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Photos would be as welcome as you are.....

This thread astounds me. Members' collective appetite for unwarranted punishment still matches the OP's capacity dish it out. Astounding. Everyone else I know would have had to wash their hair or defrag their hard disk by now.

Ze Tschermans dont knof vot a vobble is....

Bet my next month's salary, you can download them ...

No. But it depends how they are stored. Mostly they will not be in use. In the rain, unloved lying around on site they'll deterorate quickly. On a stillage out of the weather, squirt of WD 40 or silicone grease as you go past every now and then, and mine are fine. It's the inflatable tyres that fail quickest, so swop them for solid ones, or buy some of that squirty stuff that will re-flate them ('RunFlatFoam' ? sorry forgotten the trade name). I have an expensive French wheelbarrow that's outside all the time (covering our cement bags), its in perfect condition - apart from the axle , which is jammed solid. You can come and take it away for free any day you want. I loathe it. If only I took my own advice every now and then. ?

@goatcarrot, exactly this issue was brought up at a local public meeting about a group of houses to be built the other side of the A6 where we live. Massive hoohaaa. People dying in ditches - over my dead body - do we ever want 50 new houses on that damp patch of ground - and anyway the sewers are overflowing blaaaah blaah. Hissing and Booing all over the place. Consultation document from United Utilities : No Objection. The site is a flood magnet, right next to the West Coast Main Line. About as difficult a spot as you could find.

They should not wobble! How have you fixed them in the framework? Here is the playlist for the Aqua Clean range (guessing you might be using that)

And if you don't follow up that issue with the accounts clerk the price agreed over the phone is just hot air. In self-builds, its the relentlessness of the need to attend to detail that gets to me . We could all do with a back-office whirling dervish posessed of an uncomfortable eye for detail.

I have used neither. But I have learned that whatever the fabric - it's the quality of the work that is the key issue. I suspect you can get U values pretty much the same overall for each build method. Its the focus on detail and pride in accuracy that repays. Just one slapdash worker is enough to cause lots more downstream work, and therefore cost.

Our chippy says the same - while not giving a damn about neatness himself. And he was talking to me the other day about his OH moaning at him about - not picking his dirty clothes off the floor - taking his boots off - not washing up - not .... etc. Some are born neat, some messy, and some have neatness thrust upon them. Yet others are OCD. Screwheads in fact.

The cost. ?

Exactly right: unspeakable issue. Its that unspeakability which causes so much unnecessary kicking of cans down the road. For one extreme example read this. Bleach and toilet cleaners, in moderation, have made no difference to ours - as yet (2 years in, weekly bleach clean of all loos and bathroom). In normal use, the volumes of good bacteria-killing chemicals like bleach should be too small. But there are alternatives; you might want to try those. In the normal cleaning cycle for the digester, sanitary waste that does not break down will get pumped away every two or three years. If you decide to use a digester, ask the manufacturer what their recommendation is. If we'd had the choice, we would have connected to the mains sewage system. Its a no-brainer. Even if you need to pump it up-hill a bit.

Visit some BMs and waste time looking at their stacks of tiles. One will click eventually.

For both mine, the bowl came in cardboard packaging: you take the top off the package and the bowl is sitting on a cardboard framework....... Maybe yours is a different model. Mine's Tuma Classic.

Its a bit of a struggle on your own: are you using the Geberit cardboard support frame so you can just slide the pan up to the fittings .... ?

Add to Gary's ( @nod ) wise view : think about the problem for yourself too - how for example anyone going to repair / clean / clear the drain run? Will the groundworker take responsibility for an inadequate design ( PPI ?). Run the design past your plumber too. To answer your question directly None. Because everyone is shoving responsibility to everyone else. And that pisses me off. Exactly what everyone tried to do to us. 'King lazy if you ask me. Because everyone's final answer is "Well its up to you mate" So, ask everyone, pay no-one for the design because nobody is going to commit - unless they do commit of course. Can you tell I'm cross about the issue for you? Good because it happened to us. Why? Because its about the soft and smelly stuff. And thus to be avoided as far as self-build is concerned. A large house builder would not stand for it. Gather a range of views and spend a bit of time researching the subject for yourself. BH is a great place to get a good range of views. The key question is - what happens when (not if) there's a blockage.

In haste, (apologies) Here's the Permitted Development guru. An information goldmine for someone like you. Here's a search for the term consistency within that blog. You appear to me to be arguing that the decisions relevant to you have not been made in a manner consistent with other similar cases. Consistency is (or should be in a legal context) an important element of planning decisions. I think this might be a fruitful area for your research.

Thats exactly what we intended to do at the switch banks next to the front and rear entrance. On entry, one switch switches 'on' all the 5amp lights either on or off. On - on the way in - off the other way round. @ProDave mentioned it earlier last year - it would have been such a reassuring thing for someone coming home to an empty deserted house. Then COVID hit. There's another feature that fell to the Self-Build-But syndrome. Cant take joke, don't self-build. PS, I suppose there'll be a way of doing that via WiFi. But thats for later.

Gaz, that's what our plumber told us their new bloke did - he was made redundant but wouldn't give in, so he asked all round the Northwest Lancs. coastal area...... Be proactive, and persistent. Good luck. Ian

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Oh, just found this stuff glow in the dark tape. Temp bodge, but anything to keep Twinkle Toes smiling.

Pure genius. My mate has (built himself) a laser cutter : 4' by 2', massive thing. I'll whip the Scolmore cover plates off and get him to etch the plate above and below two of the switches ( the most often used). Then change one other switch to the red one that Scolmore already sell. Genius Clive, genius. Thanks

I've had time to think about your post Dave. We deliberately designed the switching so that anyone entering the house (legitimately) could switch on lights all over the house. We did that for security reasons. I don't want to go into it in any detail, but it doesn't take too much imagination to figure out why a house owner would want to be able to do that. I'd like to make the switches serve us, not the other way around - so adapting this idea My mate has a 3D printer. There ain't nowt he can't wire up - he's made his own flight simulator in his massive shed We'll '... fab summat oop lad ...' as he says. I'm really gettin' in to this now. Who knows even @Onoff might have a thought or two about this.....