Nickfromwales

Simple. You just put the static on a couple of extra blocks and hire an above ground poop tank, as we do with bigger welfare units on site. No need to tell anyone anything then.

Perfectly fine.

Yea, ended up fitting one and I decided to stuff a load of surplus rockwool around and under it. Client looked at me as if I was mental, and I said you’ll thank me later. Metal baths are just horrid things imo.

That’ll take some doing…..

I’m no expert, maybe try more gin? Probably was, just I ended up answering it…… My knee jerk I’m afraid, as all too often decent folk are told by “professionals” to do things and spend money that they didn’t need to, so I just thought you’d been given duff advice. Keep learning yes, but always keep asking!

If you lose If you win, they pay 100% of your legal costs as part of the claim.

No. You'd regroup and find a way to the finish line, as we don't give up. Go to court and get an impartial judge to reside over these matters. It's pointless communicating any further with this individual. He clearly thinks you are down there and he is up here. I hate wankers like this tbh. I had the unpleasant task of representing a client on site this week, to meet, and then formally dismiss his builder (PC) for the longest list of faux pas and errors in ignorance that I have seen for a good few years. The moment he realised he could no longer bully and manipulate the client was just sheer joy. It was to the point where I almost lost it and wanted to say "do you realise I hear this shit from my 4 kids on a daily basis, so your version won't get you an inch of traction"... He flapped about, face went a bit red, then a bit of awkward silence and looking at the floor for inspiration......then he realised his time was up with bull-shitting and consuming the goodwill of another. Go to court, with immediate effect. My 2 cents.

They'll never take me alive......

Maybe you're ignoring the huge volume, plus the people who never claim.....aka balance? How many motorists were on the roads today, and maybe 5 or 10, or 25% had an accident..... It's like a lottery win every day for these providers! The majority of claims are bogus until challenged, an evaporate as quickly as they appeared. Insurance companies pay specialists to review and investigate claims to try and find a way to get off the hook. Ask me how I know! I have zero sympathy for insurers, they make a fortune, end of. My 17 year old son changed the postcode for his car insurance policy quote to a "des-res" area 10 miles away, and it dropped by £2k. WTAF??? My oldest was sitting at a red light, broad daylight, and 'whack'. Some 17 year old girl in a clio wrote him off. Hit him so hard the radio was in his lap. She got out of the car and said she didn't see him as she was still on a facetime call with her boyfriend. Then her family rallied to the scene and advised she said to the police her brakes failed; a quick search showed the car MOT'd a few weeks prior. No charges brought btw. As she was a weeping 17 year old girl not one of the crowd of attending "police officers" approached my son to ask if he was injured or needed medical attention. He rang me and I said he should walk the scene and video the lot for insurance to not argue back. He then got challenged and threatened in front of said "public servants". Useless wankers in attendance that night. My sons renewal then shot up as he had to declare a (expletive deleted)ing non fault accident. That is just legalised theft, plain and simple. If it's such a poor income generated from being a warranty provider (insurance company) then the warranty companies should accept financial advisors recommendations to close the doors perhaps, eh? Or maybe they still operate as it turns out it's not so bad after all? C'mon people....... 🙃 FFS. PS, it's good to vent. No personal attack etc.

Ah........... I was hoping you wouldn't bring that up tbh....... Theyre wrong too.

Hold up there boss man........ We have a broken arrow here. And I would either comply with that requirement or exceed it in every single thing I ever do. @G and J has gone rogue here, prob too much cement dust that's gone to his brain, and is asking if it's worth adding in. No, it's not. B regs GA drawings will be supported by the PD, and all necessary risk will have already been mitigated against and underwritten by their PI insurance; and some qualifications of some sort....... so the client asking, if intumescent ridge tiles is a good idea to include, will meet with the same response. "NO". I am in no way suggesting to steer away from a professionally drafted specification.

Not sure how to tell you this......... ..but the tiles are on wrong. The lines are suppose to go up/down not left/right. Should be a quick fix though

If fire has made it's way to the VCL, then you're either dead or watching the fire brigade evacuate the neighbours. "Less gin, more tonic" moment here....

I'd say avoid steel. I've seen too many with the enamel chipped and then they start to rust. Search up trojan cast too, for properly tough reinforced acrylic / grp types. Standard flimsy baths are not designed for you to stand in, that's why shower-baths always come slightly more robust, to take the point pressure of you standing in one spot. Same. Makes a good job great, and as I was often removing U/S baths I kept the tidy feet for such instances.

If there's mention of damage, then replace, yes. You need someone HETAS registered to do the work ok, so don't take anyone's word for it, ask to see their credentials.

There should be no reason, if that's not damaged, why you cant fit a new closure plate and re-use. Looks awfully small bore for a solid fuel appliance though? Did you have much of an issue with spillage?

The temp of the slab is never, imho, going to be high enough to have an amount of movement that a modern decoupling membrane wouldn't deal with simply. And then you'd have to convince me. You can get tile adhesives that allow <10mm of decoupling between both surfaces. What are your intended floor finishes to be?

My Bosch is quite clever, as it'll spin up very slowly with the clothes changing position, and keeps doing so until the load is even, and then it speeds up bit by bit and then if happy goes for gold. If it can't get happy it doesn't go faster than 800rpm I think (1600 machine) to stop it from committing harakiri.

They will email you one I'm sure, just ping them a request

Illbruck FM 330 expanding foam. Defo nothing that would bridge damp such as wood / mortar and the like. Would need some DPM there obvs, but that foam goes off way tougher than the usual foams from builder merchants etc. You'd foam and fit the boards as you went along, so the boards are perimeter sealed with the 330 foam, both in front of and behind the DPM. FYI the 330 foam is closed cell so won't bridge damp like most regular off-the-shelf foams, plus it kills off the cold junction between the existing floor and the new, and is much much hardier all round. LINK

Words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence on here, but hey ho lol. So airtight, and then trickle vents in all the windows and extractor fans I guess?

I most definitely am! I was just asking, because if there's a quality frame such as yours, and most AT methodology is known from day dot, you could avoid that cost, perhaps, that's all Out of curiosity, when had you panned getting them in, and were you going to attempt a DIY blower (pre) test of any sort?

Prob with ICF is you need to pump or hand-ball from a flexi bucket to get it into the 150mm gap. Would require staging to do that from a barrow, successfully I expect.

The AVCL leaks behind the layers though, so the taping isn't really robust, but where do you stop if there's trades blasting through jobs. The best thing I find is speaking to the trades before they get their tools out.

I'd just store the plywood in the rooms to acclimatise, prob for 48hrs min, and then they should just stay at ambient and not do much more tbh. Saw a whole house in oxford prepped for Amtico, and they just carried the boards in, butted the boards up to each other, PVA'd the Egger P5's, and then counter-sunk and blasted in a bezillion screws. Holes/gaps were just filled with exterior grade filler afaik, and then sanded back by the Amtico guys who then applied feathering compound and sanded that back again. If the boards are left in these spaces for a day or two that should satisfy any worries, if any actually exist that is.