Home DIY

so i'm building an extension and looking for a flat roof light, either a bubble dome jobby or a velum with an extruded up stand -

anyone got any ideas for best place to buy one? prices seems to vary wildly and i want the best deal i can get

would appreciate advice from anyone with experience in this kind of thing

t

Tilover,

Is this going to be a flat roof or pirched?

On my flat roof I had to replace the roof lights and used Fakro flat roof window http://www.fakro.co.uk/our-products/offer/flat-roof-windows/dec-dmc-dxc/

Tilover,

Is this going to be a flat roof or pirched?

On my flat roof I had to replace the roof lights and used Fakro flat roof window http://www.fakro.co.uk/our-products/offer/flat-roof-windows/dec-dmc-dxc/

it's a flat roof, i've seen the fakro ones, they seem much better value than the velux ones - all good in your experience? did you buy direct or did your builder do it?

I've installed a Velux window into a pitched roof, it seemed very well made, for what little that's worth.

I did a fair bit of research and the Fakro ones are the better that the equivalent Velux. They are plastic though

Oh I bought them on the internet through the roofing superstore http://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/browse/flat-roof-windows/fakro-roof-domes.html

This was my suspicion. But I'm buggered if I can think of any way to sort it because of the poor access. Currently thinking about a bodge: fill holes, paint over stain and fit a new fan. Then see what happens. Not ideal though.

You might need a centrifugal extractor rather than whatever the other kind are. Think these will move the moisture further away. That's what one of the sparks told me when he came to quote for an extractor for us.

Oh I bought them on the internet through the roofing superstore http://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/browse/flat-roof-windows/fakro-roof-domes.html

spot on - i think might just take you up on that recommendation - but now the next question, the room is a very modest 3.5 metres x 1.8 metres do i go with one 1200x1200 or two 700x700?

t

1.2 by 1.2m would only leave you 300mm either side of the window not a lot particularly when the windows are sized according to their interior dimensions so a 700 x 700 window actually measures 900 x 900mm

Anyone have any recommendations for free/cheap PC cad programs?

free - google sketchup. takes a bit of getting used to and the help is useless but it's alight when you have an idea of what youre doing

^ This. Powerful when you get your head around it.

free - google sketchup. takes a bit of getting used to and the help is useless but it's alight when you have an idea of what you're doing
Bright ideas? :)

Sunday night entertainment was provided by the kitchen mixer tap- specifically by the control lever, which decided to snap off:

Without that the tap was completely inoperable, so- to the garage.

I drilled into the remaining stub:

Tapped it to M4:

I believe this is a titanium stem bolt (only M4 one I could find):

The search for a suitable lever:

That'll do until I can get a new tap:

Fair play sir.

tapping your tap
this ^

do your dishes

tapping your tap
this ^

Yo dawg.

Wife called me a slob the other day...
Cheeky mare.

"You think I'm a slob!" I said, "everytime I go for a piss the sink's full of washing up"

jokes thread>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

House is rewired. Sparky coming in soon to add a new consumer unit.

2 Other bedrooms are now ready for re plastering as well as the hall/landing.

Things are getting on nicely. Then it's on to the living room/ kitchen diner and bathroom aka the expensive rooms.

Decided we're going to have an open fire in the living room for now - until a few years down the line we may have a wood burner fitted.

Plastering - how much should I be paying? What's the going day rate?

My new bathroom extractor fan has arrived and I've patched up the old holes with filler. What should I use to fix the new one up there?

It was attached with screws straight into plasterboard which I'm guessing isn't ideal?

No, screws shouldn't go straight into plasterboard. That could have fallen off.

Suitable rawlplugs and screws, or if it's too heavy for that, plaster anchors. But I imagine it isn't that heavy.

spenceey don't you live in Norfolk? The day rate for a plasterer in London is going to be very different so there's not much point asking on here, except maybe in the Norfolk sub-forum.

And it varies wildly anyway- chap who was renovating the flat just down the hall had two plasterers: speaks no English, £90/day, speaks English, £200/day.

Should have thought to come to the forum for my quandary.
I have a 15m2 balcony with a disaster of a concrete finish, which has waterproof membrane underneath.
I want to put synthetic grass down which the manufacturers tell me will drain ok.
Our building inspector says rain will pool and I'm inclined to agree.
Does anyone know of a draining underlay that could work and doesn't cost a fortune?

Should have thought to come to the forum for my quandary.
I have a 15m2 balcony with a disaster of a concrete finish, which has waterproof membrane underneath.
I want to put synthetic grass down which the manufacturers tell me will drain ok.
Our building inspector says rain will pool and I'm inclined to agree.
Does anyone know of a draining underlay that could work and doesn't cost a fortune?

Drain to where? Assuming you're leaving the concrete in place, will it just run through the grass off the concrete off the side of the balcony (which is what I'm guessing it does now)?