Russell griffiths

You can get a vent that has an adapter on the back to connect to 100mm Flexi ducting, you could install this and leave all floppy until you do your brick work. Or or I would forget the pre made periscope and make your own or fit two periscope side by side, then fit the air brick between the two cutting out the centre bit of plastic and glue in a couple of little blanking bits.

What £3-400 Crazy.

Why are people so concerned about building something under permitted development? why not just apply for permission to build what you want. Confused. dot com.

We did this in Australia, leave a few bricks out at tray level and hose the snots off at the end of the day, it all came out of the coring holes. I wouldn't do it over here as the salt staining would be horrendous, but over there it dried in seconds.

I remember using one of the inflating bungs, it’s like a balloon that you pump up and it grows inside the pipe. So I had the pipe full of water and it’s time to remove the bung, I pushed the little button to deflate it but forgot to hold on tight, the water pressure ripped it from my fingers and I never saw it again. I guess some poor sod a few houses away wondered what this funny ball thing was doing blocking his poo pipe.

Nope, yank it out, just a bit of crap to make the toilet, stairs are hung from the top and fixed at the sides, not propped in the middle. However it might have assisted in taking some bounce out from the stairs, so I would whip it out but check it wasn’t really adding anything by bouncing on the stairs with somebody stood in the cupboard checking.

Cheers all i don’t think I know enough about these to make this a bargain, it could turn into a big headache. Would collect it if it was free but not worth the punt for £100.

Why not add directly to the side, you shouldn’t go higher as they lose the ability to do what they are meant to do the higher up the smaller a triangle you make, the lower the better.

I think you have answered your own question. new tie beams, coach bolts and washers angle strap wall plate down to wall. Flat plate connectors across join add a couple of cross braces on top of your new ties to fix left to right and right to left. You could increase the thickness of the tie beams, then add a vertical post to support the ridge or look at supporting the ridge at the ends if it is dropping picture is a bit small, needs to show whole structure although i I think you have the idea.

I might not have explained properly, it’s described as split, as in it could power two things the house on one circuit and the swimming pool on another. Do they all have a gas in them or is it just cooling units.

I’m leaning towards traditional sand and cement screed at the moment as the quotes I’m getting back for any type of flow are 30% more than I was expecting.

Local to me there is a second hand ashp, it’s being taken out of a house that is having a large swimming pool removed. Im wondering if it’s worth a punt. Its a daikin unit with a split indoor outdoor setting, whatever that means. It’s 18kw so a big unit, it has just been serviced and had some part replacement, the service engineer said he could see no reason for it not to continue to function properly for a good few more years. They want £99 for it I wonder if it’s worth sticking it in for a year or two until we have some dosh to replace it. @PeterW @ProDave @SteamyTea thoughts chaps. Cheers russ.

I bet you that picture is from an American site, need to be careful with pictures, not every country is as easy going as ours ??

In my personal opinion that wouldn’t pass at all each shelf is a step ladder to be climbed over. So would need a balustrade 900 higher than highest point on that. Please tell me im wrong, but that’s how I would view it.

You should try it when they are full of no2s not funny.

You can’t rush perfection lad. Carry on looking good.

This is exactly what I’m thinking, all the companies I have spoken to want to put it in at 50mm, if I look at my tape and look at 50mm it just looks like this false topping. A friend has it in his house and I’m sure as I walk across it I can feel a bounce. As you you know I wanted to go with a self compacting concrete, but I am struggling to find a supplier anywhere near enough to deliver. I had always planned on 75mm.

I’m just sorting out screeding the downstairs floor over the top of our ufh, so a few choices on finish. 1. Traditional sand and cement screed with fibres, thicker than liquid screeds at 75mm 2. Gypsum based liquid screed 3. Cement based liquid screed. 4. Flowable concrete. I dont need anything to dry quickly, the speed I’m going it won’t be tiled for ages?? what i I want is a solid feeling substantial floor, floor finish will be tiles. I have only had one quote for the flowable cement based stuff and I nearly fell over, it was double what I could do the job in standard concrete. What have you all had and are you happy with them @nod do you have an opinion bud.

Fixed to walls with nice clamps that all come with nice rubber lining to hang pipe work from. Very nice stuff.

Nope, didn’t do mine. It would depend on what type of pile, there are many types. A driven pile doesn’t get tested as it is driven until it reaches a certain standard. @AnonymousBosch used a stone column which is known as ground improvement, so it gets tested to see if it has reached its design capacity, so it’s really down to what you are getting.

You could bulk up the centre area with aerated blocks to save on weight, just needs 100 mm all around the outside in concrete.

Very rigid rockwool, with a dpc stuck to one side.

That looks like a massive amount of work to install a ridge beam, I would look at alternatives what are you actually trying to achieve, a lot of structural steel work is unnecessary but structural engineers like to stick it everywhere.

Have you got a dpc tray at the bottom to reflect water to the outer skin.

I noticed your other post on your piling cost, that looks rather high unless you are building a car park, there are lots on here with a piled foundation and the general cost is normally half what yours are. Have you signed with a company yet as I would be getting some more quotes.