I've been spoilt with self levelling companies for nearly 20 years. When, I've done extensions and newbuilds with wet underfloor systems, so always had floors laid with anhydride poured floors
4mm across an entire ground floor was easily attained.
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I've been spoilt with self levelling companies for nearly 20 years. When, I've done extensions and newbuilds with wet underfloor systems, so always had floors laid with anhydride poured floors
4mm across an entire ground floor was easily attained.
newts
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I inspected a shower tray drainage issue on a new build house last year & the engineered joist floor was 15mm out of level across the 1700mm wide tray.
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
One of the reasons I chose the developer we did for our newbuild was that they seemed fairly well constructed (and properly spaced out, not crammed in, nicely laid out streets, etc.)
We've had precious few snags, and that seems to be the general theme among my neighbours, and my SiL (himself a builder) checked it out and couldn't find anything to get excited over. Even the corners are all within a degree or two of being right angles, which he says isn't a given in many new builds.
But then others we looked at were obviously rather so lacking that even a lay person like what I is could detect the door that didn't close, the wobbly toilet bowl, the crack in the corner of the window glass...
We've had precious few snags, and that seems to be the general theme among my neighbours, and my SiL (himself a builder) checked it out and couldn't find anything to get excited over. Even the corners are all within a degree or two of being right angles, which he says isn't a given in many new builds.
But then others we looked at were obviously rather so lacking that even a lay person like what I is could detect the door that didn't close, the wobbly toilet bowl, the crack in the corner of the window glass...
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
When doing my kitchen floor i figured 3mm hardboard would be fine and that 6mm ply would be overkill. Lesson learned. Next time i'm going 6mm
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
My Mum's garden bench is needing some TLC...
I'm thinking pressure wash then wood treatment, but what do the experts think?
I'm thinking pressure wash then wood treatment, but what do the experts think?
Hot steam pressure washer will remove all the lichen and flaky varnish etc. Then give a good oil protection
I'm going to jump in here and post some photos of the oak framed sunroom I've been building for a while. I hope I've got this in the right place. Let me know if it isn't and I'll re-post it elsewhere.
I did everything alone, from the digging to the plastering, and of course all the framing. I'm making the windows and doors at the moment. I'm not a builder. I'm an architect.
It stayed like this for 6 months whilst I recovered from an operation:
I've still got the plinth to box in and the electrics to connect, plus the joinery of course, but it should be in use in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
I did everything alone, from the digging to the plastering, and of course all the framing. I'm making the windows and doors at the moment. I'm not a builder. I'm an architect.
It stayed like this for 6 months whilst I recovered from an operation:
I've still got the plinth to box in and the electrics to connect, plus the joinery of course, but it should be in use in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Beautiful bit of woodwork going on there!
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
It's a splendid piece of work. If I'd built it the damn thing would look like Homer Simpson's spice rack, but worse.
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Tom...
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Looks incredible. Is there underfloor heating?
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
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- In green and pleasant hills.
Very nice work. I'm trying to summon up the courage to do a small porch!
No. There is throughout the rest of the downstairs, but this is an unheated external space and therefore not subject to Building Regs (electrics and safety glass excepted). It will be a "three season" room. It's certainly been warm enough out there to use most days in the last week or two, and that's with plastic over three window openings, and a temporary ill-fitting door.
