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Yes, this is the same floor, same design as previously posted to get over this potential water ingress problem. This has increased the thickness of the layers on top of the oversite from the 150mm in the original plans (100mm cellotex board with 50mm screed) to nearer 175mm (20mm Newton 520...

Quick question, for various reasons it looks like we need to increase the thickness of the floor on the oversight in our extension. Originally it was going to be 150mm - 100mm cellotex board with 50mm screed. It now looks like it will be nearer 172mm + the thickness of floor tiles - 20mm Newton...

I was planning on having a mains fed unsoftened feed to the boiler fill loop etc. So has anyone used Hep2o in floor screed? are there any better solutions?

Thanks for that BournemouthPlumber, yes I should have qualified - plan to have both cold direct from mains and cold softened at the kitchen sink. Figured it was worth doing while I can. Anyone else got any thoughts on what I plan?

I am preparing to lay the floor screed in my extension and new kitchen. I have read a great deal of stuff on the various pro's and con's of copper versus plastic and reckon I am pretty much settled on using pipe in conduit plastic pipes in the screed, not only to comply with what I believe to be...

Has anyone else done DIY underfloor? Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for that, yeah Dow 300 is closed cell and suitable for this application apparently. Yes, read the technical sheets on the Newton site - thats kinda what prompted me to ask the original question as I was looking at the compressive strength and thinking about loadings. Will get my walls...

We're in this situation because of DPM failure at wall/floor junction - its been damaged in construction and is no longer watertight. Also oversite is below external ground level - in the depths of the winter we found water would stand, rise and fall on the oversite. Personally I think we have...

I am having an issue with potential damp in an (unfinished) new build extension, part of the solution is to call in a specialist company who are going to put down a Newton 520 membrane, insulation and new DPM. All the internal walls (Durox Supabloc) have been taken down to facilitate. The...

As an enthusiastic DIY'er I am planning on having a go at my first fix plumbing. I havn't done a project as big as this before, but you have to start somewhere and I do have a competent plumbing 'mate' who is checking in on me every now and again to make sure I don't cock something up and is...

Thanks for the replies and for mentioning those regs - that won't be a problem here, but they were worth mentioning all the same. :)

Have to make a connection to a short length of vertical orange soil pipe under the ground to take a 32mm pipe - would I use a strap on or solvent weld boss for this? Was going to use a 50mm boss with a pushfit reducer to 32mm. Any other way of doing this?

Thanks for that - yours look lovely by the way, the cream kitchen with the red range is exactly the sort of look we are going for. So I will be OK using the joists to partly 'hang' the studwork? I hadn't planned on sitting the studs on the cabinets owing to the need to get the measurement from...

Hello all, be gentle as I am a newcomer to this scale of DIY! - we are currently in the midst of extending to include a new kitchen. Architect drew up the plans which include a nice surround around a 'feature' range cooker in the kitchen... all lovely. When the builders started building and we...