Nickfromwales

I thought we were close....but now I feel like I don't know you at all. You stole my OCD, and all the tray, the damage is done. 😭

With loss of dexterity etc a shataf would be impractical vs a Geberit / other “hands free super-loo”. Those wash and dry your undercarriage, however you still need to press buttons on a panel or remote control. Still, designed for folk who are least able or have assisted living.

List them in the marketplace here https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/forum/47-market-place/

Not 45's, use a pair of 15's Just don't tell @Russell griffiths

How hands on are you in terms of heavy graft, 1st & 2nd fix carpentry, boarding, floor coverings etc? @nod is a 1 man army, and multidisciplinary, hence his very low costs. Good to see you’ve gone through an estimator as that’s always a sobering process, obvs with the aim of deleting what / who you can and replacing with your own time and skills.

Tell them they shouldn’t have paid the damaged tiles, end of, and simply ask that they take those back for e free exchange. They’ll whinge that they’ve been fitted so can’t be returned, which is where you say “you should have returned them upon inspection” and stick to your guns. Explain that any which are damaged, further, from no use of a roof ladder, will also constitute damage / defect. Can you tell them asap so the scaffold stays up?

Put it back together and take another photo lol.

Quickest and easiest thing for you to do is to mix up some drywall adhesive and fill it in, with a bit of DPC laid down first, as @nod states. Leave that DPC long, do the filling, and then cut the excess off when you've skimmed it all. 12.5mm PB with skim is 30 min, no need for 15mm PB as that gives 30 min when no skim is applied.

I would have thought that relates to changes in legislation for commercial food hygiene perhaps, as for domestic nobody would care 2 hoots how / what you strained tbh. That's my only guess!

I've had to install these systems where we fitted full solar window blinds (French company which the name of I cannot recall as it's been a long as feck day) but for Fakro / Velux the manufacturer has made them wind / storm proof out of the box so there's no need (AFAIK) to have any 3rd party controls on those types of units; caveat is that you buy the correct external blinds from the manufacturer of the window / roof light vs a £3.99 one from Ali expiss.

Indeed. Scruffy gits should have offered to clean it up ffs. Go knock the neighbour and tell them its "gloves and bag time" at yours, and show them the mess left behind!!

The secret is to NOT drill in at 90o with the drill bit as you'll have snots of brick which are a PITA to get rid of if you try to do perfectly parallel drilling. So angle the drill outwards (sideways), 5-10o should suffice, so the pocket is slightly wedge shaped. You can try this vs just taking out the nearest whole bricks and then reinstating perfectly cut new bits of brick back in, of course, so let's see how many you do before saying "(expletive deleted) this for a game of rounders" and storming off to the pub. My bet is 2 max, but I'll have a small side bet on the first one seeing you into a straight jacket. Life is short, pick your battles well young Jedi...... and the kicker is, taking whole bricks out CAREFULLY will be a perfectly fine job; you won't find a builder milling out pockets with multi-tools etc, they'd look at you as if you're from another planet 👾 and also if you take whole bricks out you won't have a load of shite fall down into the cavities. Use the force.... ( 👈 LINK)

Plenty of argument to go 3ph these days, but having a decent amount of solar + batteries does become more useful if you can import and export x3 over the same period of time.

Trickle vents would barely scratch the surface!? You’re looking to purge not have a slight breeze Who cares what outside is doing when you’re baking to death inside, so active cooling in whatever form is a wonderful thing for sure. Doors and windows closed, cooling on max, on with the budgie-smugglers. 👊

Perfectly normal for the long edges (tapered) and the butted joints to be holding more skim, taking longer to dry out, and those lines being “visible”. What is not acceptable, is feeling the scrim tape, as this cannot be sanded or painted over, and will be a big problem when you come to decorate. You can see he has over-polished this a bit, through inexperience most prob, hence too much skim has been removed over the tape and it has been exposed. This needs to be PVA’d and redlined afaic, and then ask the guy to play the second set on a bit heavier. Don’t be frightened to speak to him about it, we’re all human at the end of the day, and if he’s a tidy chap he’ll take it on board and up his game a bit. Oh, and don’t put a spirit level against the ceiling again, 🤦‍♂️, less gin more tonic ok!!!