Recent content by RussTaylor

Hello, I'm trying to help my plumber out before the electrician tells us we've made a mistake. I have a Devi touch thermostat/programmer for some electric underfloor. It's a fairly small (9sqm) bathroom with a wet room shower. He's about to put the tiles down on the underfloor matting...

Just for anyone else searching this forum, I took the advice and bloody glad I did. It's like a different room with the new floor, I'm about £500 down but sand, polythene, 100mm insulation, concrete, screed, soooooooooooooooooooo much better, drier, warmer. Even had chance to run some cables...

Hello, I have a 30s property, with lots of blown external render and some new holes I've made (moving soil stack, new boiler, blocked up windows and doors etc). I'd very much like to pay a pro to do it, but sadly like everything on this bloody renovation I've no money left to do that, so...

Ah hah, I need something like this I guess ... http://www.screwfix.com/p/over-fascia-ventilator-10mm-x-1m-pack-of-10/65515# and that'll go somewhere between the tray and the rafter. The house has never had any of this stuff and the roof is 80 years old so far ... it'll outlast me even...

Thanks Freddy! About an inch between insulation and felt I'd guess, and I'll see about a gap at the bottom when I'm up there. I was going to get some felt support trays to run along the bottom like these http://www.screwfix.com/p/felt-support-tray-1-5m-pack-of-5/36622 they must go under...

Great thanks, hadn't planned on any ventilation for the felt apart from where it tucks under the lead at the top I hadn't planned to seal it down. Should I use this technique on my walls, both sides of the timber frame as well then? Mrs. has the TV watching some pretend greek drama :(

Ken, good idea thank you! I already have a load of polythene for drylining the walls and the dpm of the floor so I'll do the ceiling as well. Is it worth putting polythene under the felt on top of the rafters as well? Thanks again

Even though I know it's all silly old nonsense, if there is a god then I don't want to be any part of his evil work ... before the big J arrived look at the list of this god would have you killed for! http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Actions_punishable_by_death_in_the_Old_Testament Here are...

Interesting bodge! I suppose the important bit we need to see is at the top, you say it's "half under" so you think the original front face of the stack was replaced with these newer red bricks, and they're half under the original bricks from upstairs at the top? At the base, on the...

All I can say really is ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :lol: All this religion stuff is pretty laughable, Jimmy Page is my God :twisted:

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Hello all, Ok I'm trying to insulate my lean to, and currently having a go at the ceiling. I had 3" rafters, but wanted 100mm insulation so I've extended them down by about 30mm. The felt seems ok but I'll probably refelt it with something more modern (it has bitumen stuff at present)...

What if we had slate tiles instead? Would that be ok? The floor doesn't seem damp as such, although I don't have a meter to check it with properly. Cheers

Having slept on it I've decided I'll have to dig the floor out and do it properly. It'll be cheaper to do that than mess around trying to make the best of it and I can get a good dpm and a load of insulation at the same time. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction :)

Oh really, the floor is that bad? So not really useable unless I want to add fair but to the height? Just ripped the 80s lino out,don't want to put more back. It's there a way to tank it properly? Bugger, wish I'd knocked out down and started again :) Thanks for your help, I don't...