Nickfromwales

sending you a high-5 down the line. She any good at grouting?

This should all land squarely on the shoulders of the OFTEC installer who commissioned the new tank / de-commissioned the old one. This is ENTIRELY their fault and should be coming off their insurance.

Just knock the bloody thing down already !! Dig the shite out and dispose of, and then infill and compact, and rebuild. The writing is on the wall.......the house is on borrowed time. Oh, and don't listen to rumours, most are utter bollocks.

Yellow stains will be the LEAST of your problems!!!!!!!

Flat, not shiny. I’d have said mirror otherwise ? Big walls will always have some kind of undulation, but for every 2.5m run @ 2.4m high you should be expecting a very good finish over the given area. Beware the spreads that don’t lay opposites on and let them go hard before then laying adjoining, eg spreads who put a whole room on ‘wet on wet, and then there is very little they can do to get all the internal angles and lines crisp and straight. Yes, they do make internal corner trowels, I own one, but not many people can use one without doing more harm than good. 3 sets a day is good going, just depends how old your spread is ?

You can use a small fan heater to kick start things if you’ve ever forgotten to turn the UFH on so no big problems there.

Tres bien. As for tike adhesive, just butter the wall, enough for 2 or 3 tiles ( maybe more once you pick it up ) and put x number of £2 coin sized blobs of adhesive on the back of the tile. This will give plenty of adhesion and allow you to use the same principal as used for laying the tray, eg pushing the tile in and squashing the blobs until each tile is minted lamb. Don’t butter too much wall at any one time as the adhesive has a much shorter working aka “open” time when spread thinly on the wall Beware to use a level, vertically, as you go up the wall, as this method will see you slowly coming out away from the wall as the courses rise. Keep that in check. Check course by course. You need a bucket of clean water and a nice soft sponge + small paint brush to clean each grout line out when you get a bit of ‘ooze’ coming through. As you go, you’ll quickly get a gauge of what is too much / not enough and you’ll ooze less ( that sounds so wrong ). Every 10 / 15 tiles laid, prise one back off and check how much % of contact you’re maintaining. 60-70% is ample, and panic yea not about gaps at the edges, just ram the grout in, when you get to that stage, and the corners will be just fine. As far as cuts, where to start / stop etc, work it out so prominent features get the most sympathies cuts. @Onoff says he’d have raised the bottom cut higher to get rid of the rip at the ceiling. I think that would have been worse when you look what that would have done to the cut under the window

A 4 day plastering course for £500 for two people.....will just about give you the confidence to mix the plaster properly. Absolute total waste of £500. Same as driving lessons, some need less, some need more, and sometimes you still don’t get how they were given a license at the end ‘COS THEY STILL CANT BLOODY WELL DRIVE!! I’ve had spreads in and on the first set I’ve told them not to come back tomorrow. If it’s not like a sheet of glass, you’re out on your ass. Don’t put up with a crap spread, bin them immediately and go onto the next one.

340w panels; 12,000 / 340 = 35 panels. Don’t forget the consumables / trays etc. GSE don’t cover every panel size, so check compatibility and consider EasyRoof if you need bigger. If you’re on true split elevations you’ll need a dual string inverter, and if you use micro inverters you’ll need to factor in the cost of a controller. Make sure you get the required parts list right when ascertaining costs

Nice to see that din rail mounted gen meter. Neat solution. The size of the second PV CU now makes sense.

16mm earth, but why not use 3-core and then problem solved? You’ll have to split the 25mm core between two of the 16mm max ( iirc ) earth bar connections to make it off. Assume spark will do this so won’t be your prob. Either that or run a 2-core and zip tie the separate 16mm earth along its length. They need to stay together btw.

Take it to the grave with you. ? All good from what I’ve seen / heard. ?

Academic fight I meant. You’re a small, ruffian of a man for suggesting anything else..... Obnoxious enough? ✌️??

“Fight!!!”

You go, girl. ?

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.....when they muck spread ?

Tell them to FO. Better still, sell them your consent for £5k.

+1

The doctor will now see you..

I needed 2 pints and 3 reads of that..... OK. No tanking under the tray. Tanking is on vertical walls only. Tank from where the wall hits the floor to 300mm above that junction. So basically a 300mm tanking skirting board. There. Now go do, and post the pics in the morning.

@DerbyLad Have a read of this too;

OK, son has been 'mowed' and we can see his ears are actually there still, even though he seems to not respond to commands such as "clean your room"....... Tank the walls about 300mm from the UNDERSIDE of the tray upwards and leave to dry. It dries quick as a flash, and you should be able to second coat it in an hour or so. Don't put it on like double cream, just a decent couple of layers and happy days. Then fit the tray as per previous ramblings, shifty from side to side / front to back / CT1 squirted in etc and leave to go off. Wipe any excess CT1 off the tray with baby wipes and walk away for a beer ( or Mad Dog 20/20 which is probably more you ). Mask the tray 5mm in all round, and then go for second session with the CT1, where you fill the voids around the tray and 'tool' the excess up the walls a little to form a one-piece up-stand out of CT1 which carries on up the walls about 30mm or so.Use a bit of stiff cardboard ( nothing plastic or it'll damage the tanking ) to form a nice 90 degree internal angle in the wet CT1 and relax knowing that bar steward will be dry as Bin Laden's flip flop for many years to come.

Already have, you insist on deviation.....

Steady on chap. I’ll come back to this later. Son’s been shielding so only now taking him to the hairdresser as we can’t see his face anymore......