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So I'm redoing an old (400 years+) building, made entirely of stone masonry + lime mortar. One of the walls needs reinforcement as it's starting to bow outwards, so we will be using a seismic GFRP net (probably going with premier sismanet/sismawall), which gets pinned to the wall from the...

So as part of the new project, I'm trying to plan the "order of operations" (i.e what comes first). To further complicate matters, the ceilings are already quite low - so putting conduit for electrical, then a layer of screed, then doing a separate screed layer for the underfloor heating would...

Can anyone recommend something to build a floor plan? Not even the furniture yet - just really somewhere that I can get some measurements down, wall thicknesses and start marking up where the utilities will go...

So I got my hands on a bosch laser measuring thingy for my newest project, and have been playing with their MeasureOn app, which seems great to get some measurements done. That said, when in wall view, I cannot see an option to say "this wall is not rectangular" (i.e. last floor, under a...

So I've taken on a large new project - a 400 year old "house" in the Alps. The roof was redone 10-ish years ago (corrugate), and is in good condition... but uninsulated. Other than that, it's still pretty "original" (i.e. last inhabited full time ~100 years ago). Heating is a single wood-fired...

I'm doing a bathroom refurb in a country that doesn't use copper pipes for water... almost everything is stainless steel (mapress stainless mainly). That said, I'm half tempted to use PEX instead. It would mean importing this (not very common here). Costs would be comparable (especially given...

Right, I haven't logged in here in a LONG time, and a lot has changed. Got a new house, and found a bathroom which was last rennovated in the 70s. I've managed to rip out the old bathroom (all 5 layers of tiles, one layer glued to the previous... some ceramic and some vinyl), and am down to a...

Right... So long story short as I'm frankly knackered! I needed to flush the CH system, opened the drain valve and found it blocked. Poked a wire-hanger into it to clear it (which worked) - but then found out the rubber seal was long dried and broken. As such, the drain valve wouldn't close...