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Evening everyone. Im looking for some advice in regards to constructional hearths. At the minute we have had 125mm of concrete poured for our new slab. This is due to be covered with 50mm Kingspan and then 75mm screed with underfloor heating. We are wanting to put a log burner in. In terms...

Evening everyone! We are planning to move our boiler (registered gas safe plumber will be doing the work, not us). I am just wanting to see peoples thoughts on the boiler flue. I have attached a quick screenshot from the Architects plans below. We are wanting to move the boiler into the...

Hi everyone, Ive had a good search of the forum but im looking for a definitive answer. When it comes to a screeds perimeter insulated upstands. Do you use 25mm PIR and thats it? Or do you also then wrap some of the foam edge insulation around to allow for the movement from the screed...

Ahh yeah massive ballache! Well, looks like its a new slab then! Looking on the bright side, I suppose we can consider putting underfloor heating across the back of the house. I will Google the F Ball F77 now as I dont really fancy waiting 3 months either. Thanks mate. Yes definitely, there is...

Thanks, this is the dining room with a fireplace aswell. IMG_0397 by Azz00 posted 9 Jul 2018 at 5:50 PM Thanks, I will take a look now. Building regs application should be going in for the rest of the work so i will include the new floor slab aswell. I dont suppose anyone could put a budget...

Exactly that! The weak concrete mix really threw me! Did you put a new slab down then?

Very slow progress recently. Mostly because we have been off at festivals so we cant really complain. But! started digging a small trial pit in the dining room hoping to find a solid floor slab and found nothing which to me seems very unusual? Either way, looking on the bright side it means...

Hi everyone, Looking for some advice regarding the photo below (apologies for the poor quality, I dropped my phone...) IMG-20180727-WA0016 by Azz00 posted 27 Jul 2018 at 7:57 PM Basically, I have started removing the original tiles and kept digging hoping to find the concrete slab. But there...

Also, can anyone recommend any builders around Sheffield, S20 area? While im happy to do most things. The foundations for the extension, new blockwork and anything steel related isnt something I want to take responsibility for. We have friends / family that are; plumbers, electricians...

Haha thanks mate. Im just waiting for a weekend when we are free again to get another skip in! We thought about this. But the steels are proving to be a little more complex than we first thought. For the most part it would be fine but im not sure about hanging / notching the existing joists in...

Thanks for the comments guys! Im not actually too sure what the soil conditions are like, something that I need to check out this week! As the tidying, we are basically creating our own skip in the front garden :( IMG_1630 by Azz00 posted 16 Jul 2018 at 5:10 PM No plans to drop the...

Thanks for the comments guys. As much as we would love to get a builder in, we are looking to do as much as we can. Both to save money and equally for the experience. So as we were stripping one of the front bedrooms, the ceiling came down! Luckily it was just an underdrawn ceiling (still...

Hi all, So after purchasing our first home and already receiving advice from you guys on here I thought I would start a progress thread. Unfortunately, both myself and partner are only around to work on the house at weekends so progress can be frustratingly slow. If anyone has any advice...

Thanks for the replies guys! I will give the skip companies a chase as a few of them were checking for me and never came back. I am also assuming that its lime plaster that I have removed as the house itself is around 100 years old. I assume that lime plaster doesn't react the same way as...

Hi everyone, I have taken the first floor back to brick (photos below) Obviously, I now need to get rid of it all as its pilling up in the front garden. However, im just reading through what can and cant be put in skips and it states plasterboard as "no". Is this the case for the type of...

Brilliant. Thanks for this, I will check these all out this evening!

Budget is around £200ish. Cordless It will get alot of use within the next couple of months for sure and then it will be used for more rarely I would imagine

Hi everyone. I am looking for some help in recommending which Mikita SDS will best suit my needs. (I would prefer mikita as my brother has a few other tools that I will be able to steal) We have just bought our first house and it needs some extensive work. Luckily most of my family is in...