Onoff Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) Added a couple of short st/st bolts to the brackets to key into the concrete as Nick suggested: Got a load of short lengths of M10 BZP stud. Used this to push down / support the slab to be! Just got to figure a timber across the top of the drain unit from where the bottle of Threadlock is to the other side, to tie the stud wall together. So...a bit of 2"x2" will nicely span across, bridging where I cut out for the wall drain: I WAS planning to replace the front M8 bolts at 'X' with studding and bring this up through the 2"x2". Unfortunately the edge distance is only 3-5mm. Would pumping the nom 4mm gap (where I'm pointing with the bevel) with Sikaflex "stick"the 2"x2" to the galvanised case of the drain? Edited March 12, 2018 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) £600 on tiles last night. Walls, floor & mosaics. Edited March 14, 2018 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 6 minutes ago, Onoff said: £600 on tiles last night. Walls, floor & mosaics. Nearly there then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, newhome said: Nearly there then! Erm.....no, not really. Still got to cast the wet room corner, do the mitred corner boxing in and the pockets, fit the shower...... I was joking to the missus (as we drove past St Michael's prep school) that most round here probably pay £600 per square metre for their bathroom tiles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Onoff said: I was joking to the missus (as we drove past St Michael's prep school) that most round here probably pay £600 per square metre for their bathroom tiles! Yeah well Row Dow isn’t exactly the cheapest road on the block and has always been fairly pricey. Had schoolfriends who lived up there in amazing houses. However, when I was a kid a bit further up in Knatts Valley wasn’t the most desirable of areas let’s say, but now most of the plots have been bought up, the original houses nuked, and the prices are well over a million these days. Wish I’d had to foresight to buy up there, but you couldn’t pay people to live up there back in the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumbersmateuk Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 14 minutes ago, newhome said: further up in Knatts Valley Bet it's changed since I used to ride my bike up there in th 60's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 12 minutes ago, Plumbersmateuk said: Bet it's changed since I used to ride my bike up there in th 60's Try it of a weekend, packs of the morons clogging the road up and not wanting to pull over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 30 minutes ago, newhome said: However, when I was a kid a bit further up in Knatts Valley wasn’t the most desirable of areas let’s say, but now most of the plots have been bought up, the original houses nuked, and the prices are well over a million these days. Wish I’d had to foresight to buy up there, but you couldn’t pay people to live up there back in the day! Many years ago it was nicknamed Bidonville (shanty town). That only applies to my plot now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumbersmateuk Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, Onoff said: That only applies to my plot now! It's good to be different Wasn't there a maggot farm there? I remember there used to be a "smell" wafting across in the summer. I used to rent a barn just off of Death Hill in the 70's, nothing dodgy although frequent visits from the local constabulary. Sorry for going off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 47 minutes ago, Plumbersmateuk said: Bet it's changed since I used to ride my bike up there in th 60's It’s deffo changed a lot since I used to ride my pony up there in the 70s. I haven’t been up there for a few years tho. Lots of million plus houses up there now instead of the ones that went for peanuts in the 70s / 80s. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59008477.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 42 minutes ago, Onoff said: Many years ago it was nicknamed Bidonville (shanty town). That only applies to my plot now! Is that where you are then? I won’t say what we used to call it as it’s not very PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 @Onoff Pretty much yes to everything above. Those steel brackets laying flat, they have soft edges do they ? If not, get something between them and the UFH pipes for Justin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 6 hours ago, Plumbersmateuk said: Wasn't there a maggot farm there? I remember there used to be a "smell" wafting across in the summer. Might have been my place as the smells still there when something dies under my floor! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Needing to extend one edge of the slab by 36mm and the other by 46mm before the falls start, added some surplus, powder coated steel strip. The falls will go from that edge. I'll just ram concrete under that bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 11 hours ago, Onoff said: before the falls start Got 6 months before autumn starts, so should be OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 55 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: Got 6 months before autumn starts, so should be OK And what is the weather like from your window today Steamy - not quite as earlier in the weekend one suspects, given how much of the A30 is closed, or did it give you and yours a body swerve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 I am 'up country' at the moment in Bucks. Seems I was one of the last ones to make it out unscathed. I do wish that large lorries would leave a bit of space when it is snowy though, they really do not need to be 20 feet from your bumper at 60MPH. Not as if there was much traffic early on a Sunday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 25, 2018 Author Share Posted March 25, 2018 (edited) So...planning on concreting the wet room corner over Easter. That's 4 days time! Where I've removed the red Polypipe tray and I've added the DPM the "interface" is a bit ragged. Best thing I can think to do to protect the PIR foil from the concrete is duct tape and low expansion foam? I'm going to be using an SBR heavy mix to make it hopefully resilient. SBR can apparently be used as a primer. In the past "joining" new concrete to old I'd have primed the old edges with neat PVA and made up the new concrete with 5:1 PVA. But I'm using SBR & using this mix: 4. Water Resistant Concrete (min.25mm) by weight by volume 50kg cement 1 pbv cement 100kg medium sand 1.5 pbv 100kg 10-5mm pea shingle 1.5 pbv 5 litres SBR (1:3 SBR:water 13 litres water* (add to consistency Yield approx 0.14m³ Should I prime the existing concrete edges with neat SBR? Ta. Edited March 26, 2018 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassanclan Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Yes if only to stop the concrete drying too quickly along the joint and therefore reduce the possibility of cracking. Are you sure about that mix though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 25, 2018 Author Share Posted March 25, 2018 11 minutes ago, bassanclan said: Are you sure about that mix though? Cheers. What's wrong with the mix? I figured strong & "resinous". It's either the 10mm pea shingle or 20mm ballast I have here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Onoff said: Should I prime the existing concrete edges with neat SBR? I would normally say yes, but the reinforcement of the steel mesh says "chill, Winston", that is going NOWHERE fast. . Its going to be a Carlsberg bathroom mate. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassanclan Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Why are you using SBR in the mix instead of integral waterproofer e.g Sika 1? SBR in the mix will not be guaranteed to be 100% waterproof, it will be very difficult to trowel unless you add admix too and needs very hard mixing eg paddle mixer (more vigourous than a cement mixer) otherwuse you may get the SBR floating to the top of the concrete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 26, 2018 Author Share Posted March 26, 2018 4 minutes ago, bassanclan said: Why are you using SBR in the mix instead of integral waterproofer e.g Sika 1? SBR in the mix will not be guaranteed to be 100% waterproof, it will be very difficult to trowel unless you add admix too and needs very hard mixing eg paddle mixer (more vigourous than a cement mixer) otherwuse you may get the SBR floating to the top of the concrete. SBR seems to make the concrete end up more "plasticy" than PVA in my experience with it. Was going to go 3:1as per the mix instructions, water/SBR. I won't be trowelling it, more barrow/shovel/tamp to falls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted March 26, 2018 Author Share Posted March 26, 2018 Will Soudal Soudafoam affect Pex-Al-Pex pipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, Onoff said: Will Soudal Soudafoam affect Pex-Al-Pex pipe? I doubt it, @JSHarris is your man for chemical reactions.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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