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Ended up with a 930 - 945mm gap in the shower. It was supposed to be a walk in, which meant I never measure to closely as it wasn't going to have a door. But in hindsight it really needs one. I've fitted a number of shower doors in the past, and have typically not had issues adjusting down a...

195 newbuilds are going up behind us, and I noticed that there are a number of missing bricks one row up from the airbricks. This is just one of the houses, but they seem to have this all. Does anyone know why they might be doing this? It's an incredibly wet site (groundwater at surface level)...

Looking at this Mira Flight shower tray, which is exactly what I'm after. Or almost exactly what I'm after. Somehow my blockwork walls ended up 4cm too narrow. So now I'm left with 96cm walls and a 100cm shower tray. I can see 3 options: - Cut 4 cm of the shower tray (would prefer to go 2cm...

Council seems to be bending over backwards to progress a local development, and will seemingly quite happily apply dirty tactics. I.e: Designated the piece of land a core refuge for Brent Geese and other migrating birds in 2019, but never published it. So when it came to approving planning for...

Was hoping to flush fit the large sliding doors, so kids (and me, really) wouldn't trip over them when going in and out of the house. Trouble is that after having done my last calculations, I'm consistently 1cm (10mm) too low. So the finished floor with stick up by 10mm above the doorframe. I'm...

I am planning on repurposing part of our family bathroom to be an ensuite to one of the bedrooms by adding a new door and putting up a stud wall. I've not created the new doorway yet, so am still somewhat flexible as to its placement along the long wall. Space is tight and the ensuite will...

We're on heavy clay, and are right next to the sea so there's pressure from the sea on ground water levels. The garden is often waterlogged, so I'm trying to think of ways to provide some relief. Thought a pond would create more space for water, as it takes out sand/clay and makes more room for...

Rented 2 * SLA10 Genie lifts to lift a 575kg beam in to place (2.3m high). They have a capacity of 454kg each, so I figured they'd easily handle this. They were collected last week Friday (29/10), I received a refund of my deposit on Monday (01/11), and yesterday (04/11, nearly a week later), I...

I'm about to fit the roof to the new extension, and was hoping to finish it with EPDM as that looks like a fairly DIY friendly solution. But with costs creeping up, and the sunny season now solidly behind us. I just want to get it ready for winter. I've been playing with the idea of doing the...

The builder's bricky went off sick with covid, which was threatening to hold things up, so he's started the bricklaying on two piers that are to support a 6m (575kg) steel himself. The steel went in with two genie lifts today and is currently held in place by two acrow props. He's built up one...

Structural engineer specified a Birtley CB90 lintel. Unfortunately I can't find one in stock near me. Best I can do is get it delivered within 15 days (approx.), which would hold things up too long. I can however get Expamet lintels off the shelf, but can't check with SE at the moment whether...

Always great to find a thread with a similar question to the one you have... bit of a shame it was never properly answered though. =================== 10 year old thread. starting a new one.

I'm cutting a new doorway in an upstairs bedroom to allow direct access to the bathroom. Above the new opening, there will be 2 courses of blocks remaining. On top of that, the ceiling joists sit. They run from the left and right of the house to the middle wall (in which I'm now adding a...

Starting to think about what roof to go for with our extension. Unfortunately, due to the size of the extension and the position of the windows on the existing house, we can't go for a pitched roof. Now, I don't particularly like the look of a flat roof, so was thinking about doing something...

Building a large back extension on my own, on a building notice and without too much background in construction. So I was always going to run in to things I didn't know yet... . Had Building Control out the other day and he gave me a formula to calculate the ratio of windows and doors I would...

Time to give back a little to the community here. Have bit the bullet to extend the house myself (or as much as I can), so thought I'd share my progress here. For context, I'm 38 and work in an office. So no real building experience, apart from watching hours of YouTube videos of other people...

I was planning to dig down my oversite to 400mm below DPC level, and doing what looked like a fairly standard floor: 150mm type 1 (compacted) 50mm sharp sand (compacted) 1200 gauge DPM 100mm Celotex 1200 gauge DPM 100mm C20 Concrete I'm now trying to figure out how to feed my radiators in the...

Starting digging our single story extension on Monday and that means ordering concrete. I need to dig down 1m deep, and to tie in with the current house I figured I'd finish concrete 1 brick below ground. Which means I'll have 3 bricks in total up to DPC (1 below ground, 2 above). But my digger...

Planning to pour a concrete slab for an extension in 2 weeks time, but am a little confused with the insulation requirements. I had originally planned to go with 100mm PIR insulation in the slab, as everyone else seems to be doing that. But I noticed that certain brands offer far thinner...

Starting grounds works on an extension in a week, which I'm planning to build under permitted development and using a building notice. The extension will be 4m deep by 10m long, and will have a flat roof with 1 or 2 skylights. I've done the plans myself and it all seems fairly standard and...