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Oh, by open eaves I mean it is a flat roof but the rafters straddle over the top of the external wall and overhang it, with direct ventilation from outside - a massive air gap, the full width of the section between the rafters.

Forget the precise model but it's a Baxi condensing boiler. The pipes have no lagging at the moment on the plastic section, only on the copper, so I'll be lagging them and, as someone suggested here, it may well be worth boxing them in too.

Hi My boiler is in the garage and last winter the frost stat kicked in more than I'd have liked. Now I know it's necessary, but I'd like to reduce this as much as possible. The garage is almost triple length with open eaves, so I was wondering how aggressively I could insulate the boiler...

Thanks as always Richard. Is there any particular silicone you'd recommend as being suitable for aquapanel / brickwork in a bathroom? I like the idea of this as it will give it enough flexibility for me to feel safe! Oh - one question about large pieces of board - I can either lay board...

Hi all My shower room has a fake wall for the shower equipment, whose surface lines up level with the window recess shown on the left. In the original bathroom the thin white tiles had cracked where the frame met the window. The frame had been covered in thin board, and the window recess in...

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Thanks for the reply Richard, good to have some knowledgeable input. I thought I was just being paranoid about option 3. The tile weight IS 20Kg/m2, so I'm looking at about 24 with adhesive and grout (which is why I went to the horrible trouble of hacking off the plaster skim, glad I did...

Hi I have almost prepared my sand/cement wall for tiling by hacking off the old skim coat. The sand/cement seems very well attached for 99% of the area. There are now a couple of problem areas, shown below. The first picture is above the door. It is two very solid wooden battens covered by...

I have just read that 6mm hardibacker board could carry the weight of these tiles (my instinct would have said I needed 10-12mm cement board). This is thin enough that perhaps I could mount it on battens on the wall - anyone know what the minimum depth of batten would be?

I have 30x60 tiles that weight 20.5Kg per square metre, so with adhesive and grout this will breach the recommended limit of 20 for plastered surfaces. My wall is sand/cement base with a mixture of plaster finishing coat and easifill (ahem). I have scraped off a lot of the most unsound...

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