Recent content by thomp1983

Evening all, I know there's a few pro mechanics on here so hopefully you can answer a quick question I've got re. cleaning gasket surfaces. I was always taught that when cleaning up gasket faces only to use a sharp blade in a scraper or scotch brite pads to clean the metal faces of an engine...

Just to tie this up for anyone looking in the future, All the old sand/cement plaster chipped off. 50mm celotex stuck with low expanding foam. Stud wall built from 3x2 laid so the 2" formed the depth, 50mm celotex infill with all gaps foamed. I then added 15mm thick lats to the studs...

Tell the council to jog on and issue enforcement proceedings if they wish, it's very unlikely they will for 15cm, if they do then you've upto the day of the court appearance to comply with the enforcement notice.

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I'll fit grommets once I'm finished, the pipes will be in and out a couple of times yet as I've a radiator to plumb in them

So got onto making a start with sorting this out today. Couldn't get the pipes down to the centre line of the rsj due to too much other stuff already fixed to the joists can't see that it'll make much difference. I'll get the pipes nicely central in the holes when I fit the next pair of...

So after wondering how I could cut the 25mm celotex down to 20mm I had the idea to use 2 old offcuts of 18mm mdf. That's got the celotex down to somewhere between 18 and 20mm, with it fitted in place I've now got a minimum of 18mm between the bead edge and insulation so with a bit of care I...

The screw just holds the plastic part of the handle to the spindle, if you remove it and take the handle off you may be lucky and find it's a square spindle in which case you can put your adjustable straight on it

Go onto the planning portal and see if you can find similar applications to what your building and see what documents are there and compare them to what you already have

You can do it all yourself if you like, I did my own drawings for planning. The bit where it may be worth it is if your submitting a full plans building regs application as, that will require quite a few drawings of how stuff is to be built some of which if you've never done it before can be...

So with all the plaster off and out the way it turns out there were loads of gaps around the window frame, some big enough I could reach in and touch the cladding outside. I've folded a piece of rockwool into the top of the cavity to stop the foam dropping through and now the whole frame is...

Start your core, once your in 10 to 20mm take the core drill back out, get a masonry bit long enough to drill all the way through and drill holes all the way round inside the groove the core drill made. The extra holes will making cutting the core hole alot easier and if there's rebar there...

Hi all, I'm internally insulating a North facing wall in my house. I've removed all the existing plaster and now I've measured up I think I'm going to have an issue with the reveals. My original plan was 25mm celotex, 9.5mm plaster board and allowing for 3mm skim that comes to 37.5mm...

You can't just remove the ceiling rose in your loft as it's basically being used as a junction box, you'd need to replace the cables completely to do away with it. For me if everythings working correctly I'd use either a wago or hager maintenance free junction box, connect it all into the box...

So, back at hospital today for a follow up to the table saw finger. Dr wasn't happy with it, he thought the xray showed something still in it so they injected a local anaesthetic into the finger, split it all open again and abraded the life out of it. Got to go back to hospital again...