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You don't understand! Clear the room, any room, back to bare bones and it should be easy and quick. Like the bathroom...

Can't you look at cladding that wall in a non combustible material like cement board cladding? Think that gets around it?

This one starts from a point of conflict! Bear with me whilst I have a rant! SWMBO has decided the youngest needs a chill out zone / room. (I don't btw disagree). This is destined to be the single, large 'ish downstairs bedroom circa 4m x 3m on the North corner or the house. Currently known as the "playroom", it's stacked to the brim with the kids toys, floor to ceiling in crates and on shelves, it's just been building up like an American hoarder's dream for the last 20+ years where she throws FA away! They haven't been able to play in it for years. It also smells like there's a dead mouse/rat underneath in the floor space. The original carpet in there is basically dust when you lift it up and there's I think two double sockets and that's it. The room is in fact larger, probably 4x4m. There's a stud wall been built forming a corridor with a wc at the end. This is what I have: Not shown above is that you can in fact walk straight from the hall to the WC corridor. Playroom door to the immediate left in the stud wall. This from way back when I had to replace the water main and re-route the single pipe CH around the bathroom refurb. This taken standing in the hall looking up the corridor: My plan was to gut it. Ceilings down, suspended floors got shot of, corridor a tad wider, build back up with UFH, internal wall insulation, new electrics etc. Then a new doorway in from the hall, block access from hall to corridor. Then divide the corridor into an ensuite possibly with shower and walk in wardrobe. So it'd look something like this, new doorway in from the hall: Considering this will likely become our bedroom as we get older it seemed like a good idea but oh no! I'd take too long, blah, blah, blah. Usual b@ll@cks. Instead of having some vision and idea about futureproofing we're doing things piecemeal! Instead of sitting down, budgetting then just clearing the place out and going for it in one hit..... Rant over.....we're going with her plan. I couldn't really give a to$$ as she's turning into the MiL but here goes: 3300mm between walls. 2650mm top of floorboards to u/s of ceiling. Rough plan is to drop a little framework screwed up into the ceiling joists above and have 2440mm high, 18mm thick MDF doors. A shhet weights just over 30KG. I need some cheap door gear and rails, any suggestions as to supplier? Is top hung / suspended or rolling on a bottom track best? I do actually have some old rollers of a sliding lorry curtain...wonder if they would fit inside some Unistrut. This needs to be quick and dirty so I can get up the pub:

Depends on the clear span between walls and ceiling joists centres as well as load, as to what depth joists you need. Avoid sag at all costs! Minimum fall I think is 1:80 for a flat roof. You can still run into issues if your roof sheets ply/osb sag a little and form shallow depressions. The rule of thumb I think is to design for 1:40 and you'll likely end up with a bit less due to build inaccuracies etc but it'll work out right.

I just remember being impressed you'd managed to pi$$ that high and stain the grout so uniformly.

Just how sad are we? 😂 I went over each flint last night with a small, soft stone in the Dremel: What I need to find is maybe a spray lacquer that will give the flints a wet look and at the same time seal and protect the mortar. Ideally it'll get in the gaps if the mortar has shrunk away from the flints though so far so good. Hopefully that's the plasticiser and lime working.

Guessing he might have to. Apparently the door/tray seals are obsolete. Likely the new tray might therefore come up short and leave a nice gap to fill. Reckons it's only really affected the floor about a metre outwards!

Never finishing can be a bonus 😉

Trying and struggling to get some cheap s/hand railway sleepers at the mo to ring fence the veg patch. Keep missing out on Gumtree. I've even ventured onto FB Marketplace.

Tray failure. Water has gotten behind the tiles etc. The chap who's this is reckons he can get away with removing just the bottom tiles 😂 Told him he's on a loser, that it needs coming off and redoing, tanking etc. Then the new tiles brought down onto a generous CT1 bed etc. Whatever, he's after a tile matching service. Any ideas?

Can I plant in bagged compost or do I need "soil"?

You'd prefer a more traditional, thick round shaped door opener?

Right then 50 little cardboard pots from the Poundshop sat in the seed tray. How do I plant the beans? Half fill with compost,push the bean in then cover?

Because you'd recognise his back door?

Best he starts now! 😂

The dust produced is incredible and just as likely to pi$$ neighbours off when it covers their cars/exacerbates little Johnny's asthma etc. A water fed saw is great but you still have the coloured run off / resultant spoil to deal with. Luckily I have no near neighbours 😉

The ones with the round holes in are not actually engineering bricks. Just the bottom 4 courses are, the ones with the slotted holes: The round hole ones were basically these though a slightly different design with no small holes in like now: https://www.selcobw.com/65mm-tuscan-red-brick The Evo saw / diamond blade cut them like a knife through butter. I do have to cut some slips shortly, so lengthways which will be fun. This to dress around the control boxes. Clamps will very much be the order of the day!

It just keeps getting better! 👍

You want to curry favour with that one...

BDSM?

It's about a gay nightclub owner. How can I even compete? Don't you lot grow palm trees overnight down there? Hopefully planting in pots tomorrow. Pics to follow.

Hmmm...John Brown / Bob Dylan or two fit Pakistani American sisters? Well call me a dirty old man.....

There's a robin nesting in the lhs pillar as aforementioned. Never liked acid house. Quite into Krewella at the moment.

Halved my bricks using an Evolution Rage 3 chop saw with and Evolution 255mm diamond blade:

For the stubborn bits of mortar I might go with neat acid. Just gave another 1:1 dilute wash and rinse off. The fines in the mortar are coming through. I'll let it dry out over the Summer then give a coat of waterproofer. You can see how the washed face is "brighter" on the brick faces. @Marvin reckons it's a gate that says "f*** off!" 😂 Aim achieved then!