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They're all good points. Outer leaf it is.

Question for you clever ppl: Why are doors stuck in the outer leaf? Ease of weatherproofing? Seemed more efficient to me to put them in the inner leaf with a nice rendered reveal on the outside but nobody seems to do that.

I've now fibreglassed it & all seems pretty good. Things I learned: WEAR GLOVES ALL THE TIME. And one of those suit things. And use a bit less catalyst than you think you'll need and, most importantly: next time pay someone else to do it.

Didn't think of sending it overhead. Cunning. For the under slab thing get some speedfit conduit and [25mm or 15mm?] MDPE. It's feeding one bathroom & one kitchen only.

Hi - fairly simple question for you: My Mains water pipe runs under the house through the crawlspace on the oversite then through the wall into the concrete floor of the old kitchen. Now I need to run it under the new concrete floor (no screed to run it in - don't ask). Do I just run some MDPE...

Yep. About a bucket or so in there. Took the whole lot up, dried it, put it back down again. On the up side I didn't fall off.

Water underneath definitely came in when it rained. No heated space underneath so can't be condensation.

With that. Though you're not that much help re. what to do post thanking god we're post-pluvial.

I'm in the pub. And then I'll be in da club (gotta pay the bills somehow). It's what to do when I wake up tomorrow with a sore head and lovely blue skies.

When you've pulled the tarp back off your lively new roof that's ready to be glassfibered and find that it's been leaking and all your celotex has a bit of water between it and the vcl (and some between it and tge osb top deck too...) what do you do?

That's right noseall. Just seemed to me as though in this case they've made a pricey product to fix a problem that doesn't really exist. Fair enough re. the kerb that puts your roof window at 15 degrees in a flat roof - that's at least slightly complicated. But a kerb to simply bring the flat...

Ah. But i'll be getting the flat roof velux. Which also has some kind of kerb available but just to cover the depth of the insulation.

Hi, Quick question re. installing one of these. It's going to be a 100x150 one so pretty hefty! Is there any need to get the warm roof kerb extension velux sell? Seems like it'd be easier just to put 120x45 timber around where the window's going to be fitted, stick the roof insulation round...

That there pulsejet is not a rocket. #pedantry

I had an epiphany while reading some old posts by Oldun and Noseall and others. It basically went 'Why not do it the proper / sensible / well documented / easy way' and if these open joists actually look good with the roof on then fit some battens and stick up either plasterboard or ply or...