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pegleg31

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  1. The best one is when friends turn up for a Barbie with one of those ten packs of 250ml bob lager.

    Plonk it down then hoe into the Peroni in the fridge.

    I only drink premium lagers in the summer but I know what you mean when lads turn up with cases of carlsberg
  2. Flood boards will need screwing down firmly, then a 9mm ply fixed over the top using stainless screws or stainless ring shank nails at 4" centres, as long as everything is fixed firmly and as long as a decent flexible adhesive suitable for timber is used , you will have no problems,

     

    No need to take up the chip board at all , floor joist should be at 400mm centres, as long as the chipboard is screwed on every joint and joist and there is no creaking/ movement , it's not a problem to tile on top using the correct adhesive,

    Atb

    Flynny

    Floor joists are generally fixed at 600 centres. They are fitted at 400 and 450 centres but mostly at 600. Again I wouldn't directly lay tiles onto chipboard flooring. Then again there's tilers who'll tile onto painted plaster, use porcelain tiles on plastered walls without considering the weight etc..

  3. The most common problem with tiling straight over chipboard is the tile adhesive with make the screw heads rust and eventually they come off and the floor starts moving again-then the tiles lift.

     

    Always use stainless steel.

    I went to a job the other day where there was 30m+ of tiles laid directly onto floor boards and they'd cracked along every joint. Unless you're using some sort of decoup Matt I wouldn't consider tiling directly onto floor boards if they were screwed every 20mm because where there's no joists there will still be deflection and the cracks will eventually show.

  4. Hardibacker or ply the floor and then tile onto this using a flexible adhesive, screw the existing floor boards down, if needed lift them and glue to the joists and screw. Screwing should be enough though.

    Hardibacker 6mm needs to be laid on a tile adhesive using a 10 mm notched trowel and screwed where it's marked no closer than 20mm to the edge and stagger the joints, once laid you tape the joints and fill with adhesive. Ply 9mm wbp is screwed at 100mm centres with the joints staggered aswell like plasterboard on a ceiling. Use flexible adhesive and grout and your tiles will be fine.

    Russ

     

    If you need any advice feel free to ask

  5. I can only think that if KW had been running things, it would never have happened.FACT. It has been accepted that those who were the victims in this incident were completely innocent. They were the ones who had arrived at the ground in ample time and therefore were at the fronts of the affected pens. It is doubtful that they would have been drinking either. Their injuries were as a direct result of being crushed against the barriers and the pen fronts. It was claimed that IF the outside gates had not been opened, that death or injury would have been caused OUTSIDE the ground. This I can well believe. In the 70's 80's and 90's I was Policing at least one and sometimes more fotball matches every week throughout the season. I can assure you that fans arriving late and DRUNK was a regular occurence. They would remain in the pubs around the 2 Liverpool grounds, until the last possible moment and then try any method possible to enter the ground, both legally and illegally. It was common practice for fans to run and dive headlong over the turnstiles. This leads to a situation where the safe numbers of fans in a given area can be greatly exceeded. I have actually witnessed 2 large wood gates at Anfield, being forced open by marauding drunken football fans. After all WHY were fences and barriers installed at football grounds in the first place ? I think you will find it was done to prevent a pitch invasion and pitched battles taking place between opposing fans. Most of the coaches carrying away fans to the grounds, will have LARGE quantities of alcohol on board to start with. Upon arrival at or near the ground, those fans will then seek out other supporters of the same team, who will already have found a suitable pub to congregate at. It is then the job of the Police to escort those fans to their designated area of the ground, preventing them from attacking or being attacked by the opposition. This is why a huge number of fans will all arrive at one point TOGETHER, often escorted by Mounted Officers and Dog Handlers. They will soon realise that the match has kicked off and it now becomes their sole intention to enter that ground, by fair means or foul. When you are in front of a mob of several hundred drunken fans who are trying to force entry, it becomes more an issue of survival than thinking of what may happen if those gates are opened. The Police could not be blamed for the design of the ground and when you are presented with a situation where life is at risk and your senior Officer OUTSIDE is screaming for the gates to be opened to prevent injuries, bear in mind, that Officer has no idea what is happening on the INSIDE of that gate. It is now blatantly obvious that more Police Officers should have been sent to divert the pending onslaught of fans on the INSIDE before the gates were opened, regardless of any loss of life outside. Hindsight............wonderful thing !

    So is it acceptable that numbers of police officers lied in their statements?.

  6. Thanks but I am planning on a finish on top of the concrete , which requires a brushed finish to adhere to.

    Either paint it with an epoxy paint or lay a porcelain tile over the top. Any othe way is useless in my opinion. Paint flakes and anything else absorbs urine and smells.

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