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Thanks for your reply, yes I was going to do a leak test, possibly try and block the waste further down to hold water in it overnight and then check again. But more fundamentally, would you continue with this approach to close it all up with no future access? That was my concern. Thanks

Your advice please. I am making a downstairs shower room with a low profile quadrant tray, in what was previously a typical 1930's kitchen - the original concrete floor stepped down 120mm from the rest of the house. But that floor has now been built up with joists and 22mm plywood to match the...

Ok thanks, yes you're right, no wider than necessary. But a 26" narrow doorway is 760mm wide and it would use the same lintel arrangement as . I'm not that big, but do need space to wriggle and drag things through. Q? - The main point though is ... do you/ does anyone thing that this use of the...

Thanks, good thinking. From one non-expert as you say to another we seem in agreement. Do you mean as my sketch shows below? >> Does anyone else have a view on this?? - Maybe someone with structural experience or knowledge please? - before I bring the house down!! Many thanks

Sorry, maybe it wasn't clear, this isn't a hole to put the pipes/ cables through, this is an access opening to crawl through in the event of repairs, leaks etc. Following a recent large extension and refurb of a 1930's house, there is now a network of services, soil and waste, heating, H&C...

Your help please I need to allow access to lots of pipe and cable within the 700mm high underfloor void of my suspended wooden ground floor. There are sleeper mid-room floor support walls and a full height solid brick load bearing wall in which I will need to insert lintels to support it. The...

Thanks opps. Do you mean that the Dulux Trade Matt (is this a vinyl?) will go directly on a sanded or Zinsser'd vinyl silk?

>> Thanks, does that mean I should apply the vinyl matt or Dulux Trade matt? Or are they both vinyl anyway? >> I would prefer to use Dulux Trade Matt directly if it will work on old vinyl silk? >> Is that ok? I'm happy to apply the Zinsser if there is a benefit and it may be easier than...

There is a lot on this forum about painting over vinyl silk but some confusing and conflicting, so please forgive me asking again and specific to my case. >> I plan to paint over a large ceiling currently in 20 year old vinyl silk, with Dulux Trade matt. Having had problems in the past going...

Bobasd, sory for such a delayed response. Thanks, you say ...... >> I have replaced plasterboard with 12.5mm backer board and used special 'gold' Wickes screws. Can I tile with powder mix adhesive directly on to the board, or would a primer be best? - Bal acrylic primer or Mapei? >> Likewise...

As stated above .... have you sacked him???? Your thread started out "Am I being too fussy?" ... Definitely NOT! I have read this complete trail here with great interest, and I can't help identify a lot with your dilemma. Yours is too similar to my own situation unfortunately, of paying...

Your advice please on preparing a wall for tiling with 30cm x 60cm x 8.5mm cement based tiles going floor to ceiling in a shower & washing utility room. The room is newly plastered done 6 months ago, most on solid wall, some on studwork. Adhesive would also be a powder mix cement based Our...

Thanks, that reminds me, Quickstep guidelines speak of a 3rd option, 1- remove and refit skirting over laminate, 2-fit scotia/quadrant over laminate or .... 3rd option is to cut away the skirting using a multi tool, reciprocating saw blade, to just above the new laminate level. Then slide...

Thanks, I too have had similar fitted, but if it is the usual scotia, it is the part that I feel can cheapen the whole job. Lovely parquet, real wood or quality laminate - and then this beading around the edge that either extends the skirting onto the floor (white) in a quadrant/cupped profile...

I think I have exhausted the thread "Laying Laminate planks - which direction?" so have started fresh in this one. Perimeter expansion gaps - I understand that laminate floor needs an expansion gap of around 10mm? What do you usually allow and can it be less, eg. 8mm? The room is 3.0m x...

Thanks, and for such helpful support from you JohnD, Dazlight and others. I understand the diagonal proposal and yes, it probably looks quite a Wow feature when done properly, but probably needs careful alignment between rooms and setting out. I can take a joke and banter with the best, but...

Thanks - and more wasteful diagonally I would think, or maybe not? Despite this lengthy trail / thread I don't seem to have come very far. There isn't a totally wrong way I suppose, but some configurations better than others? Final Decision - And ..... maybe after all this and when I...

Thanks, I understand, and that is a decision I suppose I have to make. Perhaps I'm overcooking it but as said earlier, this query is driven by the fact that this is a large fairly open area with either open or no doors at all. And these Balterio Stretto boards have a very pronounced V groove...

Ok fine, thanks. But is that just an opinion or are there real practical issues with having them all in line? I just thought that a proff/expert would say it didn't look right if they didn't align room to room. Remember that this is really one large open space with that runs between rooms that...

Thanks, but that means it is mostly like plan A, with just main bed room #3 running the other way, as shown in B. That also means that rooms #3 main bed, and #2 will run at 90 deg to each other? Please confirm? My intention was to have them all in line, same linear direction for them all. But...