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  1. No! Depending on the "free" felt you want proper felt adhesive imho even more so if your just laying it on. Is it just one layer of felt supplied? Got a spec for the felt, photo maybe? Traditionally a decent felt roof would have 3 layers on a domestic say extension and a decent shed roof two layers. I did two layers on my shed roof. 1st layer of just sand felt bonded and nailed. Second layer green mineral bonded to the first. I took particular care bonding the joints. I kept some clean sand/green mineral sweepings that come of the felt and sprinkled these over any dribbles at the laps. I've no lathes or anything holding it down, Hell I've not even finished the fascia boards or gutters! ? I used Wickes felt adhesive. Roof still looks like new pics from 2017 apparently. I might knock this down soon / extend it.
  2. A mate has offered me a truck load of 25x25x2 steel box section. It's old server racking in around 4m lengths. Any merit in making a steel frame greenhouse? I've also got a stack of old greenhouse glass. Was thinking stick it to the steel frame with CT1... Mad?
  3. I sloped the bottom shelf of the niches a few degrees. The silicone is Forever White. It's stayed white as far as I'm aware. The magic fairy occasionally cleans the bathroom afaik. We do have some limescale issues on the wall tiles in the wet room corner. My crap tiling probably didn't help. Idiot that I am, having never really tiled before, I started with that angled wall. The niches are constructed in Aqua Panel then tanked and tiled. Good ventilation helps guard against mould of course.
  4. Think about it, when you're old, the carer / those same two youngsters will be able to sit you in a garden chair and hose you down! Tbh the nominal fall area is 4x4 tiles so circa 1320x1320mm. The reality is the splash zone IF careful is one tile beyond. However...No1 son uses the rainfall exclusively so it's a bit more. No.2 daughter uses the handset and somehow manages to get the bog roll wet on occasion! We put up with it as it's so easy tbh. Use a small sqeegee on the floor afterwards then kick your towel around. There's strong points in the wall where the vertical mosaics are should we ever decide to fit doors or folding screens.
  5. I have concealed with a riser rail/handset hose and then a rainfall head. I'm not looking forward to it going wrong. At best it's prise off the cover plate that's been "lightly" siliconed (in a horseshoe): I've made provision that I can get tools (box spanners and large sockets in there). At worst it's tile off, cut through the board to get to the compression fittings on the mixer valve. I've no pipe joints in the wall "other than" at the mixer and outlet (soldered), it's all bent copper: (Testing ?): Then there's the loft plumbing. I'm OK for access at the moment: Imho concealed looks better (from a distance ?): If I'd have fitted the water softener by now it would have likely held off "problem" day which with the hard water here I'm fully expecting.
  6. Aka she doesn't trust you with a paint brush! ?
  7. Mrs daiking not help? I know if SWMBO and I work together I invariably end up wanting to bury her in the over site... Edit: It's mutual btw.
  8. Imo if you struggle laying blocks you'll really struggle with bricks. You'll just multiply the faff factor. Why not ditch the brick / block idea altogether and just buy some scaffold boards then shutter it up like I have a few times now. Where the blocks were will just be thicker concrete at the edge, like a ring beam. Thinking you might fair better getting shuttering square and level. Saying that, with your inexperience, you might struggle keeping it square when you pour your concrete and see the edges bowing. You need to stake it and backfill the edges to prevent this.
  9. You'll be more aware / better prepared next time!
  10. I'd leave it loose. Not much difference to what I did blinding my hardcore. Looks great when it's done! You doing any more rooms? I screwed screed rails to the stud walls and used a drag board to get the concrete dead level. No screed, I just tiled on top. Pity my tiling's crap!
  11. It'll be fine. If really worried put a thin bed of sharp sand down and level that. Where is your dpm going or is that already in?
  12. I found blue grit a pita to use. I tried on some green mrpb here despite everyone telling me not to bother! I skimmed straight on the board.
  13. I was joking ref the 3D printed bits! ? Can you get 100mm chairs?
  14. You could commission some snazzy, double ended, 3D printed stand offs to keep the two meshes 50mm apart... ? Tbh I'd just cut some Celcon blocks into 50mm strips and CT1 lumps between the meshes here and there.
  15. Fair enough.
  16. NO! It's shit and weakens the mortar. It's less than a fiver: https://www.screwfix.com/p/cementone-cemplas-mortar-plasticiser-dark-brown-5ltr/63831? https://www.toolstation.com/everbuild-202-integral-liquid-waterproofer/p80460 Stick any leftover on Freegle. I usually add like a litre to a builders bucket of water and use that. Besides proper stuff probably costs less than Fairy anyway. I'd be putting it in the slab mix too. The de-aerating qualities saves a lot of tamping to get the air out. Why aren't you mixing your own concrete for the slab. 8'x10' slab. Done in about 4 hours on my own. I think actually the waterproofer I used was Sika, scored off a site in that big yellow 25l tub. I then used the Everbuild waterproofer below for the brickwork:
  17. Fussy tart! ? Take a photo of the tiles. Blow it up to A4 and laminate it. Hang behind the waste, in front of the pipes ?
  18. Wot I said. That Toolstation one I linked makes it "creamy" and "stickier" (though it de-aerates).
  19. @SuperJohnG's blog maybe? Pretty sure @LA3222 answered some of John's questions with how he did it previously. Seem to remember he posted up some cracking pics of his super tidy EPS detailing...but I can't find them?
  20. Don't know if I'm brave enough to try it!
  21. I read it as "chinsaw"... ?
  22. It does highlight the benefit to have an all RCBO cu. Having the "boiler" on it's own circuit would narrow it down very quickly. Even to the point of the person "phoning" can easily convey what circuit is tripping.
  23. It FINALLY turned up!
  24. Well it seems to do its job fine so far. It was someone on here recommended it, @PeterW I think from memory. Mine is the 28mm version.
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