Recent content by CazDIY

Perfect, thanks

Thanks, I’ve just had a look online at OSB and it could well have been this. Assuming that it is this, how would something like a towel rail have been attached to this? Just with small wood screws as it’s not too thick? Actually wondering if what I’ve done is salvageable by potentially using...

Yeah, good point! I was going to only use two but the bracket had three so used all three!

Thanks. There is a towel rail quite near by, a pattress of some kind would make sense. I’m hoping I’ve not hit any services, I didn’t see any metal or plastic dust from the drilling, just plasterboard and wood dust. The wood dust looked more like chipboard than actual sawdust. Should I be...

Thanks. In hindsight that’s what I should have done. It was only thin timber, seemed like a few mm, then it went hollow and some insulation came out. It potentially could have been a timber board but not sure why that would have been there.

Hello, I’m just looking for a bit of advice regarding fixing a toilet roll holder to a new build stud wall. The plasterboard is 15mm thick. I used a wire/pipe detector and thought I’d found a good spot (in hindsight this might have clipped a stud). It was pretty tricky to find a spot where the...

Thanks for the information. Would the two options you’ve suggested help rain flow to the sides and into guttering if extra guttering was attached around the cheeks?

Thank you, I will take a look

Thanks, that sounds good. The house is great overall so far apart from that. The only thing is anything that gets done by someone apart from them could affect the NHBC. Although not the end of the world. I think anything the developer does could be end up being a bodge like you say. Out of...

Thank you both. I’ve never had a dormer roof before and not seen this design elsewhere too. Any ideas what would be the solution to fix it? Would they be able to attach some guttering to the batten at all?

I’ve just had another look, it’s really hard to take a photo of it, but it seems that there isn’t lead going up behind the roof tiles at the back of the dormer roof. Like there isn’t a visible upstand….on the attached photo it seems like maybe timber can be seen….

Thanks for this. This type seems much better design. I think the type of dormer window on our roof might be called a box dormer? Are they designed to somehow divert water either side rather than over the top? Just wondering if ours has a fault?

If we did this, would the gutter need to be fixed to the lead too? Ideally looking for a solution that would divert the rainfall from the roof above away from the dormer roof before it gets to it. Any other ideas? Just trying to brainstorm possibilities. But also if this isn’t possible, then...

Ah ok thanks for the info.

It’s hard to show in the photos, but there seems to be a vertical gap between the bottom of the roof tiles and before the dormer flat roof starts. To the untrained eye it looks like it’s just a gap but there could be timber visible too. It was in this gap I was wondering about adding guttering...