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Cheers. When you say "tape" do you mean the mesh stuff?

Joint tape, scrim: I've bought, been given or scored off site various tapes & scrims over the last 35 years or so. Still got most of it! Not in the least adverse to buying some new but wondered what these are that I've found: The first is seemingly VERY low tack, either that or it's so old it's lost it's tackiness! It is a bit tacky but I wonder if it would actually stick to anything: Then I've a couple of rolls of this stuff. Sticky as Hell but the face is shiny and smooth like Sellotape. What is it? It's like a sticky mesh faced in clear plastic: What then do I then need for my mrpb joint? I assume an open mesh or do I use a paper tape and pva it on? Wickes do a couple of the mesh type for just under a tenner a roll. One's fibreglass. Cheers (And yes, the cooker clock needs resetting )

Was there not something in the sellers Ts&Cs that you as the buyer had so long after delivery to verify the goods? I appreciate with something like an ashp you can't be expected to do that in 7 days or whatever. Or am I thinking that's to do with delivery damage when they say that? Don't reckon I'll have any comeback if my bath pump doesn't fire up!

If he's got the original FIT rate...

Right or wrong, gaps filled with tile adhesive. First time I've ever used the powdered stuff. Too much water on the first mix so binned that. A bit left over when I got it right. Cement like and sticky at the same time! I let it go off and rubbed it with a block of wood. Turning my attention to the other walls and ceiling now. Off to find the joint scrim tape for the pb!

I like my music with such bass that the dust can't stick!

Well that worked:

I can't help thinking how I was steered away from my exotic shower base mix and that seems to have turned out a treat...

See the pic ref soil/sand cover etc: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/7.13.3.htm

Sand/dirt then bricks if you like at right angles to the run, widest side down. Better than nothing and it'll get rid of them doing something practical! Swa generally has a UV stabilizer in it.

Nope, she's resigned to "as and when" on that score, she just thinks I'll cock it up.

If you don't want to risk crushing your ducts around your cables then bed in sand or sifted soil. You can also lay old roof tiles etc over the top of that.

Missus wants her brother to do it rather than me!

Just bumping this. I need to get a hole(s) drilled in the ceiling to fit an MVHR vent pre plastering ideally. Thinking something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heat-Recovery-Unit-Grille-MVHR-Ventilation-Duct-Ceiling-Loft-Void-Air-Valve-4-5-/142386955614? 1) Do I need one or two vents per room as in an in & an out? 2) If two then is it two in the same room or the extract here and the intake in another room? 3) Knowing one or two then what dictates the size I need? Rom volume, use, lpm from Part F? 4) For now I might run it to just a simple ducted extractor in the loft and out the soffit with a view to expanding to MVHR later. ( @PeterW pointed me to a cheap unit a while back) I presume the duct sizes are compatible or that there are adapters? 5) On the sketch above I've not shown the body dryer that sits between the rainfall head (top left) and the downlight to the right. Is there a "good" position to aim for for the MVHR vent? Some general MVHR pointers would be appreciated! Cheers

I have vacuumed the walls... As it's in the bathroom should the PVA be the (more expensive) waterproof version or just ordinary? 5:1?

When do I not listen to you?

'kin hope not!

I feel your pain! My retrofit included digging down and building back up the bathroom floor. The original dpc, shown blue on the inner brick leaf was nom level with the original ffl and there were some damp issues. I put a dpm about a meter up the wall then came down under the 100mm PIR. The solid grey underneath is 25mm EPS and the dpm is sandwiched between that and the pir. The corners what with all the folding were a pig as I had to stagger it over footings I'd have loved to have had a blank canvas to design this out from the start! Your design above, are there cold bridging issues at the base?

So all the gear and v.little idea! The wet room mitre, I assume I fill the joints with tile adhesive and let it go off. On the assumption I then reinforce the vertical internal corners with Aqual Panel "mesh": AND that I'm going to run tanking strip up, as well as tanking with tanking liquid... What order to I do in in? Tanking strip over the mesh? Cheers

Yeah, OK.

There was something I read somewhere about board being better than multi or vice versa but only of late as in the formula / quality had changed maybe. Maybe on a plastering forum or something?

@nod what plaster should I go for, multi finish? Thinking this. https://www.wickes.co.uk/British-Gypsum-Thistle-Multi-Finish-Plaster---25kg/p/220056 Got a 3x3m ceiling to do and a section of wall nom 3x1.5m. Will one bag be enough. Cheers

Get ready then for multiple, numpty, tanking and tiling questions!

I'm going to sacrifice a Starrett arbor and drill out the 1/4" hole up the centre to 9mm, (maybe 9.5). I can then slip the pilotless Starrett and arbor over the brass mixer spindles and cut the holes out larger and bang on centre.

This Aqua Panel has been the biggest pita for a while. Learning curve too, you can't treat it like pb it's just not as flexible or forgiving.