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If you want a job doing... Hopefully on the second coat she'll get the edges round the ply recess! TP's finest floor paint, still the onion's doing it's job (NOT a myth btw): So these are the mosaics going in the recess, has 5mm pseudo grout gaps, so the real grout gaps will also need to be 5mm: Dimension wise this is the section; a 400mm high tile with 432mm between ply faces I've not shown the tile at the top of the recess shaded for clarity. It works out at a 5mm grout gap to and bottom of the tile. The 3mm is the allowance / space for adhesive between the tile and plywood. A couple of questions: 1) This is marine ply, do I prime it with anything first? Leave to dry or tile whilst the "primer" (if any) is still wet/tacky? 2) Adhesive; proper tile adhesive or Sika or silicon? Bearing in mind this is PLY. Just beads of +3mm and press the tile in? 3) I've a great big tile cutter (water bath etc) - seems overkill and messy /slow for what will br repetitive, straight cuts. Any cheapo tile cutters recommended? Now then, the Genesis 10mm trim's arrived. Not sure how easy it'll be to bond together, well at least perfectly neatly. A 1mm packer makes things worse IMO: I can make the joint line look neat enough I think by temporarily taping together the quadrants though this might spring the flags apart a bit..... Wish me luck, 'cos I never dun no tilin!

Searching "girls with power drills" brings up some interesting images you may be able to draw from to increase the subscriber count. It may need to be a few degrees warmer though. EDIT: I was rather taken with Senorita Makita!

Just to make clear I'm meaning the down pointing 2"x2"s not the horizontal 2"x1" which I guess is for rigidity. I did think that it was to attach an end panel but then why not down both sides and the other end too and why so pi$$ed. The multi tool will be coming out! Got the missus painting the concrete under the bath this morning a nice slate grey. Left her all the gear so no excuses!

Cheers. Point me at a make would you! SBR, I've got a gallon, what, you mean PAINT it on the ply and tile over that? Seen this, any good? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aquaseal-Waterproof-Tanking-Membrane-Wet-Room-Bathroom-Liquid-Form-5L-/111982706227?hash=item1a12b07e33:g:IaoAAOSw3mpXI28P Thanks again.

WTF are these bits of softwood for sticking down under one end of the bath? The nearest ones square to everything but the far one is as pi$$ed as a fart. Only on one end of the bath too. None down the sides:

Bet the start of that video touched a nerve, trouble getting it up.....things flapping about.....Faye laughing..... Seriously, interesting read here including leaving the clay exposed to frost in the old days of brickmaking: http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/a-z-of-industries/brick-making/

The 18mm ply "deck" that the bath sits on is a little low at the internal corner. These are the measurements, slipping in corner packs and then making sure the bath is level in all planes. I'm planning to glue and pin a 12mm lip all round the edge of the hole in the deck so the tiles have something to butt up against and also to act as an upstand against water ingress.

Didn't take note of all the pics first view, just the first one. I've used liquid DPM myself years ago with some success. From memory you applied one coat then when dry a second and coated it with sand that provided a key to render to which I did. Looks similar on the wall next to the wc. Would it I wonder be worth tanking the wall and boarding over? I've a similar dodgy wall in the bathroom. Where the window is was a door, where all the render is was a window. The left hand white area is a bit hollow. I've even got plaster been put on top of wallpaper! Hopefully the battens will keep it all in place.

Whatever's quickest if covering it up! Just render over the patches tbh BUT...as you've already PVA'd them and it's now dry I'd NEAT PVA it just before you render. Or you could roughly cut to shape (square off if pedantic) some plasterboard and stick that in the holes or EPS depending how deep. I've done all of 'em.

Just a little more procrastination and the bath can go in and possibly stay in: Maybe...

PMSL! I reckon you might just get the record for the most "likes" with that!

I'd give metal a go. I'm an apprenticed mechanical & production engineer and was taught (sometimes beaten) to hacksaw to within 20 thou. Emery cloth was a banned and everything had to be draw filed. I love a bit of precision filing even now. My worry with some of those metal or metal effect trims is if it's a coating that would flake off. What do you cut the trims with btw? Those fancy shears, chop saw, mitre block? Inward sloping mitre, cutting trim / tiling this'll be fun:

Thinking of this on a wall scroll in the bathroom: "Our Guru, who art in Wales, Hallowed be thy name. Tile Kingdom for some, But thy will be done, In porcelein (cost permitting). Give us today our daily tips. And forgive us our cock ups, ..... Work in progress, something else that won't get finished...

SO DO I! Pretty sure when she sees the white she wont like it. She can't visualise stuff in her head is the problem, has to "see it". Had a half row yesterday when I said that at least the upstairs dormer gets nice and warm when the rads are on. (Despite being bloody freezing when not). Straight away it was "You're always saying it needs redoing as there's not enough insulation!". The concept of 4x2 walls with hit and miss insulation, heat loss / retention & draughts.....I started to try and explain but gave up. I might try cold bridging and see if we get a Scanners moment...

With a bit of ply about 8mm thick to simulate the tile and some Blu Tack, it would appear it'll all line up:

Onoff: "I've ordered the tile trim!" MrsOnoff: "I thought we we're going to buy it as we needed it?" (Where TF she got this idea from?) Onoff: "No it's cheaper this way and better quality than the sheds!" MrsOnoff: "What colour did you get, white?" Onoff: "Yes, like you wanted!" MrsOnoff: "Well "we" looked at the other colours and didn't like them!" Onoff: "No, I wanted metal but you wanted white!" MrsOnoff: "Do they do grey?" Onoff: "Yes, BUT I'VE ORDERED WHITE!" Go figure!

A bit of modification to bring the conduit forward!

Yep, found that to varying degrees with a couple of makes. Last pic where I'm mocking it up, I stuck the LED strip cut off to the ali extrusion cut off. Even though I cleaned the ali with Multisolve the strip didn't stick that well. I can see it might fall against the diffuser over time.

Dunno, I'll wait till the trim arrives. Ordered 10 lengths just over £30 plus some external corners. Tempted to just glue a length of MT2 under there and be done with it! Half mulling whether I could run a length of 20mm round pvc through the table saw and use half as a 10mm radius capping with no joint! Sod's Law it'd be a different white!

You should have said, I've just binned a load...

Insulating below footings shouldn't be a huge drama as I plan taking the external paths up anyway for one reason or another and the footings aren't that wide. Another pipe dream probably. After the bathroom it's either the roof or knock through the lounge & dining room. Different ceiling and floor heights, the walls are offset one room to the other and of differing construction! Business as usual then. Didn't the ROI government spend millions retro fitting housing stock whilst at the same time creating jobs?

Didn't the ROI government spend millions retro fitting housing stock whilst at the same time creating jobs?

That's good, my local yard (Kent, proper "South") for treated, constructional grade timber: 4*2 CLS 1.20 per metre £1.72 6*2 treated joist 2.05 per metre £2.69 145mm decking 1.65 per metre £2.15 150*15mm cladding 5.27 sq/m Pity it doesn't grow on trees.....

Is there any point in doing retrofit EWI piecemeal? By that I mean elevation by elevation. Would it improve heat loss issues with each bit done?

I could angle a 20mm Starrett I guess to connect the two hole positions..... This 10mm Genesis pvc trim has a little lip. Can't see two trims abutting neatly because of this? Can't see how they'll butt neatly: