Home DIY

Carbon Monoxide, for one.

That's mighty fine work. You must be super proud. It would be easy to do it a bit askew and hate it every time you look at it.
Chapeau Monsieur.

It's a room sealed appliance.

All waste gases should be expelled outside. If the case is corroded these waste gases could be entering the property.

This puts you at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

If so is classed as 'immediately dangerous'.

Turn the boiler off and get it checked by a gas safe registered engineer.

Probably microcement which is what we've got in our toilet/bathroom. We have it floor to ceiling and it's waterproof so good for wet rooms etc. It's the grey stuff in the first four pics here:
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/11/14/sunken-bath-studio-304-glazed-garden-bathtub/

I don't really know about the Venetian plaster @diable mentioned - I think it's different but it looks very similar.

No Soudal sealants?

Have a detector immediately underneath which is reading ok but yep, will do. Waiting for a callback from our 'plumber' who is GS reg and specialises in Worcester boilers. Ugh. Magic money tree, where you at.

Great and close suggestions by everybody but Fox's suggestion seems to be the closest visually.

Nice.

Cheers!
It's basically about having patience and taking the time to the job meticulously. There was a lot of research and planning about how to get a decent subfloor. The other thing you need is the right tools. This job involved an angle grinder with 3 different types of disc both to prep the floor and cut the black tiles, plus a sliding mitre saw for the skirting and an oscillating saw for the door frames. And the extra investment in an adjustable workbench and a drill-mounted stirrer to mix the adhesive was definitely worth it.

Oh, as easy as that! ;)

Just out of professional interest, how much do you think is a reasonable price for that job? excluding materials and given what you know now. I know what I'd be inclined to quote but I'd be interested to know what value you would give it.

Any one got any recommendations for bathroom panels? Looking at them as an alternative to tiling, as like the no grout install. Need them to be 2.6m high, which is annoying as lots of places seem to be 2.4m

Concrete path removal.
Pick axe and blisters
Rent something
Pay someone

What's the hive mind view?

Hmm, tricky. I have no idea what a pro would charge. The floor prep was a massive and messy job but that's unique to my particular building. Laying the field was straightforward and took an hour or two. The only two problems were getting it done quickly in section because the Mapei adhesive goes off in 15 minutes, and making sure everything sat level and straight. That is a lot harder with the mosaics than full-size tiles. The field border was easy with spacers, but needed one or two cut and the black edging was a total pain in the arse, requiring everything to be cut and measured in advance so it could all be laid before the adhesive went off. And cutting everything took hours, but I'm not a professional, so it was my first go.

You could probably borrow my Draper Breaker.
25j per impact, has been slicing through post-hole concrete like knife-through-butter'.
How much path,
and,
how far is the route for the debris from the path to the skip?

It's about this long, skip or bags can be the other side of the wall. Slabs coming up as well, I suppose the decision will depend on what's under the slabs.

Will be putting down a fresh membrane, some plastic grids and filling with pebble. New path will be slabs sitting atop the plastic grids to look like they are floating on the pebbles.

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Are you going to be bonding the pebbles together?

Where are you based? I don't mind spending a day with my 5kg SDS+ for a few beers.

No, spendy and hard to repair damage. Using plastic grids instead.

Chingford, I've been swayed by a mini digger so I can do the whole drive in one hit.

Also, I get to drive a mini digger.

Boom, sounds much more fun.

Have a day of mini-digger fun.

Remember slabs have a ready market on Freecycle,
and,
giving away many kilos saves on the Landfill tax levied on skip waste.

Oh we ticked that box last year - Soudal caulk in the lounge

I have found another lovely old power supply I need to deal with, I have had a sparky out to have a look and he said fine to cut off everything above the 3 x larger green boxes at the bottom: the red/blue/yellow cables entering from the bottom are live.

I would just like a little more assurance before going at it - I assume a fuse/wire/something has been removed between the two 'terminals' (first photo) and therefore no current can pass from that point onwards?

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This is of no help but I found both of these pictures very beautiful.

Just a thanks to these people - http://www.mdfcuttosize.com/ and perhaps it should be in the Good Traders thread but I got delivered some very specific 12 mm MDF sizes today and the chap delivering stuck in a bottle of this ..http://www.wildcardbrewery.co.uk/uploads/2/0/1/5/20157127/1482150985.png?250

instead of chocolates :)