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that previous picture of a deep warning drawer is a extra wide appliance at 30 inches but deep warming drawers at a standard width is so much more useful than the shallow ones. I think this picture is a step to far though.....

Sorry, this is a very delayed update, as I didn't get around to painting the garage until yesterday. The cheap'ish pressure sprayer works very well indeed. There's a very slight knack in getting the pressure setting right, but overall it's not too fussy, so you can be up and spraying well after around ten minutes. It is blindingly quick; it will empty a 5 litre can of paint in around 10 minutes. The finish is very good, much better than I can get with either a brush or a roller. It sprays thicker emulsion more easily than thinned emulsion. I made the mistake of thinning down the first mist coat, and it really wasn't needed. It applies a LOT more paint than you can get on with a brush or roller, and runs don't seem to be a problem at all. The only limit on how thick a coat you apply is really the finish, it noticeable degrades if you go too mad. The big advantage of being able to apply more paint in a single pass is that you need fewer coats. Two coats of white was absolutely fine and just a single coat over the green finished ceiling boards was enough, really, the second coat didn't make the finish any more opaque, just gave a better surface. Spraying a 2.35m high ceiling from floor level was a doddle, with no need for any extension on the nozzle. I reckon I sprayed the whole 6m x 4m ceiling in around 5 to 6 minutes, including taking time to go around into the corners. Painting a garage isn't a great test, especially as the wall lining is OSB, but I reckon the smooth ceiling boards were pretty close to plasterboard in terms of smoothness, and the finish looks good enough to me. The main downside of the thing is the time it takes to clean it after use. After spraying 10 litres of paint in around twenty minutes, I then had to spend about half an hour washing the thing out and cleaning and drying the gun parts, then lubricating the pump ready for the next time I use it. The other key point is that you have to mix the paint really, really well. Mixing by hand with a stick isn't good enough, it really needs a paint mixer paddle on a drill. Time spent mixing the paint is well spent, as if there is one lumpy bit it will block the pick up pipe filter, which then has to be cleaned and the system re-primed. There is very little over-spray, so there's no need to go mad with masking, but there is a fair bit of dry bounce back if you don't keep the gun dead square and at the right distance from the surface. This bounce back is just like white dust, the paint particles are so fine that they dry in the air, but they do settle on any horizontal surface. They don't stick, though, so if you haven't put dust sheets down you will have a fair bit of cleaning up to do afterwards. You can spray right up to the edges of doors, windows etc, just by using a large bit of stiff card, with a straight edge, in your spare hand, as a movable mask. It's not like air spraying at all, in that the paint pattern from the gun is very well defined, with almost no over-spray. Overall I think this was a good buy. I hate painting, with a vengeance, so might well have ended up paying someone to do this job otherwise, and that would have cost at least as much as this spray system. For anyone looking to paint a large area I would highly recommend thinking about buying or hiring one of these units. Mine was pretty cheap, and looked new to me, and cost less than a day's labour for a decorator. Add in that there are no consumable costs, like rollers, trays, etc, and it looks even better value. As a final point, there is a safety issue that should be mentioned. These things run at pressure-washer type pressures, and can inject paint through your skin if you're daft enough to put you hand in front of the gun. The consequences of that could be very serious indeed, so best to wear gloves and be aware of the danger.

Our decking runs the width of the house circa 8m and extends out 3m, as we have dug the house slightly into a hill, we are looking to use the spoil to reprofile the ground adjacent to the decking. This will raise it circa 40cm by the decking, giving a continuous level surface from the internal finished floor, across the patio door threshold, decking and then grass. (Many sleepless nights getting those levels spot on so far!) This will mean the lawn is adjacent to the sides of the decking, will this be ok? Joiners have suggested fixing some dpc membrane vertically between the two, I'm wondering about some acro drain (not very attractive). Any better solutions welcomed!

We had to have one of those, it was one of our conditions. I found out later that a cemp is normally imposed on larger developments not single houses. Speak to the environment office at the council early on and try not to agree with anything you don't feel is necessary.

Sounds a good idea. Patio feet are excellent - the ones I have can support a couple of hundred kg each - but a touch niche. F

Hi @Russell griffiths, have a careful read of the ecology report AND the LPA response. That should provide an evidence-based rationale for a proper plan. Beasties may wriggle, croak, fly or fart, but the consequences of disregarding them are - potentially - serious. That said, there is a general easing of the regulations. It is certainly the case for GCNs. I have never encountered an academic discipline quite as open to local interpretation as ecology. But it still needs to be taken seriously in terms of the paper work. On the ground....

My sole purpose on here is to make the rest of you feel good about yourselves!

It will never happen. He wont allow it to be bought and will first need to design it in CAD then make it (one day). In fairness though @Onoff is very familiar with WIP (Work In Progress).

Probably better off just giving her a whip ?

Yes good point. Agree although don't drink coffee Haha. We won't be cooking that big portions so a rangemaster oven should suffice. Yes agree. Will keep an eye on it. Nef has a £100 off for trade in till yesterday! Agree on this. Life would be easier.

Ermm, for the record , before BH runs out of disk space, this thread started on May 31, 2016. Just sayin..... Perhaps we should consider having a whip round for MrsOnOff?

Interestingly different to me. The killer application for mine is for plates. It looks as though the Neff B44S32N5GB (think that is the one I bought) Hide 'n' Slides which have been highly reduced for a couple of months have now gone back up in price. http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/ovens/neff-b44s32n5gb-slide-hide-electric-oven-stainless-steel-10143345-pdt.html When I have had waist level ovens I have used the drop down door for serving. Ferdinand

Shhhhhh @JanetE..... I have to try and charge people for doing this on the basis that it's a "specialist job". ? ? From now on just say it's really tricky and never try this at home ????

We've put in a Slide n Hide Neff - it'll be useful for when you've finished cooking but want to leave it in the oven until ready to dish up without continuing to cook with ther residual heat- slide the door out the road and carry on. But apart from that, it's so cool. I love it Can't wait to try the plug in meat probe we got with it.

Sleepers ..????

I would also go for the deep warming drawers over the shallow ones, lot more useful!

You won't get your leg over ever again if you don't get a move on

Cheapest of the cheap seats here, standard worktop with bullnose grafted onto end and other long side: Let in some corners: Job done. Agree about the open end, we spend ages sitting round it:

my thoughts exactly