Caporegime
What material are you planning for your final subfloor (that you'll be tiling onto) to be?
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What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Soldato
I've got 22mm chipboard down, glued and screwed. I might add a 10mm layer of insulating backer board - just to break the cold bridging of the timber "joists".
Caporegime
I know everyone's always got an opinion, but I don't think chipboard is a great substrate for tiling.
Soldato
Fair - I've been generally not confident about chipboard, hence going for the thickest and using T&G and glue. What would you recommend - ply?
I grew up in a solid brick and concrete council flat, so anything other than solid ground feels underbuilt!
Caporegime
I would overboard the chipboard with XPS tile backer board as you suggest, 6mm or 10mm depending on required floor build up.
Soldato
Thanks, that should work perfectly. I don't know anything about tile backer yet, never tiled before.
I've got an extra 22mm chipboard on the floor right now and I can see the height is basically spot on vs the hallway. It's a few mm below the carpet, which puts it a few mm above the parquet that's under it. Depending on whether we stick with carpet or go parquet, I aimed for the porch to end up in-between.
5mm adhesive + 10-12mm tile leaves us 5-7mm for tile board, sounds like 6mm is the one.
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I spent a few hours spread over the last week repairing a large hole in the plaster coving in my Victorian tenement flat, left by the rewiring guys after they did their thing. First time trying to do this kind of repair but it's turned out pretty good! Just need to build it up layer by layer with patience, and sand it down carefully. I winged it cos I couldn't be bothered making a mould. Not sure if manly enough for this thread though as I didn't lift anything heavy 
If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid? Ran out of scaff boards so found these window ledges I've been moving with me for about 10 years lol. No idea where they came from. Also thought I ordered 6 brackets; but it was only 4. Need to grab 2 more to give centre support.
lol@ the Lian Li case. This was an impulse buy for £18 for the nostalgia (I wanted it 20 years ago and it popped up 2mins away; totally perfect other than the fan holes).
Zwift here we come (as soon as I get a multiplug and @ZedPowered sends me my keyboard from MM
).
^ mouse is from a set my late father bought; it was super spenny at the time. It is garbage tho - needs a mousemat to give anything remotely close to accurate. I will finally recycle it I think - the keyboard went a while ago. Going to plug in a little crappy USB thing I think.
lol@ the Lian Li case. This was an impulse buy for £18 for the nostalgia (I wanted it 20 years ago and it popped up 2mins away; totally perfect other than the fan holes).
Zwift here we come (as soon as I get a multiplug and @ZedPowered sends me my keyboard from MM
).
^ mouse is from a set my late father bought; it was super spenny at the time. It is garbage tho - needs a mousemat to give anything remotely close to accurate. I will finally recycle it I think - the keyboard went a while ago. Going to plug in a little crappy USB thing I think.
Soldato
Is your house situated in a horror movie graveyard 
Is your house situated in a horror movie graveyard
Scooby doo moment where I ask myself why it was so cheap relative to other areas