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Silver grey would be my choice.

What temp are you aiming to achieve? Must be hot in there now!

So if its ok with you then no one else will cause probs!

No one but you will notice. Stop the torture. If anyone notices just say the tile had a fault and that youbhad to use it or run out. I have feelings of being overwhelmed sometimes, they pass and the building continues.

I don't think so - I tiled all our kitchen floor in the current house - no back buttering at all & they seem fine. You do everything 100% so if you've slipped a bit - it will still be ahead of the majority. You would be unlucky to have any probs although you could just stop larger people from going in there?

but now is the time it all comes together & you get all the praise - what's wrong? Are you worried about being bored when its done?

I just mounted some white plastic meter boxes on a post. Put a simple wood board over the lot to protect further. Padlocks on each one. Job done. £50. @ProDave did a very neat job - check out his blog.

there's always that 'getting cocky' phase on every learning curve. My floor tiles arrive next Tuesday. Got Q a bit to do before they go down. Looking forward to seeing this done.

looks fantastic so far. Its going to be a stunner when its done.

this open vent will come from between the shower trap and the extra trap? otherwise the foul smells will just come up anyway. If a vacuum builds up after this additional trap - and empties it - won't that mean smells in the house? It doesn't need to be the shower that creates the vacuum - it could be anything else connected to the run. If the open vent went outside then it would be safer....

You've got to try something for you to know whether it works or not and it seems to be the most straightforward idea we've all come up with. As Nick said - you need to let more air into the system. What's unusual to me to having the shower trap drop straight down - all of mine go horizontal (at a bit of a fall) to enter a 110mm soil - which itself is ventilated via an AAV Interesting point made by @PeterW @Nickfromwales will be along shortly I guess.... I would take whatever his advice is tbh

try this first? let us know if it works!

so if there's a 110mm pipe there - why can this be extended up the wall so the section between the shower trap and this pipe is minimal - I'm assuming the water from a shower would fall down a 110mm pipe without creating much of a vaccuum - I know this won't open the durga but if there's no vaccum created then it doesn't need to; there should be no reduction in flow - so your feet shouldn't be having a bath while the rest of you is having a shower. Just wondering if a 110mm equal tee under the ceiling - leading off to a 110mm durga situated under the ceiling would work? I know the durga should be above the shower waste but whats the chance of it being flooded out when its all attached to 110mm pipe. Does the sink also have an aav on it? @Nickfromwales is the resident expert on here; I could be all wrong here!

worth asking..... but well observed!

does the shower waste enter a 110mm pipe at the garage floor?

if what I suggest works then it might be worth returning the pipe up higher up the wall if having it in the middle of the garage annoys you - bit of zig zag pipe work but if it works you could always box it in.

great if you've got the space - the dry end of the shower is in reality 'dead' space most of the time. If space is tight then I'd fit something like 900x1200 with a door - still good shower space and economical in a room.

Got to be 900mm wide - 1200 to 1500 long feels good. Depends whether you want a conventional door or an 'open' surround.

Perhaps run the shower waste at a shallow angle (1:40?) over towards where you've mounted the durgo - put an equal tee in there so the durgo sits directly on top of the vertical drop, then when its close to the floor take it back over to where the waste goes currently. I guess you could even plumb 2 durgo's in if you wanted to - it would introduce more air into the system. I'm not a plumber but I wonder if its the straight drop from the shower thats causing the issue. You could try all this out fairly easily and if it didn't work it wouldn't be the end of the world - a lot easier than drilling through walls etc.

I assume the straight vertical drop from the shower doesn't help - if it run horizontally towards the durgo and then went straight down (and then back over) - would that allow the durgo air to enter the system where the water drops vertically?

I have more or less settled on the £12 for the floor & will use the £18 for the first row on the walls. CTD are part of Jewson - I suspect there's outlets in virtually every Jewson store, so rel easy to pick up. Not sure about the brand - not heard of it before - I suspect @Nickfromwales or @nod will be familiar or otherwise with it. Just waiting for them! I wasn't intending to prime again......

that tile trackers looks will DIYable for @onoff. I was going to use a piece of wood and a few plastic spacers!

@Onoff what size spacers have you used? we've got 700mm x 100mm tiles & I'm wondering about 3mm spacers - your tiles look bigger. 6mm trowel?

west midlands

OK @Onoff - I assume that's because you can get it locally?