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Go live Day! Is it finished? No! Is it close enough? Yes! Have we rented the other house out to someone else months ago with a date that was miles after completion... yes!

In an attempt to avoid the utility room work I’ve been out for dinner and got plastered. I’m now enjoying the tree and the wood burner and a nice cup of coffee...

I still have the scar from fitting one of those Ikea sinks ...... just be aware the edges are sharp and I swear they make the brackets from recycled Stanley knife blades ..!!

As you may know we finally got our water connected on Wednesday and our superstar heating installer was on site waiting to get it into the house along with the gas and power. By 7.30 Wedensday evening they had brought the gas and water into the plant room plus a temp power supply and the boiler was fired up and UFH commissioned. Happy to say all working well and now doing the gradual daily crank up. This is UFH in the MBC slab so heart in mouth as no-one can be sure until it kicked into life. MBC laid the pipe for us we didnt use their pipe we used Robbens as they were supplying all our manifolds for UFH and the MVHR system. I’m now getting complaints from the various trades......this house is far too hot, need the windows open never mind its minus outside.......etc ..... LOL. I’m thrilled to bits with the tongue in cheek builders complaints ( they have toiled in very cold temps for me up to now), means we will have a very warm house to live in. May even come near my ambition of covering our heating costs from our OAP winter fuel allowance (yes we are old enough to qualify!). Very happy, I’m going to pop a christmas tree up in there tomorrow so when my men come in on Monday it will be jolly and seasonal and warm. Might even leave them some mince pies under the tree.

id be more worried about the spacers you are going to have to make

@dpmiller one less now @cpd think you will have yours installed before me!

I knew that size rang a bell. It’s the size of the warehouse barcode labels we use: https://www.labelsonline.co.uk/code-39-barcode-labels-paper-40x25mm-bc1011&P.Height=13&P.LabelColourMaterial=523

+1 and the waste kid is non standard* so you need a rubber joints thing to connect up to your 40mm waste. https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-wf08-flexi-waste-straight-coupling-grey-38-45mm-x/81383?tc=DB1&ds_rl=1248151&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1247848&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_NL0pu6O2AIV7rvtCh2mrgRWEAQYBCABEgIq8fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=COfinq3ujtgCFQukUQodUhgG3Q *unless they’ve changed them since the last one I fitted.