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Get the hammer and bolster out and chop it out now, go and grab some of that super pipe leak tape at screw-fix and tape it up unless you live on the moon you should be able to buy some repair parts today. Standard 16mm joiners are available at most plumbers merchants. If it’s a funny size pipe you have Even a bit of copper and two jubilee clips will hold it.

Cannot see how it is financially viable, unless you own a mdf sheet factory.

Pipe is cheap, I’ve just done the entire house 4 bathrooms, kitchen and utility room with 400m of pipe, about £500. Single pipe to every cold, hot return loop to hots. Took two days to run it all and another two to tidy it lag the hots and clip it all up. Your way if you flush the the toilet and then go to clean your teeth you are robbing the basin cold until the toilet has re filled.

We just wheelbarrowed in 26 tonnes of screed similar size to yours. You don’t need to protect the dpm as that’s under the insulation. To protect the pipes you will need a few sheets of chipboard flooring and lay it on top of pipes, you will need a person in charge of moving the boards or the screeners will just ignore them. Or as Declan said get a screed pump. The lads that did mine have a pump but still prefer to barrow as they reckon the time they set up the pump they would have got one room done. 5 lads laid 180m in a day by 3pm.

What benefits do you feel you will get with lime plaster ? im a bit baffled as to where it fits in with a new build, I thought the idea was to make it air tight. ?‍♂️

I would completely disagree with this, you don’t see many commercial projects where sound transmission from room to room is a crucial element being built with blockwork. 9 inch solid walls are terrible at keeping sound out.

What is that holding u, as it looks smaller than anything I’ve ever used in house construction, apart from a lightweight carport.

Two walls built with steel stud and track, isolated from each other if you go on a lot of the plasterboard manufacturers websites they will have a good few methods of constructing a robust sound proof wall. The last thing I would build it out of would be solid block. You need to imagine sound travels through any material, by having a gap you stop the transfer.

This is mine screwed to the steel post, not a lot of chance of those holes comprising the steel post. 40mm of xps glued onto the post on the outside with an aluminium trim over the top.

Zoom out on the pic that looks like it’s jammed in to hold it in place not a water supply.

I don’t see a problem fixing into the steel my corner windows are. The bracket for the windows is bent around the outside of the steel and then tex screwed in, this is then sealed with pu sealant and the insulation board over the top.

I don’t see how this is your problem, you have supplied all the correct stuff if their bank doesn’t like it that’s their problem. I understand the frustration, but dealing with theses people is on another level of dodgy. Keep the house on the market and keep showing it. If they are having this problem then it will probably fall apart later on anyway.

What do you do at the floor joints @nod

Perfect cheers, I hadn’t even started on British gypsum.

@nod is that the siniat stuff, I’m looking at one that’s an orange/ yellow colour called aqua board. It can be taped and jointed outside the shower area for painting over.

Get that concrete smashed out, get it wire brushed down vigorously, throw the tin of red oxide over in the corner and get some cold galv paint, preparation is key don’t skimp, coat it up with cold galv. My corner post is full with foam on the inside and has 40mm xps insulation on the outside then an aluminium cladding to match the windows.

The jacoboard stuff looks half price to the abacus stuff, but I might not have found any good pricing on the abacus. I have the jacoboard coming in at £13.2 a m inc vat. Whats that like.

I’m in the same boat, have a quick look at prices, I think some must be made with gold particles glued together by a unicorn. Im also looking at siniat aqua board.

Suck the paint up in a straw and blow it back out, altering your amount of puff to change the spray pattern. Works a treat, have used this ol trick to get me out of loads of situations. ??

Been saying it for the last 4 years, but what do I know. ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️

And this is why you back roll sprayed surfaces.

Have you thought of living on site, will probably save you £12-15000 in rent.

If you want to save money ditch the zinc roof eye watering costs, and lots of alternatives out there. this is mine. If that’s the sort of thing your after. Ignore all the white bits I was hacking a window reveal about.

You need a felt support tray to run into the gutter, not the felt, fit that first and membrane on top.

Don’t want to take the risk really, for the cost of a couple of lengths of conduit.