Recent content by Steve2381

Well I am obviously going to mask up! All the facias and soffits are coming off to be replaced, as is all the guttering and downpipes. So they can come off and be left off. So really its only the windows and sills that need masking + the lower half of the building. The lower half of...

Spraying should be OK. Wait for some decent non-windy days. There isn't anyone one near so over-spray isn't an issue.

Hi all Brother-in-law has asked me to help him paint the outside of his house. The lower half is brickwork, but with a lot of growth over it. I have told him that we need to remove it all and possibly apply some kind of moss/plant killer before we paint it. The top half of the house is...

Well I have propped the ridge with acro-props for now. They have built a huge timber structure with a vaulted ceiling. No joists, no tension ties.... pretty much nothing stopping the walls spreading. Then piled a ton of concrete tiles onto it. Some walls are 8" outward leaning at the top...

Just checked with the local council.... building regs apply.

Well I have been out to look at this disaster of a building in a private garden. They have built a massive timber building that is starting to collapse under its own weight (bad design and heavy roof tiles). Its basically four 28m2 buildings, linked by one roof on a common concrete slab...

I have just been to look at a MASSIVE garden building that a client has built. He says it is under permitted development because the 4 different sections of the building are under the 30m2 rule (and far enough off the boundary etc). The only thing that links them all is the pitched roof and...

What does that mean? Jesus.. Have I anywhere in this thread mentioned that I am going to ignore the advice and do it my way anyhow? I have been a sparky and chippie on sites since I left school - 26+ years. If I could find a plumber who wasn't a bodging rip-off merchant, then I would not...

Tracpipe is madly expensive, and seeing as my lottery numbers haven't yet come up, I won't be using that. Protected copper pipes in the screed have worked fine for the last God knows how many years... its how my extension was done 15 years ago. But.... regs are regs so I will have to play...

Can't do the skirting thing - too many external doors in the way. There is no route that doesn't cut across the underfloor heating. That is why I think the builder suggested the pipe went under the Celotex (which is obviously wrong) Plus one side of the room is curved, so a duct around that...

OK. So there is no way possible to run copper piping in the floor at all? I know that you can't bury joints in the screed etc, but I can't put a duct in the screed - as that will still be under the tiled floor (and therefore still unaccessable) and also mess up the under floor heating...

Mmm... can't run copper gas through that however. Plus... hate plastic pipe. Just a personal thing. I can't run a duct. As it will interfere with the under floor heating runs. Plus I don't want a duct lid running across my tiled floor. Its never simple is it

Hi all Working on my extension... concrete slab is down, and the builder has put DPC polythene over the floor, then his 100mm of Celotex insulation. On top of that goes the screed. I have a hot and cold feed to the kitchen sink and ground floor WC to put it. He wants it run under the...