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Just reread and saw they are already painted.....

I often paint bare aluminum at home & work using Hammerite Special Metals Primer. Looks like red oxide.

I got £19.50 for that!

I'm sorry you're having these problems but I showed you photos of mine and said how I braced it yet you failed to have braces on hand! Get the sill on first and leave to set. You might be trying to do too much at once. The screws knackering the pb? I've done too many to count without this problem. You saw my photos that it can be done and neatly. I'm nothing special believe me! Maybe try and pilot a few and countersink like you suggested, if it's easier for you. What "2 bits" in the pack? Without a pic we're just guessing. Maybe this isn't for you. I appreciate what it's like not having anyone in hand to guide you if you've never done it before. We all have our wobbles but keep complaining about the stress of it all...you need to chill and get over that it's part and parcel of it all I'm afraid. Also the tools we're suggesting are generally what the majority of us have and are needed to do these jobs. Making them fit, do you have a bevel gauge? Step away and post some pics and we'll start afresh. Post a pic of this "crumbly" insulated pb too.

She was certainly a cracker! Love some of the censored images with the eBay sticker stategically placed!

I'm 6'5" and a lump.

I read that with my heart in my mouth! Good end result though.

I have that many plans and projects I will be dead before they're done barring a big Lotto win. I'd like to have enough money to be able to stay at home and do everything I want to myself but above all not to have to compromise. Renew the house roof, knock thru lounge diner, kitchen floor 4" too high, boiler room / conservatory floor even higher, knock down & rebuild stable, convert truss rafter garage roof for storage, redo various drain runs around the house, drop overhead outbuilding cabling into trenches, landscaping, garden room etc. Dunno, had a wobble tonight, multiple family & £££ worries I guess! Not helped by 4 ish hours sleep for the last 4 nights. Kipped on the sofa for a bit just and now clutching a can of cider. I'm doing nothing tonight. I don't know how I missed this last night but it was gone 12 and I can't have been seeing straight! Up at 5 etc. With hindsight! I'll probably just leave it and live with it. Did think about trying to shave a mm off.

Pmsl! Just remembered that! Off to find it now!

Take a break and don't mess up any more. This was the stuff I used but from Travis Perkins. This is a good picture though. The foam is quite dense: https://www.buildingmaterials.co.uk/gyproc-thermaline-plus-insulated-plasterboard.html?

Pucker and then some. I've seen them.

Bet I'm not the only one that zoomed in on that valve looking for the reflection...

Wasn't it British Bathrooms? The place I linked?

My insulated pb was from Travis Perkins.....and it's spot on. No laminating at all. If yours is crap send them a pic and get some more sent. Can't think how I cut mine...18V cordless circular saw I think... Page 11 of this thread I posted up all about foam guns and cleaner. I hear Nick Knowles and his crew do a lot of work in Wales. Realising why now!

How much gap at the back between the 30mm edge and window then? Won't do any harm, a thin line of low expansion foam, make damn sure that's where the boards are going and you might want to mask the window frame with tape knowing what you're like with foam! You shouldn't need to pilot through the insulated pb. Just mark where the screw is going and go for it with the screw using the cordless and that special bit I linked so you don't over drive the screw. Try and keep the screw square as it goes in. You'll have to figure the best torque setting on your cordless by trial and error.

Pictures help massively in trying to understand this.

Sick to the t!ts of this. Looking at, working on it. Would quite happily take a sledge hammer to the lot of it. As you may have guessed I have the serious ar5e. Lots of little things tbh.

Is Welsh your first language?

As I'm getting close to finishing should I be worried that I didn't butter the back of the tiles under the wet room area? I'll obviously be super careful grouting and after grouting use clear CT1 at the wall / floor junction. Are there any grout sealers out there? How will I know if I have a problem? Cheers.

Name a man who doesn't want to hear those words...

His answer will involve tape, CT1 and baby wipes...explained in detail before on here I think? Will try and find the thread.

So you got them in, in landscape mode using the tool I said to buy? All intact?

Take it EASY. If stuck don't panic just post up. Nothing worse that effing up good materials!

Have a practice like I said with the foam on a bit of waste board. It is not as aggressive as the other stuff but doesn't mean you can go nuts with it! It doesn't need much against it that it won't push the board out but rather fill the gap. This is one where you're going to have to do it to get a feel for it. Short of someone standing at your shoulder it's the only way.

I used the one from Wickes and it didn't eat the eps: Two coats, goes on sort of brown and dries black. This pic's misleading as I've actually got dpm behind the battens up the wall by about a metre. That laps / joins with the dpm over the eps.