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https://www.fogstar.co.uk/products/fogstar-energy-16kwh-48v-solar-battery There’s a vid on this page, the guy uses a sunsynk inverter with the fog star battery, this almost makes a shopping list quite easy to assemble.

cream for me, what colour mortar are you pairing with the bricks? Agree with @Mr Punter regards the tile, something smooth would be my choice. What colour brick is under DPC?

If you’ve any doubt, you’ve got nothing to lose by sizing the wall with a splash of sbr and water, it certainly won’t harm the job. IMO The mix of adhesive is the biggest factor.

Haha, used siniat boards and adhesive 🤣, no problems, had a bag that was slightly out of date, that stuff went off quicker than Usain Bolt and the board didn’t hold, but that was me being a tight git, rather than the materials!

Wipe em down, get rid of any dust/loose material, a bit of moisture on the wall will slow down any moisture transfer from the adhesive, which may or may not help… depends on how loose the mix is, with mine some walls i damped down, some I didn’t, looks like it has made no difference to the end result. In your case I’d probably not bother.

Do you think those labour rates are accurate for your region? Materials are quite easy to cost up, but humans cost lots these days!

run your own calcs to sanity check the MCS company, you'll learn (from others on this site), if you haven't already, to double check what you are being told by 'experts'.

Simple and effective, Needs putting in a memo and stickying at the top of this site TBH, then email it out to all architects and architectural designers to put in there schedule of works! I’m well behind on my build, partly because I haven’t yet had my plant room skimmed, and I refuse to crack on with all that on unfinished walls, this has had a knock on effect with plumbing, electrics, etc etc. Get the plant room done and ticked off first, then everything else can follow.

You can get 6mm board, that might be flexible enough to form a radius, alternatively, if you can get a plasterer that would be happy to skim over xps backer board, then you can buy the stuff that is prepped for strange shapes and curves… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermopanel-Waterproof-Resistant-Install-Bathroom/dp/B07RZV1XCR/ref=asc_df_B07RZV1XCR?mcid=5c31f7c6a9a731dcb14df90763ba078c&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697339313975&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1902209021199673924&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-943033153117&psc=1&hvocijid=1902209021199673924-B07RZV1XCR-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

Difficult to gauge as I’ve not worked out sq/m, but I’ve got a number of rooms being started over the next few weeks, spread and his labourer, 6 rooms, 2 cupboards, 3 bathroom ceilings. Plasterer and labourer to skim and prep plasterboards. £6.5k. I’ve bought in the board finish, beading and tapes. He says 10-15 days.

Whatever you or your fitter feel comfortable squeezing sealant into tbh. I managed just get to about 10, so that gave me a brown packer at either end of the tray, still caught the wall as I let the tray down onto adhesive. I had the tray sat on its long edge in the opening before adhesive. Tile adhesive went down, then let the tray down onto the adhesive, this allowed the tray to come away from the long edge wall a bit, then a bit of ebt along the wall and rocking the tray back and forth got the tray into final position. This was onto screed btw. I used the above approach as It was a heavy stone resin thing, which I didn’t fancy trying to handball into the room then onto the adhesive, would have killed my back!

Yeah I’d done the taping myself, but that is not an issue, it’s the epdm seal in the opening that’s either shrunk or was cut too short when installed, it’s just something I’ve noticed as AB has left a nice witness mark, how much it adds up to over say 14 openings I don’t know, probably not a great deal but now I see it, makes some sense to try and fix it

No, not really, .5 is more than good enough for me, originally I said 1.5 and I'd be very happy, just a bit pee'd off at the windows because it's so obvious. My fault for being soft as shite and not inspecting 100%.

Yes, pre-skim, it was now or never really, plasterer starting next week. AB managed to fit us in quite quickly.

The window man is long gone down the road…. Going to have to be a DIY job.