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  1. Holy moly that’s dear. Ours cost £2500 also Scotland.
  2. Yep. All sealed. Will be tanked and I have the no more leaks kit to fit too.
  3. Well it’s in! Will have to move that socket.
  4. The dark grey stuff is is a self levelling compound (Arditex NA) which was the infill for the shower area. It has the same insulation underneath it as the rest of the floor but no UFH. The light grey is Cemfloor that has UFH within it. The shower tray is a stone/resin shower tray.
  5. It’s a Sommer shower tray. They are recommending I don’t fit the tray at all! Balls. They may be being over cautious of course. My reason for considering decoupling it was similar to why some people recommend setting the sand/cement screed to some plastic sheeting to decouple it from a wooden floor. Now uncertain what to do. The instructions also say it just sits on a bed of Sikaflex.
  6. 😂 Because I don’t have a clue what I’m doing half the time I left myself some wiggle room! Yes the shower spray will hit the cold end so I should just bed it across its full length from the cold bit to the warmer bit.
  7. I have a large 2000mm x 900mm stone shower tray ready to be fitted. However it’s going to span across a section of screed that doesn’t have UFH pipes beneath it and a section that does. Therefore there will be a difference in floor temperature from one end to the other. Is this a concern and should I mitigate by decoupling it or can we just bed it in a sand/cement layer as normal?
  8. That’s a lovely house. i’m not keen on the orange either. I’ve done a trial to match the floor. It’s close. Top left is painted using the Osmo white. Bottom left is the floor. Top right is Osmo clear and bottom right is untreated.
  9. Can you share a picture ig your whiteish osmo coating. I have both that and clear and can’t make my mind up what to use. The floor upstairs is oak and whiteish so either had to match or be very different.
  10. Ours is solid oak. We also had a debate about when to put it in. To some extent it depends a bit on the layout of your staircase and ease of access. Ours is tight and hidden behind the kitchen wall so felt it was better to put it in a bit earlier rather than leaving it until the end. I ‘clad’ it in hardboard to protect it.
  11. We had exactly the same challenge and decided to terrace it rather than slope it down to where it flattens out. I did the bamboo cane suggestion above which was a quick and easy way to visualise how the terracing might look. We’ve got three terraces or four including the area immediately by the house. We had to make a quick decision as the digger was still on site and each terrace is 70m long. The thing to consider is how you access the slope or terraces to maintain them and how to cut a path through them.
  12. We still aren’t living in ours yet but it’s maintaining a very even 19°C temperature with very little heat input. It’s a pleasant place to be compared to the rental.
  13. Next time! Or the joiners could have taken a bit more care about it. I’ve come to realise that everyone seems to work to the principle that it’s the very last finishing trade that trues everything up or sorts it all out with the magic caulk gun.
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