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I’ve fitted 18mm osb then fermacel on the walls in my plant room. know as it’s being fitted out I’m finding I’m still unhappy fixing into this lot with heavy expansion vessels, so I’m using hollow wall toggle fixings that will drill through both sheets and then open out in the stud wall cavity, I can actually hang from the brackets I’ve put up with just two fixings in.
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I’ve had 4 plasterers on my house. 3 of them did a day and I’ve never had them back the fourth lad is the best I’ve ever come across, different gravy. I think you have had a shit one, if you know roughly what you are expecting then you needed to be there. mines from Coventry and travels about an hour if that’s any good to you.
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3 bathrooms + guest WC - how much and from where?
Russell griffiths replied to Indy's topic in Bathrooms, Ensuites & Wetrooms
£4000 per shower room £5000 for the shower/ bathroom, excluding tiles. -
Not needed, just mix up a small amount of the tile adhesive and pre fill over the screw washer dents just to bring them up flush.
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Are you plastering it or just jointing compound on the joints. I’ve just had some jackoboard plastered and we fully meshed the entire board, like you would when thin coat rendering. it was a lighter gauge fibreglass mesh, came in 1m wide rolls.
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replacing asbestos cement soffits
Russell griffiths replied to Del-inquent's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
Run the horizontal batten the full way around the house, not just little bits, you can add a batten front to back as well. -
Light refurb/renovation & building regs
Russell griffiths replied to Roger440's topic in Building Regulations
Why can you not draw up some pictures of everything you want to do, window, wall insulation, roof insulation, blah blah. put in an application for bc approval with all inspections, £4-500. as far as I’m aware there is no time limit to the work, so put the windows in and get them checked and signed off, then two years time rip all the floors up, get them inspected and signed off. all under one building regs application. or am I missing something. -
replacing asbestos cement soffits
Russell griffiths replied to Del-inquent's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
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Our water is so hard you get a scuddy line in the toilet bowl.
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No they do a sort of re jig, blast themselves out, it can be noisy and can also deplete water pressure im told. im not worried about noise, so I want to be able to alter the time it does it.
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Looking for recommendations on a quality water softener. things it must have. Hi- flow ability to time the re -gen cycles I don’t want it kicking in randomly when I’m in the shower and stealing my water. quality more important than cheap n cheerful. what we saying people.
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Depends how poor the finish is on the original concrete. you can use 25mm of polystyrene insulation on top of the concrete and below the damp proof membrane to take out any lump n bumps or sharp areas. if it’s really bad a few bags of cheap self leveling compound to take out the worst bits.
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@Big G get that changed that outer detail is horrible. @smurph306, yes it’s up, yes they made a YouTube video of it, but is it good construction with good methods used. then I would say no. If you want to chuck up a quick extension then do what they did, if you want it better, with less problems then ask some more questions on here. there’s a lot of talk on here recently of small timberframe extensions and BC being happy with them, I’m wondering how long it’s going to be before they start rotting out at the sole plate, due to poor details and poor maintenance.
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Smooth Finish Composite External Door?
Russell griffiths replied to lpear's topic in Doors & Door Frames
a very dirty norrsken door, it is timber, they do do aluminium clad timber as well. I think that was £1800 with the sidelight. -
Smooth Finish Composite External Door?
Russell griffiths replied to lpear's topic in Doors & Door Frames
What’s your budget ?. ours came from norrsken, proper bit of kit, but will be £1500 ish. -
Week 1 - Finally clearing the site
Russell griffiths replied to AppleDown's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Get some 3x2 timber, make a cross brace inside the playhouse to brace it up and lift it with the digger, two large straps around it. -
Why the compression wall plate, end feed and solder it. then straight coupler.
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Best way to shorten a joist?
Russell griffiths replied to Sparrowhawk's topic in General Construction Issues
If it’s one duct then why not just drill the hole and put it through the joist. appropriate reinforcement to the joist will be needed. presuming 90mm duct. -
Floor outlets required....can I use standard backboxes?
Russell griffiths replied to Thorfun's topic in Electrics - Other
I’ve got a standard metal back box under my wife’s sewing table, takes a two gang face plate with cover flap thing.
