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Mentalpause here mate!

Man up! I'm debating building a "car port" the length of the side of the house. Actually a fair distance from where we park the cars but I could set a saw bench up under it and store timber in the dry for when I do the roof.

She got all the bathroom floor tiles on which she's now changed her mind. Lengths of skirting she's just bought to replace along the bottom of a wall in the hall. It's only me who'll do it yet when I offered I got told to get on with the bathroom! Again in an area we're planning to gut. Might as well set fire to £5 notes in this house to keep warm.

My missus will insist on spending money & re-papering the crappy, original, woodchip papered walls in the currently separate lounge and dining room. All because she's "fed up with them". These "walls" are in fact HARDBOARD nailed to I think what are roof battens. THEY'RE COMING DOWN FFS! I'd happily strip all the walls back to bare structure to see what we've got underneath. Only got one socket in one room and two in the other. Got mates who would happily come round for a weekend and gut both rooms on a beers / barbie deal! As long as it's all clean I'd quite happily live with it. Not sure yet whether this will be the next project or the roof.

Another one overcome by the exhuberance of his own verbosity. You'll fit in well here! The older I get the more I realise how much I haven't done. Life's but a walking shadow and all that.

Magnolia the walls, grey carpets, gloss the woodwork. Present a blank canvas. But estate agent's view first.

Old house.....I feel your pain! We sorely need a back up for when we run out of oil or the boiler is u/s. The hot water cylinder is positioned so tight to the sloping roof joists I can't even fit an immersion. There's the broken remnants of one I can see atop the tank. I suppose short term a cheap new HW cylinder and bit of plumbing would get us by.

Shouldn't we touch on the waterproof "exterior" and the more general (and cheaper) everyday versions of PVA? Big difference in price. I know back when I temporarily dust proofed my concrete floor in the bathroom I used dilute SBR bonding agent on advice here rather than PVA. This on the basis that when tiling later there's a risk of water getting under the tiles and affecting normal PVA. It was cheaper using SBR than buying exterior PVA. I do know some on here have dust proofed say their new garage floors with dilute PVA. I've certainly glued T&G chipboard flooring together with it. I'll often use it when doing noggins before I screw them in. Doing it throughout boxing in in my bathroom. I've used it btw when the kids have run out of "craft glue" and topped the bottle up. Made many a paper mache'd balloon head when they were younger!

Loads of info here: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.british-gypsum.com/~/media/Files/British-Gypsum/Brochures-and-Leaflets/Product-information/Thistle-Plaster-Selector-Guide.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwid6s-fyOXSAhWBNJoKHSGOAmcQFgguMAE&usg=AFQjCNHfn6-ODbRgINp7O2aYtdLIaRpKkA

A man after my own heart!

Come on, time to close the lid on this... Seriously, I assume there was some forethought to this as I spy what looks like the end of 110mm soil stack poking up.

When I FELL through the lounge floor (done in 5/8" chipboard by the previous owner) it was only the carpet that saved me! I felt like Tom Hanks in that scene from The Money Pit: There's now more than one stainless steel door kick plate and bits of "proper" 18mm flooring chipboard in this floor. Seems a waste to do it properly as the whole floor is 100mm 'ish too high and even the concrete underneath has to come up!

No need for ply or anything then, just nail the felt on?

We're on a roll here lads!

Are we privy to a look inside?

With my first house I was buying waterproof PVA (the "black" as opposed to "red" container) by the gallon from Wickes and putting it in EVERYTHING, from mortar, to render to concrete and even plaster. If in doubt.....5:1 was the moto! I still own the place and everything's still standing and that was 25 years ago. As to the rules???

Once I get the Hep2O connections figured it'll be fine.....

Going to have a go myself. I've already got the 1.5mm T&E buried under 150mm of Celotex in the ceiling.

Need another way in the cu for it...

Oh yeah! Tbh I've only run it to test it on the bench off a 32A supply at its lowest setting and that felt like a Harrier taking off:

Could you.....loosely pack the off cuts in a 2.4 x 1.2m frame and fill the gaps with gun foam?

Would a fandeck such as this type be of any use in a homebrew MVHR? http://www.torin-sifan.com/fandecks.asp

I thought there would be some clever "plastic" screw to avoid cold bridging through the screw!

So.....how do you ensure a decent fixing into the rendered EWI for thinks like external sockets, lamps?

Nah, it was his brother Graham.