Recent content by pilsbury

Will be painting my loft conversion soon. Going to borrow a mates airless sprayer which I’m hoping may make the job almost fun?! Anyhow, been reading a ton on mist coats….. there is so much conflicting info and I suspect in the past I’ve not done it correctly and added an extra step….. but I’ve...

Doubt it. All fitted, tiled etc. but I can sort out the foam and foil tape the edge of the frame as plasterboard will cover. No warm air could get out then. Hope this would cure it.

Not left in vent position.

The answer to whether I fit the velux insulation collar…… no! But I was aware of this and used celotex to create my own insulation collar. I thought with 4 velux windows at £45 a pop, I’d save a wedge by doing the same thing. I also thought what do velux know about install kits for their windows...

Possibly the same thing. Can’t be water ingress from outside in my opinion. Otherwise some downpours or sustained rain we’ve had before this cold spell would have highlighted this problem.

Mid loft conversion - probably more. Insulation complete, 100mm between joists, 50mm over the top. All foamed and taped. Several velux installed with insulation around them. There was a small 1-2mm gap in places where the frame met the insulation which I foamed not particularly well leaving a...

This is for a bathroom extractor. But I’m not ruling out a fry up in the shower.

Love the DIY sentiment. Moling is fairly specialist as it uses expensive equipment and you can’t see where it’s going. Experience, surveying and insurance are the key here. The cheaper and safer option for us DIYers is trenching. Sure it will be a ball ache to dig and you will have more...

An old school simple solution. I’d guess there is more air flow through that than that tile vent.

Both. Can be a roof vent or an extractor vent with the additional pipe attachment I’ve shown in the pictures…..

Any knowledge on these “in tile” extractor fan vents? Google keeps leading me down this path and I’m wondering if anyone has any better ideas. Not cheap at £65 for the vent and adaptor pipe, but the idea looks good. Wonder whether the practice is so good.

I had seen the 0-45 ones. You are right, more compact. I might be able to squeeze them in. In fact I’ll have to if the flexible malarkey amounts to nothing!

Your breather membrane on the outside will let any moisture out. Your foil backed/faced celotex which should have foil tape joining it over the studs will be you vapour barrier. Not an expert, but I think regs require 50mm over the top of the lot before plasterboard.

This did cross my mind. But the limited space I have to navigate wouldn’t take my freshly melted and bent rigid pipe. Kind of needs to be fed and bent as I go. Hard to describe other than it’s going to be a bugger.

Not on about those accordion type toilet pan connectors. These things are much more rigid. Only have a little flex… but need a long one or something equivalent. https://www.toolstation.com/magicflex-male-to-female-soil-pipe/p60727