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So are you advocating that overall a cold roof is to be preferred? Or is it that GRP isn't suitable for warm roofs? I am wondering where to go next really with this roof of ours - rip it off in favour of a cold roof or replace with another warm roof (felt or EPDM)

thanks oldbutnotdead - I suspect missing the joists or insufficient fixings is exactly what happened. These guys usually do cold roofs so I imagine they just don't have the experience to know how to do it properly (my mea culpa for choosing them). What's your pet theory? You don't mean above...

thanks. Yes, that would be one solution (or EPDM) - does stripping the GRP involve removing the whole deck (boards/insultion/boards) or can it just be mechanically stripped off the top layer? Also - what is the proper way to make a GRP roof that doesn't have expansion problems? Why are so many...

Ours is the same (approx 6x6m GRP warm roof built 2022). The expansion noise is horrendous. I’d like to know what went wrong in the construction. Surely not all GRP roofs do this? I am never getting a GRP roof again (or even any flat roof to be honest). Nightmare.

Thanks guys, some very useful suggestions there. I will examine the drawers a bit more closely and see what state the bases etc are in re: re-attach or replace them

Hi, I just bought this vintage sideboard but the drawer bottoms are bowed and have popped out of the slots at the back. How can I fix these to ensure they don’t pop out again? I don’t think glue would be up to the job on its own? Back and sides are some sort of white plastic with a slot all...

Anything wrong with a neat white (or coloured) circular sticker? Filling and sanding sounds a recipe for a poor finish.

I’ve inherited this gate with my newish house. I want to cap that top piece of the frame to stop water pooling on it, as it is already starting to go grungy/rotten at the house end. The top piece is 2.4m long and 100mm wide. I think my lack of knowledge of the terms used for this are...

it is very easy to misinterpret headlines.

My neighbour brushes in a diluted bottle of toilet bleach once a year… no weeds and spotlessly clean blocks

the similar product we had was anchored to rings cemented in the ground. In our case the rings were made level, but the ground wasn't (was only v slightly sloping)

Thanks for the reply. Regarding the DPM, apols there is one under the chipboard apparently - I have edited my post above The floor is certainly not billiard table flat! From the moment I mentioned it builders have been saying you can't expect 100% perfection ... The mfctr states that any wood...

To update this, the builders have spent a couple of days lifting tiles across the floor and mechanically fixing the chipboard down into the slab ie. screwing the edges of each board down a few mm. This has helped - a lot of the joints are barely perceptible under foot/hand except when the...

What do you think is a fair resolution? Don’t pay a penny until the whole thing is correct? That’ll mean lifting the whole thing, changing insulation depth, new chipboard floor , and new ply, right? He’s going to love that.

Builder did it all above the slab. When I say builder did it, I mean literally did it himself. No separate flooring guy. From a picture I took of the glue tub it is Ball Styccobond F46 pressure sensitive acrylic adhesive.

Yes it's glued

No chance of rescuing any of it then? Not even the tiles? Would you pay for any of it to be redone? I’m half thinking of telling them to leave it there, but paying half or something.

Presumably the fix isn’t something simple like relaying the Karndean? This looks like quite a fundamental issue to me … Everything lifted down to the celotx and relevelled and relayed? One issue we’ll have is the door level. I don’t know what to suggest really. If I had diy’d it I might live...

The slab was there, but the rest was organised by the builder.

Hi, I guess this isn't normal? Karndean fitted last week in new extension and into existing concrete kitchen floor. Floor makeup is concrete slab, small depth of screed to level, celotex, chipboard floor, latex, sanded high points, then karndean. Every single row is visible and each row dips to...