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400mm, 18mm chipboard.

I put 5 screws across every joist that each board sat on before I laid the final flooring which took most of the squeaks out but this is something else. There are but not where the sound seems to come from. I'll check them out though. there is a section of ceiling that bridges between old and new and it sis clear from looking at it from the floor above that a section of it is not attached to the joists.

Alas, I would not get it up the stairs

That's pretty much where I'm at. I need to make one more exploratory penetration in the ceiling below to confirm the condition of the joist supporting that wall. But so far its looking pretty good. Why do I need that? A spoon would do.

Is anyone familiar with this phenomenon and how to stop it? When someone walks on the first floor there are loud snapping/cracking noises downstairs. I have high confidence it is not the floor creaking as I filled that up in with hundreds of screws and sounds vey different and is heard mainly downstairs not upstairs The problem is described here: http://forum.snagging.org/snagging-requests-for-help/2332-creaking-ceilings-getting-nowhere-nhbc.html It alludes to something to do with the way the joists are supported but a poster remains very cryptic about the solution. the floor joists are hung from hangers off a wall plate on one side and sit in masonry pockets at the other end. It is the joist hanger end that seems to generate the noise. I think the joist hangers are mounted to a wall plate that is bolted into a steel beam web.

For gawd sake I hope those pictures are visible not just to me.

Window Before After Bad mortar jagged crack presumably due to poor packing but nothing untoward on the left hand wall in that corner. Despite the bad packing The wonky wall Before After Not so wonky it turns out. These mortar lines are nominally horizontal.

None in my local anyway

Retractable roof for a bond villain volcano lair? I have p'eed the neighbours off quite enough already.

Is this man enough to take on a 100mm+ thk concrete drive? Will keep a look out.

So far, shed wall wins. although, I have just thought of using it as the base of a large solar heat collector cue, Rolling Stones

Where from? that sounds interesting. I found a 1960s shed in pieces at the back of my garage and have stuck that up but one day want to have another.

In that case, I already have 2 and a half garage walls. I just need half a wall and a roof and I'm there

I asked this on ebuild and it was quickly established that sheds were rubbish. Even if you don't use pallets like Dave, I'd be surprised if a stick built shed cost much than one of these kits - in the smaller sizes I'm looking at.

I'll need to eat my spinach first

I don't have any pallets to make a shed, maybe my garage door would make a good wall...

Still got this as no grinder to put it in a skip. Still looking for uses.

Had a dirty weekend stripping the plaster off the walls which left me none the wiser. I'll get some pics laters. Still none the wiser as to what exactly is the issue, no smoking gun. Despite the wonky post-build door frame the horizontal mortar joints are still actually horizontal. However, The packing of the existing wall to sit on the steel beams is atrocious with gaps everywhere and I would like it tidied up. The only major sign of anything in the brickwork is below the window, running at sill height in the left corner down to the floor at about the middle of the window. Jagged crack following the mortar line. Around about 2mm in width so nothing scary. Still no evidence in the plaster below the steel beams to indicate any serious issues with deflection or movement. A few <1mm wide cracks along plasterboard and edge bead joints you would normally say were drying out cracking.

I've got a tiled area that has 3 subfloor - Concrete slab with 100mm EPS + 100mm PIR, suspended wooden floor with 125mm PIR between joists and suspended wooden floor with no insulation. The tiles on the concrete 'feels' warmer than the other. YMMV. One day soon I really will buy that laser IR thermometer to check it out properly.

FWIW I didn't think the Alno bit of our kitchen was that expensive relative to other quotes we had. It was the 2 slide and hide ovens, the 900mm flexi-induction hob and 7m2 of quartz worktop that did the damage And we bought ours in last October when Alno were running a promo, only 10% but it all helps. At least it actually was something like a 10% discount not claimed 50% off stuff you get in some places that after exclusions knocks £2.50 off your bill

Steamy, I always thought you were a bit of a <insert Ofcom mild rated profanity), especially over your energy facism but here you've nailed it. When a crossover of demographics and soylent green hit your energy radar, I may start to listen

First bit, old bean, is the logical fallacy of false equivalence. Of course a Passivista (and I am not one) will think they're correct, they'll most likely spent a lot of time convincing themselves of it. Joe Schmuck doing it because of cultural brainwashing that house prices always go up is not the same. Second bit, of course you are socialist, you support the housing/building industry. Where do the subsidies stop? Planning permission forcing price up, help to buy subsidies to builders, tax breaks (until recently) and rent subsidies to landlords. I'm not sure there are many more state interfered industries in the country.

Immigrants and benefits arguments? Have I walked into a UKIP pub by accidents. With rights come responsibilities. The government of the last however many decades have set up this cluster**** housing situation. Where is the supply of houses people want to live in to suit their circumstances close to their work that haven't been hoovered up by the luckiest generation ever to who lived wo still aren't content. There should be a much better framework in place to build more in the places they need building not self build dreams in rural NI or the far reaches of Scotland. The govt doesn't need to build just let others build. It sucks the life out of me via income taxes rather than wealth taxes if can bloody well make it easier for me to make a living without the difficulty of living under an (Un)assured Shorthold Tenancy. More planning permission in more places, fewer bungs to builders, fewer bungs to land holding parasites, better rights for tenants.

In my personal opinion that is a right and that is something that lies with the government. None of this shoulder shrugging hand wringing about not interfering in the market despite all the other govt interference that freaks it up. Housebuilding is a local service not an international. they should be knocking up houses everywhere they are needed so taxpayers can lead happy productive lives not farmed in worse conditions than livestock for the benefit of landowners.

This isn't directed at you only Barney as I disagree with all this 'market' talk but I am not smart enough to deal with everything. But what you have just described about buyers is a good example cognitive bias. If you've just spunked your life's earning on a pile of baked clay and firewood, sat on a postage stamp of clay of course you'll tell a stranger you're over the moon. Most people could not deal with the thought that they're absolutely freakin' nuts to do so. Unfortunately only the certifiably nuts would be able to contemplate that. There is no housing 'market' in this country. Its a political construct from planning downwards, an absolute scam and at sad indication of the country and how it treats its people. This forum (and others similar) are usually populated by men of a certain age often with experience of the housing dis-industry. None of which is a reflection on the increasing difficulties faced by millions of people who just happen to have been born later than others or not received some demographic gift. Its rotten to the core.