Omnibuswoman

Great work!!

I will look into suitable underlay for solid flooring, and some thick fluffy socks for HWMBO to wear when we have visitors!!

The room is a guest bedroom and above it is an open plan kitchen diner with solid floor surface (or it will be once it is finished) so the main thing is stopping HWMBO’s clod-hopping from waking our lovely visitors. I will use acoustic sealant around the perimeter.

Thanks @SteamyTea. I hadn’t been aware that the bars differed for double a board load, so I don’t know whether the ones I got are suitable. I will now check!!

Sadly not… the boards went up so I will need to take them down and add in the woodscrews 🙄. At least I haven’t paid him yet… that isn’t going to happen now.

This just made me think - I think he used drywall screws to fix battens to the ceiling upstairs. Does that need to be redone too?

Given how few boards he got up today I will just take them back off tomorrow, double up the screws, and refit the boards. Then will start looking for a replacement boarder…

Thanks. The ceiling will be double boarded so it is important he knows where the joists are. Or if I bin him I need to know where they are!

Thanks Nick. So in terms of noise transfer, the wall contact isn’t an issue?

In an effort to move forward more swiftly I have hired in a local chap (retired ceiling fitter) to help with plasterboarding the ceilings. So far I’ve been underwhelmed with his fairly messy work (favourite phrase “that’s what plasterers are for”). Today he fitted resilient bars and they are touching the wall in places (see photos). Is this still ok (as he tried to assure me it was) or should I move them?

Ours requires the batteries to be connected and holding charge before it will work. When our battery malfunctioned and completely discharged, the inverter would not come on.

Hmmm we have had repeated water ingress at the edges of a few of our window frames several hours into a storm, which is likely to have wetted the cellulose within the wall cassette (our wall make up inside to out is propassiv OSB, warm cell, wood fibre board, membrane, cross batten, render board, render). I'm now wondering whether I ought to be exposing and checking these areas before we cover them with plasterboard....?

I was pondering this very question this evening as I’m planning to get outside for a few days in light of the good forecast from tomorrow… have you given it a go? Any feedback?

I set up our new starlink at the weekend, just resting on a workbench in the garden at the moment. I’m now mulling on how to fix it permanently. Can I ask what brackets you bought for attaching it to your house?

Thanks all for these replies. I will check how level the joists are to decide whether I need to batten or use resilient bars, and I will give bashing one of them a go to see whether I can reduce the difference enough to just PB straight onto them.