battens

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    Roof battens not horizonal

    Hello everyone, My builders have installed these roof battens, however as you can see they are not horizontal and the lower battens are clearly sloping down. Is there an explanation behind this? The builders have said this is fine but I’m not sure how the tiles will be laid, and will the tiles...
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    Flat roof battens

    Hi All. I am looking for some advice. I need to fix some cladding up the wall and wrap it over the roof parapet. I really need to secure the cladding to the parapet and it’ll need an air gap that is continuous with the wall. The parapet is marine ply with EPDM and is at an angle of about 30...
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    Roof repair and loft insulation

    Hi, I am struggling to understand my roofing contractor's quote and reasoning behind some of the work. The roof on our rear extension (extended by previous owner) is missing the edges in the bottom corners and it slipped over the years. We need to replace the old skylights, so we want to...
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    Hot to installe multifoil TLX silver if 38x50mm are not available?

    I have to install the TLX silver multifoil which specified to have 38mm thick batten but impossible to source on my area with only available in 25x50mm. have you had any issues like that? How can this be solved? The 25mm is to thin and not enough air gap is left to let the multifoil work. Thanks
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    Help with hanging bathroom units

    Hi All First time post, hopefully someone in the know can help me out. Currently in the process of having my fully bathroom renovated. It's been tiled and grouted the issue now is the plumber doing it has said the cabinets are too heavy to hang on the plastered/tiled wall. Theres a mirrored...
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    How to fix into cob? - Prep this wall for tiling

    So I want to tile this wall which will be part of a wetroom. The sequence I've got here is, I think: -cob -lime render -cement render cement render with pebbles -external paint -cement render -plaster It's a little hollow, a couple of small cracks, but I think is stable enough not to justify...
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