Search results

  1. L

    Builder has tiled straight onto 18mm chipboard!!! HELP!!

    Hi All, our builder has tiled straight onto the chipboard, and I know that he would of more than likely just used annualar nails to put these down. End result - we now have cracking grout and suspect it wont be long until we have tiles start coming up. I know that you are supposed to put...
  2. L

    Creaking stairs/floors in new build

    Hi Dunder did you have any joy with the powder towards resolving your creaks. We seem to have a cracking noise as well with ours that actually seems to come from below the floor - ie the cieling downstairs. well - only 7 days until the NHBC and builder comes round yet again and if that...
  3. L

    Who supplies Wickes with their Kitchens

    Hi, about to undertake a kitchen refurb due to a crap builder (house is only 2 years old :cry: ) and abysmal NHBC!!!! I will give the builder his due, the cabinets in the kitchen are quite solid but the way he has fitted them is poor (they are actually Dewsons Premier Gold) with blocking...
  4. L

    Creaking stairs/floors in new build

    It seems like you are lucky. I purchased a new build two years ago and have had a nightmare with the builder - one of them being the creaking floors all over upstairs which he said was due to shrinkage!!! Anyway, it took getting the NHBC involved and he came and apparently screwed the floors...
  5. L

    Scrim tape coming away - 18 mth old house

    Hi, looking for some advice, I bought our house 18 months ago, and it is a mixture between Wet Plastered (predominately downstairs) and Stud walls upstairs. The problem basically is that in a lot of areas - in fact the majority of the stud walls - the scrim tape is pulling/pulled away from...
Back
Top