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    40 years in IT, then made redundant, which has helped enormously in building. Helped with building renovations and extensions, but it was always a dream to build our own energy efficient house. Well, here we are having started (properly) in late 2020, and very proud of what we have achieved (so far!)
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  1. There's a flush button?
  2. Hi Susie (and David). It will mainly be used for stacking cars if I get to spend the VAT reclaim on what I want 😀 but it occasionally could be used for "servicing" and I thought a roll about stool in combination would be the way forward. Also, I'm looking at "sinking" the slab foundation to get 4- 500mm more headroom. Together I think these two approaches will work, but if they don't SWMBO has other ideas for the VAT reclaim 😀
  3. Here is the frame fitted Better explanation of the Grohe instructions HERE that I took to fit to this stage. That topic will be updated with the extra steps still required.
  4. Following these steps I added that piece of wood to the wall Drilled the four holes, two on the floor, two in the wood (my "wall"), then fitted the frame And made the adjustments to these parts to level make it vertical and tightened the nuts and inserted the little plastic lugs Finally, attached the waste to the Y junction. Ready for these steps next
  5. Not even if it a full flowing shower 😀 (statement, not question)
  6. And more measuring. Time to pick up a power tool !! Are your sure those measurements are correct??
  7. "Measure twice...." 😀
  8. This one's a humdinger 😀 Takes the Z figure (985 in my case), then measure W (800 from the table in the picture) FROM FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL!! See that dashed line. Look where it goes. Finding the centre line of where your waste will be is easier if you're going vertical, a littl more difficult if you're going at 45 degrees 😀 The 175 figure is where you will be drilling holes for fixing the bottom of the frame, the 230 where the brackets for the top fastenings will be. Take the time to get all these marked out correctly. Remember the adage "Measure Twice ...." I ringed X1 below, but that's wrong as my waste will be T 45 degrees so I'll be using X2, so a min of 165 and a max of 230 from the wall.
  9. Next pay attention to the following two little pictures ringed in red, as they signal the start of instructions for whether you attaching it direct to a wall, or into a frame. I'm attaching it to a piece of wooden joist which is screwed into an ICF wall. (Pictures later)
  10. I've started a topic HERE to cover GROHE frame install for others to reference.
  11. I'm going to document the frame install to help some others in the future, as I have found the lack of words of explanation on the instructions to be a hurdle. By way of example, this, I think is the first bit you need to consider, and it hinges around the height of the waste pipe, 220 or 230mm Combined with this, where Z comes from the above picture And thise two picture come from this If I didn't know better I'd say these instructions were designed not by a German! In my case, I think my Z is 985mm as the waste need to be at 230mm. Here goes ...
  12. She knows where I am (HINT)
  13. Already happened 😀
  14. I was thinking 2 x 45's, but then how to get that waste in is the issue, which I haven't figured out a solution yet apart from cut and glue (NO!)
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