Canski
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I recently installed a 150 duct with an erbauer core bit from screw fix. It went through fine. Jeez that fan sucks. You could dry your hair under the cooker hood. Mine also came with a 150 tip 100 reducer and I’m glad I tossed it away and went full bore.
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All the blocks I have laid in the last 20 years have been narrow and short.
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Roll of 600 mm hyload and some tape for the corners. He will be happy with that. I can’t think of another way to do it to be honest. Pre formed cavity trays are for stepped flashings.
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can you not use 600 mm DPC ?
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Home Insurance without Completion Certificate
Canski replied to Canski's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Which my l sister says doesn't cover you if you move in prior to completion -
I've had enough of ....
Canski replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
I have always took my sandwiches to work in a sandwich box. Any wrappers or waste goes back in the box and goes home with me and sometimes on the way home I empty the car door bins into it as well.I just can't get it into my head why nobody else can do this. Empty bottles and cans strewn across the site boil my piss. I did empty a mortar tub full of them into the back of the roofers van before they left one day and I wasn't very popular. Tea drinkers and their discarded tea bags are another breed as well. Where do they think they go after being left on the side of the kettle. It's for this reason that the microwave I bought for site is still at my other house. As for wheelbarrows and wasted plasterboard let's not go there 😞 (If you couldn't tell) after a year on site I am now officially fed up with tradesmen. -
Hi All, I'm nearing completion and need to move in soon due to my current place being rented from mid July. I have read somewhere here but can't find it again that some of you managed to get home insurance on your new builds prior to obtaining a completion certificate. My ( hard sell) sister who is an insurance broker thinks (99%) that this is not possible and suggested that I ask you lovely guys and gals where you got your insurance from.
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Site insurance before development starts?
Canski replied to flanagaj's topic in Self Build Insurance
Landowners liability according to my hard sell sister who is an insurance broker. -
How would you finish this parapet on edge of an EPDM flat roof?
Canski replied to low_and_there's topic in Flat Roofs
I used the aluminium capping that Russel is referring to. Not cheap but I will be looking at it for a long time. Easy to fit and looks great I think. I didn’t go for epdm but it’s the same principle. -
Against the inside then a vapour barrier on the inside
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Level door access disaster. Advice needed
Canski replied to Paene Finitur's topic in Doors & Door Frames
that won't work 1 in 12 is 8.33 mm per m.. oh no its not is it?. brain fog here -
Level door access disaster. Advice needed
Canski replied to Paene Finitur's topic in Doors & Door Frames
Did Building Control pass this in the end. I still have my problem. I came out 1200 mm at a fall of 1 in 40 and still need to dive down 150 mm to meet the drive. I'm considering a step but this seems to defeat the object. -
DNO reneged on quote for new connection
Canski replied to New to this's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
I'm glad you had a good outcome. My initial quote was for £4300 and then I had delays (invisible bats) I couldn't proceed with the first quote and it expired. My next quote was £16500. I felt that I had no choice but to proceed as I needed power. When the dust has settled I will write a complaint to OFGEN but I don't expect any results. -
Confused ....You had shown it in the back garden on your plan ?
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....and you don't need a chamber for a rodding eye. A rodding eye on its own would suffice.
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Moths in my MVHR?
Canski replied to Chris2's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
A friend of mine thinks he has rodents eating his modern PIR insulation in a cottage roof that he has renovated. -
I have had to install one car charger and make provision for the installation of 2 more. I got planning through after the June 22 deadline.
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Level door access disaster. Advice needed
Canski replied to Paene Finitur's topic in Doors & Door Frames
On this subject I have a similar entrance. 1585 mm wide and 1350 to the front. My problem is that I need to slope the path quite steeply at some point to meet the levels of the integral garage which has a floor level 120 mm lower than the house FFL. I plan to build a dwarf wall 675 mm long on the right hand side of the doorway to give me a bit more distance to match the levels up. Is there a rule stating the distance that the ‘level’ part needs to be before it can drop away at a steeper gradient ? I have become a bit obsessed recently looking at entrances on various new builds where the level part is about a metre long before a step. Photo isn’t the best but should give an idea of the problem. -
I still have them. How many do you need and when ?
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As the title I have successfully laid tiles to my kitchen / family room but after knocking out the clips some have not snapped off cleanly and will need removing before grouting. 2 - 3 mm joints. What’s the best way of removing these without damaging the tiles ?
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do you mean half what you pay for ditra ? I used Ardex AF 200 plus to stick my Ditra down. I wasn't very impressed with either the coverge or the efficiency. I presume you use tile adhesive ?