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Aout = August in French. According to AI... "The shelf life for Toupret fillers is generally 12 months, but some products may last up to 24 months when stored in their original, sealed packaging, away from sunlight, frost, and extreme temperatures. Powdered fillers can last for a very long time...

maybe a crane or some load smashed into it and the bottom side had no rebar fixing to the floor... and quickfix they put the guardfence back and paper to cover.. boh, just guessing.

funnily enough this is exactly what I am working on as well. I highly recommend to do a proper job even though it is pain to crawl. Previous owner of my place (or their builder) thought it would be best to just dump a lot of building material into the void to hold up the fibreglass wool.. I am...

Understood, thank!

Hi all, I bought a can of Rustins Quick Dry Floor paint, which is an acrylic emulsion paint. This is mean go onto some wooden floor boards in my cellar, so no perfect finish required. I find the shade a smidge too dark, and was looking if I can brighten it up slightly by adding some leftover...

For those with solar+batt, would you pay extra to have an EPS installed? Most inverters have EPS capability, but you need to reroute some circuits and have a manual or automated switchover. Probably not DIYable such a thing. I've had three powercuts since I moved into the area, but two out of...

Finished this project now and it looks fine, thanks both for your advice. I used setcrete exterior for this job. My conclusions for any other future concrete novice DIYers: - you can get around the max thickness by doing it in several coats and letting them dry in between. In fact it was much...

I think it depends on the operation required... I tore my pec tendon off the bone a few years ago during exercise. NHS wait would have been 6-9months as in theory I could function as there are sufficient supporting muscles around the shoulder. But waiting this long would mean the tendon would...

Sorry to hear. I don't have any chronic pain, but multiple injuries from exercise including herniated disc L4-L5. Ibuprofen + rehab + long term posture correction helped to fix it. I am sure you are aware, but I would caution long term Ibuprofen use... perhaps go off it for a bit if you can...

One for the concrete experts... I am doing some works in a damp cellar and after digging up some more rubble, I found an old concrete pad in a corner. It's pretty beaten up with cracks, missing chunks, lots of unevenness and generally looks like someone just used different types of leftovers to...

FYI, the socket in this picture was the one I did with a multi tool. Bit of plaster and then pure brickwork. make was EZARC (some cheap amazon brand). Can't necessarily recommend this (or any other).. in fact I bought Erbauer a while ago for a different project and they are not much better...

I did one using a multitool and carbide blade. Worked brilliantly as the cuts were very clean and the backbox fit perfectly. However.... It does take a bit of finesse to get the depth correct and flat for the box to fit flush against/into the wall...blade was dull afterwards, so if I had to do...

The drainage itself is not the main issue. It's the run of the waste pipe underneath. With my old tub, the waste just ran over the floor as the tub was raised and all boxed in. Now with a floor level shower tray, the pipe actually had to go under the floorboards. And to keep a fall for natural...

Oh I see. So you'd not move the toilet, but fully remove it and have the shower go all along that side where on the left (presumably where you enter) the window in the way? Can you move the plumbing over to the right wall and have the niche along the "long" side? That's pretty much the setup we...

Not a plumber, but we had 2 bathrooms done in last two years. Thoughts that come to mind: We thought about such a "wet room" style shower area as well, but it is quite a bit more complex/costly than anticipated. You want to match the floor tiles, and they have to have the perfect fall for the...

FB2 keys are very common in block of flats. I had these in at least 3 of previous apartment blocks I was living in. The last one had all electric meter s in the underground parking area and they were locked by FB2 Keys. They were all smart meters, so in theory nobody was meant to even go in...

Just to close this out... I've opened the floor and the joist are indeed supported by a ledger board/joist that is nailed to the wall, but also supported from studs below. The joists measure 100mmx50mm and weirdly are spaced 360mm centre to centre instead of 400mm. So should be okay to support...

Thanks. I now pained two walls down there with lime wash. I was under the impression this was the right thing todo in order to allow moisture to exit the walls. Else I would be trapping the moisture inside the wall only for it to rise up into the house? Having said that, the coverage of lime...

Might be a bit of a hack, but I have stuck a scrunched up bit of mesh into such holes and coated it generously with filler, just to get it to stick somewhere. After it dried, just filled it the "normal" way. So filler, meshtape, more filler... then sand and then pain. But this really only for...

That is already pencilled in as 2027 project. We are still considering a back extension, so there is a chance the front garden will be messed up and used to store building material. I'd redo the front garden only afterwards. Maybe that would be the time then to do any improvements of the...