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Floor finally up and it's nearly filled a 4 yard skip!
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Base slab primed

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Got to hit it with a load of leveller! Slab is in good knick with no cracks but really rough in places and the whole floor slopes down from the bay area to the house by 25mm. 20mm thermal boards isn't an option now so will go for 10mm. Went round
after work to set datum dots and my Dad is going to do the rails in sand and cement tomorrow. 4 bays - perimeter and halved with a small bay near the exterior door to level last on my way out.
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The final finished floor height (even with 10mm boards) will be above the pvc step but I have got a plan to sort that out.
 
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Floor levelled and ready for boards and heatbase when ever that will be.

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My Dads first attempt at the rails failed after they started collapsing and blowing away when he opened the door to show me what a neat job he'd done. He thought the mortar mix was predosed and had to just add water and was surprised it wasn't solid after a couple of years in his shed. Told him to go get some new stuff but he's a bit of a womble and forgotten he must have used the cement dose years ago for something else. So his first attempt was basically playing with sand :D
 
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Great job on the levelling, how did he make the barriers just a trowel?

Just dump some sand/cement between the dots and press down with a wet straight edge, cut excess off sides and slide off. I learnt this technique off Phil Hobson on this forum. Best thing about it is you know it will be perfect and doing it in bays means you can take on any bad floor any size on your own. Even better than that is you're not rushing and stressing when you're doing it.
 
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Had today free to finally get back to my mum and dads with the hope of tile at some point next week.
Fitted the insulation boards and heat base mat.

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Hopefully my sparky mate will be free to help me tomorrow so I can get the cable laid and SLC.
My Dad, being my Dad, doesn't want surface mounted cables like they did when he had the alarm fitted (I'm sure that install is illegal as the wire looks far too thin for the ring main) and he doesn't want the hassle of the other side of the wall chased - fair enough it's wall papered. Think the only way he'll be happy is if we have the spur, thermostat and fan/light switch in a row. So drilled a brick out in the hope that my sparky will be able to feed the cables through the cavity, do his thing and make it all work.

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Was really easy to use Jake and so much less faffing than cutting mesh and turning bits of mat. Suppose the only worry I had was 'what if there's too much cable? I'd be screwed' but I sent you a plan and you said 165m would be fine and it was. My sparky fits a lot of eUFH but he'd not seen this kit before and he was well impressed. I've passed on Uheats details to him. Do I need the final invoice for the warranty Jake? I've only got the delivery receipt and a revised quote.

Went round today to set out and familiarise myself with the tiles and pattern they wanted and I ended up dry laying the lot.
So just need a couple of days free to stick'em and grout.

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Was really easy to use Jake and so much less faffing than cutting mesh and turning bits of mat. Suppose the only worry I had was 'what if there's too much cable? I'd be screwed' but I sent you a plan and you said 165m would be fine and it was. My sparky fits a lot of eUFH but he'd not seen this kit before and he was well impressed. I've passed on Uheats details to him. Do I need the final invoice for the warranty Jake? I've only got the delivery receipt and a revised quote.

Good to hear, as long as I have the warranty cards returned that'll be fine.
 

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