Russdl

Although I've found lots of useful tidbits amongst the masses of information on these forums, I've searched high and low and can't find a central repository of 'electrical planning' hints, tips, brilliant ideas, pitfalls etc. Is there one on the forum somewhere? If not, can we start it right here? Standing by for an avalanche of brilliance from you BuildHubbers

Further off topic, what were the other three?

Bloody hell, what a clown! Sorry. Now where is my dunce's cap.

I for one will be really interested in the result of that experiment.

Does that include the cost of actually burying it, or just the price of the tank?

Had you already switched it off and on once before that?

@JSHarris, thanks, I guess for an easy life I may as well fit one.

@JSHarris do you think the AAV will be a requirement for my situation, 1 toilet and 1 sink discharging to the IC, along the lines that @Russell griffiths suggested earlier in this thread?

I should have guessed!

Brilliant @Russell griffiths That sounds like a simple little solution, and nice use of unintended punning!

Our site has main drainage and I was considering building a small shed to house a toilet and sink, instead of the ubiquitous blue turd-is. Any hints, tips and wise words on how I plumb in a toilet to the existing drainage on a temporary basis? The proposed shed will be about 5m from the nearest inspection chamber on the plot and about 600mm above the invert level.

I'm still smitten (planning to be a future user) but this information, coupled with my mud bath plot, is piling on the pressure. I sincerely hope they take a step back, take note of these criticisms and continue to produce a World leading innovative product that I'd be delighted to use.

I look forward to that. This change seems to have thrown my plans into disarray and I'm now wondering what is going to be the best way forward.

It did turn into a DIY demolition, as much by accident as design... We removed the roof tiles and slid them down scaffold planks that were laid on ladders, it worked very well, and they remain stored on site because we couldn't give them away. I"m sure we'll be able to use them to make some paths through the mud that is now EVERYWHERE on the site. The roof timbers were removed and are stored on site. I'll use them for various things, such as a frame for a shed etc. Then I started getting overtaken by events... A friend of mine owns a skip firm and, despite my protestations to the contrary, he was convinced that he would be able to get a 20 yard ro-ro skip up the VERY narrow lane to the site. He gave me a call a few weeks ago and told me one of his drivers would be round in a few minutes to have a look. Well, "have a look" actually meant squeezing his lorry up the lane, I had to climb up the back of the cab to lift a telegraph pole stay over the top of the ro-ro mechanism. He had inches to spare on each side but somehow he got to the end of the plot and completed a 98 point turn so he could drop the skip, the problem was that we had nowhere prepared for the skip to go so it just went straight on to the grass and after another 98 point turn he headed back out of the lane (with me lifting the telegraph pole stay again) so, after him "having a look" I had a chuffing great skip in my garden - I was somewhat bewildered but grateful. I then asked another friend who has a mini digger if he could come and lift some of the paths around the edge of the bungalow. He arrived and promptly started pushing the bungalow over, completely ignoring the footpaths! At this stage I realised that it was probably too late to worry too much about the Method Statement for the demolition which I still haven't submitted. We started loading the bungalow into the 20 yard skip and made a call to get the skip replaced. It was another nerve wracking creep up and down the lane for the skip lorry and, of course, since the first drop the weather had taken a turn for the worse and now there was much slipping and sliding of the lorry. The only solution I could see was to throw bits of bungalow under the skip lorry, which did the trick. We only had 20 minutes between the skip lorry departing full and returning to dump another empty skip during which time we threw loads more bungalow onto the grass to provide some hard standing for the skip and the lorry to manoeuvre. Yes, onto the grass, I should have called a halt. Stripped the top soil, then thrown the bungalow onto the garden and then got the skips back but I didn't, not until later, but by then the damage was done. Anyway the bungalow is now gone and the plot looks like Passchendaele.

A string of expletives spring to mind.

What a pain in the @rse. I hope the window leaks get fixed for you asap and you can press on and achieve your fully water tight structure. Exactly.

I second that, the PV looks very smart (as does the rest of it) and clearly the weather Gods have decided to stay on your side for a while looking at the photos.

@Mr Punter Cheers, got it now ?

Can you provide a link to that @Mr Punter, I can't find it.

That would seem to be a bit of a shocker from MBC and difficult to understand how it could have happened. Is that section just not vertical and leaning into the house, or is it not as thick as it should be? Have you approached MBC about it? Is there anything they can do to make good the error?

@JSHarris well that answered that question pretty comprehensively!

@Nickfromwales & @JSHarris thanks for both of your input on this, and the contrary positions makes for interesting debate. We plan to have the boiling water tap, one of which we have seen combines everything including filtered drinking water (which seems a bit, er, wet as good old tap water has seen me through this far) but as a supplementary question, would the water filter remove the sodium from the softener?

+1 for SketchUp. Tricky to start with but plenty of online tutorials to help you over that first hurdle.

Does the softener act as a restrictor in some way? Would that be why @Nickfromwales suggests the accumulator is downstream from it?

@Nickfromwales thanks. I was hoping the words would be something along the lines of ‘quite simple’.