Recent content by chickenlicken

It's not ideal.. but the biggest barrier to that is that we have bitumen and floor paint on the concrete, and the floor paint at least would need to be taken off before we could put any self levelling compound down

Hello, I'm laying a floating wood floor in a room I've knocked through, but my concrete (coated in bitumen) floor slopes up towards where the wall was knocked through by as much as 15mm in places. The rest is relatively flat. I'm looking into hiring a concrete grinder with vacuum...

Thanks for the reassurance. The wet look is because they were dipped in some protective coating.

Thanks John. If my ceilings were up i wouldn't know they were there and I wouldn't worry about it - maybe that would be a better scenario! Hm, there's no bathroom above there. I hope it is just how the photo has come out. But it is an external wall there. I'll double check - thanks for...

Right, thanks Richard. So they are too close together. If I ask him to reinforce the areas where he's drilled the second hole, with ply, will that do the trick?

Hello, Having had a few bad experiences with holes drilled in things, I'm now paranoid about it. Are these holes drilled in my floor joists acceptable for building regs? I was under the impression that they had to be a certain distance apart - but my sparky has done good work everywhere...

Hello, I'm on my first house renovation and have had a few problems so far with tradesmen I've hired - basically because I've been unprepared! So wanted to ask for a bit of advice from the experts so that I can anticipate and avoid issues with the next bit. I'm getting a gas safe heating...

Hello, Apologies if this question has been asked before, but I can't find the answer I'm looking for. What is the minimum distance between the side of a bath and a wall hung toilet? As the bath is fairly low and there would be room for shoulders and elbows, can this distance be less than...

it's a mystery. was much more work for him than just looping it over

Thanks Richard. Is it easily fixed or will it need an engineer?

Hello, My builder's apprentice at the start of my refurb project has just drilled 15-18mm holes in my 120mm roof trusses to run electric cables. They are in almost of the trusses. It is making me feel sick to read online that this may mean my whole roof is compromised. What should I do now?