LiamJones

From offer to money in the bank was actually pretty quick. I’d prepared my solicitor with the majority of the paper work in advance. Maybe a couple weeks?

About 3 months from application to money in the bank with ecology. It felt painfully slow at times. An email takes about a week to get a response, absolutely make sure EVERYTHING is included in the application to avoid back and forth.

I understand you don’t need to further tank the XPS tile backer boards in a wetroom, just the joins, which can be achieved with a bead of CT1 between the boards. At least that’s what I’m planning on doing, so be good to find out if that’s not true.

In progress

I should add, the cost of the sealant between the tile backer boards is working out about a tube every 10 boards (7.2m2). £10/7.2m2 =£1.389/m². I’m using board fix by jackoboard. you should also throw in some waterproof corners £5 a pop and a tub of insulation washers £30 for 500 (should do about 50 boards or 36m2)

I’ve looked into this quite a bit and decided to go for premtool 12mm tile backer boards. I worked out the following; prices inclusive of vat Plasterboard: £4.5/m2 paintable tanking £10/m2 impey water guard £21/m2 hardie backer: £13/m2 Tile backer: £12.5/m2 both the PB and the hardie backer should be tanked, the tile backer is already waterproof and just needs the joints sealing with CT1 or similar. i therefore believe, for a tanked wetroom, tile backer board is the cheapest option. furthermore, plasterboard can only take up to 32kg/m2 (or thereabouts) which is right on the limit for a 10mm marble, the tile backer board is good for 120kg/m2 and the cement board 200kg/m2. I could have gone cement board (I did at the last place), but they’re heavier, messier, and still need tanking, therefore slower to install and more expensive. modern xps filled tile backer board seemed to me like a no brainer. I liked the look of the impey waterguard self adhesive waterproof sheet (and decoupling membrane), but so expensive, the only people that use this must be limited by buildup height. Ive gone tile backer wall and floor onto 22mm p5 caberdeck

There is a gold batten added towards the end of the roofing work, once I was confident of how the eaves detail would work. If you look back at the first photo I posted, you’ll see it

Maybe this photo helps? I fitted another eaves tray over the top of the vent and under the gse trays before fitting the panels. This additional eaves tray only spanned the gse trays. At the tiles I had just the one eaves tray. The fascia/vent height was consistent all the way along, however

I didn’t have a kick, just bought the fascia up to keep the fall of the tiles consistent all the way down.

Done

https://forms.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk/buildingcontrolforms

Thanks @Chanmenie anyone else on here running f7 filters on a vent axia plus B. I don’t really understand why it isn’t officially supported?

Nice, did you got with the advance s for the f7 filters? I was eyeing up the vent axia plus B, but it doesn’t officially support the f7 filter. It’s a bit weird, because the plus b looks more powerful than the advance S (now rebranded econiq S)

@Chanmeniedid you work out the answer to this? I have the same question!

If you “live” there, you can request an emergency appointment on the day the DNO (re)connect you

Ecology were willing to talk to me about additional borrowing recently, so would assume they are back up and running

I guess it’s possible you don’t know the first 1 if you didn’t lay it. Some pipe has markings on it per meter. You can do the diff to work out the length. Else, grab a thermal camera and check where the pipe runs

Christ that looks like a lot of bits to go wrong. I can only comment on flow rates. It’s not one number suits all I’m afraid. You can work it out for yourself using LoopCad available freely on the internet. It’s a combination of loop length, pipe diameter, flow temp and heat loss. You should know the first 3, the last one you can work out from Jeremy’s infamous spreadsheet on here

Also running deep flow gutters

Yep pleased with mine so far, no issues.

Went on holiday recently and the shower was a hansgrohe raindance S with PowderRain. It’s a super fine warm mist. Each nozzles has multiple holes. Was super impressed and now have that on the ‘must’ list for the build. Are there any equivalents from other brands? Probably going to get the hansgrohe pulsify S, also with PowderRain, unless I can find alternate brands

I honestly can’t remember. Less than a tenner a board I think? Buildup was the 16mm board, then primer, tile adhesive and tile. So basically 16mm more than a standard tile job. If you went 10mm porcelain, 5mm adhesive you’re 31mm all in. Plus any levelling you need. I had plus 10mm in the lowest, but next to nothing at the high spots.

My last last was a Reno, we had an open plan kitchen dinner that bridged the new and the old. We had the new slab made up to existing height. The old part was also concrete so that helped, then chucked SLC over the lot, then used Wunda over floor boards throughout, tiled straight on top. No issues. I was worried about the joint between new and old, but no problems. Probably waited about 6 months for it to settle before tiling. I think the wunda boards added a layer of decoupling to for some differential movement.

Has anyone fitted resilient bar to a stud wall, with only one sheet of plasterboard either side? All the British gypsum details for resilient bar, specify double boarding to both sides? Anyone know why?