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And a pic of the tray and stainless steel plate.... Tiler redid the boarding as it wasn't quite square.

Tiler did the room like the attached pic (whole room is blue, the floor just has the anti crack mat laid in top of it), but the plumber is doing the Drains. The wetroom tray only came with the large plastic former, then a metal stainless steel glue in plate for the Drains to be mounted into...which is what the pics show. Tiler using the white spacer as a guide in pic below. The kit just contained the metal grate rubber gasket then 4 of those white spacer things. Tiler did everything, but has left it like the previous pics.

It is useful to have enough space around the edges to access them for annual cleaning!

We have a wetroom going in our bungalow. It's build up is: 1) Block beam 2) insulation 3) concrete slab 4) wetroom tray (white plastic preformed) 5) Self leveller or equiv, something which blends the tray in with the rest of the room 6) blue tanking fluid x 2 7) Slip membrane 8) Tiles What I don't understand is what the drain details will be, how it is sealed up with so many layers? Usually I've seen some sort of bowl that is silcioned to it, but I don't see one in the drain kit on site. Pic attached! Thanks

Very bland!! I'm amazed

Pretty sure I just entered house name as the project name, and filled the rest out as normal. They never queried it, and so far so good.... Progressing fairly OK. Though I did need to raise it as a complaint in the end as I signed the contract and they sat on it for 4 weeks...

EDF confirmed same standing charge, same rates and tariffs when I asked them about our upcoming 3ph install

Hi all, My Google-fu is letting me down. We have sliding doors with a desire for level threshold inside/outside... The sliding door though has a 10mm lip that hangs down over the runners, preventing the tiles from butting up against the sliding door frame. The sliding door frames sits on a block 'wall' which sticks out about 50mm,preventing normal depth Drains from sitting hard up against the frame. Builder plans to install a blade drainage profile several cm off the doors to prevent any rain deluge flowing up(ish) the patio incline, which will drain into a normal drainage channel. I would prefer to avoid having a random 15mm gap for door slidding before tiling continues then another 15mm gap for the blade drain I would prefer a two in one, a narrow AND shallow drain that can sit below this sliding door lip that also provides emergancy water drainage during storms. Does anyone know of a sort of 40mm wide and 40mm deep type drainage channel?? Many thanks,

We're still working through this. Our ASHP is single phase 12kw Samsung. Solar inverter is an old old one, but also single phase. Reality is one phase will have PV, ASHP, and house. Other phase double garage and garden and final phase single garage and chargers. So PV sits in the main phase we will draw it from. Electrician says he will fit a diverter that will switch PV to whatever phase needs it... Not sure if that exists without being expensive, need to look into it more.

I'm sitting on an accepted quote of £1900 to swap out single phase to three phase next month. However I am sure I stumbled across a thread on here a few weeks ago suggesting grid improvements would be free of charge as people move to bugger renewable and home charging. I can't find the thread though, and check if I'm eligible and could potentially save some money. Am I going mad, or does anyone know if a thread like this?.. Thanks

We had an issue with some AC pipes that meant we had to cut 3 x MVHR 90mm pipes to access them (AC pipes tucked tight above them) I now need to re-join the 90mm MVHR pipes. Does anyone know the name/link to where I can find three male to male fittings, that will not be blown off if the air pressure gets too high!? Many thanks,

We took the same approach and, touch wood, agree.... Peace of mind is worth investing in!!

Being surprised at how expensive it is is the default emotion in the self builders world these days. I'm afraid you will become numb to it very quick. Carting away dug out ground is also expensive.

A keen, enthusiastic, team who has put so much effort into a quote gets some brownie points there! If you can afford it, like them, and like their advice... I'd go with it!

Mineral woolen bats, check every couple of days for snug fit!

