Why You Haven't Seen Much From My Narrow Rebuild Lately

[KugaWestie]

Passivent = good choice

So have you actually completed it now?

[Mark (smokey mow)]

More of an update, this is purely to help Norman's post count

Once all the pluming and insulation was completed the wall was battened to hide the pipework and then plaster boarded.  

Then the flooring could be fitted to enable the rest of the joints to be skimmed.

I wanted to be slightly daring with the colour choice so after a lot of deliberating over catalogues I went for what was described as French Manicure

One coat was enough for me to realise this was a foolish mistake so I quickly painted back over it again with lilac

[KugaWestie]

Lol @ french manicure

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Painting completed and it was time to start tiling

I'm no expert tiler and OMG this too weeks, the sheets of whole tiles were easy but because my old walls are so out of plumb there was what felt like hundreds of different size and shapes of tapering cuts

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Lol @ french manicure

Not my best move ever

[KugaWestie]

mosaic sheets are hard work

[Mark (smokey mow)]

mosaic sheets are hard work

Wish you'd have warned me of that a couple of months ago

[KugaWestie]

mosaic sheets are hard work

Wish you'd have warned me of that a couple of months ago

I would have done if you had asked me

[Mark (smokey mow)]

With some holiday owing from work a week was booked off to tackle the hardest job of them all, laying the drainage.  The fun started on monday following the weekends Trackday at Woodbridge, by clearing all the plants and paving from the front garden.  luckily for me I live up an unmade road so all the broken concrete found its way into the potholes saving a trip to the tip, a decent bonfire was had that night to get rid of the shrubs and plants.

Day2 of my week off was largely spent in the manhole with an angle grinder to make the new connection.  Luckily my dad was also over to lend a hand and dug the trenches out for me.

Another day and the new drainage was all connected up. For ease and to save digging the new water main was to run below it in the same trench.

The connection for the new water main to the meter will wait for the following day.

[Mark (smokey mow)]

I would have done if you had asked me

Oh well, too late now

[KugaWestie]

I hope you bedded that drainage on at least 6" of P shingle, and the water main was at least 750mm deep

[Mark (smokey mow)]

I hope you bedded that drainage on at least 6" of P shingle, and the water main was at least 750mm deep

That's still to come but of yes to the drains and no to the water. The new water main had to go in at the same depth as Anglian Water had put the original main and meter in which was 600mm.

[KugaWestie]

Apologies - let me wait for the posts to come

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Apologies - let me wait for the posts to come

You should know better than to try and catch me out with a Building Regs question :d

[KugaWestie]

Not trying to catch you out