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Thank you for all the good wishes. Buildhub has been a lifeline for me over the past 2 years. The practical aspect with the shared knowledge & experiences, but, also the support & humour.

One house we owned had smooth tiles on the floor of the garage. Oh and a dent in the wall where a car had slid into it.

Thanks guys. It was all really down to Henry's hard work & attention to detail. He sadly passed away on 5th March. Heartbreaking that he didn't get to see the house finished & move in. However, it stands as a huge achievement for him & it is lovely.

Might find it works just fine with the two panels parallel connected. If it does, then it would be a better solution (in terms of maximising output). Can't do any harm to just try it and see how it works.

Not as a structural upper floor, but you can have a screed or use ScreedBoard overlay.

This seems to iwork as well: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/332895172548 ? F

That's the plan. More time, more money, and no forwarding address for the kids.

I loved a concrete floor upstairs. We’re doing the same again this time.

All those tips you gave me haven't worked. I think you're a better glider than a teacher.

Perhaps get a bunch of cheap ones from China. They probably come from there anyway.

Had the air tightness test & EPC done this week. Not really ready but had to do it to meet the deadline for the FIT. House nowhere near finished, just plastered, have 2nd fix to do & MVHR not on yet. Air test result was 0.41 & EPC A rated at 99. (Of course if I fit solar thermal at a cost of £4000 it could score 101 & save £64 a year. What nonsense.) Huge relief. My husband would have been so chuffed.

Thanks everyone for their responses!! Makes me feel a little easier about it

It's just the join of the scrim cloth from the ceiling to the wall. It's a fairly regular thing to happen so nothing to worry about. Just let your house dry out and move and shrink and when it stops, about 18 months from the heating went on then you can start to sand and fill.

Looks like normal shrinkage cracking, if this is a relatively new build. Pretty much any new build will tend to suffer from slight shrinkage/settlement cracks like this for the first year or two, as the house dries out and stabilises. It will generally be a bit worse if the house sits with a relatively low internal humidity level, as this will be a lot lower than when the house was built, and if the house was wet plastered then there will be a very big humidity difference between the period when it was being plastered, where it may literally have been dripping wet inside, and when completed when it will tend to be a lot less humid.

Or with a different detail around the door...

Well I have been busy with some timber, and enclosed the space under the panels to form a shed . Henceforth to be known as the Swiss chalet.

Building a house is easy. It's like riding a bike. Except the bike is on fire and you're on fire and everything is on fire and you're in hell.

Been having a few thoughts about garages recently. Given that it is traditionally seem as the man zone, irrespective of how it might fly now, seems like we can have some design freedom in there. Where SWMBO gets to choose the crap that sits on the shelves and the shade of eggshell that the downstairs water closet gets painted, i thought of the following. Bolts of varying sizes stuck to the concrete much like those penny designs on floors, covered in a clear epoxy. Yes I know it might be a bit costly, but thing purely of the aesthetic aspect. Who would go for that?