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Professional light design... 2470mm unfinished floor to ceiling So an inch over 8'. I want a ceiling mounted o'head shower end of! With UFH and 150mm of PIR all round it'll be toasty in there I hope anyway. I can always warm the room up with a blast from the 9kW body dryer before a shower. The wet room corner just needs light in that corner. With the current 4 downlights on that corner could do with another but the position is exactly where I want the rainfall head. All 3 pockets will be down lit so that'll take the eye of any "losses" in that corner. I've tried the bath and happy with the 3 spots in a line above. I did CAD it up with the 60 deg beam angles etc. Although cool white it's not "blinding" in the bath at all. The spots will be on a dimmer anyway. The idea is get in the bath, beer on the side, kill the spots and switch on the ambient. Beauty is in the eye of and all that!

I simply can't find any unlevel bit of floor when I lay either the 6' or 4' level at any angle. The level just doesn't rock. The screeding rails I did (Unistrut on the walls), I'd do again in a heartbeat but then none of my rooms are that big. The bit in the doorway, where the rails didn't extend to I've left a tad low. Really happy it's "level".

With a concrete floor, levelled with screed rails (so v.good) and 7mm thick ceramic floor tiles, how thick should I allow for floor adhesive? I want to get the door frame in. Cheers

Still mulling over this rainfall shower head. I WANT it flush to the ceiling. Current thinking is to buy a cheap as chips, Chinese, stainless steel circular one. THEN have a st/st plate laser cut and put x4 15mm dia, 12V deck lights at the corners.

Careful buying cheap A4 Gr316 stuff. I've some from the Far East stamped "A4 80" and it's RUSTY!

I've used Modern Screws too. I tend however to use XR Fasteners in Rainham, Essex. No website. T: 01708 524469. Ask for Vik. He should be able to give you a quote and delivery cost.

I considered the thin ones but would have had to puncture the vcl anyway. A case too go with what you like and I like Aurora! Any I wanted to see "if I could" with the whole Thermahood thing. Let's face it this ceiling didn't really need a vcl...I should have looked to have the loft space above inside the warm envelope. Spilt milk etc!

What I was aiming at:

Result!

I paid well under £10 board for graded scaffold borads. Brand new but for whatever reason didn't make the grade; minor splits/checks, maybe under thickness one end. They come unbanded. Got them from a chap out near Maidstone. For my big gate I Cuprinoled the 4 edges and stood the ends in a bucket of the stuff. Gave it 3 coats of Bedec Barn Paint and it still looks great. I'd definitely use them to clad say a garden room. I reckon they would wear a bit quick as decking. You would need something non slip too. Cuprinol's non slip decking paint is expensive but excellent.

This green stuff? Surprisingly tough I've found. Made the mistake of trying to join it at the overlap with Visqueen DPM tape. FAR too thick and not that sticky! Ended up foil taping the joints and hoping for the sandwiching effect of of the pb up against the join.

Pretty sure water softening salts are sodium chloride and used to remove maganese, iron, calcium etc that make water "hard" ?

I know she's turning into her mother but tonight SWMBO informs me she's bought some Epsom Salts! "WTF?" I asked. Apparently because "They're good for you!" (She has I think a hernia which she's convinced isn't and wants a soak in the bath which I can appreciate). BUT...in the back of my mind something's telling me these salts will not be good for the spa bath and rot the jets & pump. I really don't want to knacker it before we've even run it. Possibly it'll be even worse as the pump isn't yet running and the stuff might sit in there and not get washed through. @Nickfromwales, one for you mate! ???

So the Lidl duct tape I've been using...

Once you get the polystyrene coving up you won't even see it!

So I knocked up a template. Drew round the Thermahood with a Sharpie on some scrap ali then cut out the exact shape with some tin snips: With my home brew Starrett adapter... I can attach the hole saw I used... This is the gist but the Stanley type knife, even this small one, is too big to wield and cut around the corners, off to find the scalpels! And YES that is a faux pas with a hole in the wrong place! My only excuse is that I'd had a 600ml bottle of Cobra and the mark where to drill was one of 3 discussed with SWMBO

Matches the slot in the shower if so...

What are the two "slots" where the wall tiles meet the ceiling behind the shower?

This stuff is good, torch on, embossed, aluminused "felt". Heat it up with a hot air gun. The backing goes molten and sticks like the proverbial:

Looks the dog's danglies that!

Re "felt" is the only answer I'm afraid!

Same issue I've got! Did half the roof area really well a couple of times and it STILL LEAKED! Trouble is it will track from one point between the layers of felt.

Multisolve from CT1 will clean off cement splashes according to the side of the can.

Have you bought that roof repair compound yet? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WT1-Repair-Waterproof-Seal-5kg/182917865757?hash=item2a96c1211d:g:XVkAAOSw9~5ZU4b9 £££

Not sure if this stuff would be any good: http://www.stormdry.com/