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One each end....

Maybe some heavily painted WBP, then Peter ..... ?

Our cottage is built facing south west and so traps every last bit of bad weather. And the back door 'gets it' . The last month or so has pushed it beyond its limits. Its developed a curve that would make Beckham proud. Awful innit? Question is how to mend it? The vertical lines are strips of timber are fixed with nails top and bottom. What a silly design for an external door. But then nobody asked me ...? My instinct is to knock the vertical strips of timber all out and make a replacement ply cover for the hole. But it wont take long before the ply starts to delaminate. I'm all out of imagination this morning ....... I need a simple quick temporary fix that'll last until the summer, please.

Oooooo, thats posh. I bought the cheapest one - and cant live without it. I would be a raving looney if our circuits weren't labelled. See if you can go for the absolute minimum , something like switch on (top left) type the label print (top right) cut (left hand white thing). Thats all I do with ours. If you want to throw it, tell me and I'll send you my address

In haste: for the same reasons you give, we considered it, got the answer wrong and this is how we got it wrong. I'll show you how we are solving the issue later to day if I get the time. In brief - keep it all in the heated envelope

Welcome. You have my sympathy in this current run of weather. I'm in a hurry this morning otherwise I'd give you the link - search on this site for 'expenses spreadsheet' or some other closely related term ... Ian

Well, you got that bit right, thats for sure Welcome.

And just how is the burning of wet wood going be policed? West Lancashire will continue to burn coal and wet wood for the foreseeable future. Luckily for my lungs, unpwind of us is the sea.

Knowledge of local politics, as opposed to the opposite.

What's different about cutting PIR?

Welcome. Get the access designed. Get it approved. Do it.

Immer Junge, immer.

And then again, my dad taught me how to make wooden wall plugs ( stick, pen knife, whittle, hammer in, knock off) long ago. Don't suppose that would pass muster these days. Barbed doodahs for me from now on.

I can see the difference in design - does it really make that much difference? I'll pop into Lidl and see if there are any for sale

You lovely people, thank you. I've never put any foul drainage piping together (yet) so - since the piping is internal - I think I'll do a little pilot project first. Make something out of foul drain piping using Tees and bends and stuff. And I suppose I'd better use solvent weld hadn't I ?

Bloody Hell: there's summat new hex stud extenders. I'm gonna get some - the number of times I've needed a longer stud.....

Working on your own, and listening to that oft-repeated question is starting to get to me. I've started replying "How long's a piece of string?" Going from a working environment where I really did have lots of control, a secure operational, strategic and policy overview of what I was doing to one where on site most days I work hard to make just a little progress: its wearing. If I hear that stupid saying "Do something today that you've never done before" once more ?. Thats what I do almost every single day. It makes you focus on the little stuff - on the nitty gritty detail. After a couple of years of that I haven't got the wherewithal to lift my head up and see the bigger picture. And at the same time I am well aware that we only just got planning permission - had we applied a month or so later, in all likelihood we would have been refused. The guy on the plot next to us was refused. He applied just a little after we did. Ah, stop moaning Ian. Just Bloody Do It. Thanks for the replies folks. Ian

@Onoff did you resin that screw in? I'm tempted to do that once every other job has been done.

Thanks Peter. The table given there is helpful: in the table 10mm drill size takes a blue plug, whereas Geberit uses a light grey. Of course it helps if members who post here read the instructions. ?

? Arschloch bin Ich. Verzeiung.

It's internal foul drainage time. Heard all sorts of dire warnings about getting this wrong. Strong advice to shove the foul drain straight out of the house and down an external pipe. - whassa point of a thermal bridge that size I say? But I do agree: its obvious that internal piping does need extra care. Here's the schema. And its based on this discussion. I think I need what I think is called 'acoustic drainage'. I wonder whether anyone has any experience in this somewhat delicate area? Should I just get some of Geberit's Silent-db20 piping? I don't need all that much ...... or is there anything cheaper that just as good?

Hmmm, the Germans expect you to know that ....

Putting my Geberit Sigma base unit in today, and I'd like to get this - to adapt Gerry Rafferty's words - Right First Time. A tall order because usually, its two steps forward and one or more back. The feet are meant to be bolted to the ground (concrete) with a hex-head structural screw marked 8.8, and they provide a Rawlplug - well its a Rawlplug on speed really .... (invented by a German I think ? but the inventor call it a Duebel) Is there a simple table somewhere which for each screw size, gives hole diameter, the size of plug need and the depth to drill the hole? Since this is for a loo, should I use some resin in the holes? I'd be most grateful if anyone could post a link. Thanks.

You call those cracks ....... thats fair wear and tear ?

Can anyone point me to a post or Internet resource that gives a Ladybird version of what's needed between the inverter and arrival at the CU please? In Russ' words, the '... solar stuff ...'