joe90

Yes, guilty as charged of being tight!!! ( I call it being prudent) No, MVH is not up and running and mine is one of those without a condensate drain ( discussed previously and generally agreed it was ok) so I am cautious about using it in a very humid envoironment. I guess I need to get some heaters in and ventilate. I have a smallish dehumidifier, is it worth hiring an industrial one to get the job done?

Thanks, yes I scrubbed the floor soon after laying which got it smoother, I have got a “ damp meter” for testing firewood, will that do and what “ dampness/dryness” do I need to achieve before laying flooring ( tiles and wood)?

I had a liquid screed laid a few weeks ago and was told it dried at 1mm per day, so 60 days. The weather ( especially down here) is just permenantly damp and the floor “appears” to not be drying. Does this stuff dry chemically or do I have to put heat in the house?. Whenever there is any wind I open up all the doors and windows but mostly it’s just very still and damp. ( I am loathed to spend money on electricity to heat a building site!).

It always amazes me that Mrs Brown gets away with language others would not, perhaps it’s an Irish thing ?

I did my homework on this subject and I agree about warranties, you don’t need one and I don’t have one. If you sell within ten years ( which I don’t plan to do ) you can get an insurance against claims which I have been told costs less than the warranty !!!!

Building regs that are not ambiguous, not open to interpretation and fit for purpose ( non flammable, simples ) We have had many on here where one inspector in one part of the country says one thing and another elsewhere says different.

I,m with Dave, the beam is in the wrong place ( and should have a Padstone!!).

Well done, officialdom makes you weep. ( I know).

Well great minds think alike ?, yes I also did this but slightly differently. I copied the Golcar system:- but on my builders recommendation changed it a little. The DPC being above floor level indoors led on a previous build of his led to a crack in the plaster ( slip plane) so we lowered the DPC To internal floor level, the outside level was then below ground slightly but within a french drain so the weep vents could work, we then installed a second DPC in the outside brick skin level with the internal one which was above the outside ground level.

I have just finished my pipework and gone hep, no joints except manifolds and end fittings so no potential to leak in hidden spaces or restricted flow round tight 90’ bends. ( yes there are a few non hep,s but these are going to be replaced as soon as I get replacements).

The plumber who taught me to do copper used to say “ cleanliness is next to godliness” and I swear by these for cleaning pipe and fittings. https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p49495?r=googleshopping&rr=marin&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=sIblTTyLI_dt&pcrid=142002554548&pkw=&pmt=&product=49495&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpoS6krCC2AIVBrXtCh2PwQLUEAQYAyABEgJ2l_D_BwE you can clean pipe ends with wire wool but it’s a pig to get it into 15mm fittings.

+1 on school trips, Bristol is very bad fo this and during the holidays the traffic levels ( at certain times of the day) drop dramatically. My biggest problem down here is getting stuck behind the odd tractor. I just laugh to myself and am gratefull I am not back in Bristol.

Well I have been belting up and down the M5 for the last two years and mostly the 130 mile trip took two and a half hours but this was because I timed it right, late at night or very early. I have only been caught out a couple of times, the worst was 6 hours ( two lorries crashed and the motorway was shut) it took me 3hours just to get out of Bristol that day. Down here in Devon, if they have to queue for 15 minutes it’s a big holdup ?

ME, ME, ME, ME.?‍♂️

Thanks Nick, I jokingly said this to my wife about being made homeless and she did not see the funny side. We have had a lot of change in the last four years and she craves ( like me) to be settled down but our new build should be complete by about March/April.?

No, mr nasty has moved, this is a very nice neighbour who we get on with very well, in fact if this charade helps him get his planning to live in the parkhome himself I don’t mind helping. It has however unsettled my wife who is worried we will be evicted ?

Sorry but going back to planning, our officer wanted bungalow and would not budge, I know it took a long time but I appealed to the Secretary of States office and won hands down, in fact the council was told they were not abiding by their own policies ?. I don’t know your circumstances.

Thanks for that, our let will be for more than 30 days ( unfortunately) and will probably be for about 4 months.

Yes, it’s the 10 year proof that’s a problem. Well the latest from our illustrious council is they have charged us council tax, which I paid only to be followed by a letter (from a different dept) telling our ( landlord) neighbour that he cannot rent the parkhome to us and they are going to serve him with notice unless he appeals and he is definitely going to do that. I only hope the house is finished before we have to be evicted ?

I had not heard of these, I was going to buy oil filled electric radiators for my bathrooms.

I have just ordered my stairs from StairBox, my builder always uses them and gives him a better trade price than I would get and they were still the best price when I looked around.

Right, just been to a flooring contractor locally and they won’t guarantee laying “thin” Kardean bonded to a liquid screed, they have had problems in the past with it “ blowing” i.e. not bonding in patches then sounding hollow. Their theory is the flooring acts like polythene on a lawn, it pulls any moisture upwards, ( despite how long it’s slowed to dry) the Kardean acts like a DPC. Wood and tiles ( with grout lines) breath just a tad to stop this. Also measured my part M Front door and the new floor is 30mm below the threshold so 15mm flooring is required to make it pass?.

But is it not this slow burning that produces the most nasties?, I was told burn hard and hot for the least pollution.

Not with my water table ?‍♀️

Although I have a wood stove I do agree that certain locations can be anti social for these, towns, valleys etc but impossible to legislate against.