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Wha? Bend a polypipe? You Charlie Atlas or summat?
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Yes. I will start bedding stuff in tomorrow. Haven't got 11s and 22s but I will sort that pronto.
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@PeterW, wots the craik with the 11 and 22 degree bends? Do I just make the same bodge up out of those?
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Wot, each section (pipe) ? .... bloody hell.
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8002 mm ...
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I think @epsilonGreedy has implicitly accepted that the I/C is correctly orientated as is.....?
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Looks like I'm spending tomorrow digging ........ The peg at the end of the line is about 50mm from the side of the trench. So I need to shave another 80mm off the left hand side - which is a real ball ache because the land drain is about 81mm from the side: in other words, it's going to collapse. kcuf it
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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?
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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.
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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 ...........
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Right, thanks very much . Appreciate the attention to detail. I'll go and look at that now .... back in a few minnits.
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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?
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Nowhere near deep enough to accomodate your collection of rubber duckies.......
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IFTTT and either Google or Amazon
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
.... 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. -
IFTTT and either Google or Amazon
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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?
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Peace brother, peace! ?
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Office to Dwelling - Permitted Development Advice
ToughButterCup replied to SamTheMan's topic in Planning Permission
Then google Martin Goodhall. He's yer man- 14 replies
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Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
.. 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! -
Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
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Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
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 -
Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
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. -
Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
Shaddup ! She's a very nice lady ... ? -
Connecting up: a bit of advice please.
ToughButterCup replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
Just had a word with our BCO. She says wot @Russell griffiths says. So it must be OK......?
