Arron

I used no more gaps hardwood flooring to fill a gap deliberately left between a laminate floating floor and a tiled floor. Actually its between the laminate and an aluminium bead at the edge of the tiled floor. It’s is a long sinusoïdal curve across the room. That was about 2 years ago and it’s doing well - so a pretty amazing product really as the amount of expansion/contraction on the laminate floor in last years weather conditions was diabolical, and it gets walked on many times each day. ...

That’s a great list Bart1080. I wish I’d thought more about putting the noggins in as hangers as I’m spending a lot of time fixing towel rails etc and a lot of things don’t feel real stable. And mapping out the location of services underground would have been good. Fortunately we took a lot of random photos so I could probably work them out if I had too. Also, all the spare wires put in preemptively - someone on this site said that electricians would never wire up a dead wire placed by...

Like JB1 I’ve heard both sides of the argument going on for years. So his thinking is if you have an above-screed layer and it fails then you have a problem. True. However if you have only a below-screed layer and it fails then you have water pouring into the room downstairs. How is that better? Do both but do the above-screed layer properly so it doesn’t fail.

Also just finished an OB 5 bedroom house so would like to add: Take photos of everything. Everything. Always useful to refer back to what is covered up in the walls. Also, we missed an inspection - just forgot all about it! First thing the inspector said was ‘don’t worry, I’ll accept it if you have a photo’. Décide on a process for recruiting trades and stick to it. Different level of detail for different job value. It might be a combination of interview and checking references and...

Italy and Spain.