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Oh boogre. 11 or 22 - ah'm ahn it honey, ah'm an it.... if not, lets pray that @Bob has one lying around .... Jamie??? if you are reading this....? Why an 11 or 22? Whassa craik?

Yes, it does have a kink : if I were to use your suggestion, that kink would be in the pipe, a few mm before it gets to the I/C. Wassa diffrunce? Somewhere, at some stage, the flow has to go through a 45 degree turn. Your way involves a good deal of digging in what is now bone-hard clay. After a solid week of digging (more now I come think of it) I've kind of had enough. Mind you, I don't want the good weather to end....... Thanks to @Bob, I have two of those Bend-It-With-Beckham (grey) joints. Any Gottchas using this? I'm using it because the level of the shower outlet is about 40mm higher than the loo outlet. Bummer. ( Oooops ? unintentional malapropism.) Thanks to @Construction Channel for the tip about holding the end of the pipe in place (in his case) bits of rebar. I used a fork to hold the assembly stable.

My BCO has just this minute agreed that I can put a 135 from the shower outlet into the main run and a rodding point where the yellow dot is. Interestingly she suggested I arrange for the rain 'wash' from the piggery roof be used to help flush the foul drainage line. The roof is very small ( 5 by 1 ) . Here's a close-up To me it looks OK, but I have been so wrong so often ...........

Right, thanks very much . Appreciate the attention to detail. I'll go and look at that now .... back in a few minnits.

This inspection chamber will be 1100 mm below the ground level. The I/C base indicates the position of the foul drain for the loo. (Orange elipse) Our shower drain (red elipse) exits the property upstream of the toilet drain. And so, in theory, I should put another I/C there ( green rectangle) because rodding points should be provided at all changes of direction. I'd like to avoid putting another I/C there because I'm going to put a rodding point in at the yellow circle. If I were to follow the letter of the recommendations there would be two access chambers and 1 rodding point within 2 meters. Can putting a rodding point in at the yellow circle be seen as sufficient provision for clearing the drainage system?

Nowhere near deep enough to accomodate your collection of rubber duckies.......

.... just made the mistake of getting IFTTT to report when the space station is passing overhead. How those astronauts aren't constantly dizzy I don't know .... Must be like staring out of a train window at the fields rushing by - only on global scale.

The most useful for me so far is the creation of a log of incoming and outgoing phone calls on my Google calendar: it means I can create notes about that conversation in Google Calendar (others calendar listings are available). We have a smart-ish TV: I'll have a poke about with Alexa and that soon. I never thought that simply switching on a light would be come an issue: but after a days' digging - if I collapse in my chair and then after an hour want to switch on a light, well, I need to sing the Halleluja Chorus to mask the swearing.

I have to face facts: my mobility is reducing a good deal more quickly than I'd like. And sometimes the mobility I do have is accompanied by a reasonable amount of pain. My memory isn't what it once was either. I regard this new phase in life as just another challenge to be faced and - if not beaten - then dealt with crisply. By accident I bumped into IFTTT. Also by accident we renewed our Amazon Fire Stick recently, and that comes with Alexa built in. Curious as ever, mucked about with it. Didn't take long to make the link between the two..... Yeah, I get it: ya don't get owt for nowt. There are - for some - security or privacy concerns which outweigh any perceived advantage. I accept that. But when you need to work out how to get back up again before bending down to pick up the hen's eggs: when, before descending into a trench, you work out which ladder will be the least painful to use: when you for the first time realise that you can't be sure who rang you when and on what date ... its time to harness a bit of creative thinking. Voice activation has to be part of my future because it will help reduce the number of sources of pain. Please can we discuss on this thread POSITIVE reasons for opting in to either IFTT and Alexa or IFTT and Google Assistant? Maybe there's another voice activated technology which you know about that might help control simple parts of our lives?

Peace brother, peace! ?

Then google Martin Goodhall. He's yer man

.. ahhh bloody 'ell: didn't know you could do that..... I've beeb given a couple of couplers (as it were) with one seal missing. Now I know why!

Is this too big a nick to risk?

Russ, she's very very nice. Patient, understanding, well informed, highly qualified and has a sense of humour. I'm quitting while I'm ahead

Ours goes right under the the ringbeam, and runs clear of any concrete by 100mm or so. The BCO suggested that there was probably no need to take any precautionary measures in terms of ground movement.

Shaddup ! She's a very nice lady ... ?

Just had a word with our BCO. She says wot @Russell griffiths says. So it must be OK......?

Happy to worry just enough, but no more than necessary. Allowing for differential settlement? Never even gave it a thought. The foul drain comes down inside the house and under the ring beam (shown above, apologies the illustration was intended for something else) as shown here... as you can see below the foul drain emerges under the ring beam, and there's a couple of hundred mm clearance and after a bit of fight, it now looks like this In terms of differential settlement, do I need one of those rubber connector thingies like in your photo between the pipe and the I/C Or will I be able to connect straight up to the I/C without one?

Just rechecked for level. All within 30 mm except for the stonyest bit ... 115 mm too high. And that was just where the shuttering was reducing the rate of trench collapse. I took the shuttering off so I could work more quickly. You know the rest. Can't take a joke? Don't self build

@Bob of this parish popped round the other day and without ceremony, left me a few bags full of second hand ..... I thanked him, and thought no more about it - until today. BH folk can be very kind. Thanks J. Since they are second hand, I thought I'd give them a rinse - taught me a lot - one or two of the seals have nicks in them. Should I recycle those? And that grey thing at the back is as good as a child's transformer toy (and bloody expensive FGS!) . It can be as twisted as a drunk pretzel ... brilliant fun. Anyway, I do as @ProDave tells me and try dry fitting the bend that closest matches my guestimate - take a pic and come back here for further mickey taking I suspect ..... and of course there's Mr Griffiths with his usual cheery note.... For the anything much.

No. In common with many BH members, we ask for advice about stuff we've never done before.

Thirty cubic meters of soil, sand, clay, MOT1, sore backs, calloused hands and swearing later ..... Am I glad to have got to this stage without a drop of rain being spilt.....not to mention enjoy - deeply enjoy - going to the loo for the first time when this system is built! Right: first hiccup The pipe doesn't come out of the house square to the foundation. Laterally, its about 10 to 15 degrees off . You can just about see it in this photo. How best can I correct that mis-placement?

Simple , clear evidence that psychology has a part to play in plumbing. "Not a lot of people know that." (Trump D. 2020)

As far as am aware the situation in respect of CDM2015 has not changed. Here is why I say that. Read the pinned post on CDM2015

I've 'worried' the same problem half to death myself and in the absence of evidence, come to this conclusion : Maybe the 3/4" issue has to do with supplying 2 separate 15mm outlets at the same time. In other words, in a shower for example, if it is possible to use both the overhead showerhead and the hand held wand at the same time, then the unit will work better with a 3/4 supply.