square after all. We're not overlooked, although others are so of course not all plots are the same, and we've always had great neighbours so again maybe we've been lucky in that respect too (currently a vet one side and dentist the other so I want you to imagine a family photo hanging up in the hall showing our gleaming white smiles, even on the cat! 😂). For those that can't understand our choice I wonder what the alternative is that is being compared with? Presumably the same general location and cost, otherwise does any such comparison make any sense?

I would be tempted to make the door reveal several inches wider than the door sill and run the breather and cladding down the reveal to below the sill ( same level as the rest of the building). Leave a 1" gap at each end of the sill so it doesn't have to be sealed against the reveal.

I asked the highway regarding this, and they said you can only call the police if you are inside your driveway and you can’t get out. If you are outside and you can’t get in, no one can do anything.

My wife agrees I was explaining last night how I was trying to prove it'd meet building regs for BC and got that look. "You're not planning to put in an application to insulate the floor, are you?", followed by "stop being a stickler for the rules and get it done". Well that's me told.

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We’re very proud of our lost, prestigious housing stock with EPC’s of Z.

Wales is a very exclusive club, that'as all mate.