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Just don't put your foot through the plasterboard. I've never done it but I don't do much loft work. Normally you lose your balance on the joist and fall onto the plasterboard, might be worth getting a few pieces of ply/chipboard up there to stand/kneel on. I wouldn't worry about breaking the joists though, they flex a lot before they break.
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What Airhead said. Very good advice.
I hired a core drill myself which came with an isolation transformer. It's a tough bit of drilling depending on your wall construction. Took me maybe an hour or two on a Victorian brick house.
I'd get a fan instead of using a dehumidifier. Envirovent Silent 100 works quite well for me. You want your bathroom door to have a gap at the bottom to allow ingress of air.
Someone might suggest getting a fan above the shower head, but often this is not an easy solution.
No idea how much you'd pay to have this work done, but if it were me doing it (and I'm slower than a professional tradesman), I'd want a full day's pay, so something like £200 - £250, I guess.
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That's a fair estimate for the labour, although an electrician might want more per day. They are also going to want an RCD protected circuit and an isolation switch so that could add to your material costs. Ideally you'd want 3 people, a core drill specialist, tiler and electrician. That's not going to work on such a small job unless you happen to have 3 mates who do those jobs. Having said that, I've never tried to core drill a tile but it might work with a diamond tipped core bit and slow speed, they will crack easily though.
I've drilled some reinforced concrete walls for kitchen extractors, that is a days work. The pro's who do it all the time suffer from white finger where you lose circulation in the hands, it's quite painful.
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Artex on the ceiling - what to do? Overboard it?
Polystyrene ceiling tiles - remove with a scraper then likely to need to replaster the ceiling?
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Artex on the ceiling
@ChainBreaker is an expert in this ;)
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I have a setpladder in Barnet you are more than welcome to borrow if it is helpful
Ah so that's where the disgraced ex-FIFA president is hiding
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For both?
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Polystyrene should be fine to remove, assuming you've touched it and identified it as polystyrene. One of our bedrooms had them. Scrape off with a wallpaper scraper. If they didn't use too much adhesive then you should just be able to sand off the adhesive. However, often tiles are used to hide ceilings covered in cracks (as I discovered).
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Yep, it's relatively flimsy but for something that gets used once a month it's fine. If I was going up every few days I'd have looked at something more sturdy.
The clearance issue I had wasn't that there wasn't enough horizontal space for a ladder to sit up there, it was that there wasn't enough roof clearance. The bigger ladders push up and swing around so you need an arc of vertical clearance available. My problem was that in one direction it would have fouled on the roof and the other a roof truss. Worth checking that you have that clearance.
For the hatch I just used a piece of ply, trimmed to size.