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Post the manufacturers sectional detail, please, before we comment further. I fix into cylinders like this routinely.

Zero chance.

You'd need a better plumber to make this a reality!

I vaguely remember seeing something about less potential cold drafts when showering if the fan is not directly above.

Yeah my shower is pretty much opposite the door as it is. Just wondering if the gypsum based vent as discussed in this thread is more prone to getting damaged from moisture being in such direct contact with steam.

Thanks Nick. I've installed before but many years ago and when using white components they were cheap and in abundance at most places plus a I was rendering the outside then. Anthracite grey in 110mm pipe and some fittings is bizarrely harder to get hold of. I've just had to correct the received quote this evening after they buggered it up somehow from a nice easy list. Couldn't get 4m lengths in this shade which the longer socketed end of a 4m would have been great to keep funnel type design so one will need to use a double socket 92.5 bend but it's in a less viewable elevation. Branches have 67.5 and 92.5. The 92.5 looked to be recommended for more of a horizontal run to the stack.

I drove from St Agnes to Penzance the other day. Think there are 12 small turbines scattered about, plus 1 wind farm. Hardly noticed them. The one in PZ is minus it's blades at the moment. All those turbines could be replaced with just 1 large turbine now. But that is not going to happen as the twats down here don't know the theory behind them and assume 1 large one is the same as a small one.

I agree that's a danger. Looks like section 153 of the highways act 1980 is what you should quote when contacting the highways department.

Sorry I don't mean I am personally hoping the English and Welsh get these wind farms and pylons in the numbers we have been "given" in Scotland. What I am saying is while for so long England in particular has banned them, they have instead been built up here so the good folk of England who largely make the rules, have not seen the blot on the landscape that they are, and if the good folk of England don't see them, they obviously think they are good.

I believe the saying is "as bent as a £9 note".

you obviously haven't seen how many we have in the welsh hills so I certainly wouldn't be wishing it on anybody. Like many aspects of government the line of corroboration with large companies is suspicious.

You are instructing trades to do the opposite of what most do, ergo shit is hitting fans at a rate of knots here. I haven't put a washing machine tap or mains plug behind one for over 20 years. Ditto fridge, ditto freezer, ditto oven, ditto list goes on. You just ask them to migrate these supply's to the nearest adjacent cabinet and then put the hoses / cables to that location....... Why do you think it's so fecking long?!?

@Roger440 may already be suffering from this type of expansion, as he moved to deepest, darkest, but still picturesque Wales, and then the pylons started dropping.......

I put NO pipes or sockets behind the machine. ALL pipes lead into the adjacent cupboard where they terminate. Ditto the mains plug. You still need to be careful that the pipes don't crossover, but that is just the order you thread them through the holes into the cupboard. Your idea would only work (if they got it right) until you change the machine for a different one.

Good. When the Welsh and English see these springing up everywhere like we have, policy just may change.

I'm just about to start a new build for a new client and the site was a bit of an odd-ball, with the rear left quarter needing 'attention' according to the geotechnical report, before we could build a raft and a new ICF structure atop. I made the call to drop grade by 500mm, with the added benefit of slightly higher internal ceiling heights but no affect on ridge height, which cured a problem with some beneficial side effects. Sometimes you can turn issues into advantages, so a sloping site doesn't always mean a headache!

Lol. On site is the only place I command . Has a certain ring to it though There are a significant few who are too dense or preoccupied to GAF here, surviving day to day on a diet of short-sightedness, ignorance, and selfishness. If the nations children were given a choice on a Monday, go to school to get an education to bolster the next 50-60 years of your working life, or stay home an stare at fecking TicTok all day.............we'd be fecked, and schools would be 20% full at best. Dehydrated horses clinging to life sometimes need to be carried to water, and even if they can't swim, need be be tossed in the deep end and given no choice. You can't educate pork.

I would do a simple pergola with a solar roof. Do bifacial panels do they look good when looking up... Stops plenty of sun and generates energy as well while it's doing it. In landscape most panels are around 1750mm long. So you wouldn't need that many, if you want loads do them in portrait.

That is pretty flat, our house is around 10m at the deepest and 7m for most of it. So that would be only 1.5m buildup at the most. Ours was a 1:1 slope.

I'll try it. I rather expect them to "No Further Action" it, as they did last week with a wheelchair blocking barrier ("does not meet our criteria for intervention") which requires a mobility aid user, or some pram-pushers, to go an extra half mile to get into teh local churchyeward from their estate.

Yep that should be the aim, I suppose by coincidence showers and baths tend to be away from the doorway, so win win

If you go for a block and beam foundation then you'll need a clear perimeter all around the slab, to get the required cross ventilation. This may then provoke a retaining wall £££.

I'm a big fan of extracting or supplying as far diagonally opposite the door as is practicable. Airflow across the whole room will (should always) steer my design / execution; not lost a patient yet.

Apparently not, but I am as bemused as you are. Men in white coats holding clipboards say differently, so who am I to contest...... Disclaimer: I contest EVERYTHING!

Better late than never lol! 1. Either is fine, but typically a 92.5 is obtuse so the better choice for a smooth fall; the socket gives the extra bit of wiggle room if you need to increase the fall slightly. 2. The socket has to go into the wall, or the stack is way too far off the wall. I core out at 117, and then just chip away gingerly until the knuckle of the fitting will find its forever home. Sand and cement mix to patch back in, foam for the internal gap. 3. OCD is the killer here, and I'll always try and have flow going into a socket, from a spigot, but in actuality it doesn't matter a single jot, so just do whatever is easiest or what is convenient on materials on site. The golden rule is to cut the pipe square, and chamfer properly, silicone lube both before mating, and life will be wonderful for a very long time.