Gone West

Is that 1p or 1d.

I see, but most bricks have frogs or holes and most of the slips I looked at were 15mm so I think you'll probably be looking at around 24kg/m2 which would put it much closer to the 29kg limit and that's without the adhesive.

I don't quite follow your calculations but my brick slips weigh 400g each.

I don't know why the brick slips I used would have to go on a backing board. They are only stuck on with what looked like exterior tile adhesive. The only thing I can think of is possibly different expansion rates but then a flexible adhesive should sort that out.

Our neighbour has a Nibe ASHP which is about 2m from our fence and on a still day with no other sounds you can just about hear a gentle whirring sound when standing next to the fence.

Friends of ours used Touchwood Homes and are very happy with their build.

Well done for considering carefully and not being sucked in. Good luck with your future plans.

Congratulations .

Our balcony faces west and it's nice to sit out there watching the sunset, listen to the birds singing and then if we're lucky watch the bats flying around. Good de-stresser after a day working on the house.

My plasterer used Febond Blue Grit on some areas. He said it was the best.

My plasterer told me never to put PVA on plasterboard.

Why is that?

We have silicone utensils which go in the dishwasher. We don't have any aluminium pots and our plastic storage boxes are dishwasher proof. We clean hob and worktops with a spray cleaner. We don't own a washing up bowl.

Having a dishwasher in our houses definitely ended washing up in a sink.

If you pm me your address I'll send you 20m. I've still got a load left over.

I'm now wondering, is this 'seat' for when battening or tiling? If battening, no problem using the vertical channels as they just clip in but for tiling it would have to be a U section that would hang over the battens and tiles with some sort of padding to prevent the tiles cracking.

I don't know if it might be possible to use a couple of the vertical channels that clip between the battens to mount a support, to sit on

That is shallow and very doable. I installed Nu-Lok on a 30 degree roof and it's easy to sit sideways on the battens. On the main roof, at 42 degrees, I fitted the battens but I found it harder on my knees.

It was a bit of a saga really. We got our completion certificate on 28/2/18 and we sent all the paperwork off to BuildZone on 8/3/18. Their surveyor made his final visit a week later and then we heard nothing for two months. I contacted them and apparently they had a new computer system and had lost my paperwork. So it was all sent again and I finally got the warranty on 15/5/18. I would certainly chase them.

Doesn't water exist as a collection of H2O molecules caused by hydrogen bonding between water molecules therefore this makes the practical size of the molecule much bigger.

Mine never did seal for the air test so I asked the BCO and he said just fill it with water the day before he came over and see if the level goes down. It didn't, and he was happy, and so was I. Water molecules are much larger than air molecules so it might leak a little air but it won't leak water. It's not under much pressure.

Mine eventually went on fine, when I did it the way Wendy told me to. It was a good reason for me not doing it myself.

You might be as good at it as I am.

@Roz When I submitted my planning drawings the planners wanted to see a cross sectional drawing which therefore shows wall and roof thicknesses etc.

I can't understand that there would be problems with external films on any sort of glazing. If it was an internal film I would only use it on single glazing. I asked them why the spec. didn't include triple glazing and they said they didn't have any data on triple, probably because it's not that common. The solar gain does reduce a fair bit between single and double so I'm assuming the reduction would be at least 60% for triple.