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The Quooker tap is spitting and spluttering which basically he has no idea why.... And we can't get filtered cold water from the Cube and again he has no idea why.

He's back tomorrow he just rung me now and I've gone through a list. What bugs me is I know the chip wasn't there on Tuesday night as I was on my hands and knees next to it cleaning the loo and by Wednesday tea time it was chipped and he was the only tradesman in there. I told him I'm not happy. @ProDave is there something in particular I need to ask him to do in relation to the toilet/cabinet?

I'm just so angry today, amongst the things the plumber did actually do yesterday he was sealing toilet in ensuite yesterday and was the only person in the ensuite, no one else is in this section of the house so we know it's him. He managed to chip our Roper Rhodes cabinet (conveniently forgot to mention) and look at that panel, edge is sticking out and bottom is pushed in. Am I being dramatic? He's not showed up today either. It seems everything he has touched he has either not been able to do, bodged it, not done it properly or damaged it. If he's complained we have bought replacement items but I'm seriously at the end of my tether with him.

All sorted. Got them now everything coming tomorrow.

The electrician says we need a meter each female to male.....

This is our original order

JA 320w mono percium LW black The place we ordered panels from can't do delivery tomorrow....

See above, I typed same time.

Oh I think he means inter connection leads for solar apparantly we have four need more to connect the panels together? Not cat 5 patch leads.... Any ideas anyone where I can get them.

There are hundreds of patch leads any ideas which ones https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/categories/patch-leads-cat5e-patch-leads

I'm on CEF now got the isolators which such cables are needed?

Help! Only now am I heating that the electrician that the solar can't be connected before Xmas because he needs Two 16 amp 4pole DC Isolators and 10x solar patch leads for panels. Can anyone help to locate them for tomorrow. Thanks

I'll ask the plumber. There was a little dig at us when I tried to discuss the tap "I've only ever fitted new ones" (because our kitchen and tap was ex display). I mean what difference this makes I've no idea....

No idea but it wasn't like this on display and this is the picture from the installation and Quooker and Cube with how it should be....

Not sure on what the cause of the leak is/was. Went last night to find now the pull out hose won't work on the Quooker tap because everything is jammed in and something was wedged. Our builder just queried the set up on the pic with the plumber who muttered something about it supporting pipework as it's too heavy. He is currently having a tantrum over our large sink in the utility (the one you recommended @PeterWbecause 'its Chinese') and the Grohe pull out tap because it's not a normal one. The flipper panel he has fitted on the shower isn't right but he has 'lost the instructions' so can't put it right and I'm sure this isn't correct.. I feel like sacking him off, getting my dad to fit the utility tap and taking everything Quooker related out and watching YouTube to sort it myself. I've sent him instructions and diagrams and it's still not sorted.

They actually have small lines down them, I'll have to get a picture. I would have been worried about walking into them to. I already have walked into the bedroom door which is solid because I forgot we had doors!

My wife seems to think that's where it was coming from. He's coming back tomorrow. I did send him the manuals before he installed it. Seems I'm probably better off reading them myself and telling him what to do.... ?

Quooker tap fitted, wife went to try it and it leaked. Come on, tell me this isn't normal work of a plumber. Circled what I believe is the culprit...

We are paying £350 a month on a campsite 4 miles from home which includes water, electric and two half full calor gas bottles (we have purchased two more since arriving in June). We negotiated a long lease and Covid helped as campsites couldn't open. With us both working from here during lockdown it's been stressful and not particularly comfortable to be honest - too hot, too cold, damp etc. If you have anyone local who has an Airbnb/holiday home it is worth contacting them to see if you can do a long let. Living on site wasn't an open as getting a static on our site wouldn't have worked and we didn't want to move into 'proper rented' with bills on too of a minimum of £600 a month rent for a bedsit/flat.

Well we ended up with a refund because they couldn't do exactly what we were after. We have just however fitted this in our kitchen/dining room.

It's been a while since our last update but just to let everyone know we may be in for Xmas. We still need the EWI and render but inside should be liveable and we can get out of the caravan. The kitchen is almost complete now after getting damaged units all replaced and given it was ex display I think it looks lovely. The part with the hob on could possibly have been a bit longer but I didn't want a breakfast bar and by time we have our table, chairs and small sofa I think it will look good. At the moment it's like a big dancefloor! And although the majority of the house doesn't have light fittings because frankly we are skint, we did manage to get the kitchen/dining room sorted and I love the light in there which we got from a small lighting place I convinced the other half to drive a couple of hours for. If I would have hated it she would have killed me. We got the whole house sprayed white by a local decorator because I didn't want to look at plaster for 12 months and I didn't fancy doing the pitched ceilings in the kitchen and with a bad neck injury. For our bungalow which is around 190m2 it was a few hundred pounds Inc all materials, paint, masking prior to second fix. It would have taken weeks to do it and the spray finish is brilliant (although has a few marks on it from second fix now). No woodwork has been done because it wasn't in place and frankly we can't afford it and once we decide on colours etc we can get doors, skirting done later on when we have calmed down and gradually work through each room. We have already decided we want the kitchen orange eventually and our yellow living room sofa is due to arrive too just before Xmas so it will definitely have injection of colour. The bathrooms are almost completed now after the showerwall saga, on the third replacement it now looks decent. We went for LVT throughout and the UFH is working well in that it's warmer than the caravan......

AB spoke to the rep and they are replacing the whole lot. Kudos to AB Building Supplies. Just means we have to take the whole lot off again.....

Well it's up and I just hate it, my eye immediately goes to the join and more annoying is the plumber is meant to be fitting the shower next week. I've taken pics and sent to AB who we purchased panels from, and who replaced the initial one for their advice. The builder has fitted them before because we had a discussion about them, in relation to someone having them on all the walls of the bathroom, not just the shower. It's incredibly frustrating that this one is not right because I love the other ones.

It's just the join being more visible but I can't get my head around why it's not the same the whole way of the join. Middle bit is perfect hardly noticeable but it's not like that consistently. I'll have to get in touch with AB on Monday. I thought the replacement panel would have sorted it. My OCD is in overdrive.

It's on the damn wall now so I'm going to have to contact AB and get the supplier/manufacturer out because this is going to do my head in now.