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Missus wants her brother to do it rather than me!

Missus just wants it FINISHED

Let the plasterer dictate that. Just for clarification...... "Get a fackin plasterer or I'll send the boys round". Seriously . Don't make me come down there.

Just pay a plasterer PLEASE ! I cannot stand it when a good room gets mutilated by a bad skim job. You've saved by doing everything else yourself, just pay a spread. They'll get 3 sets on in one good day so will be finished in one sitting. No.....just no.

Hi Just took a reading from my solar PV for the start of the month. Just gone through 26,000kWh of generation since 21st November 2011 - thats 2,323 days or average of 11.19kW per day.

Paul's been a busy boy. All the stripping is complete, a couple of loads of crushed are down (probably another three or four to go) so we'll have dry standing all round the footprint soon and for re-use later. £6/t with a cert, nice. Account opened with local quarry, just waiting on final prices. Rock hammer on standby at the Hire depot. What else is on the week's list then? Land drains to go in, big hole to dig for the treatment plant. Water pipe joint to bury in neighbouring field. Treatment plant to be ordered tomorrow, delivery before the weekend apparently. Oh, but any or all of that can wait if the base drawings arrive from the TF co.

I have spent the best part of the last two weeks putting down the type 1 for our slab, 150mm thickness in three layers, 59T in total over 127m2. It's done now but just walking on it you get a good impression of how solid it is. It set me wondering. I weight about 100kg, I am 6'4", my site boots have a ground area of 0.0225m2. Our building will weigh in at around 70T so across the whole slab that's about 583kg/m2 while I put much more that down on the area of my foot, about 4000kg/m2. This slab is not going to move anywhere. Is that overkill or what.

Ah... Specsavers for me

Let it go off 24 hrs and it will be like rock... next time, a 2 litre milk container is ideal for measuring the liquid as it will be about right for mixing enough for you to lay tiles before it starts to go off. 1 litre isn’t enough for using a whisk on the mixer. Also have a look in Asda as they have 10 litre flexi tubs for £1 - ideal for mixing adhesive and have 2 or three on the go on in various states of dry/set/clean...

Right or wrong, gaps filled with tile adhesive. First time I've ever used the powdered stuff. Too much water on the first mix so binned that. A bit left over when I got it right. Cement like and sticky at the same time! I let it go off and rubbed it with a block of wood. Turning my attention to the other walls and ceiling now. Off to find the joint scrim tape for the pb!

I've been with you all the way. But not for plastering. No. End of chat. No.

I like my music with such bass that the dust can't stick!

I don't know if it might be possible to use a couple of the vertical channels that clip between the battens to mount a support, to sit on

There is a thread here about those as @Alexphd1 is using them (but they are American ).

Well that worked:

Me too, but I'm trying to make the guy feel good about being a quitter.

I've built a programmable timer that fits inside a standard outdoor single socket (the ones that remains weatherproof with the plug in) and turns the power to that socket on and off with a solid state relay. I've configured this as an extension lead, so although it's wall mounted inside the stone pump enclosure, it's plugged in to one side of a two gang weatherproof socket. I've not yet tested it, but the idea is that the timer can be programmed to turn the pump on and off, with programmable on and off times, both because there are only two of us most of the time (the treatment plant is a Biopure 1) and to reduce the power used by the pump. The selection of the on and off timing is interesting, because @PeterStarck mentioned some time ago that the air ports on his unit (which looked very similar in design to the Biopure, with a conical lower tank section) got blocked with sludge and this may have contributed to his subsequent pump failure. I've been wondering what the best compromise is between on and off times. The 2:1 off to on ratio seems to be one used by other switched systems, and my guess is that the off time needs to be short enough so as to not pose too much risk of sludge settling down too firmly, as it's the air that keeps much of the sludge suspended within the unit, to allow more complete digestion. I did look around to see if there was an affordable and reliable way to sense BOD, as that seemed to be a clever way to select the pump operating duty cycle. If the BOD drops below a certain point than the pump timer could go into the lowest power mode, with the duty cycle changing as the BOD increased in the main tank. Sadly I couldn't find a suitable BOD sensor, nor could I find any information as to whether an analogue measurement (such as measuring gas concentrations in the air above the tank) would reflect the BOD of the tank contents. I do have a PCB master for the timer, it uses an 8 pin microcontroller, simply because as well as switching the SSR on and off, it also sends a signal to the alarm unit, so that the low pressure alarm doesn't operate when the pump turns off during the time cycle. I have to plug a laptop in to change the on and off times, though, as I couldn't be bothered to add external controls for this. The PCB also includes a power supply that runs the alarm unit, and a doppler radar intruder sensor, that triggers our CCTV system to record. The latter is only included because the pump housing is right next to the lower end of the drive, so is ideally positioned to trigger the cameras at the front.

We've got a Biopure 1 at a holiday home that only gets used at weekends and we were advised by the manufacturer to operate the air blower on a timer switch 2 hours on/2 hours off. Its been operating about 18 months and seems to be working well so far.

It would be neater if you extended he hoses and put it in the chicken shed.

Salaried? Would probably go for the more complex to prevent brain death and boredom (although as I get older and more jaded the easier option becomes more attractive by the day). Self employed? Easy jobs for sure.

I can’t see why you need aqua panel mesh AND tanking strip. The tanking strip is a reinforced mesh with the rubber coating on it. Pretty much impossible to tear. Plus if you have too much material build up in the corners you’ll just make the final tiling more tricky as your tiles will be kicking out. The flatter the wall the simpler the job!

Oh, and after you ignore me, you want multi-finish and do NOT put PVA on anything.

Board is better at the minute apparently but only if you are any good at plastering and it goes off faster than multi. I think we all know you want the slowest setting plaster possible!

It's not at all good to run excess water through a treatment plant, as it will dilute the nutrient concentration which will then dilute the aerobic bacteria population, meaning that when a flush of nutrient enters the tank there may be insufficient bacteria to quickly consume it. If fresh water then flushes through the tank it could very easily end up washing partially-digested material through the outlet. If that outlet is running to a watercourse, then there is a significant risk that discharging high biological oxygen demand waste could have an adverse impact on the watercourse.

It seems to be an easy mistake to make, judging by the amount of taps and toilet frames on gumtree! Still, easy pickings for some; I've saved a fortune on other people's mistakes Glad you managed to find the right ones.

Just run the rainwater to the pond ?

Yep And it’s pretty much anything to anything ...! You normally tile under the pan anyway so it’s ceramic to porcelain/ceramic/stone etc

Guess what? My complaint seemed to work. I've no idea at all what they did; they didn't do any work to the cabling close to the house, that's for sure, but we're now getting a fairly solid 24 Mb/s, rather than the 4 to 5 Mb/s we used to get. I can now upload at around 10 Mb/s too, which is a heck of a difference when posting photos.

You will never see it.......... just solder it up and get on with the next job ..!

Go straight onto it as normal

Easy, take out two giraffes to make room?

I will ?