Recent content by mjgreen81

Looks great

I appreciate all the practical points. End of the day, we want to mainly do it for aesthetic reasons as we think it looks nice.

Thanks for the advice, loads of good points there to take on board. Its a good point about the toilet noise transmission! Fortunately that's just a storage room and is never likely to change while we live here.

There is a full length studs in each corner as well, secured to each of the other walls. I will install new full length studs at the edge of the niche frame (probably doubled up) and also add extra studs below and above the nice to add extra strength.

There are two in the corners as well and I would intend to run new full length studs (probably doubled up) top to bottom at the edge of the niche. I would then add extra supports above and below the niche.

Right thank you. This is pretty much what my sparky said.

What do you mean?

Well neutral and earth is there as well. Forget I said connection block, it's just a ceiling rose I'm refering too, it just wasn't in the traditional ceiling rose terminal, it was a load of screw down chocblock connectors that were stuffed into a box (which I am tidying up into Wago's as I...

From the connection box in the ceiling (effectively a ceiling rose). I can access the permanent live there.

I'm currently refitting my bathroom and my electrician is happy for me to run the cables and he will check the final connections when he upgrades our consumer unit at a later date (so the lighting circuit is RCD protected). I want to run cable(s) for an led mirror and shaving socket. I have...

Hi all, I would really like an LED wall niche above our bath. Something similar to what you see in the photo. I've been looking at prefabricated options and I am finding them both very expensive and limited in their sizes. There are quite a lot of videos online of people building them...

Hi all, I'm currently battening out a thermalite block wall so I can install XPS tile backer/plasterboard. The walls and inside of the window frame will ultimately be tiled. I will soon need to batten around the window, but I just wanted to double check I am doing it correctly. Do I just...

Thanks, so you would install the XPS board for the whole wall first and fix the support battens through the XPS board?

Thanks, yes I plan to use those washers. So just to clarify so I know I have understood correctly... - I should board the whole wall, then mark a line where I need the horizontal bath support batten. - Then using vertical battens attach these through the XPS board to the studs. - Then fix...

Board is 12.5mm.