MikeGrahamT21

🤣 and mine too, just try not to look at it.

ewistore.co.uk P.S. thanks for the reminder that i'd actually done this, forgot to put it up

Forgot i'd done this for some reason 😂 Been a long time coming, but finally decided to get on with it, heres a few before and after and during pics, I did use wall anchors too but for some reason didn't bother taking a photo at that point. Pleased with how it came out, not only looks better than before with the conduit for the wire which is now buried, but should also save some £££. The plinth insulation will get rendered at some point in the future in black, but the tubs are of a size where i kind of need to be able to do all my sections at once.

What a journey that was, lying builder and a few no show days caused the finish date to slip, and following a 2month delayed start, but I got there in the end!! Good things come to those who wait eh. So the outside shell of the building is now completed, and yesterday I started work on the inside. The lean-to roof was extremely close, but just squeezed it in with a slight pitch modification. This leaves me with essentially 3 sections of wall to clad: Near side will get done with EWI and brick slips, and the flue will get extended through the EWI, far side will get EWI and brick slips right up to the soffit, and that will leave a triangle with 1 missing corner above the extension. This will get clad with timber, and insulated to match the EWI spec. The EWI will likely get done first, the timber later. Downpipe is to be fitted yet, and will temporarily get routed down the soil stack. I'm going to get several large water storage tanks, but as you can probably see i've got a mountain of block paving to shift first!! Really pleased with my size choice for the windows, had worried they weren't going to be big enough, but think they are spot on! First day of me on the job, got the first layer of insulation in, 100mm PIR. Need to hit it with the expanding foam, there is then a further 50mm to go on top of this, and then 25mm under the rafters, before the plasterboard. Hoping the new Windows for the front of this and also an upgrade for the kitchen to triple glazed will be coming tomorrow, and planning on fitting this bank holiday weekend if they do. Other developments: I also made the decision to invest in another battery, a further US3000C module to take me to around 6.6kWh of usable, and unlock the full 3kW output of the inverter, and given the current outlook to import pricing, I think i made the right choice. Very pleased with how the battery system is performing even how it is currently with only a single module.

At 18mm thick, those tiles are only a smidge above the EDP flashing. The correct flashing for your tiles I think is https://www.sterlingbuild.co.uk/product/velux-edt-0000-flat-tile-flashing The EDW will kick the tiles up along the sides, the tiles under the rippled flashing at the bottom of the window should be profiled along the top edge of the tile at an angle, and then will be stuck onto the tiles with the butyl strip and smoothed down either with your hands or a tool.

Bit more progress... Roof design has had to be changed, a straight lean to roof just won't fit under the existing eaves, so its going to have to have a hip on the front to make it all fit I think, see what the roofer reckons.

The PVC suppliers i've used in past all say that they can send them off to be foiled in whatever colour you want, at extra cost of course.

So after 2 years since the planning permission was granted, and a 2month delay from the builders I'm finally underway on what will be the last major building work on this bungalow. Having real trouble finding a joiner who's available to do the roof, so I may end up having to do that myself. The one bit i'm unsure on having never done a lean-to roof before, the wood plate which goes on the wall, is it fixed using thunderbolts?

Excellent work!! Croissants look good too! 😂

If they get to the pollination stage, theyre far to far gone. We eat the unopened flower buds essentially

Is it just me or are there some loose connectors and some empty sockets? I can see two I think, the green set of wires and the blue set.

Yeah you 100% need one of those olives for the compression

They're tongue and groove blocks laid on their side, probably just what they had to hand at the time! Assuming thats your party wall, id say that there will be no cavity between you and next door (on my street, 70's bungalows, some are like this and some are 2 blocks and a cavity in the middle, very bizarre the difference). Best thing you can do, aside from filling the gaps, and also putting a layer of soundcoat (https://www.british-gypsum.com/products/finishing-products/gyproc-soundcoat-plus), you could use a metal frame, pack it with acoustic insulation and then top with 15mm soundblock plasterboard, all depends how much space you can free up for it, if any. Take a look at my blog, i did a similar project in my living room, might give you some ideas.

flexible cement based tile adhesive for sticking cement boards down, or whatever the manufacturer recommends.

Re. the draining. My dishwasher has a good 2m drain pipe run along the floor, up the back of the sink unit and into the sink plumbing, and doesn't retain any water (also a Beko), but it does go up and over, meaning that other water would never be able to enter the pipe, never had any issues so far. If everything is downhill on yours, then yes, get a pipe extension and make sure that a bit is uphill to stop it flowing the wrong way from the sink

Yeah its bang on, but not all the eurocones fit. Made this mistake on a single radiator that I was rushing to put on, in the end i thought the TRV design must have changed, it was only after i'd put a 16-15mm converter on, did I realise i'd just picked up the wrong eurocone!! Loosing my marbles i tell ya! From memory the single seal ones are the ones that fit, the double seal ones are too wide.

And if you get the right shaped eurocone, you can do what I did, and pop that inside your TRV, so you get a direct 16mm connection to the 15mm TRV

Yes my old meter used to run backwards for a short period of time before the ratchet kicked in, never enough to make any real difference, but i guess over the years it probably added up.

If the whole of eurocell is the same as my local branch, they only supply AGC glazing now, which will only get you to around 1.0U, so to achieve this you would need to source the glazing from somewhere else.

I wouldn’t be stressing over 3mm, 47mm is ample for an air gap.

How about leave the door as is, no sill, and instead use something like this under it: https://ewistore.co.uk/shop/external-wall-insulation/verge-trim-upstand-2-5m-110mm/ As long as its sealed correctly in the right places it should work. There will be a thermal bridge of course, but if its an outbuilding it shouldn't cause you issues.

They all need to be metal under current edition regs afaik. You'd probably be hard pressed to buy a new plastic one!

Yeah its definitely not a free upgrade!

assuming they were to the spec of the time they’ll be somewhere between 1.8 and 2.2U

Both, good to know you are happy with their products.