ToughButterCup

a blanking plate is ... I have TLCs catalogue open in front of me and cant find one - even in the Bits and Bobs section Online though , is this what you mean? Presumably if I decide to do that, then it'll need to be sealed with something like CT1 maybe?

... intended for ... ? A small Euromodule light. But I was persuaded to change the layout of the shower: and now the lighting point is directly in line with the shower flow .... ? I did ask the tiler no to cut a hole there.

You are very welcome @timsk. I can see that, from your skills list) I will be asking you for advice in a couple of months time. I had a happy few years in the Cotswolds, and so visited many of the Roman villas that have been found there. Couple that with a visit or two to Herculanum (?spelling) and that got me very interested in how mosaics can exist at all sorts of levels. So now we have two experts on whom we can call .... excellent. Ian PS we are asking Matron to up @Russell griffiths medication .....?

I blame myself. Even though I had told the tiler not to cut this hole ....... How on earth do I fill it up / camouflage it elegantly?

You doing your own tiling then sunshine? I went round that desert endlessly. Overthinking everything. Cometh C-19, cometh trades from far and wide. Among them a tiler. He saw what we had done , took out a rule sucked his teeth a bit and said Wotcha worrying for? This is flatter than the average pancake. In which case it's fine. But heights for this, that, the other says I.... God damn the man he actually said You're overthinking it.

I think one post above probably meant this website... https://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/

Welcome. Getting old with as much dignity as we can muster became one of the most important themes of our house build. The more we thought about it, the more fabric-first our thinking became. Right from the wall construction to (among many others) wetroom tile choice. Our tiler still hasn't fully recovered from slipping on a wetroom floor and bruising his coccyx - his back permanently damaged. Inflict that on a 70 year old and ...

Ah, thats how you do it...... I just saw the image of a saddle branch and my thought train went from there. Just a little knowledge. Dangerous.

I'm drawing a blank trying to find one of these for sale : Anyone know where I can source one? Might you have one down the back of your sofa maybe? If so, can I buy it from you?

Russ, just in case ... she looks at you looking at it.... Danger...Look away... Christmas is not far off. Have you seen how much a good one costs?

You are most welcome. I mis-read your last sentence as We hope to build a new house in one day. Hmmmm.

Tested my poo tank today. Connected up the air pump to the airline. Switch on - should have stood back - ? WHOOOOOSH ! Dont think digester, or discrete trickle of little bubbles. Think LOG FLUME or JACUZZI or FULL ROLLING BOIL. And what should bubble to the surface - yes you guessed it - a friggin Great Crested Bloody Newt. There it was clinging, newt-like, to a piece of insulation the size of my thumbnail. The ensuing rescue operation lasted until I dropped my Sharpie in the boiling water. Just out of reach of course. But - tell me this: didya know Sharpies float? Yeah, but my bloody glasses don't do they! All of £12 (mean like that I am) down the pan as it were. Straight out my top T shirt pocket - PLOP. Anyway - the electricity supply is via an SWA to the digester compressor compartment. The compressor only has a piddly little cable fitted. How do I connect the little compressor cable to the SWA please?

@Onoff, the weather's with you for a good while now. Crack on!

Oh if only the term engineer meant something we could all understand!

Hmmm, ' spose I'd better answer this one..... First, welcome: a renovation and a build. You'll never be off BH then.... Excellent. I have a fair bit of experience with Durisol and have only just finished building a house and a piggery. Dog house to come. (For me ?) Can I try and save you some time? This site has an excellent search engine. Play around with it. Here's a link to a search using the terms Durisol AND (logical AND) ToughButtercup. As you can see, I don't get out much .... Try adapting the searches to what you need. Good luck with your builds. Ian

Ok, quick email to the manufacturer then: along the lines , 'Please reassure me that previous similar installations have been acceptable to Building Control'

Prickly plants, ground hugging roses, that pyro-'summat' plant A hidden Police Stinger (spike strip) for the bikes, Dig a child-and-bike-size hole so the problem appears and disappears at almost the same instant, while you decide how to deal with inevitable complaints and get ready for the paperwork.

In comparison to round here, for a 4 by 4 ceiling you have a bargain. It may well be more efficient for you to ask the plasterer to source the plaster because - round here anyway - shops and BMs are keeping plaster for their large volume customers - plasterers

Hello. This forum is useful: the more focused the question, the better the quality of advice. So feel free to ask away. Ian

I may have missed something but the OP does not mention FD, does it? £900 squiddlies for a look-at-my-pretty-door is almost rude. In fact it is rude.

Welcome. What do you mean start : yer half way there lass........ Box hedge needs clipping mind. Get HWMO out there with the clippers? (You can edit the size of images during the post-drafting phase by double clicking on them and altering the parameters given. The first image is a bit .....)

Ohhhh Gaauuuud folks. How long is he going to take over this one? Opening a book - Any advance on 10:1 less than 86 pages?

Hi. Chippies here charge £25 / hour. Say that door is 2 full days of her time / fabricate / paint / laquer/ , £400. Materials £100. Profit 10%, £50 , piss-taking another 20% £110 : £660. And in reality he's going to order one from a local carpentry fabrication shop in the back end of beyond and it'll cost him £300 . Ok, double it. £600 Fiting it £200 £900 +VAT - is the bloody thing gold plated? Take my answer with a pinch of salt - feeling sour about that trade at the meoment. But even with that £900 is too much.

Bodger-In-Chief here. Welcome. Just about to bodge my plasterboarding upstairs. Fancy giving me a hand, you being a new lad and all that? Free tea and cake ... no? Oh well...... ?

Oooooooooffff... Might you mean connect the rainwater overflow to the 110 ? As written it looks like you are running pipe-in-pipe......