Recent content by McTavish

Noise is mainly neighbours talking etc, but to be completely honest it's an old Victorian flat and there's noise pollution coming from everywhere. Also like you've said Notch7, it's not attached to the floor or ceiling with any rubber separation anyway! In hindsight we should have just strapped...

Nothing is on the wall yet. Their job was agreed to have them leave a skimmed room ready for us to fit my our own kitchen. The wall in question won't have wall units but will have 2 timber shelves and an extractor, and tiles to half height - though honestly not sure I feel comfortable adding...

Ok thanks, that's what I suspected. I did raise that with the builder but he went off at me saying there was need for noggins and seemed quite insulted I was accusing them of missing out parts. I had only realised when using the sockets and the wall moved when plugging things into it, also...

Not sure what is meant by timber section? but if it's the timber size, I believe it's 75 x 50 timber framing that was used. Ceiling height is 2700mm and length of wall is just short of 3200mm. Sound barrier to a neighbouring wall

Hi My builder is almost at completion stage of doing major renovations at our property. We have noticed that one of the kitchen stud walls flexes quite a bit. They have now been plasterboarded and skimmed. From closer inspection I seem to have noticed there are no noggins in between the stud...

Thanks for that! Yeah it's an expansion vessel. I'm just a bit confused as from what I can see it's an vented system yet usually the feed is also an expansion tank also, which in my case it isn't I guess because of the inclusion of an expansion vessel. So am I right in thinking that the boiler...

Hey guys wondering if anyone would be able to clear something up It's been bugging me as I can't figure it out. Read a bunch of stuff but still no luck. So basically I'm trying to figure out how our heating system in our flat works. We have a water tank boxed in above bath area. From previous...