Nickfromwales

PMSL.

Oh, and plus one on the PB lifter. Mine is very popular with my mates and gets me lots of favours. .

Bloody hell....the plasterers are going to love you. What's the ceiling height?!? Or is that guy actually 8 years old?

A leaky phone box would be better.

If I could watch me lady getting showered whilst knocking up a moussaka I'd become a much better cook........or at least try.

My virgin went down so I turned on my hotspot ( EE ) and let the kids have at it. 10gb didn't last 2 days. ?

Trac has been mentioned, but there's also this stuff. Venting a gas run at one end is permissible. Cap at the house side and make the external end the open end, thus satisfying the requirement to vent the duct. Basically the requirement is there to allow escaping gas to vent and be discovered / detected.

Jesus peter, that would be acceptable on the living room wall ! . I'm not a JG fan by any distance, but you've made them look good here mate . Cracking job.

Yes, but I'm often working alone so most of my thoughts are engineered towards that ( so should appeal to you ).

Landscape is a lot easier. But where's the fun in that

Ok, just squinted at the pic and your boarding vertically ( portrait ) so turn my last comment through 90 degrees and we're back in the zone With vaulted stuff I always board landscape so my brain was stuck in that mode ?? Change "lengthways" to "sideways" and see if that makes better sense

PC cooling fan in an adaptable pvc box and out the soffit. ?

32mm tank connector for pvc MIN. 20mm will be quite inadequate imo.

Split the board lengthways, measuring to the top side of the cross member. Cut the horns out and offer the board up from underneath. Cut the bridge sections and fit them to the first PB accordingly, then offer the top piece in so it rests on top of the first, and job done. Bridge with 12mm ply or osb. 4x1 is too short imo as you should be able to get two rows of PB screws in the upper and lower halves to be 100% sure of no cracks. Eg ply strips 300mm wide so 2x150 wings for fixing, and two rows of PB screws lengthways per side per join ( so 4 rows of screws per finished join.

Praise the lord then, ( if such an entity exists of course ? ).

It's Clive's fault for selfishly worrying about his own bathroom

And the reason to never use acrylic ( aka ready made ) adhesive in anything resembling a wet area. And yet another good reason to tank wet areas. A good time to bump this thread.

I'm not biting, we both know where this will end

? I bet your a bit tempted ?

I tell people this until I'm blue in the face. Builders just want to skim, fack knows why, maybe just about earning the price for meterage perhaps . Tiling directly onto PB is the better job, and, if part tiled, you can simply plaster to skim 'stop beads' a couple of hundred mm past the point that the tiles stop.

Still better than the risks associated with buying a taylor wimpey home, even if they do now 'boast' "quality insulation" and "water saving boilers". Wtf . @jack, are these issues currently only in the bathrooms? Edit : oops, wrong thread to ask. I'll just nip next door to jacks house

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Seem to have set in pretty well. What's your gut feeling? The stuff is just too brittle for my liking so I'll be sticking with PB.

Best to add that it's all to do with installer competence at the end of the day. Thats the 6th sense when one knows that a screw has gone in far enough and the board has firmed up against the timber. Many people assume that a tight screw is good enough, but it may still have to go a bit 'more' to send it fully home. PB screws are an extremely bad choice for this job as they're fully threaded, so are considerably more likely to promote jacking, but worse still they are very thin and extremely brittle so tend to snap very easily when more torque is applied than they're meant to accept. They're designed for soft plasterboard not rock hard backer boards . They'll snap even if you just accidentally drive them into a large knot so to use them for this application has, imo, been done out of laziness and / or penny-pinching.

Elementary my dear Watson