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All the other traps I have are McAlpine - quality seems very good. If there was a problem I could access by removing a tile but I'll go for something like that - thanks both!

Wondered folks thoughts on this before I go beyond point of no return. Bath is free standing stone, but on a raised area so have room below and arm access to connect. Is this trap going to be up to the job? Or should I fit a conventional one? It'll be a wee bit more tricky but should manage it. This one looks a bit puny and not sure if it'll drain quick enough? If I fit a conventional should it just be a p trap since I won't have access to a bottle?

Well you got me! haha - I didn't have access to two - one because the studs were too close and the second because that part had been boarded and had electrical points above! In the end I just whacked with a drift and hammer and the thing punched through taking a section of the stud with it! lol So on this subject ( @Nickfromwales ) - I need to cut a tap hole and waste hole in a stone resin countertop - I can't get through to the supplier - should I try get a diamond cutter (which would need to be a hole pack I think) or would the right size Bosch version I linked to above do? The in-depth (not) literature says use a standard drill and a hole cutting tool!

When screwing the board in, it makes a difference as the screws will pull through further - not an issue if skimming but would possibly be noticeble if taping and filling. I don't think we could have used them - we did all the boarding first and just punched a 12mm hole where the socket was to go and pulled the wire through - spark then fitted the box and wired it in one go - this way would need the spark to be onsite during boarding too? Nice idea, probably a doddle for a team always using them but for me, plastic boxes worked a treat.

Hmm, my point is, as per your original post, I also bought this thinking it would go through 4x2 - it doesn't and is shy of a few mm. Given how common 4x2 is in the building trade, I wonder why the depth is set just below 45mm? When they decided the max it could cut is around 42mm, why did they choose that? What did they have in mind? Plasterboard, OSB, ply etc is generally only up to 22mm, so someone somewhere decided a cutting depth of 42mm was appropriate, despite it not cutting one of the most common pieces of wood (Applied to 4x2, 6x2, 8x2 etc..). They could save materials by reducing the depth or spend a tiny amount more to make it a lot more practical - that's Bosch and Silverline etc.

I found Dortech pretty helpful when I ordered from them - they don't list TP652 but I would imagine could source it no problem. https://www.dortechdirect.co.uk/tremco-compriband-tp651-trio-3-7mm-35mm-15-metres-2.html

This Bosch one is the same - it's about 4mm short to go through a piece of 4x2 - surely such a basic design error? http://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-cobalt-holesaw-51mm/59990?kpid=59990&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh_bLBRDeARIsAH4ZYENICqQ7YfNNV69_LtlrHvc_O18XoTw15UT0YPBQ0r4LIbIULoHeYR4aAo3IEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CM7b96XzstUCFW0h0wodgSYHeA

We've got a 900mm shower screen from Bathstore we just found out is the wrong size - they mis-measured, that's clear, but we took delivery some time ago - it's https://www.bathstore.com/products/playtime-walkin-shower-side-screen-900.html - it came with an integrated shower head so might need a support be acquired. If they won't do a return (we've done a redesign anyway so can't use a full height screen), you'd be welcome to it for a very good price. That would leave a 700mm entrance to the shower - which would hopefully accomodate any well proportioned visitors We got our trays separately btw.

Ah! Thank you - penny drops! That makes a lot more sense. I've got one shower valve plumbed but have stepped short on the head and handheld. A wee trip to screwfix is in order this morning! Thanks again, Jamie

I'm nearing the time I need to do this - it's stone resin tray - still recommend flexible tile adhesive @Nickfromwales rather than 5/1 S/C? I'll prime the concrete floor before doing either.

