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Welcome. I'm no brickie, but looking at your post, may I offer a small word of advice since you come from one of the hottest places on earth? At this time of year, consider covering your work with a bit of plastic or hessian or something (your auntie's shawl would work too) overnight....?. But you knew that dint' cha? I'll get me coat.

Well Dave, that's the cost of intelligent planning ... can't get the staff these days squire ....

Hannah, get them cut down, pronto. Just do it. Locally, if a tree has a TPO on it, developers employ a mate of mine to disappear the tree. He does it on Sunday mornings well before breakfast. He's usually in church by 10:00. The developer pays the eventual fine and writes that down against tax. Oh, by the way, welcome. Ian

Clive, yer a star. You've just saved me a good few quid. Thanks Ian

Sheeeeet . I didn't know I was sticking my [... ] in a hornets nest .

?? everyone. Ian

Whats wrong with trying?

Bleedin' edge dimmer eh? @Conor, I'm working on it... Do GU10s need to be Fire Rated if they are going to be put in the ceiling downstairs?

Exactly. I'm almost past caring now. It won't matter if we leave the ceiling open until next summer. So it can dry out. It takes about an hour to get a drip during heavy rain. And a day or so to stop dripping. Thing is the area concerned is in the rain shadow, so it drips every few weeks. It has been the next but one job for the last few weeks ... ?

My in-roof system is fine. Faces all the wet weather, nay borra (yet)

Reading this section of the site, I'm sold on the idea of dimmable LEDs. We're thinking of dimming some LED strips, and a good few LED GU10s. Maybe my brain's too full of dripping roofs, stolen favourite tools and First Fixation circuitry: but where does the dimming actually occur? In an LED GU10 circuit, the bulbs need to be dimmable. But what about the driver / transformer? Does that need dimmability too? Do the same rules apply to LED Strip dimmers? And has anyone seen a Scolmore Click Mode Module dimmer switch - you know, the type that'll fit in a grid together with other switches?

No, not yet. Been first fixing the electrics. No excuse for me to sleep. The leak is tiny: a drip every two or three minutes.

Well @scottishjohn and @SteamyTea ; within 20 meters of my house there is a Tupperware (oops GRP ) roof which is still leaking two (three?) full years after it was built - when the temperature outside was too low. I did suggest to the owner of the roof, that the weather forecast wasn't too good. But he was under time pressure. Each summer since it was built he has tried to repair the leak: without success. Some ya win, some ya lose.

Indeed, thanks very much @SteamyTea . I'm almost feeling like getting the calculation done and then the drill out . But @Russell griffiths would laugh at me, @Construction Channel would roll his eyes, @Nickfromwales would tell me to get on with the plumbing, @Jeremy Harris would point out some fundamental errors, @TerryE would point out some rare statistical anomaly that occurs in months where there is a Friday the 13th, @MikeSharp01 would keep winding me up about the size of my drill - it's the diameter that counts , and @Pete would bring a deck chair to watch. So @SteamyTea, I think I'll pass on his one, ta!

Not cool maaaan, not cooool. ?

Bloody Hell Ed, just remembered your video .... Theres no reason why I shouldn't make a window sill like this is there?

Cheers Ed. Reveals? Some really nice bits of timber boarding - saved from the wooden packing which came with the windows: knot free, dead straight, stickered outside since delivery. Just needs a run through the thicknesser. And a good few coats of sealer. Really looking forward to it. Kiss the cat for me eh?

Timber. Interesting thought to use stone : how wide should the cill be - better put, how much wider than the structural opening should the cill be?

Externals ...

Along with @HerbJ here , I messed up on external window sill widths. So I need some. And since financial pips are squeaking, I thought I'd make some. How far either side of the window's structural opening should the sill extend?

Ugggghhhh. You have my sympathy. ?

The Internet. The place for shared ignorance.

What about ye? Eh? Sticken out? Anyway, welcome. Oooooh, you'll have the BH Flat Roof Police after you soon. Mine leaks.... but we're getting it fettled. You might like to work through the criticisms of flat roofing . Sounds like you have some good contacts: that's a really good start. Good luck Here's a list of BH posts with the term Flat roof in the title. All good fun innit?

Stoopid? No, it was me that is (well, used to be) . I assumed there was no need . Who's the eejit now then, eh?

Phhhhhhhhhh. ?