carlos21

Cool thanks for the reply

Cool thanks, it was their membrane and insulation i was thinking of using, with standard metal stud.

Hi just wondering if anyone has used this system? Thanks carl

That could work alright, could i then fix cement board to the compfoam in order to fill the gap on the exterior? Ive never used compfoam so its hard to visulise what i can and cant do in terms of fixing etc. Thanks for your help. Carl

Hi iam hoping to fit french doors into a new build extension, the wall is concrete block with cavity and pir insulstion. Is the positioning of the door within the wall the same as with windows? Ie mostly inline with the insulation. Are the doors then fixed in place with tie straps? I have found a second hand door which is the right colour etc but is about 200mm narrower in width, and iam wondering the best way to make good on the exterior. If the door is positioned inline with the insulation should i place compqfoam in the cavity for a base. Hope this makes sense, a few photos of the doorway at present. Thanks carl

very hard to tell if a tree can be felled, just from a photo, only you know how good your felling cuts are! what were you going to do with all the branches if you did it yourself? ( nice firewood), you could ask the tree surgeon to just quote to get it down and do the tidy up yourself if you were keen to keep costs down. also felling onto paving maywell crack the paving. carl

you can stand them on end, much like the posts you have. they look smart like this, but would require a bit of digging and the proper old ones arnt very nice to cut.

as in the way i did the other one with no access to trap and pipe work once its installed? thanks.

i am thinking about fitting a shower tray on a concrete ground floor, the last one i did, i put channels into the concrete for the waste pipe and trap, so the shower tray was flush with the floor, there is no way to access any traps or pipe work once it was fitted!!, is this a normal way of doing it or iam i much better off using a riser system for the tray?? i dont have a lot of head room to play with though. its at a rough building stage so cutting the concrete is not too much of an issue. any thoughts? thanks carl

even in my case where from the back of the window frame, its cavity wall pir insulation then the internal block? if that makes sense.

not seen that board before, looks versatile. i was going to either render, then skim or dot n dab plasterboard then skim over the block walls, i wasnt going to add any internal insulation as the cavity has pir in. but maybe some insulation in the revels would be good.

thats what i did with mine, dont know about airtightness, but they are fixed in tight. are you putting insulated plasterboard in the revels?

whats self compacting concrete?

what ones do you rate? thinking about how to get audio into a different part of the house and figured actual cable was a bit out dated and a hassle.

for garden prunning those silky saws are brilliant, lovely smooth cut and super sharp, probably faster cutting than a cheap n nasty badly sharpened chainsaw.