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Well, simple lever taps cost no more than ordinary ones....

Yes. I hated it. The difference between us is that I noticed that level of error- and worse - much too late. And sacked the builder far later than I should. C19 means that tomorrow, Salamander Cottage is hosting a meeting of tradespeople to do our wetroom. (Ill wind that blows nobody any good) Boy oh boy am I going to be on top of every level , plumb line, fitting, grout line, door jamb, cost heading, H&S issue. University of Hard Nocks is a good teacher.

I'm thinking of things like sensor taps, or elbow tap control taps and changing door handle design - especially in the loos. At our place we have just enough time to make the changes in design. Worth it?

A reference to an article about low-dose RF in a refereed journal would help us decide for ourselves; please.

A bit of local skip Wombling is in order then.... where's that skip Gary?

Here's too much about Durisol.

You, me and quite a few. Mind you, we Northerners should all go round to the site where Gary's working, break in, load up and strain the suspension on our clapped out vehicles.

Ours is going up from outside and will be posted through the bedrom window using a material handler - I hope. Thank God I haven't had time to fit the julliette balcony yet - in @ProDave's words, both my first floor doors are currently suicide doors

Have you looked on this site for any advice that already exists? Half an hour using the search tool on the site will get you more detail than you can shake a stick at

Well, Gary they have no excuse for not being happy then do they ....only themselves to blame

And there we have it. Thats what happens if customer and trades folk don't talk to one another...

Joe we have a soakaway planned. My alternative suggestion is exactly the same really: this time it soaks away into a different system which is designed to do the same thing.....

Yessah! Now sah! (The pipes do have 100 mm of pea gravel on top of them.... honest Dave. )

There wuz I, a' diggin' this 'trench - by hand - so I got to know it quite well. The dogs, the cat, the chickens all came to review progress, and comment on progress. Hot, sweaty work: deep enough to be eye-level with the chickens. Why they even picked off the baked beans stuck to my T shirt. It hurt - a bit. But they were kindness itself really. I blame too many totally knackered suppers, slob-like, slumped in front of the TV. The hot weather lulled me into false security. Hadn't thought much about rain. Until yesterday. See, the guttering discharges a hundred mm from the trench. Talk about a laxative moment. Visions of a one meter deep swimming pool. But then I had a thought..... This is the trench How useful is a spare bit of gutter to re-direct the flow from the downpipe? ? Half way down the trench (red elipse) is the land drainage piping that's supposed to stop ground heave in ice-cold weather. That pipe takes the water flow down to a spot in the garden about 10 meters away and about 2 meters lower than the slab. From there it drains into a pond. Can I just duct the rainwater from the roof into that pipe?

Reading between the lines - I doubt anyone here (well, I can think of one..... )has much to teach you. Perhaps you might think about exhaustion and completing the damn thing. I needed learn to muster just enough self discipline to print the invoices off and drop them in a special tray - one which with his often muddy feet the cat won't lie on. Just enough self discipline to DO-IT-NOW. There must be six months worth of invoices waiting for attention. And a whole load of paw prints.

I'd be interested to read what you think the problem(s) might be ...

Ok, how's this then? From the first I/C using my laser (spot 30mm above the invert) and looking for 1.4 degrees (thanks @epsilonGreedy - I couldn't work it out for myself) Heres how I judged the gradient The black line is 100mm above ground level - and the laser spot is 30mm above the previous invert - so here it looks like there's 20mm to play with.... and that was 1.4 degrees below the previous one..... all the way ( 8 meters or so) to the next I/C which is a titchy bit off level . The overall line isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be .... although, there's nowt to be lost by nudging the second joint left a bit is there? Right, what have I missed, please?

Just rung her. She says ........................... Its OK. 344mm wide

Back in yer kennel Griffiths....?

Nasty .... How about build up-wind ?

Failure to realise that caused us a full years worth of overthinking and worry . Its very common to solve the impossible foul drainage problem post hoc.

Oh, God , yes ...... Thanks @ProDave: too tired to think at the moment.

Trench dug ✔️ Gravel delivered✔️ Pipes delivered ✔️ I/Cs delivered ✔️ Overthinking done ( i.e. @Russell griffiths consulted) ✔️ BCO consulted ✔️ "Send me some photographs of the trench just before you want to back-fill it " "I/C in place ?" "Yes" I'm trying to avoid the situation where she looks at the photos and, sucking her teeth, says .... "Yer gonna have to take that out and ....... " Tips please

Focus on finding the landlord. Talk.

Just get on with it.