I had these above the bedroom doors in my late 70s build and got them boxed out/skimmed over to make it look a bit more modern.Ah, this makes perfect sense! I have often wondered while standing up out of my late night bath whether that's intentional that my shadow just barely misses the blinds.
Indeed, this is the glass above my bathroom door and its offset light fittingBuilt 1965 as, I think, fairly budget homes:
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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2 pallets of tiles and all my waste pipe fittings arrived. Plumber wanted a grand just for waste pipe! Sod that.
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2 man lift I guess. It's a shame as he only dinged me for 220 on the rad pipework adjustment.
Weeded and cut back garden.
Cleared some blanket weed from the pond.
Fitted an overflow pipe to the filter for the pond to stop it overflowing the window (following moving the filter the old mechanism doesn't work). Now it should go down the waste chute.
Cleared up garage a bit.
Cleared some blanket weed from the pond.
Fitted an overflow pipe to the filter for the pond to stop it overflowing the window (following moving the filter the old mechanism doesn't work). Now it should go down the waste chute.
Cleared up garage a bit.
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Skimmed the last remaining artex ceiling in the study upstairs and got busy with the expanding foam and scrim tape.
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We have soil pipe....
Just need to crack on with tiling now. First job is to get the tileboard down - do I really need to glue and screw this?
Should I tile the wall or floor first?
It's marble which I hadn't quite realised weighs so much
Just need to crack on with tiling now. First job is to get the tileboard down - do I really need to glue and screw this?
Should I tile the wall or floor first?
It's marble which I hadn't quite realised weighs so much
Wall or floor first personal choice... usually I set a batten on the wall to tile from first. Then tile floor, then remove batten and tile the final peices to the floor.We have soil pipe....
Just need to crack on with tiling now. First job is to get the tileboard down - do I really need to glue and screw this?
Should I tile the wall or floor first?
It's marble which I hadn't quite realised weighs so much
It's all in the setting out... avoiding small cuts etc. If you tile a whole tile straight from the floor, yeah don't do that. You can get away from using battens if you cut your bottom row first and tile from that ensuring it is 100% level this way you tile the floor first.
Yes screwing and adhesive the backer board to the floor is correct.
We have a bit of a dudd space in our 4th bedroom/office which were going to turn into a nursery so I've been building a little custom built wardrobe/unit type thing for us to have as storage for when the Bambino arrives.
Built out of 18mm hardwood ply, backed it with 3mm ply. Just need to order some storage baskets along the bottom then I have a shelf to fit above them, and then hang a rail at the top to hang clothes from.
Also cut down some scaffolding board I had in the shed to make a few shelves.
Built out of 18mm hardwood ply, backed it with 3mm ply. Just need to order some storage baskets along the bottom then I have a shelf to fit above them, and then hang a rail at the top to hang clothes from.
Also cut down some scaffolding board I had in the shed to make a few shelves.
Be interested to see as I'm planning on making something similar.
Plumbed in new washing machine (the feet barely touched the floor before it was stuffed full) and got a start on the floor - man do I regret choosing herringbone, if it was straight planks I would have been sat in the garden with a beer by 4pm
I'll have to finish off in the morning, don't think the neighbours appreciate my mitre saw going off past 8pm.
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Cheers - what adhesive is the best choice nowadays?
For the screws, I assume I'm just trying to grab the 18mm chipboard and not into joists or anything?
If you look at installation guidelines for Marmox board, just screws/washers on the floor is fine for timber. Your floor should be flat/level given you've replaced it.
Yeah don't go through the chipboard.
Adhesive wise I mostly use https://www.protilertools.co.uk/pro...modified-standard-set-flexible-c2te-20kg-grey
or the rapid set. Tiling is much more chilled using a standard set.
For your floor tiles you'd be better using an S2 flexi adhesive. E.g https://www.protilertools.co.uk/pro...bre-reinforced-flexible-s2-adhesive-grey-20kg
Get a paddle attachment for your drill to mix up.
Depending on your marble you may want to use a white adhesive.
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Got the floor cutout and ready for glue. Somehow ended up with 2x 12mm extra and like 4x 6mm extra boards lol.
Waste for bath and toilet now done. Toilet fully fixed now with plumbing attached.
I am debating ATM how to tackle the plumbing. Do I tile and YOLO it or do I pressure and leak test everything prior to tiling?
I assume the former for the niche just needs glueing? The tanking kit I bought came with some silicone stuff ?
Off to India for 3 days now so progress halts again....
Waste for bath and toilet now done. Toilet fully fixed now with plumbing attached.
I am debating ATM how to tackle the plumbing. Do I tile and YOLO it or do I pressure and leak test everything prior to tiling?
I assume the former for the niche just needs glueing? The tanking kit I bought came with some silicone stuff ?
Off to India for 3 days now so progress halts again....
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Thanks chaps will go for an s2 for the floor and something white for the marble.
I am debating ATM how to tackle the plumbing. Do I tile and YOLO it or do I pressure and leak test everything prior to tiling?
If your pipework is all connected, even if it is capped at the end it is effectively pressure tested/containing the full pressure of the system. Eg in my example below the capped pipes first fix are connected to hot/cold and won't need any further testing till fitting sink.
I fitted some furniture in my bathroom. I've got some matching white gloss cover panels over the wooden bits and hide it all in. I'm going to have to scribe it as the walls aren't 100% plumb.
I think I'll just silicone the cover panels straight on unless anyone has any links to some good magnetic systems?
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Yeah I meant just leak test tbh.
Its no more likely to leak at any of the prior joints after opening /connecting the ends in 2nd fix than with it capped in 1st fix is what Im getting at.
This is where I'm up to up to now.Be interested to see as I'm planning on making something similar.
Plumbed in new washing machine (the feet barely touched the floor before it was stuffed full) and got a start on the floor - man do I regret choosing herringbone, if it was straight planks I would have been sat in the garden with a beer by 4pm
This will basically fit neatly onto the bit of dead space in the room creating a little wardrobey bit.
In the process of painting it today but I have a shelf to go in about 1/4 of the way up and under that we will have 3 pull out fabric storage boxes.
Got all I needed from one big sheet of 18mm ply from B&Q. Got them to do the cuts which were 2 x 45 x 120 and 2 x 45 x 100 for the bases and then I used the bits remaining to make the shelf and the front lip at the top to tidy it up.
Used 3mm hardboard for the back of it too.
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