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  1. Declan52
    If I went for render I would have put a stop bead at the bottom and covered it with some decorative stone. You reckon k rend a better option than silver sand and white cement.
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    Could maybe plaster the sides and make up a mould type thing and use concrete for this.
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    That's my biggest concern. It won't look right with copings on either.
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    Has to be my mhrv. Previous house was always stuffy and generally had enough condensation to fill a bath when it got cold. Now it just works away with no effort and the house just feels so much better to live in.
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    So looking to do something like in the pic below but not sure which would be my best option. A: build in in block and get it plastered up. East enough to do but long term how will the nice crisp edges look in a few years. B: shutter it with some mesh in it. Bit more time consuming to get perfect but should be much harder to chip at the corners. ? Is there any other way to do this type of thing that I don't know about.
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    From memory I had my 90 degree bend coming out of the wall and then put on a small 150mm sacrificial piece of straight waste and taped this over. This was just to protect the bend from getting filled with plaster droppings.
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    Any pipework that needs to be tracked into the wall needs done. The hot and cold feed for your shower/ basin for example. If you have any wall mounted basins and are hiding the waste in the wall then these need tracked in as well. You have a joint in them as there ain't any other way round it. All the materials that you need to go onto the floor can wait till the plastering is done then the plumber can work his magic and you bury the pipes in the floor insulation and cover them over so it's ready for your finished floor.
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    I used to make old analogue sat boxes over 20 years ago and from memory when we tested the lnb switching from horizontal to vertical we used as low a voltage as we could. It was around 14v for horizontal and 11v for vertical. If it worked on these it was deemed to be able to cope with a drop if the cable was long.
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    They are really nice lights.
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    If you go for one plinth brick you need a 65mm width block on the inside at the back so when it steps in there is something to build on for the rest of the way up. You can do it with brick on it's side if you can't source 65mm blocks. Two plinths and a normal block will do.
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    Plinth bricks. https://www.ibstock.com/kevington/specialshapes/everydayspecials/plinth-bricks/
  12. Declan52
    The bit of angle iron is slipped underneath the roof felt so any rain that gets that far runs down the felt hits it and then runs of to the side of the window. That's why it's cut at an angle.
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    Have you tried sewer rods to push it back???
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    How far up the duct has it stopped and roughly how deep are they incase it's a spade you need?? Will only pull it backwards so it's the cable your pulling. Pull the rope to much and it will break.
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    They must have done some work experience here.
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    Pile it up and put some petrol in a glass bottle with a rag to act as a wick. Light the wick and lob the bottle and stand back. That's how it's done in NI !!!?? Technically if it hasn't got at least 1000 pallets, a few hundred tyres , dozens of well worn mattresses and a few sofas then it's not really a bonfire.
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    Any I seen done just glued them up and put a few nails in them to hold it till the glue went off.
  18. Declan52
    I live in midge central and my vent axia b+ seems to filter them out pretty good. Are you sure that you have everything fully clicked in place after cleaning it. Or can you add a finer mesh to your inlet/outlet covers to stop them here.
  19. Declan52
    From baskil. So far so good with them but have seen plenty of their bad jobs. There is always cats out on the left handside and the dog goes nuts trying to get at them.
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    Yeah it's just one single pane of triple glazing. I reckon it's close on 2.2m X 1.5m. It is south facing so let's in a lot of light which is what we wanted plus you get a fair amount of heat from solar gain. On the downside the blinds weren't cheap!!! But during spring and autumn when the sun is lower you have to have the blinds down or you cant watch TV . That's the only pic I have on my phone but the other window coming down is the same size.
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    Mine is only 600mm from finished floor so all had to be toughened glass. The only thing about being one complete pane is during a very windy storm it doesn't half flex about. Near shat myself the first time it happened. Thought it was going to come in round me.
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    We looked into something similar when doing mine and at the end just left it fully glazed. The only other choice was to divide the window up by 1/3 and have a fixed pane on the bottom 400mm and then a standard opening in the rest. In the end we just didn't like it that way so just ended up fully glazed.
  23. Declan52
    Physically I suppose yes up to a point where you end up doing too much. Mentally it will cause no end of lost sleep and stress. Plus it will definitely accelerate the amount of grey hairs you have or make the fringe retreat further back than you would have liked. Or if your really lucky both. But apart from that spending time outside in the fresh air will always have a positive effect on you.
  24. Declan52
    You upset some Italian ice cream man.
  25. Declan52
    Mini????
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