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  1. Nickfromwales
    Hold fire sealing that. It CANNOT be left like that, it's simply not safe. Who fitted it, and who says that's caused by the wall ?
  2. Nickfromwales
    Leave the sbr out and just go to a strong, dry, fibre screed mix that you can form into the shape needed. Make it all finished level -5mm and relax a bit. The difference gets made up with tile abrasive and that gives you wiggle room. . Forget the SS former it's just way ott imo.
  3. Nickfromwales
    Double ouch !
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    Ouch ,
  5. Nickfromwales
    Agree with @Dudda Id form the two sides meeting in the middle like a V, and then fill the valley to create the centre section. Much stronger and less chance of cracking than 3 sections. I'd still deffo go with the stainless 'chicken wire' / similar and fibres to deal with heat / cool cycles.
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    Yup. No-no. Mild buried in concrete has to be 50mm or more under the surface to stop any moisture rusting the steel. If you have a slight failure the slab will absorb and dissipate it but not if it can get to the steel. Lay a stainless chicken wire at the bottom so when you lay the sections they're still bridged and the sections will act as one.
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    Black. Are those angle irons mild steel? Id not be burying mild in a wetroom slab . Tbh I'd not be burying metal in there at all.
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    Scaffold

    Nickfromwales replied to vfrdave's topic in Ireland

    My friend worked for British gas a while back. They hired Bristol crown court and staged a mock prosecution where a missing toe board caused a piece of equipment to fall off into a neighbours garden. In said garden was a 5 year old toddler who was struck by said flying object and 'left' with life changing brain injuries. An actual apprentice of BG was hauled as a witness and cross-examined so intensely that he broke down in tears and was excused from the courtroom!! The claim 'would' have run into millions of pounds. The point was made. People just don't know what can go wrong until it does. Should the scaffold companies not be prosecuted if they leave you incomplete or non-certified erections that you've paid good money for ?
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    Scaffold

    Nickfromwales replied to vfrdave's topic in Ireland

    I was going to a bite to eat but somehow just lost my appetite.......for life. "Bollocks" . Ouch.
  10. Nickfromwales
    Great news. I'm shocked that the payment wasn't from Durisol TBH, but your supporting evidence clearly won the day putting this at your insurers door. That should put the 'wind' back in your sails sir Good to hear the build is pushing back on track. ?
  11. Nickfromwales
    I've been called worse
  12. Nickfromwales
    Work is what's paying for it .
  13. Nickfromwales
    Ask him just to level it for you ? / pick his brains and pay him for his expert opinion ?
  14. Nickfromwales
    Ok sorry. I thought you'd updated on screed top to current threshold. My mistake. So what your saying is the doors are nearly 20mm higher / lower than each other. Just future fyi, always choose the highest single point as your datum and call THAT zero. If the laser line won't go that low, find the highest point and call that 'ref point zero'. Mark the wall 1000mm up from there and that's your datum +1000. Start at the left and right hand margin of each opening. With the laser line on at the 1000mm mark simply stand up and lower the end of the tape measure down until it hits the screed and take the reading where the laser hits the tape ( say 1026 aka "datum + 26" ) and then at the same point measure the threshold and record that too. Go around all 4 corners of small rooms or 6 or 8 points around larger rooms to create a map. That way you know the highest point ( i.e. the point you cannot exceed ) and you should then have 2 measurements for each side of each opening, threshold and screed. PM me when your on site and I'll give you a ring whilst your there if easier
  15. Nickfromwales
    Is this wet concrete or dry sand and cement screed ? How long ago was it laid ?
  16. Nickfromwales
    Oh, also, if the door hinges are differing in height aka the thresholds differ, are the measurements you show already taking this into consideration? eg +6 etc is 6mm from the FFL that you wanted to end up with. Eg if you sat a 10mm tile there on 4mm of adhesive you would be 8mm above the target FFL? Eg +26 with the same would be 12mm BELOW the target FFL?
  17. Nickfromwales
    @Barney12 Quite simple. You need an inventive tiler to come and give you some solutions. Its extremely difficult to advise definitively over the forum, and would be so much easier if I was on site. The window / door fitters should have fitted these using a single datum point TBH, but with the issues they encountered you can see why they've neglected to observe such an important detail, instead going for individual 'nice fits' at each opening. . You can blame them for progressing ( without identifying that these would differ, and having not informed you as such, and therefore not giving you the opportunity to stop and rectify before the fitting ) but you also can't blame them as this wasn't really their problem to overcome, not to the extent that they've had to at least. Looking at the plan in the last post, it seems the only real issues are the areas marked as +6 to +8mm as you won't have enough depth to get a tile under the door threshold ? Is that the case ? If so MBC can simply grind those areas down accordingly. If the other areas are just over the required / ideal deficit, then they're easily resolved with some proper self leveling? You mark +6, +8 etc which you mean distance from threshold to screed yes? Also, opposite the opening marked +26, is the floor flat in that room to the wall opposite the opening? Need to know that that doesn't raise up again. Im about to tile a bathroom floor. It runs out 15mm to nothing, from the window to the door opposite, and that's only over 2400mm. I'm going to take ~ half of that out with adhesive, prob up to 10mm then the remaining 5mm won't matter as it simply won't be seen. Please confirm the above and we can box this off. ?
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    Scaffold

    Nickfromwales replied to vfrdave's topic in Ireland

    Just beware of them coming back and you haven't complied / don't remain compliant. They REALLY don't like that.
  19. Nickfromwales
    No probs. I'll remind you every Friday
  20. Nickfromwales
    Nope. BFO wood burning stove so it's renewable. . .
  21. Nickfromwales
    Works on safari / iPhone. .
  22. Nickfromwales
    It's got to. Without thermal mass they'll have nothing to screw the radiators to
  23. Nickfromwales
    Good endeavour. Thanks @SteamyTea
  24. Nickfromwales
    Not really as they're protected by a guaze filter.
  25. Nickfromwales
    If you read the words to the letter, it says 5. Assembly 5.1. InstallationsGuidelines It is necessary during installation to follow the installation instructions, to comply with local requirements and to follow the codes of good practice. • Horizontal and vertical installation position possible "Codes of good practice" are the forces at work here. I'd say they're open to interpretation and the valve could be mounted and operate properly in the opposite orientation. It doesn't say that it won't work the other way, and it doesn't say it need to be mounted that way to comply with regs. I'd say it's a recommendation only to make service and repair most practical, and nowt else. .
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