That is so uncannily similar to our build it's scary!! Floating corner, massive high single pitch... Black and wood cladding (though we used white render and the wood cladding for features)

Always an important rule in self building, everyone has an opinion... But its your choice, and build it for you! BuildHub disapproved of our designs, for fair reasons, but our bespoke needs/wants meant we took the good ideas, but stuck with our core option. A year later, and it's coming together, and we love it!! stick with what you want, but do ensure you take counter factuals into consideration to ensure you are totally sure.

Thanks all, the ducting is within our property. Original bungalow was connected to a pole in the verge just outside our boundary, so I assumed they would connect this pole underground back to the cabinet for FTTP. On the call I did stipulate FTTC is in place, and if all I was paying for was for them to run fibre from my house to the pole, then connect it to copper until village gets FTTP then I was not interested... she totally assured me full FTTP. Still sounds to good to be true, but I think I will spend the money and then if they don't provide the service of full FTTP demand money back. Ill keep progressing with Sky in the back ground as our fall back.

We knocked down an old bungalow and are rebuilding it. I raised a new build connection with BT Openreach a few months ago, who quoted £567 for FTTP. The village we are in is ''lobbying'' for Gov funded support to bring FTTP to the village, with me ''committing'' £1000 along with lots of other houses to show we would be serious if the application was progressed (when we would pay the £1000) ....so I assumed this £567 would be to lay ducting and connect our property, via fibre, to the BT Pole that is about 5ft from our boundary. With this i mind I declined, as builder will lay ducting for free and I dont want to spend £560 when the village is prob years & years away from getting anywhere with fibre to the village. However....Openreach rang to chase up the quote and told me very clearly that the £567 would be full FTTP to the property, and they would manage the rest of the fibre connection off site....which sounds to good to be true??? I am now worried about losing out on this good deal, but we are 5 weeks from moving in. Openreach said I sign the contract within 30 days engineers would plan it all out, give me timing (which they couldn't tell me how long i would be....) and then FTTP would be installed. We have no mobile signal in the property & both WFH so really need internet ASAP when we move in. The alternative/what I was going with is standard Sky Broadband, and they have Bt Openreach planned to pull a new copper cable through, and get us all connected with copper by 2nd June. Any thoughts on how best to proceed? I am tempted to pay the £567 and try and get an engineer to confirm timings and details and ALSO get Sky to get openreach to run Copper...and hope they don't realise I am 'double dipping'. Or if they do, Sky have a 48 hour before installation cooling off period, so I can pull out there worse case scenario. Any thoughts on this situation? Thanks

I would go for that, that'll be a very cold floor otherwise!!

What's the quote to have old floor relaid? I probably would if it has a nothing there insulation wise....

Leave it, for an extension it's fine. It's below average for this specialist /uber passionate forum but for average household 125mm PIR is fine...if slab is poured nothing more you can do anyway. .. Edit... Several years ago my folks had UFH installed on 100mm PIR and then 22mm chipboard and 9mm engineered wood. System still worked, just with a slower initial warm up time.

Remove bath, clean existing tiles thoroughly, extend tiles down one layer lower (find mosaic pattern or something to create a feature line if ran out of tiles?), push bath against them, weight it down and resilicone? Is the bath adjustable? Can it be jacked up a few cm to reduce the tile gap??

Thanks all! Painful to say the least. EDF gave me the run around for a week, so i raised a complaint (thank you Dave, took one look at your post & went straight to EDF.....). The complaint has kicked my original request up a gear, but they have still have to give their engineers 10-14 days to respond with equipment & timing to swap the meter - worrying what they may come back with, seeing as EDF have shown to be hopeless so far. National Grid have us booked in for June 15th to do the actual digging & connection, due to shortage of teams its longer then normal. I am really hoping they get a cancellation (they are trying for me) and can fit us in that way, but dont hold much hope. Ill keep chasing them on it. Really worrying as we are due to move in late May, and I had hoped to have electrics tested by then. We do have a single phase connection, but I don't know if this can be connected up the the house until the three phase comes a few weeks later!? (3 phase because we installed 3 x vehicle chargers - these wont be connected for many many years in reality)