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they are 7"

there attic trusses so are designed to be turned into a liveable space and take the weight, "for future development" the house has been designed to develop the upstairs into a habitable space in the future.

It was the mesh tape, but all missing the point here, its been fine with next to zero crackage for nearly two years, what little crackage there was was fixed after a year. since the attic was floored 3 months ago about 30percent of all ceiling joints have cracked open.

Do you mean the chipboard flooring will shrink? Attic trusses have surely done most of there shrinking

Whats scrim? Plasterboard joins where taped, skimmed over then rubbed down before painting

There’s 25+ cracks

Bungalow with attic trusses for future development was built, finished, after a year or so snagging of decor done and a few cracks in ceiling along tapes and screw pops fixed. another 6 months later the attic was floored and within a few weeks cracks started to appear in ceilings which we expected a few of but every room has multiple and some are a few mm wide, theres even a few starting in the upper edges of room walls. Upstairs isn't in use its just storage. Question is should we be concerned and if we wait another 6 months and have the tapes fixed and redecorate is it going to continue to happen?

Thanks, did think that’s probably the case.

If the invoice doesn’t show vat or vat number but company is vat registered is there a way to include it in my vat reclaim?

Our attic is shown as only having 450mm of rockwool but I have floored and insulated the "roomed area" with 100mm PIR. Can I claim the Vat back on the Chipboard and PIR?

Buy a digger instead, we have an old JCB 3c and a 3t bobcat. In three years The JCB is used to hold up the kids zipline 99.9999% of the time, other than that was used to move a few pallets of slate onto scaffold and to scoop up a few ton of chuckies for dumping into soakaway. Digger is used every other day

Got that all sorted now, next disaster was I assumed that as my roof is a 45 degree pitch a 45 degree bend would follow the trusses so had my vertical height sorted so top of flue 45 bend height was 60mm below bottom of the truss, plumbed it cemented it n secured it then went up into the attic to run the rest of the flue up to just below the ridge to discover that the angle needed was more like 50 degree so after putting on 2 meter of flue it was nearly touching the sarking. My flue make only does 15 30 an 45 bends so only way I can think to get the angle needed is to run the vertical of the plumb? Realise I should of done a dry run first n checked angles etc.

We’re also building in Perthshire, don’t no if we could of organised it better but we had scary coneyencing fees twice, first when we acquired the land then second a year later once planning and building warrant where in place an we needed to mortgage it.

Ok, so is it the same with the twin wall?

Stupid question time Presuming the yellow dots is the top as the female end of my flue pipe slides over it nice an snug. How do you attach the soot box cap?????? It wont slide over the bottom of the tee and theres no lip for the clamp to hook over. It slides over the yellow dot bit nice n snug but then the flue has to slide inside the tee if its used the other way up which cant be correct?

And say that section was spanning 900mm do you think two rails would be strong enough to take a tv an mount or would it need to be beefed up?

I’m going to be framing out round my stove to form a chimney breast with tv mounted in it (tv above stove is bad idea I no) an was going to use u and c track rather than timber but can’t figure out how to form the left to rights off of the front to backs. Really bad terminology but hopefully somebody understands and can explain. I can put the top rail on ceiling but for the bottom rail that’s above stove what do you use to support it coming of the side partitions?

ours won't sign off till disabled access pathway, parking and ramp are in, handrails round our patio / garden wall round front and they now want a SE drawing for the garden wall as its slightly more than 600 high at one end (and no I cant just build the ground up a wee bit in front), tarred Pavement and bellmouth done. All depends on the BCO you get on the day

Using black limestone slabs to form a hearth on top of cemfloor, anybody no if I should use cement or tile adhesive to bed? If cement do I still need to prime the cemfloor? Thanks

We ended up just going with where the brickey recommended, building control never looked twice at them when he was out. He did check we had weep vents in all needed locations. Think as long as you don't go over the max distances in the guidelines you be fine.

Mares tail it helps if you bruise plant before spraying. I normally stamp through it before spraying, then leave it to die off which is normally a few weeks after its rained.

We have this stuff, spreads like wildfire if left unchecked and nigh on impossible to get rid off. You name it we've tried it from industrial glysophate not the garden centre stuff to salt, salt water, bleach an antifreeze, boiling water, an others. Kills it but doesnt stop it coming back allbeit in smaller quantities each time. There is stuff out there you can buy that is marketed just for this weed but I couldn't see anything on the ingredients different from the glysophate I was using. Check your neighbours gardens for it as well as no point you dealing with yours if there not dealing with theres. Good luck and act NOW before it becomes a real problem

Ours had thousands of staples and also tears where the stapler had hit it. According to roofer it should of been clout nails under the overlap and tile batten going down the roof every how ever often then as it was slated he would snap the batten of as he worked up the roof. Better to flap about a bit then death by staples was his words

So chap coming to view final drain test tomorrow, thought I better recheck tonight an it’s only building up to 20mm an holding for 5 minutes whereas few weeks ago it was up to 80 an dropped to 40 over 5 minutes. It is staying at 20 so is holding pressure. Is any positive pressure a pass or is there a figure? No idea what’s changed in last few weeks, made sure traps where full etc.

They do want to view it tested but at least I no it’s going to pass. There normally pretty good at coming out within a few days of being asked