Gone West

Expanding foam tape is only expected to be water and air tight up to a certain amount of expansion. A tape may be 5mm thick and expand to 17mm but only be weathertight up to 12mm.

Hi Julie and welcome to the forum. good luck with the project.

I think it was SIG Building Solutions, but I wasn't taking that much notice. I was more interested in my breakfast.

I fitted a venturi shower about five years ago because we had similar problems. It does require soft water to prevent the internals getting furred up but it has worked well up to now.

I've used these in the past. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15mm-barrier-pipe-cold-form-bend-supports-Joblot-of-20/332090348810?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107083358%26meid%3D153dd5e21d6d4f20a0868ee25c156d66%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D180500616800

Our water table can be very high but we used a treatment plant that only needed type 1 backfill and used ground anchors. It's been in over six years with no problems.

@MikeSharp01 It's a bit grubby outside, not best time for taking pictures. So it's outside, then inside same window, then as a point of interest an Internorm entrance door that is ali clad.

I haven't got Rationel windows, did you mean Rehau?

We had the mitres filled on our Rehau frames before they were sprayed. Everybody who has commented on them think they are ali not plastic.

I have to disagree with that. It's a bog standard plastic sill and not designed to be insulating. The size of the inner section would allow movement of air. My Rehau frames have far smaller sections and they are also foam filled. If you use low expansion foam, fill in section by section and the ends of the sill are open there should be no distortion.

@Onoff Are you going to foam fill the sill inner section? Compriband expands much more slowly this weather.

I'm not able to help very much with this issue. I haven't installed second fix plumbing yet and only have a schematic that I did a few years ago. My DHW system is probably less common and not much help to anyone but here's the drawing. Back to second fix wiring for me.

We've had people wandering in and peering through the windows. The first time I crept up to them outside and politely asked them if there was anything I could do to help them. They jumped out of their skins and were very embarrassed. Another time I was working inside near a window and someone looked in, so I looked back at them and went outside to ask them what they wanted. They looked guilty and apologised and admitted they were being nosey. When we've been working outside other people have stopped and asked if they can have a look and we've showed them round. We're out in the sticks and don't get many but I've found being polite and pointing out any dangers is better than being confrontational.

My neighbour has a Nibe ASHP which is 2m from our fence and I can only just hear it. At 4m away I can't hear it at all and I live out in the sticks with very little background noise.

I can sympathise with you as understand how you feel. I hope things progress faster for you and you can achieve a sale soon.

I would second the idea of a mat well. We did it in our porch and there are a range of thicknesses of coir matting which can be cut from a roll..

Hi Nick, welcome to the forum. When I got quotes for my glazing I found all the European manufacturers I asked wouldn't supply a 4m high glazed gable without transoms. So I had the glazed gable manufactured in this country using German profiles and it was done without transoms which is what I wanted.

The anti-virus software warned me that the page contained a phishing scam so it was working well.

It's interesting that my anti-virus software wouldn't let me open this thread until I over rode it.

Wrong bit of Kent. We had about 1cm last night which has now disappeared.

I've got a Jewsons account and not had any problems like that. Maybe it's just the branch you're using.

I have external OSB racking on the walls and roof so the Icynene was sprayed onto the OSB and expanded inwards. I've no experience of Icynene being sprayed onto roofing felt. It is a flexible foam so possibly ok. IIRC the quotes I had varied by up to 30%.

I have a couple of rows of brick slips stuck to the Peripor EPS foundation upstand around my porch. I used PU gel glue and they're still there three years later.

+1 My son-in-law used similar devices on his roof and it solved the condensation problem.

That's definitely the best way to approach it, reduce the stress!