Recent content by desertrose

Thanks very much @^woody^! Polystyrene insulation sounds like a good idea. Depending how easily the old screed comes up everywhere else, I might put an expansion strip all the way around against the uPVC as you can literally hear it expanding and contracting.

Noted, @^woody^, thank you. Mine seems to have crumbled into nearly sand (the corners are much worse). What would you do before using a self-levelling compound (you can see I'm removing some on the right hand side - it failed and separated)?

Hi @Harry Bloomfield - with apologies to the OP for the hijack, I would appreciate your thoughts on my post!

Hi @gkingg - wondered if you got anywhere with this? I have a similar sort of porch and problem with its floor!

As is often the way in DIY, things haven't quite gone to plan. While removing the old compound at the edges, quite a bit of the original floor has come up up with it (pictures below). The edges break up very easily and the floor sounds hollow for up to around 3" from the edge. Seems to be the...

Thanks - really helpful. Arditex NA looks great, and even one of their pictures looks quite like my floor: I've taken up more of the old tiles (and more of the old compound) tonight. Even what's left behind comes up relatively easily if you hit it in the right place. Annoyingly the skirting...

70s build. I don't know for sure about the porch but from other work elsewhere (e.g. garage) there seems to be some sort of see-through plastic membrane underneath the top layer.

Good good! Always a pleasure to hear the professionals have done a quality job ... and reaffirm my preference for DIY. How do I best fix it now?

Hi all, The Karndean flooring in my south-facing porch started coming up at the joints after about 5/6 years, and it turned out the subfloor had failed such that large chunks were no longer stuck to the (apparently primed, given the yellow colour) concrete underneath. I am debating whether to...

Thank you - very helpful and appreciate the offer! All seemed to be well since my last post until I noticed an unusually loud humming coming from it the other day and it's not getting up to temperature again (confirmed by Bluetooth thermometer). I'll start with the relay.

Thank you everyone for your thoughts on this one - really appreciated. It does appear to be an intermittent fault, as a 70 degree wash today seemed to work; I used a Bluetooth thermometer to test it (and also noted steam escaping at the end of the cycle): On that basis I think @SpecialK is...

Perhaps the easiest fix would be to try and use an adhesive to re-attach the original floor and newer screeding compound - any recommendations for what might be a good product for that, please?!

So if it heats the water to wash (steam when opened mid-cycle) but doesn't dry any more (no steam, stone cold at end of cycle), what's the problem?

I think it might need more knowledge and experience than I can give it unfortunately. Looking at spares, assuming the details are correct, there are two heating elements in this model: It is not clear what each does. This video talks about the replacement of the former fixing a cold water...

Thank you. Presumably this one for the dryer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283826857420. No doubt situated somewhere that means the integrated dishwasher needs to be removed to get at it!