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Simply because one or two of the poles would have made fixing the guttering earlier awkward. Don't worry, it's going up today, and I have the 'luxury' of unimpeded access, and the ability to run my eye down the entire runs to check for alignment. As for the existing downpipe, it hasn't been...

With the exception of fitting guttering, the external work is now complete. 1st fix gas, electricity & plumbing has also been done this week and we are ready to screed the floor and insulate the ceilings before plastering.

I was going to put in an upstand of insulation around the perimeter and then divide the room into two bays, slightly overfilling one bay with screeding mixture and then placing a suitable straight timber down the middle, tapping it down to get a level front to back & side to side, and then using...

I'm going to have a go at laying my own sand and cement screed in my small conservatory (2m x 3m), see how it goes, and then decide whether I feel able to do the larger kitchen/dining room extension too. I was going to buy bulk bags of sharp sand and mix at 4:1 with cement, using a hired...

Any view on the DIYable quotient?

Our extension is nearing completion and I have a newly constructed kitchen roof with a hip end and vaulted ceiling to insulate and plasterboard. The design spec. suggests Celotex GA4000 @ 100mm between the rafters and PL4040 (40mm bonded with 12.5mm PB) to underside. I am contemplating doing...

I have a quote for liquid screed over 34 m2 at 50mm depth (1.7 m3) for £1,106 + VAT (£32.50/m2). Should I really expect to get 75mm of sand and cement (material & labour) for a third of that? If so, who from?

What would you expect to pay per m2 for either system? The Mrs wanted polished concrete (ha ha).

I'm having trouble finding anyone who can lay a sand/cement floor screed in my extension, so I'm looking at liquid screed (readily available at a day or two's notice from lots of places). My concrete floor slab is 160mm below DPC and I was going to lay 80mm of Celotex and then conventional...

So concrete for the floor slab was pumped in today, and now I'm finalising my plans for the insulation & screed. I'm having very little success in finding anyone who wants to even quote for a sand & cement screed, let alone LAY it, so I'm going to put down EPS 100 @ 120mm and have an...

I've been trying to get a Worcester boiler installer to come and take my money for months: I've given up, and have gone over to the dark side.

Anyone?

If Severn Trent do inspect work that they have been been notified of, fair enough: but I'm not doing notifiable work on my reading of the Regs. They won't know, and I already know that BCO isn't interested. BC won't inspect, again until the over-slab insulation is ready to cover, by which time...

Another scare: I'm doing nothing, as far as I can see, that is notifiable under the Table to Reg 5.

An installer holding what qualification?

How about forming conduit from inexpensive 32mm drain pipe?

Does MDPE pipe require any protection from being covered by the concrete of a floor slab? The hardcore sub-base has already been well blinded with soft sand, so there are no sharp edges that could damage the pipework from below. The pipe seems very stiff and I don't think that there is any risk...