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Perhaps your local secondary school metalwork shop could do better (for a donation).

Speaking as a former metal fabricator and welder, this is absolute crap and any half-decent tin basher would be ashamed to put their name to it. Forming the grille from two separate pieces is bad, the pigeon sh*t welding is bad, the weld dressing is bad, even the holes are elongated and as for the paint finish, either the various coats have reacted with one another or the top coat was applied before the previous one was dry. Doesn't look powder coated to me either. Around £100 is a good price for an item like this as long as it is well made, but please don't accept this rubbish. It can be fabricated far, far better than this.

There is a poor lad somewhere missing his GCSE Metalwork project... send it back !!

Did they charge you extra for the crackle finish paint ✌️( I could do better and I am crap at welding)

I think I will put a lead on and power it up. then turn it upside down and see if it makes any funny noises.

Reject it. Looking at that paint finish (I doubt very much that is powerder coat) I'd give it a month before it starts to rust! not to mention the fact it is very poorly made.

£5.50 per tube to the door Ebay to the rescue

I would firstly test to see if it's powdercoat. Looking at the reaction on the surface I'd be fairly certain that's a cellulose based coating. Grab some cellulose thinners and either chip off a peice of coating and place in the thinners, if it softens or dissolves its not powdercoat, or put some thinners on a rag and rub the surface. If the coating transfers to the rag then again it's not powdercoat. This would be a useful starting point for not being supplied what you ordered and a failure of contract.

Isn't that the bit that the Doc from Back To The Future puts the fuel into the Delorian ? ??? Could be worth more as abstract art maybe. Well worth the wait

I suspect the local play school could do better, using a few empty toilet rolls and a cornflakes box.

I think i will agree that it's carp, and I would not have that on the outside of my house.

Looks Jerry-Built to me mate. Ooops, I'll get me coat Ian

Cut your losses. Hey diddle diddle, they are taking the piddle...

Looks cr@p to me. I think I'd cut my losses. Can you find another fabricator? Sounds like the current one is just not interested.

What a great idea, I will have a small plant cupboard in our cloakroom so could install an MVHR extract duct in the cloakroom and use that for drying when the conservatory is not sunny enough ?

We have (or will have once we get around to finishing it!) a drying cupboard in our utility room. There'll be a slide-out frame with drying racks and two hanging rails. It has an MVHR extract and will draw warm air from the adjacent plant room through from bottom to top. Depending on how well it works, I may add in an extract fan on a timer to provide a bit of an extract boost of warm air from the plant room when we have a lot to dry.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cdm-wizard/id974674223?mt=8 This one..

.... and from what I hear, see and what people tell me, that's the most common thing. But, even when you do pay a good deal of attention to H+S as I think I do, there's precious little that you can do against over-focus, tiredness and a dollop of stupidity. Add an angle grinder and trying to save as much money as you can on the build and you get a damaged thumb. . I feel so bloody embarrassed about it now.

Sounds like an interesting proposal, although I would suggest caution. I think this is the type of change you really need to run past an estate agent to try and ascertain what impact (positive or negative) it would have if you were looking to sell.

As a nod to getting older with my ongoing bathroom saga (or should that be Saga...geddit?) I've: - Lowered the floor which was 60mm higher than the rest of the house. - Partially sunk the spa bath (1800x800) so the floor of the bath is level with the rest of the room. - Angled the bath sides in so when you stand next to it you're in effect a bit "closer". - Made provision for a wet room corner so I can be wheeled in straight from the doorway! By the time I finish it I'll need all these features!

Making progress. All it wants now is a roof (I am going to have to spend some money) then I can put the OSB floor panels down. The windows are some secondary double glazing units I have had for ages, just a single pane of glass set into a plastic frame. We used to use them as cloches for growing vegetables. SWMBO came to have a look at this creation, and she has named it the "Steptoe Shed"

But the developers don't care !! Current place had no soakaways on one side of the house - NHBC Warranty but interestingly NHBC building control too. Found the problem when building the extension on the opposite side of the house. Ended up with an engineers report, and the builder (David Wilson) was invited to site, and then invited to comment. They did neither .... NHBC paid up to the tune of £7k for new soakaways and pipe work along with a brand new Tarmac driveway. Surveyor reckoned it would alter their premium (which is how builders pay for NHBC) by no more than £1-200. Compare that to the cost of doing it properly, then multiply it by the 350 houses on the estate ! Savings are huge for cutting corners ..! I think some sort of lectures (podcasts..??) would be great ! Cover the basics and make people think..! I offer a "free" snagging service to friends who buy new houses as it's amazing what the volume box builders try and get away with ..!