Lidl Thermostatic Shower £14.99

dc

Flimber wrote:

Anyone know of Yorkshire branches with stock of these ?

None in Huddersfield, Mirfield had 3 of the single basin mixer tap, thats all, sorry.

chrisw wrote:

I'm north-ish

I must admit, I've wondered about cleaning my teeth in it, especially when little black bits start coming out the tap.

Cheshire north-ish? nah , go to go north of East Lancs Rd to be North.

uncle_buck_3

talkshop wrote:

I have this type of wall and my house is 35 years old.

Nothing new about this.

The houses they build today are made out of paper mache, and fall apart if you dare breathe.

I don’t suppose you know what this type of wall is called….it go by some name .....(I know what it should be called !)

Did you fit one of these shower units to this type of wall & if so how did you secure it?

MyUserNamesTaken

uncle_buck wrote:

I don’t suppose you know what this type of wall is called….it go by some name .....(I know what it should be called !)

Did you fit one of these shower units to this type of wall & if so how did you secure it?

It's stud walling. The wall is a stud wall.

uncle_buck_3

When you mention stud walling people imagine a wooden frame with plaster board fixed on from both sides….when you explain what this wall is like you get funny looks & people & I include experienced builders say...

“You must be mistaken... it will just be a stud wall”

that is until they see the wall then they say...

“Well I’ve never seen that type of wall before...I thought you just meant a stud wall”

Godspeed

The cardboard ribs inside you mention sounds like how they construct those really cheap doors with just hardboard each side of them.If you rip one of those open you find the cardboard concertina ribs in there to give it strength.

quoia

uncle_buck wrote:

When you mention stud walling people imagine a wooden frame with plaster board fixed on from both sides….when you explain what this wall is like you get funny looks & people & I include experienced builders say...

“You must be mistaken... it will just be a stud wall”

that is until they see the wall then they say...

“Well I’ve never seen that type of wall before...I thought you just meant a stud wall”

I'd probably call them a "Honeycomb wall"


Perhaps this might help.

http://www.gpda.org.uk/news.asp

see the section.....5th press release down

GPDA PRESS RELEASE

20 October 2005

KEEPING SOUND AT BAY – DRYWALL PROVIDES THE ANSWER

QUOTE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

There are two forms of sound, ‘airborne’ sound – the person talking next door, and ‘impact’ sound – someone walking on the floor above.

Most of the homes built in the 10 years following the end of the Second World War were constructed using traditional bricks and blocks. Early ‘breeze blocks’ achieved around 40dB airborne sound insulation.

In the 1960s the breeze block was largely replaced by lightweight aerated concrete blocks. These have the advantage of offering good thermal performance and are quick to lay. Their sound attenuation is about 35 dB.

At a similar period it became common practice to construct non-loadbearing internal partitions using plasterboard and a popular approach was to install a type of pre-formed partition with a 9.5mm layer of plasterboard on either side of a cardboard ‘honeycomb’ section between the two facings. This type of partition was lightweight and quick to install but sacrificed sound performance in favour of offering a slim construction just 57mm thick – nearly half that of a plastered breeze block wall – giving more usable floor space in the property. (These partitions are no longer manufactured in the UK).

Today’s drywall systems combine the best of both worlds, achieving slim profiles whilst also offering high standards of sound insulation that equal and often better those provided by solid masonry construction.

susi

Can you order these online or do you need to go to the store, Im not sure where the nearest Lidl is to me, cant say I have heard of one locally

susi

Well I have just tried to type in for the nearest store..........................where are these stores, cos everthing I typed in came back, no store in this area?????
Anyone know the nearest Lidl around the Sheffield area?????

quoia

If you search for Sheffield - you get

Sorry, we were not able to locate a store here. Please choose a nearby town

Below this message is a box containing lots of entries with a format like

GB-S36 4 Sheffield/Carlecotes

You need to click on one of these

GB = Great Britain
S36 4 = start of a Sheffield postcode
Sheffield/Carlecotes = Town/District

susi

Mmmmmmm did all that, have tried all around my town, towns close by, Sheffield is the nearest city so I thought must be one around there.........................but fraid not :-(