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Thanks for that - will share the link with my wife.

I completely understand. Makes a lot of sense. I just don’t like the light weight nature of MDF furniture... but your points are extremely valid. Decisions, decisions.

Thanks Ferdinand. Since this is our first eve bathroom, I think we will be a bit OTT on the waterproofing. The vinyl tiles are 100% water proof and made for bathrooms so we should ok on that front. Your advice is sound. We’ve experienced minor water leaks, and that was bad enough, so we will go the extra distance to make it as water tight was possible.

I’m not sure what screed looks like. This stuff was very light and crumbly. It didn’t even adhere to the floor. Under the screed is chipboard (I think) that sits on joists. This bathroom is upstairs btw and above our hallway. The floor is uneven with a slope but is solid underfoot. The plan was to put 22mm ply on top of this and level it. This would be our base for the click system flooring . What do you mean by this? Do you mean we need to waterproof the floor because it’s a bathroom? We have another click system flooring brand, for bathrooms, which looks and feels good. Will post this later.

Love Grohe, but they don’t do a classic/traditional style design like Burlington and the Axbridge range (as far as I know).

Thanks for that. Is that for the same reasons as Peter?

What about wood like oak? Will that warp or will it be more resistant?

We have been looking at Miller. Colour Options and a max 1000mmm width is a hindrance, but their stuff looks awesome.

Yes, the taps by Booth and Co. Sorry for not being more specific.

We’re trying to find a manufacturer of solid wood (not MDF) bathroom vanity units. Does anyone have any recommendations?

For our master bathroom refit, my wife wants to go with traditional looking taps and mixers, and we’re leaning towards Axbridge shower mixer/valve unit, basin tap and floor standing bath mixer so that we have visual consistency. Obviously, Burlington also do these, but we wanted to know if anyone has installed Axbridge before and what the quality was like.

Thanks F. Been a busy day - will reply to your questions and comments when I get a moment.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

Fair enough.

Just checked our paperwork. Our roof inclination is 35 degrees. Since we’re most starved for solar in winter, would it have been a difficult exercise to make a frame that took us to 40 degrees? I assume from what’s been said here we would have increased our winter production a bit.

So you use that instead of ply?

That was genuinely funny. LOL!

Thanks. I’ll do that. When the ply is on, we are going to out down an underlay and out a click system on top that. That should make it feel good and solid.

I have completed gutting our master bathroom and built our stud wall in a new recessed area for our shower. i have some initial questions and will no doubt have more. I removed the old ply that the tiles were stuck to. It was laid on pats (see photo) that were made from grout. Is that normal? What’s the advised method to lay even ply on the existing uneven floor? There’s also black stuff in one area that look like mould. Should I treat this somehow?

In light of all of this, do installers take any of this into account, or do they just slap the panels on your roof using its existing pitch?

I think ours we mounted at 30 degrees.

What’s your background SteamyTea?

Yeah. That makes sense.

The penny dropped after I posted my last comment. kWh makes perfect sense. At 3kWh I’d be able to run a 3kW appliance for an hour.