Recent content by MrMiller

Hi Folks I'm about to start fixing backer boards to my solid brick bathroom walls. They're Marmox boards and my plan is to both fully tile adhesive the backs and use fixing cob dowels. Once they're up, I also plan using some self adhesive butyl tape along the joins and over the dowel washers...

So I've run sealant along that underside of the cill, which hopefully will stop the problem for now. However, I'm not sure I can call that a permanent solution and basically all our cills are like this - with the pebbledash leaving a pretty minimal extrusion. So I don't think I can...

Thanks - Went back out and had a look:- You can see that some of the dashing has even worn away there on the top right hand side especially. And there's no dip grooves either. So I'll run some more sealant right along the top of that underside there and that will hopefully do the job. I'm...

When you say above the cill, do you mean essentially cover the now repainted section with something coming down from the stub cill? Someone above mentioned a potential lack of drip groove at the bottom as well - which does seem to be the case, so it may be that...

Thanks - I'm contemplating removing that 4x2 beam underneath on the inside (I probably should) and building up additional brick & mortar there, so I would see if it was lacking further sealant around that from the inside. If not though, I'll run some extra on the outside between the base of the...

Sorry, I'm not particularly au fait with the terminology here (as I've already proven!) but when you say stub cill, do you mean the lower pvc protrusion on that second photo?

Excellent point! Corrected (y)

Thanks - Will try getting that done as well if we get a couple of warmer days again! It's impossible to see from that first picture but there is some kind of old flashing running along the layer of bricks below the lintel on the inside:- So it may be be that's running right across the two...

Hi Folks I'm redoing our bathroom and having knocked away the old plasterboard around the window noticed a couple of wet spots on the interior brick work below the cill. I've highlighted them here:- Under normal circumstances, I'd never have seen them as our sink / cabinet where based there...

Hi Folks I'm redoing our bathroom and got some lime mortar mix in order to fill some gaps between the bricks before attaching backer boards / plasterboard:- Thing is, now I've got it (!), I'm thinking how do I do this - just push it in and hope for the best / not worry about it? I'm thinking...

Thanks - Got a spare bag of builders sand from a garden operation earlier in the year, so I might land up doing that... What's the consensus for the right mix ratio? I think I read 1:1:5 somewhere but not sure if less / more if I want this to be reasonably firm in filling those holes in the...

I'd rather buy ready mixed if I can because otherwise I'm going to land up with a huge bag with very little usage I think. But then, I'm struggling to see this as a read mix option...

Hi folks Still working on our upstairs bathroom and having removed the old tiles and plasterboard above where the toilet was, I've got some pretty big gaps:- Also got an issue where I'll have a gap where that 2x6 beam which you can see on the bottom right below the window is. I had hoped to...

Not really sure yet to be honest. Probably at the end of our bath tub. Annoying space in the corner - Think the width on the bath wall is about 2.2m so there's this dead space at the end. Was thinking about building something in there and tiling around but only thing is it's an external wall I...

Not for a shaver socket but perhaps to power some niche strip lighting. If not, I'll just remove it up through the attic and remove the length of wire from the junction box. But yeah, in the meantime, it'll just be in the corner unused but out the way and terminated in the box. I was just...