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Thanks tictic that stuff looks like it might work depending on the thickness of the flooring. We might get rubber tiles and have ordered some samples, will double check with the company on the best way to lay them. Jo

Hello folks We're considering 2 different options for our bathroom floor. We will be having MR plasterboard and then tiles on the walls and would like to try a rubber floor or ceramic floor tiles. We were thinking rubber might be better as the floor is wooden and I understand ceramic tile...

Thanks Richard thats all really useful info. Sounds like I need to do some more work on it. I'll take your advice and either fully tile or skim the 2 exposed plasterboard sections. Jo

Ok. So looking left as you stand in the door. Wall 1 will be fully tilled with bath along it's length. Wall 2 (opposite the door) will hold the window and will be lower half tiled with the end of the bath in the left corner, then the toilet then the sink in the right corner. Wall 3 will be also...

Hi Richard My plan is to tile halfway up the wall and into reveals leaving the top half untiled and the bottom half tiled. This means there will be PB joints exposed where the reveal meets the wall and where the reveal meets the window. Thanks Jo

Hello, hope someone can give me some advice. :? I've moisture resistant plasterboarded our bathroom using large sheets and will be using tiles halfway up the walls to avoid obvious joints being visible. However there will be some visible internal corner joints and some external corner...

Thanks again Hugh for all this advice. I've realised there is a 5th, simpler option, although it means leaving the existing stack in the garden room. I can move the bathroom door about 15cm within the stub wall and therefore fit the bath in at right angles to where i was going to put it. This...

Thanks for clarification about gullies, I understand that now and for tips for anti vac traps. Just spoke to building control and they said I would need to keep the existing gully for the rain water and that although I could run a stack internally it would be advisable to do it outside in...

I thought that a lintel built without relevant consents would make it harder for prospective buyers to get a mortgage. I would much rather leave it insitu, the survey we had done prior to moving in suggested there was no structural failure. I'll investigate this too Thanks Hotrod, do you know...

Thanks Hugh it's good to know option 1 is possible. With some fiddling I could just plumb the sink and bath into the new internal toilet soil pipe with vent/stack going up above and keep BC happy. Could I plumb the sink into the bath pipe and then just run the bath pipe into the stack, or would...

Ok thanks will look into concrete lintels.

Hello, hope someone can help with this one. We need to move our upstairs toilet to another wall in the bathroom to make way for a bath. We won't be able to reach the existing toilet stack as the pipe would need to go round the house and a roof drain pipe and garden room roof would be in...

Thanks noseall

Hello, hope someone can give me some tips. In the 50's ex council house we have recently bought the previous owner had opened up the kitchen into a small pantry, toilet and passageway area (I think knocking down 3 closely built walls) and has used a lintel made from what seems to be a...

Good question, I was hoping to find concrete foundations as are found under the wooden floors as I wasn't sure if this area had once had them. All I found was a brick lip around the clay subsoil. Also, to be honest, I'm learning as I go along. Should I be concerned with this damp? I realise...

Thanks Hugh Was thinking of putting insulation down such as polystyrene and then tiling over. This would effectively prevent any future access. Not sure if I could cut a trap in the polly as it would be unstable to walk over. A suspended wooden floor with a trap in that might work...

Hello, not sure if this is in the right forum but hope you can help. We have an inspection chamber just outside the back door that inspects the join where an old down stairs toilet once drained. The toilet has gone and so there is no risk of a blockage. We are wanting to seal the chamber...

Hi guys, just wondered if anyone was able to help with my floor dilema. I've read quite a few posts about damp concrete floors but can't quite find the answer to my problem. At some point the kitchen has been opened up with the downstairs toilet and possibly a pantry or something. Tiles...

We are also planning to build off road parking and have a very similar problem. We're in Sheffield and our soil is clay as far as I have dug so a soak away is also impracticle. We asked about using up our 5m2 of non pourous surface to make two tyre tracks in the grass. The Vehicle crossing...

Thanks for your help Richard and everyone else. I'm now exploring the possiblility of straw bale walls and a clear polly carb roof.