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    urgent advice needed

    it seamed all loose and crappy, eml meshed it and rendered it with a mix of plaster board adhesive and sbr, perfect good as new and only about 3mm thick still cant get whats left stuck to my flex plastic bucket out, tiled it next day as well,, job done !!!
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    Dropped tile in shower tray..aghhhh

    I never really noticed the fact you had tiled the ceiling i assume its a dorma bungalow angled ceiling or some thing, what have you used to stick the tiles up with i would probebly risk with silicone (maybe)
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    Bath size confusion!?

    also if you look at the trojen bath range you can get a bath 1675mm or imperial 5' foot 6 inches not sure how deep it is also chances are if its deeper you have to fit it higher slightly any way which would destroy decor or tiles any way its normal to have to bash the wall out at the end...
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    Bath size confusion!?

    1700 less 1695 is 5 mm 1/5 of an inch i have fitted baths 1700 in 1600 mm gaps by the time its been tiled , thats 4 inches
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    copper or plastic

    plastic isn't too bad just ask the people who have piped the country up with it (waterboard) it doesn't look nice on show, but how many people want to see pipes anyway ? i use both all the time depending on the job, showers in the roof or rad in the hall its a bit like choosing which shoes to...
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    basin mixer tap - low pressure

    check every thing ie what is the min op presure on the tap if 1 bar then forget anu thing else but i had this several times iso valves, flexis squashed washers etc etc but its probebly just another high presure tap on a low presure system you can get low presure taps that will work on...
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    Dropped tile in shower tray..aghhhh

    I have been working in this trade for 10 years The tray has a skin on it if its what you call acrillic capped about 3mm, like a bath, shiney if the scratch isn't too deep you can use mild emery paper and t cut like you use on a car. how ever if its to deep as in more than say 2mm you can...
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    urgent advice needed

    hi took a shower cubical out today in a newish chartdale house 20y old all around the bottom of the tray has been leaking, as normal, all the plaster has become water damaged and behind the plaster is just straw how do i fix this cheaply and quickly so i can retile over it, problem is if i board...
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    how would i make flexable render

    what sort of quantity sbr in the mix, i did a swimming pool with sov chem k11 which is a tanking product looks like a bag of plaster then you add 50-50 water and sbr, it was for my dad and he wasn't bothered but the finish wasn't exactly good, it was kind of like plastering or rendering with...
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    How long before tiling

    pva/sbr it first as well or tiles will fall off
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    how would i make flexable render

    timber house uk , all the inside is plastered no cracks apart from one wall i though would be fine without scrim (stupidity) outside kingspan or something the a galv mesh then flexible render, well hopefully any way, add sbr add pva add admix had a price for poly renders etc over...
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    New ceiling?

    i did a bathroom ceiling the other week pipes above spotlights etc etc, having plastered small ceiling it cracked, looked above the joists i had been climbing on to put pipes in were 3x2 or maybe 4x2 but not really big enough to hold my wieght so when we finished the rest of the work i just...
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    I am also concerned because the house is wooden/timber. do you think i can actually put kingspan on the out side or will i have to have a cavity, if i have to have a cavity whats the point in using kingspan ? I have had at least 30 different opinions and ideas regarding this in the last...
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    concouring whats that maybe i;'m being dumb :s cheers external
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    Fitting a square tap?

    it will fit fine and we could do it for £60 www.bathroomsos.com cheers ben
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    kingspan on ebay seconds 50mm thick about £200 for 100m eml off ebay although i will price this up locally approx £160 sand cement render maybe £100 all other bits edges 2x2 screws etc etc maybe another £100 total £560 i priced up a polymer modded system from wbs it was somthing like 2700 + vat...
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    what about my idea of normal king span with stud work ,expanded metal lath and either normal sand cement render or mey be with an addative or would i have to use to the polyermer modded render cheers ben
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    No what i meant was like stud work screwed on to the house say 2x2 so a batten then a 450 x 50mm kingspan board then a baton kingspan board etc etc then mesh the house with expanded metal lath all window beads etc etc then what to do with the top, the house next door has a cement render...
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    like the idea external but realisticly what will that cost just to buy products, my plan was 40mm thick battons spaced about 450 wide screwed on kingspan off ebay seconds, eml and cement render any ideas on that cheers ben
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    how to render with insulation a wooden timber clad house

    cheers but where to buy these things from i know i need kingspan or similar but its the render ie silicone flexi or not flexi cement? eml or chicken wire or fibre glass etc etc etc where sells the k rend or webber, i think i rang webber about it they put me on hold then the phone cut off...
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