Nickfromwales

£540 for 27 panels is tempting. Got a few for spares in that amount.

He does say sarking, so probably digging another hole for myself here

you should have added "roof" in your disclaimer

And the first fix 500 times harder

Gloves, mask, goggles, and many, many handfuls of rock wool stuffed in there. Watch for the skin grafts off the metal webs. TBH I doubt many folk bother as the air gap is an insulator and the rest of the rock wool inserted in-between tends to push partially into the voids. Easiest would be to insulate it as normal and then look at filling the obvious gaps. Consider making up the 'difference' by overboarding across the joists with 8x4's of rigid PIR foam insulation, and then plasterboard instead of just plaster boarding. That would get you a bunch of extra brownie points from the U crowd. Good luck !

Do you have to do both ends equally?

Get another plumber to fit the tray so the tiler can carry on.

Read it and weep woody. 50mm branch with a rodding eye inside, and as it would connect to an appropriate IC outside you’re covered both ends. Have I taught you nothing ? ?

Exactly. I doubt if you’re allowed to compress them as that would compound deflection imo. As stated in my first, SE would need to sanction anything ‘off’ the original.

If you think you can stick the trim on without getting a gap, and without getting goop on the paint, then do away with the caulk. Making life hard there AFAIC though. Ideally you need a slow setting goop and to fit the trim and tile upstand simultaneously. Gets tricky if theres a joint, but glue and spray should be your friend there.

If you fit one of these youd better get Dynorod on speed dial ! This will block with food waste in about 2 weeks. Thats for clear running / rainwater only.

Disagree, sorry. There is a trap on every bathroom connected to a FW 110mm, which solely rely on the water in the trap for staving off back-stench from the sewer. You simply have a rest bend coming up from the slab, reduce to 50mm, and then connect to an appropriate trap. You won't get smells from the sewer unless you stop using the sink. As a) the invert from ground floor sink to horizontal FW 110mm pipe is less than 1300mm and b) you'll only ever be discharging a sink full of water through a waste outlet ( low litres per min flow / velocity ), you'll never get a vacuum deficit and therefore do not need an AAV. The image above is USA I think? Way OTT

My suggestion is to remove the wall plate and replace it with a glulam or 9x3” to reduce the span. That would require the left and right wall plates first being affixed, and bolted sufficiently, and then the 9x3 or glulam ( SE to specify ) hung off those. We had a brief phone chat about this and, if no dice with the supplier, then this is a good solution with near zero compromise. What gap would be left if each end was switched out to 9x3? Can a timber yard produce C24 or C16 at 9”x4” wide? Cheap quick fix, just have one each end. Or sister two 9x2”’s each end, cheaper and quicker yet. Downward rotational force with the deeper wall plates would mean the plates would have to be bolted top and bottom, but then you keep the beams you have with no jiggery-pokery.

Yes, as you'll need to be able to paint it, and you'll want to be able to wipe it off. Water based clean up requires water based goop

Yup. Just have the baby wipes to hand. Set the trim back to the wall with a small bead of caulk. Smooth and wipe off immediately, leave to dry, and then mask and repaint. Bingo bango + chicken dinner in one. ?

And don’t go crazy with the goop. Lots of 20p sized blobs and push back until flush with the trim.

Don’t bother with the 1mm shims as that’ll be a cosmetic area not a splash proof one so just grout it and wipe it completely back to the tile, and then coloured silicone or white silicone for a cosmetic bead afterwards.

Ahhhhh, so it was YOU I saw in Lidl sucking the brandy out of all the little Xmas puds.........?

Can’t let it go to waste........or can we ??

Don’t go! I’ve another 5 minutes to fill before my steak is ready ?

A home for the rise and fall chandelier? ??

3 years with two arms?..............you do the maths.

The 30k+ folk who want to see his bathroom finished !?!?!

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Tis a no-brainer if you've even 2% or greater overheat risk. Why not let the thing causing the problem, pay to cure it