The rubber flooring was straightforward to lay – I started by covering the (SIP panel) flooring with 6mm ply, screwed down every 300mm (I countersunk and filled the holes). You need a completely flat surface to lay the tiles You then apply the adhesive in sections big enough to work at one go, wait for … Read more Rubber Flooring
it was a toss-up between bamboo and rubber, and I have plumped for the latter. Rubber was my missus’ suggestion, and since she is generally right about things I did very little research. During the small amount of reading I did though, it did not take long to find people with critical things to say: … Read more Rubber Floor Tiles
.. ceiling is done – doesn’t look nearly as bad as I feared. A few small ridges and dents if you look very closely, but otherwise a passable effort. I am really pleased with the ecoled downlighters. A bit hard to show in a pic, but they are very bright – to give you some … Read more Fermacell finishing – Part II
Preparing for decoration Step 1: filler over the joints and screw heads Step 2: fermacell fine surface treatment (FST) Step 3: caulking in the corners lessons learned FST is a smooth filler that comes pre-mixed in a large tub – it has the constituency of whipped cream and goes on easily. The technique … Read more Fermacell – finishing
I have finished fixing the fermacell plaster boards: pretty easy on the walls, not so easy for the ceiling. The ceiling was eventually accomplished by chopping the boards in half and using temporarily affixed battens to give me somewhere to locate one end of each board so that I could then prop the other end … Read more Internal Plasterboard – Fermacell – top tips