We used Compriband tape round the outer perimeter https://www.dortechdirect.co.uk/tremco-compriband-tp600-8mm-15mm-gap.html , expanding foam in the middle (https://www.dortechdirect.co.uk/illbruck-fm230-professional-expanding-foam.html) and then an air tightness tape to seal between the frame and wall. http://www.ecomerchant.co.uk/walls/airtightness-products/airtightness-tapes/pro-clima-contega-solido-sl.html There are any umber of products out there that can be used but gives you a flavour

I got our two from Skylight International - really pleased with them - aluminium frames and glazed as you wish be that double or triple. I think I paid around £1500 for a 2.4x0.9m with triple glazing and Solar tint on it. There is a 150mm upstand and they provide a full kit to install it - it's screwed into the upstands, with a sealant bead round the outside of the upstand and a foam tape around the inside. You can see my install here - it won't be hugely different for a GRP roof. https://theoldwatertank.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/we-have-sky-light.html

If you need any frame fixers please let me know - I've got rather a lot of them, would need to check the pattern. The holes in them are more suited to putting into timber tho. I've used concrete Screws and they are a bit of a blunt instrument, I wouldn't want to use them on a window frame. Would be better using a long Fisher fixing through the jamb and screw it in - less brute force and more discrete.

Found it. "Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day.Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?"

I'm being very tongue in cheek in response to a comment that somehow the young and genuinely more planet conscious - I don't believe they are. And as I say, I could be considered one of that generation... There is a simple textual obssrvation somewhere that supports my argument, I'll dig it out. It's unanswerable and better written than ever I could.

Facebook and Twitter and real life begs to differ! Drinking and taking photos of drinks is all they appear to do. Along with incessant whinging! They don't drive because they are too lazy and have no money - not because they are drinking too much but they have expensive iPhone and clothes to buy every year to take photos of on their way to Majorca and evangelise about how terrible the world is on Twitter... I genuinely think you've got it the wrong way round - the older generation like my parents worked hard for what they have and value it, the younger generation today expect everything to be handed to them on a plate and look to blame everyone else for what they don't have.

Really? I'd love to see some supporting evidence of that theory. The younger generation are so spoiled and have such a sense of entitlement its sickening. New phone, clothes, cars - no make do and mend here. No valuing what they have an making it last. No second thoughts on jetting halfway round the world on holiday twice a year and off to Ibiza for a long weekend. No chance of being seen dead with a phone more than a year old. What you find with the younger generation as far as I can see is the worst of 'do as I say, not as I do'. They think austerity is not getting their travel expenses paid for at Uni. I could go on, I shan't, I'd be here too long on the sheer hypocrisy of the younger generation, a generation I could be deemed part of.

I actually support it despite being a complete petrol head. However for reasons that typing on a phone would take too long to elaborate, I can't see it ever happening.

I didn't take the most scientific approach to it, however we have opted for a 400 litre UVC with 12kw immerser which will in all likelihood be on E11 tariff. The original plans had a gas tank powering a gas boiler and wet central heating system, however having done heat loss calculations they determined a 6kW heat demand for the house, and so we have opted for electric radiators. We have spurs in each room for these however will live in the house over the winter and make decisions based on the performance as to which rooms we will have them in. We do have a MHRV system however which will help recycle some of the heat back in as well as help air quality. Cost wise, this is many thousands less than getting a wet heating system in - and significantly less than a GSHP. IN the very long term, we may have saved money going down the renewable heat route, but I doubt it. The final factor was our lifestyle - we work during the day Monday to Friday and that pattern is likely to continue for years - we needed a system that could react quickly to our needs and also be easily programmable remotely, which the radiators will be. I suppose really the key thing is there is no one size to fit all. I think it's easy to get bought into new technology and feel you must use it, but if you look at your needs, that may not be the case. It's easy to get caught up in the hype!

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Shower head arm the same barrel too short.

Hi All - couple more queries. With the shower head arm and the handheld mount, its a threaded brass barrel that attaches to the Wall and through which water is supplied. I've got 12mm plaster board and 10mm tile/adhesive which means the barrel is too short. Do I just source a longer barrel and use a flanged back nut to secure it to the plasterboard side before connecting?

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+2 lol

Same here! It's a paltry amount and rally unlikely to do anything.