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I am reflooring a room in an early 1980s Wimpey home with engineered wood. The floor has to match the height of the wooden flooring in an adjoining corridor. I've stripped the carpet, and the concrete floor is covered in thin, hard, dark brown tiles glued to the concrete floor with black...

No, it wasn't a money saving exercise, or just "getting someone in". As I mentioned previously, this is part of an extension build, and the same building company has been doing all the work. I just happened to order and pay for the windows direct, instead of the builder doing it and charging me...

Cheers folks. This is all useful stuff, because I don't have the fitting knowledge, and I'm relying on my common sense and some YouTube installation videos to try and satisfy myself about whether the job is being done properly. To answer some of the questions: Thermal breaks? I don't know what...

The builder has now packed the cill underneath to raise it, and applied sealant under the cill. He has also sealed the edge where the internal wooden sill meets the window, and put sealant into the edge of the plastic trim strip that covers the edge where the window meets the internal MDF sill...

I think they are manufactured with Veka profile. Looking at your linked image, the green area in my installation is a void, and there is clear gap between the bottom of the window unit and the top of the cill; they don't butt up against each other as shown in your image. It looks like they've...

Thanks for the replies. That's very useful. You're absolutely correct, that faint line just between the points of the arrows is a screw sticking down into the cavity. There's clear space between the glazing unit and the cill. I purchased the windows direct from the manufacturer. I tried getting...

I've just had new double glazed units installed as part of an extension build. There is a noticeable draught at the base of the windows, and the internal windowsill is very cold. Looking at the outside, I can see a clear gap between the upstand on the sill, and the base of the window unit (in...