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  1. Ian H

    Iron water main

    Nice one (y)
  2. Ian H

    Cement around Drain corroded

    No. Do you really think you can make a mould and pour concrete into it, easier than you could pull out the hopper and push a new one in?
  3. Ian H

    Cement around Drain corroded

    Just form it by hand like Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
  4. Ian H

    Reducing sound through party wall, which insulation?

    She wants a bare wall finished something like this: I think that would be MDF so I’m not sure if I should put the blue plasterboard up first or straight on with mdf? This is where i’m at as of now: I’ll use the AC50 you recommend around the timber and add some more slab in the ceiling...
  5. Ian H

    Cutting brick with reciprocating saw?

    These seem pretty soft so I’ll give the Bosch above a try (y)
  6. Ian H

    Cutting brick with reciprocating saw?

    That looks spot on, don’t know how I missed them!! Thanks
  7. Ian H

    Cement around Drain corroded

    You don’t, you have to go a couple of inches to the joint between the hopper and the gully trap.
  8. Ian H

    Cement around Drain corroded

    It’s probably got a bit of mortar around it but seeing as it’s broken it should pull out easy.
  9. Ian H

    Cutting brick with reciprocating saw?

    It there a blade that would cut a load of half bricks from an opening I’ve made?
  10. Ian H

    Cement around Drain corroded

    It’s not cement, it’s the hopper. It’s a seperate part to the gully that sits on top to give a bigger catchment area and to hold the grid. Take the metal grid out and you will see a joint a couple of inches down, remove everything from there upwards. It will either be 4 or 6inch and that size...
  11. Ian H

    What are you drinking tonight?

    It’s a Rose and we are 2 bottles on so must be good (y)
  12. Ian H

    Post the best photo you took today

    I bet he has a full on boner 24/7 :LOL::LOL:
  13. Ian H

    Door with sidelights

    I fitted a Solidor with top and sidelights and that’s pretty solid. They join them with aluminium couplers so they stay strong. I got it from Keyframe in Bolton.
  14. Ian H

    Post the best photo you took today

    I was pulled for being over weight, 7.4% over is £100 fine but no points. I can’t complain, I was in the wrong and the copper was fair.
  15. Ian H

    Iron water main

    You can normally tap all the crust off with a brick hammer to leave it clean enough for a connection with a Plass4 or whatever. Horrible stuff though, look inside it after you cut the section out :eek: 3rd pic looks like it’s gone on a joint so you might be lucky with the pipe either side.
  16. Ian H

    Reducing sound through party wall, which insulation?

    I made the frame tonight. Daughter pulled down the first 6” of ceiling and mortared all around the joists and filled any holes, then we made the frame and fixed it to the ceiling joists through some thick rubber that was a bandseal I had that was missing it’s clips. Had to stop because we...
  17. Ian H

    Salvaging DPM membrane

    Do you mortar under and ontop of the dpc?
  18. Ian H

    Post the best photo you took today

    I got that free with a £100 fine :cool:
  19. Ian H

    Sanity check this quote

    I would want a drawing of the subframe so you know how far apart the joists will be and how many posts into the ground.
  20. Ian H

    Reducing sound through party wall, which insulation?

    I had a read up today and chose Rockwool Sound Slab, seemed heavy at 60kg/m3. So now I plan on actually doing the job. Where I fix onto the walls at the sides should I put rubber washers between my wood frame and the brick to seperate them? Same for into the joists at the top?
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