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I'll see if I've still got this lad's number as I reckon he'd be ideal:

So here we go. It was the complete pia that I had expected! Before: Existing pipe cut: Finally fitted. You can just make out the slip ring from Wickes. Alas as the biggest core drill I have is 117mm so couldn't do as @Nickfromwales recommended. But I had to chip away even more of th wall to allow me to swing the T into place.

Apparently,Storm Doris caused Hull several million pounds worth of improvement.

Be good for a laugh, it made me chuckle when Nick posted it! I spent the time driving from Cornwall up to South Wales Caving Club most weekends for a few years learning Welsh from cassette tapes, purely so I could eavesdrop on conversations in one of the local pubs, where the regulars switched to speaking Welsh every time we walked in. It was good for a laugh, as after about 6 months I felt confident enough to engage one of them at the bar, in conversation, in Welsh. The expression on his, and his mates, faces was a picture - you could see the cogs whirring around as they desperately tried to remember how rude they'd been about the English whilst we were in there...................

I agree about plasterboard back boxes, they always seem to feel less than solid. I used deep steel boxes, spaced out with ply backing boards to get them at the right depth inside the plasterboard cut out. There's nothing I can see about the distance from corners, and I can't recall seeing anything about this is any version of part M I've read. I would hazard a guess that we may well have outlets around 350mm, maybe less, from a corner in one or two places, and it wasn't picked up, despite the fact that Part M compliance was about the only thing our completion inspection thoroughly checked.

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ebay is the place for your IPA unless you find somewhere locally. The only trouble with ebay is that you have to wait for it to be delivered, but this is not a rush job anyway!

Fit the battens at 450mm. Screw the back boxes onto the battens and run the c ables horizontally clipped to the battens. That puts the cables in a safe zone. If you have the battens above the socket, you would have to clip the cables underneath the batten to stay in safe zones, altogether much more fiddly. P.S it's only 400mm in Scotland.

Having seen this done, I'm 100% with Nick on this! The power flush tank our guys used was around a 2ft cube of translucent plastic, with a massive pump and a magnetic filter around 5 or 6 times the size of the one in a Magnaclean. The flow rate when on full blast was more like a pressure washer than a circulating pump. The guys did say that one risk was that old steel radiators might develop leaks afterwards, from pinhole corrosion that was exposed by the crud and scale being blasted away, which gives some idea of the flow rate. It's a pretty noisy beast when running, with the flow noise very audible in all the rads as they were being flushed.

Just an update, as my copy of Part M dates from the start of our build and there is now a new edition. The new edition completely removes the electrical outlet and switch height requirements, believe it or not. There was a consultation document released in 2014 stating that this section (section 8) was to be deleted, and in the 2015 edition of Part M it's not there. I've double checked to see if they've moved it into Part P, but Part P still says refer to Part M. So, as I understand it, the old 450mm and 1200mm guidance no longer applies and you can put switches and outlets where you like. If you want to check then this is the consultation doc referring to the intention to delete this requirement: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/354091/02__140731__HSR_Supporting_Doc1__Access.pdf which states: And the new Part M is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540330/BR_PDF_AD_M1_2015_with_2016_amendments_V3.pdf Sometimes it's hard to keep up when things like this happen.......................

With regard chamfering the soil pipe I just tried zirconium flap discs( screwfix) in a 115mm angle grinder and found them great, also if you can't lift the existing soil pipe go for a male top spigot and use a joiner and cut out the stop and it acts like a slip ring.

Only advice to add to this phase is to add one or two automatic air vents ( bottle vents ) instead of the manual ones. Will make commissioning a much easier job . These will screw straight into the empty holes ?

Welcome aboard . Another from the land of the hot press.

Wunda now use Esbe valves which are pretty bullet proof when I've used them as load valves. I asked the question a month or two back as my target temp is 31c and got this response : The temperature range for the ESBE valve on the manifold in question is 30 degrees to 70 degrees. HTH

Now people are being nice about (Hull pronounced ULL, no H in East Yorkshire or is it Umberside no its the East Riding) My family as far back as we can trace are HULL born and bred The thing i remember was a night club on 3 floors right on the old dock that became the marina, and yes it was those Hull girls that attracted us. @JSHarris has obviously not experienced Newcastle on a Friday night (my stomping ground in the 80's) imagine 3000 Cheryl Coles tanked up on newcastle Brown with their never ending sun tan mini skirts and white stilettos

I bet you were even more delighted that you didn't have to go to Hull to pick it up............................