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We have too much, still got another 3 tonne bags plus stuff we need to split. Some is quite small so we may be burning it on the narrowboat in winter.

I'm quids in then as we have half a dozen knocking about....

Before logs....

I think pallets would have worked fine too and probably cheaper! I'm sure I'll be thankful it's close by our utility door in winter!

We said exactly the same thing. The chickens quite liked it too so potential chicken coop if we run out of wood.

Yep, dad got lengths and then cut them and welded them to build the frame and galvanised sheet mesh, again a sheet which we cut three sides from and fixed into the frame. It's cost a small fortune but dad doesn't do anything by halves.

Finally finished the woodstore, so far roughly moved about 7 tonne bags of wood into it. And yes, those corner bits are leftover bits from the cladding. It's just outside our utility door so convenient for winter. We will plant all round it so you won't see the concrete eventually.

Indeed. I didn't even realise Porcelanosa did walk in wardrobes/fitted dressing rooms. We had our hearth tiles from there and they weren't cheap! My only worry is it's not got doors it's an open wardrobe sort and I still think it will look messy but the wife says she is organizing everything by colour and it will look like her Pinterest board of walk in wardrobes, hmmm.

I can't get Crunchie out of my head now..... And there is no chocolate in the house anywhere....

A very poorly advertised item on t'internet that didn't mention the make in it but we went to look at it 3 hours away, original invoice was close to £40k. Builder removed items from a swanky house he is working on so presume he had them for free or at a low price and thought he'd take the chance on storing them and selling. Also had some very expensive kitchen appliances that he was told to skip which I guess he will try and flog.

You'll remember our quote for ideas for our dressing room/walk in wardrobe being about £7k purpose built. Ikea PAX was coming in a about £2k for just the frames plus we wanted island, dressing table etc and it didn't quite fit our space. Have just got around 10 metres of Porcelanosa walk in wardrobe/dressing room units plus 1.2m island and dressing table for £1000. It's more units than what we need but we can adjust the configuration to suit and due to the height I'm thinking they will need to go through our windows (good job it's a bungalow) and potentially hacked in/may need magic man to sort out any minor marks. Hopefully won't be noticable when they are fitted. Unfortunately didn't include the granite island top and dressing table granite top but we can explore alternatives to use as worktops. So excited!!!!!

No leaks since new plumber sorted it out, seems to be all sorted and new plumber only charged us £50 which we think is pretty good as he put a new trap and plug on too and discovered the issue. I'm billing old plumber.

No, no evidence now of any issues re pressure. I wonder if this may have been a complete coincidence as it only happened once when I turned the tap on and it was low. Turned tap on and off again and it was fine. I will of course keep an eye on this for any other issues but we haven't seen any evidence of any other leaks.

Yep bear in mind this guy is supposed to be a professional, has had the company for years according to my internet research and is well known, although I don't think we are his only unhappy customer!

It hadn't been filed. Whilst he had put silicone above that black plastic bolt bit I think there was a number of issues which I'll be outlining to him. 1. No black rubber seal used on the white trap connector just oodles of PTFE tape (which had become unwrapped and dangling inside the trap). 2. The trap itself wasn't fitted straight and was loose. 3. The thread on the flange I think it is that @ProDave called it not being cut square. We will see if everything works OK tomorrow when plumber no 2 returns but hopefully I can then outline to old plumber what he did wrong and no doubt he will just blame his apprentice!

He's fitted another one today and siliconed it all, told us to leave it for now and he'll pop back tomorrow and check it's all fine. Got the part he took off so if old plumber starts kicking off and saying there was nothing up with it then I'll save it as 'evidence'. If he wants a fight he's picked the wrong person!

Nope he's never coming back, new plumber seems decent. When he comes back tomorrow will ask him how much we owe him and I'm billing the old plumber. Took photos of everything, videod it and still have messages from last time we had a leak in the same sink and it wasn't fixed. If he won't pay it I'll take him to the smalls claims on principle and bill him for redecorating costs too where we now have water marks down the wall and get someone independent to inspect the whole bathroom plumbing.

Ok so plot thickens, it seems that old plumber has cut the chrome plug thread, no idea why but this lip was also causing issues with seal as it was stepped when it was cut so would never provide a good seal. New plug fitted, new trap fitted and sealed will return tomorrow to check it's all ok. Old plumber can't say it was the equipment as it was a brand new Bristan tap and plug that came together from Amazon! ?

So far new plumber has established there wasn't a black seal on the trap just ptf tape which not ideal as it had all come unwrapped and was all inside trap but then found new seal on his van, still hasn't solved issue and ran taps and still a drip from trap so he has gone to get a new trap. Also running from black seal.

My worry is that's exactly what the plumber did last time to 'fix' it. A local guy has kindly offered to pop in to take a look FOC on his way home, someone who actually sorted out the 70s shower and toilet when we moved in to get it working whose details I lost and did a temporary fix for us who I wish we would have used for the whole house instead of going with this guy instead!

Ok so when we observed dripping it was coming from the waste pipe, the white one. The bathroom sink hasn't been used since last night and when we got up this morning there was water all over the floor and on the base of the cabinet inside which was dripping from the white waste pipe bit. Since we turned each of these silver things off the water isn't dripping as much but we still have water going into the bowl. It may have been leaking a while as we had 6 toilet rolls on the cabinet which have obviously been absorbing the water. You can see the water here. I'm not sure why the water has marks on the wall below the cabinet unless water has been trickling down the cabinet inside but our ensuite sink is the other side of that wall. Not sure you can see from the photos. Plumber coming out 3pm - not the same one who did the work who is on holiday! The drawer has a gap in it for the pipe so in theory shouldn't need to be fitted wonky unless he didn't fit the cabinet straight.

Yes it was. It was dripping from there into the bowl before we managed to get the drawer out and isolate the tap.

Yep that's one thing we commented on when we took the drawer out. Not sure that explains the pressure issue.

Cloaks bathroom vanity. Water all over floor and inside cabinet. Managed to isolate tap now and it's stopped. It seems to be coming from here and we noticed the white ring was loose, as in you could tighten it as it was loose. This is the same leak we had a while ago and the plumber fixed it then and I believe the trap was loose. It may be a coincidence but last night when I used this tap the pressure was very low, almost to a dribble which I thought nothing of as it did a bit of a splutter and then normal flow resumed. Our plumber is off for two weeks and said 'do what you need to do to sort it' so having isolated everything I'm now looking at more reliable plumbers. I'm not sure what the pressure issue would be though and if this is linked...

Thank you, I may have to try them. I'm growing blue poppies from seed and they are a few cm high. I'm surprised as they didn't seem to be doing anything at all, unless they are actually weeds I'm nurturing.