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If your a bit handy do it yourself, at the end of the day it’s peeling the back off some tape and sticking it on. I would even trust the wife to do it. £3000 buys you a third of a kitchen or a nice bathroom. I had the sega rep come to my job he came in a van with every conceivable tape they made in it, he cut off lots of different types and did a demo with them all to show how to apply them. I will hazard a guess that I spent £350 on materials to seal mine up.

Various, I had a 25 ltr tin of gas tight paint left over so I used two coats of that, also blower proof paint.

1 day liquid screed 3-7 for traditional if they have used a retarder to stop it drying to quick.

I went a bit ott with mine but I got a good airtest the other day. Every gap and joint squirted with some form of sealant and then painted over with an airtight paint.

65 days unless he’s using a modified cement product to mix it with.

I would say you would need 120mm on top of timbers, but you need someone to crunch the numbers for you. You don’t have insulation between the timbers on a warm roof, in between and on top or underneath is a bit of a hybrid, my extra insulation is underneath, Dave’s is on top, many ways to skin a cat, you need it to work in your situation with the height you have to play with.

Due to the lack of height you might need to change your thinking on the warm roof. Lets say for arguments sake you end up with 200mm rafters then 120mm of insulation on top, then a counter batten then a roof batten. You will be up 370mm from internal ceiling height. You could go 200mm rafters with 200mm rockwool type stuff In between the rafters and 70mm pir insulation under the rafters. The easiest way to work it out is to get a long piece of roof batten and some chalk, go outside and draw your walls onto the house, then lay the roof batten against the house at the pitch you think will fit, use an angle finder on the batten to work out the pitch and give you a bit of an idea what you are looking at. An architect should be able to do this on his cad program.

I wish.

I do wonder if all this is a box ticking thing, as in if you present the council with a big pile of paper saying everything is cool then do they bother to question it. My treatment plant will discharge into a pond I have constructed, which sits right slap bang in the middle of my site, which the whole site is a SSSI. So work that out. I did pay a big chunk of cash to a company that design water infrastructure to do a flood risk assessment and rainwater run off calculations. We also have 3 other septic tanks between myself and my neighbour all discharging onto land within a SSSI

It’s the one building regs want, not the one MBC do their test to. The company I used do the testing for MBC.

No the bloody dog had it by the time I came back in ??

Air test today, had one done on the unfinished house to get an idea if anything was wrong before I start plaster boarding. Final test figure 0.28. Which I think is rather spiffing. I would like to thank my team. The wife for support and finance ralf and woody the wonder dogs,for guard duties and @Nickfromwales for the cakes and singing. .

Lift the membrane up, the last thing you want is a join in that area, this is the area any pooling water will collect.

I dug a big hole and buried mine. Probably 100 tonne of it. Spread the soil that came out on top and you wouldn’t now it had ever been done.

I would look at a thick mastic and a foam damp proof course i would squirt the mastic on in two thick lines then bed in the foam filler then two more lines of mastic, this will take out any undulations. Get the frame up and secure down with straps once it has gone off, a few packers here and there to keep it from sagging.

Italian 10mm. Brand, god knows.

What sort of prices should I be looking at for floor tiles. Currently looking at 1200x600 porcelain at £39 a metre, with a 15% discount for the quantity I need. Anybody found any deals. Not interested in out of square Chinese rubbish. But would like to find if there’s any deals to be had.

Starting to look at floor tiles. Porcelain 1200x600. What sort of discrepancy should I look for over the length of the tile, I want to make sure I pick a good one and not a load that turn up like bananas. Should they be mm perfect over the 1200 distance. Most im looking at are from Italy, is that a good starting point. Ta very mucho.

@Nickfromwales made me spill my tea mate ?? it was only a cheap cup, you need to let this go.

Some days I just have the toast and no beans ??.

The electrician thinks the cost of running it most of the time will be cheap, but he likes spending my money!!!! im afraid if we don’t have measures in place to limit electricity usage then we might have some unhappiness when we get our first bills. He thinks I’m like a walking cashpoint. Little does he know that I live on beans on toast all week just so I can afford another roll of cable.

Anybody else,

Vertical pipes coming up to feed sinks, shower mixers, basins. Everything has to come up or down to its final destination, not a lot of things are actually fitted to the floor.

Opinions please. Hope i set this up right, I’m a bit of a dumbo.

Try running a 40mm waste pipe through that, lots of planning needed if you go this route.