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I had to freestyle this one. Victorian plumbing were of no help. Which is where I bought it from. I beefed it out with a male/male brass nipple and then a female/female one. Not ideal as it’s another few point of potential leak failure. But Im confident it’s going to be fine. Welcoming all...

I've got a shower head and hand hose that have 1/2 BSP male thread on them. I've bought a push fit wall plate, but after I fasten it inside the concealed wall behind shower, it won't protrude enough to allow my pipe to be behind the wall. I need at least 30 mm for my backer board, tile and...

Can anyone inform me of any regulations regarding draining a sink into my rainwater bottle gulley. The gulley grate or sides don't have any closed sockets for me to connect to. Does the pipe need to be below the grate, or can it be above? I'm sure I've read something about this somewhere, but...

Thanks all for responses. Was very useful getting various techniques. I'll crack on.

Thanks. Yes. I'd be getting a liquid screeder to come in. Also yes, I read about the block of insulation being put in and screeding around it. I'm fine with doing those things. My main concern is, can the shower former just sit on top of 150mm PIR??? My common sense is telling me no and I...

I've got the DPM + insulation down on a block and beam floor. It's 150mm PIR. Screed will be 55mm + 20mm floor covering in the bedroom. I have an adjacent new bathroom which I wanted to be a tiled wet room, and want this level with the bedroom floor at the door threshold, or very close. I also...

What was the outcome of this ? I’m having a similar issue.

Actually, measured properly. The plate is about 12 mm too high, but because of the angle of the rafter, it goes out of whack about half way down, and is out by 40mm at the end of the rafter. Planing it would be a huge pain, and that's quite a chunk out the end. It's gonna be easier to rip out...

Wow, that looks a bit more complicated than mine. Thanks for sharing the photos. Ok, none of my rafters are out by that much. 5mm at most.. However..... My wall plate was separated by my cranked steel beams - and I didn't notice on one side the wall plate was 25mm higher! Not until I'd nailed...

How many mm out of plane is acceptable with rafters for it to be not noticeable or cause a problem when tiling the roof? I don't want a wavey roof once I've put my battens on, so now is the time to decide if I need to make use of my planer.... Thanks

The beams will be slotted into pockets cut into existing house. You can see one already cut out on the photo. so can’t easily just put a dpm under the beams and lap up. Or maybe I can ‍♂️ Existing house is solid wall. There isn’t an outer skin. Yes. I’m using coursing blocks to fill in the...

My new extension subfloor is lower than my existing house DPC. See on the photo where my block and beam sits and where the existing DPC is. I'll be having an internal step down to the new bedroom. So I've sat the beams on the inner skin DPC, and i'll slot them into the existing wall on a DPC...

I need to cover a block and beam floor in the grout/slurry mix. I'm unsure of how wet the mix should be. I read that it needs to be brushed cleaned and wetted beforehand, and then a 4:1 sharp sand cement slurry needs brushing on. How wet/dry is this slurry? Does it have to be sharp sand...

I did do that.. here is my latest email: Hi, I’ve got block and beam flooring arriving in a week, so want to make any preparations that you need to see before it goes in. The beam company, floorspan have designed and specified the layout. The ground I was going to give a week killer...

Ok, that makes sense. It's a single story extension. So yes full plans were drawn and submitted, and approved. So essentially, if I do what I said I was going to do in the plans, then all should be good and their job is just to check that I've conformed to my plans. However, building...

I email the building control company prior to doing some work, giving them bullet points of what I'm going to do and for them to give me a heads up if they're going to want to see something in particular, and whether I'm doing it correctly. But they refuse to be helpful in any way. All they...

I like it. Keeping it raw. This is what mine looks like under my extension from 2018.... I have crawl space under the rest of the house so I can see the space under the block and beam still. Guess what... there isn't a forest growing under there.

Block and beam floors must be failing all over the country because they skipped this step.

@noseall What's the black stuff he's putting down from the tin?

So the weeds can grow in total darkness, rise 150+mm, then work their way through 150mm beams or 100mm concrete blocks, which are bound with sand/cement,... then through the DPM, then through the 65mm of screed, and the wooden floor..... Engineers are suggesting this won't stop the weeds...