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40 years in IT, then made redundant, which has helped enormously in building. Helped with building renovations and extensions, but it was always a dream to build our own energy efficient house. Well, here we are having started (properly) in late 2020, and very proud of what we have achieved (so far!)
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Like my foundation slab, that on three sides has retaining walls, your slab is part of the strength of the retaining wall (although not shown i suspect there is rebar and mesh that connects around the bottom corner of the new wall and into the slab). So, the slab has to be there AFAI can see. Your final finish will need to have a gradient on it anyway and you can make that gradient be away from the door opening. Render should not go all the way to the ground to avoid splash back
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Bad roofing job: how should I proceed?
BotusBuild replied to David001's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
Exactly what @Mr Punter says above -
Bad roofing job: how should I proceed?
BotusBuild replied to David001's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
David, I fear you may have already paid them. If so, save your sanity, and get a(nother?) recommendation from someone locally to completely redo this. Hope you can find someone to sort this out for you -
Which way up should roofing membrane lie?
BotusBuild replied to David001's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
I don't think the vapour barrier has a right way, but consistency is a good thing. Looks like they painted the wood after fitting the vapour barrier. I wonder if they painted the top of each joist? There shouldn't be a hole through the slates apart from where the nails are holding them. If that last picture is showing a "hole" that goes throught o the membrane, then for a new roof, that needs sorting. I'd get them back to sort this last piece out at least. If they can't prove the top of the joists were painted (and if they should have done so) then looks like they have redo the whole job. -
You see, to me that is a right handed tape measure, you hold it in your left so you can read the numbers the right way up and use a pencil (or whatever) to mark off your length with your RIGHT hand Worth thinking about 😉
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I've also got a spirit level that is incorrect on the vertical at one end. The house is called "Crooked Lodge". For clarity, I am mainly right handed but with a reasonable degree of (made up work incoming!) ambidextriosity.
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Next the cover, which for us is on the front, so the right hand side of this page to be followed. Note the actual size of the screws in comparison to those in bottom pictures And we're now here. Also still trying to figure out the 10 parts circled, that I figure are something to do with the two threaded rods that will ultimately hold the pan. There are other parts that came with the pan that I think replace these parts. A pause now, while I sort out replacing the plaster board that I had to remove to re-route the drain pipes (another thread exists about that)
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My above next steps are on hold. Moving to the water feed and flush mechanism. There are 3 option for where the water will come in - L or R side, or R rear. I'll be using L, not shown in the photo of instructions. This means the float mechanism fits to the right, again not shown in the instructions. For me, it looks like this:-
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Ooh, must remove the horizontal battens already installed and introduce them to a power tool 🙂 Won't bother with the spacers. Waste of time and money IMHO.
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There's a flush button?
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What wall type should I use?
BotusBuild replied to BotusBuild's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Hi Susie (and David). It will mainly be used for stacking cars if I get to spend the VAT reclaim on what I want 😀 but it occasionally could be used for "servicing" and I thought a roll about stool in combination would be the way forward. Also, I'm looking at "sinking" the slab foundation to get 4- 500mm more headroom. Together I think these two approaches will work, but if they don't SWMBO has other ideas for the VAT reclaim 😀 -
Following these steps I added that piece of wood to the wall Drilled the four holes, two on the floor, two in the wood (my "wall"), then fitted the frame And made the adjustments to these parts to level make it vertical and tightened the nuts and inserted the little plastic lugs Finally, attached the waste to the Y junction. Ready for these steps next
