I'm shocked you don't know that excess water in the mix is one of the prime causes of shrinkage cracks. And yes control joints were never going to save this…

You should ask for the delivery dockets for the concrete. The drivers have to note how much water was added to the mix. If it was going to be a…

The cuts should be done asap. Normally the next morning.
Your cracks were already there on the day of the pour so any control cuts would simply have helped prevent the…

When did they cut the control cuts?

They were actually ok in the first picture.
That is the way cavity downpipes are often installed.

So according to the plan the pool is 210mm below the slab level. That's to the top of the coping so the pool shell will be lower again.
There is no…

Was the pool permit part of the original planning and building permit?
Normally the pool is marked on the plans with all the relevant heights marked.
It's hard to tell from your…

COS can be a right pain.
When we built last year we submitted plans that got knocked back. I went to the council with about 5 examples of houses that had…

Yep, quite common.

It's a rubberised adhesive.
It's designed to allow for movement without cracking like cementious adhesive.
It can sometimes be difficult to remove, so if it's coming up easily you are lucky.

Hi 3simon
It's not difficult.
Speak with your plumber and tiler. Different trades like to do things slightly differently but normally the plumber will…

No overflow on our basins.
It's easy done. Just depends on how accommodating your builder is.

No hob.
The builder will have to do a nice step down in the slab to get the grade but it doesn't cost anything.

Tell the builder to grade the floor all back to the strip drain in the shower.
That can be the floor waste for the entire bathroom as there is no job…

Try hydrochloric acid mixed at 10:1 ratio with water.

Are you having a walk in/hobless shower by any chance?

Depending on the type of cooktop you are looking at 650-700 above the benchtops.
Tilers cut tiles all the time, that's what they do so don't get hung up on trying…

That's very high overheads, your looking at 1700 or more above the floor, that's higher than many people's heads. They will be almost unusable for most people excluding the bottom…

Slide outs are really not great rangehoods.
They don't have great capacity. At 800 I think most of the steam and fumes would end up missing the rangehood and end up…

Double post

I guess the question is why do you want it at 800 and what sort of rangehood?

It kind of looks like the tiles have lifted but has left the adhesive stuck to the slab.
You really need to strip back to the original concrete. You need a…

There are minimum heights depending on what sort of cooktop you have (electric/gas) and different manufacturers recommend different heights.
Electric is usually lower because of the lack of flame.
The extraction is…

Here is a picture of my house.
The white tiles a ceramic. We had to use a tile trim where it ran into the marble herring bone feature tile but the…

Just google mitred tile vs tile trim.
Heaps of information

If it's in a commercial building foyer then I'd go for porcelain.
In a bathroom either is fine. It really comes down to finding the look that you like.
Just about all…

Porcelain is harder than ceramic.
Ceramic tiles have a brown (clay) base with a glazed surface where as porcelain tiles have a more refined base and are fired at a higher…

Actually you can mitre ceramic or porcelain tiles and any decent tiler should be able to do it on site.

Your bench is deeper than standard and the overheads aren't really deep enough.
Hear is the recommendations from schweigen.

As you can see the deeper the better. Induction cooktops produce incredible power…

Yes it can be done but it requires quite a bit of work. You need 2 LVL's that will span across the room set in whatever distance you need to…