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This is my offending item - although the liquid PTFE *seems* to have done the trick. All great suggestions tho, thank you :-)

regarding the outside tap i always fit the tap to the through the wall fitting first. then you fix the back plate after so you can always make sure its vertical.

Here you go. This is a basin spout. When screwed into the elbow it contacts the wall tiles before becoming fully tight and ends up pointing in the 4 O'clock position rather than the required 6 O'clock. So you have to undo it almost a full turn to get it vertical. That leaves a gap between the spout and the wall. We ended up using a Dremel to remove a little of the tile to allow us to tighten it up a bit more. This type of outside tap can also be a problem.... If you just screw the tap into the elbow chances are it will be pointing sideways when it's tight. You have to apply lots of tape and hope it's reasonably tight once you get to the vertical position. Now imagine that problem when the elbow is hidden in a wall and the tiles are on. Not only must the fitting end up vertical but also the right depth relative to the face of the tiles.

Hard items? Do you have an insufficient curry budget?

I'm really glad you've found this out, before suffering an injury, or even death. The way that products like this can be openly sold here, with no effective safety regulation, is truly shocking, in every sense.

I like that brickwork, particularly the contrast between the two colours. Pity about the pavement, but then you could have had brickwork like this, to match it:

A couple more pic, from inside and outside with the glass in it's fully tinted state. You can see out, but you can't see in.

To make a neat bead of sealant with no skill needed, buy some "corner tape" This is just two strips of masking tape, on a backing to space them, that when applied gives you two strips of masking tape either side of where you want the bead of sealant, nice and evenly spaced. Apply sealant, wipe to get a nice bead, and remove masking tape while still wet. Once perfect looking bead of sealant.

I went another route with Mermaid ( after ditching that god-awful bottom trim ) and scribed the panels to the tray exactly, then lowered them into a very generous bead of CT1. Wiped away what displaced with wet wipes and looked great. A cosmetic silicone seal could have been applied if it was suitable but it wasnt in that instance and still looked good with just the CT1 tooled, wiped and finished accordingly.

Sorry, I forgot all about this until taking some other photos today. Here's a photo showing how I fitted the small PVC coving to form a seal and hide the sealant at the wall panel to shower tray junction:

We are nearly finished, The garden wall just needs a little more brick acid and wire brush treatment. The dustbin shelter needs one more course then a top of tiles and a tidy up. And one of a bit more of the hard landscaping. F