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Perish the thought Gary. Yes, of course I will. But I want to know the answer to the question before I ask it. If it takes 10 minutes to pop up on the roof and drop some dyed water and watch where the drip comes through then I'm gonna do that. I'm done with letting trades do their stuff without me taking an active interest in what they do..... ? ?? Top banana. I'll have a good with free then: so we can swop drip stories in the pub . Evalon. Off to the gym to pump iron - takes courage does that exercising next to really super fit female stick insects . Ahhhhh poor me eh?

I'll spare you the details. I'm trying to trace a tiny weeny driplet that is squeezing itself through our brand new flat roof. Yes, it's the installers responsibility. Yes, tell him to sort it. Yes. But I want to find this sodding leak point. I have traced it to one general area. By running a hose over it when the roof is dry. Now I need to identify the actual place that leaks. Is there any way of colouring water such that the colour will still show once it trickles through the roof?

Ours would be for our new house, not the little shack we've lived in since last century. So, I'll need to put the wiring for one in now. It would be brilliant if an electromagnetically intelligent BH member were to suggest where or how I could come by a wiring diagram for such a system, please?

... 'old on a minnit... You mean every time you lose power, your poor wife has to get up from her comfortable armchair seat and find that nobody's rung the doorbell? Good luck with that. I'd get marmalised ....

You lost me after the word 'Easy ... '

? No excuse for sleep here at GCN Central.

I better get this in before Nick does..... Bird is the Word, bird bird bird......

Now there's a simple answer for a simpleton like me. Thanks

? Its my damaged back thats the issue .....?

An 8 year old girl with an eye for detail, and whose mum says of her "You're going to be a proper little madam"

Moira, thats a picture. You must be very pleased. Hard work a bit of courage and determination has its rewards....

Hmmmm, so an isolator for MVHR - (which also has its own on/off switch) The SunAmp The Geberit loos the cookers the hob but not the fridge, freezer or minor stuff. Hmmmm. Can't see the logic - yet.

You have 30 minutes to answer the following question. Do not copy what @JSHarris, @Onoff or @ProDave or that other really nice Scottish boffin write. @TerryE writes with disappearing ink so its OK to look at his answer. Write your name at the top of your paper and on each page that you submit Your invigilator will collect your online answers and collate them below. Q1: Isolators isolate. Switches switch. Discuss. A good answer will make reference to the ways in which switches and isolators are similar, and the ways in which they perform different functions. An excellent answer will give good, clearly expressed examples of when an isolator should be fitted instead of a simple switch. A good answer will show how switches are sometimes Double Poled, and sometimes not, and the reasons for the differences. Top marks will be given for those answers referring to how switched fused spurs and fused isolators are used, especially those made by Scolmore. Oh bugger it, lets cut to the chase. The examiner doesn't know when he should fit an isolator, and when a mere a switched fused spur will be adequate. Ta! Ian

I'm not your mum. We do appreciate your contributions: lots of people will have read your problem, have similar ones themselves and - on the basis of your interaction here - worked out how to sort things out for themselves. Put some clothes on ( ?) and go for a walk.

I realise my suggestion is a challenging one. I am not your mother, but my advice above borders on the inappropriate. Neither Build Hub not I has a therapeutic relationship (duty of care) with you. We cannot - accurately and with authority - advise you to the extent you are asking. Asynchronous communication (written text question and answer) does not support the level of detail you require. The volume of advice you have received is vast. I realise also that you are communicating in what to you is probably an Additional Language. That makes your job of reading that advice hard. It makes the job of respondents to your posts harder too. Your written style is sometimes challenging too. Nothing is going to change if you have a few days off. Please, please, have a good rest. Come back next week. Please.

@zoothorn. Switch your computer off right now. I realise that I'm asking you something that's really difficult . Have a well-deserved long weekend off SWITCH OFF AND WALK AWAY NOW .. See you next week, eh?

If you have to ask for support about issues like that, walk away from the build. Right now. Give yourself a long weekend away from the build. Right now.

If you are making comments like that @zoothorn, then honestly, you just have to walk away from the build for a while. A day or two should do it. Give yourself a rest. Right now.

Cheap sheet DPM. £40 a roll from your local Builders' Merchant.

Imagine going to school at 5 years old in the UK speaking German only. I learned to fight hard very quickly. Entrenched-Minded locals exist in every country I have visited and worked. As I moved and worked round Europe, at first I found it really difficult. But then realised that I needed to give - be open - be generous with that difference. Relax with that difference. Shrug, grin, share a joke, but don't allow people to take the piddle - beyond the local average. I mean it's really hard not to take the piss out of @JSHarris, even harder not to take it out of @Declan52 and others. Judging how far to take the piss out of them is a learned art. And maybe it's some of those really subtle cues when talking to real people that you might have missed now and again. You - like me- might interpret some stuff a little too literally. Take stuff a bit too seriously - need exactitude . Because it's comforting. I've said it before @jamiehamy's advice above seems to me to be a good starting point. It'll take courage, I know.

@zoothorn, have you read @Russell griffiths post? Re-posted (reformatted) here [...] [...] mark on the wall finished floor height, not a dot or a mark on the render, a [...] straight line. get builder on site and ask him how he [...] will get your floor up to [the marked] height Outcome 1. builder agrees to get floor to [the marked] height at his cost, [...] Outcome 2. He tells you it’s your fault and he won’t do anything, [and then] pay him for his time so far [...], get another builder. [...] and then follow @jamiehamy's advice above.

The words that jump to me are ' ... I am very much alone ...' and your positive take on that. That positivity can be a useful start to building a wider friendship group. The process of developing that local friendship group can be a task when you act on @jamiehamy 's suggestion Building something when you - like me - are working on the edge of your comfort zone is deeply uncomfortable. I - like you - get frantically mad with some of the stupidity which surrounds me. It is astonishingly rare to find someone who can - on their own - take this amount of pressure. Look to your immediate support group. Build it too. Enjoy it. Nurture it.

Quite the opposite. My concern is for you and you only. I'm trying gently to suggest you have a chat about the build with someone other than BH contributors. Nothing more.

Apart from BH members and your builder, to whom have you talked about your extension? I ask because you seem to me to be over-reliant on the written content in BH posts. Asynchronous communication loses so much important stuff - tone - humour - emphasis - mood. Having an informal person-to-person chat about this with anyone - anyone at all - can be helpful. It helps us all. I am not suggesting you ask for detailed advice from professionals - merely that you let off steam.

@Triassic ... Lucy Martin : (2010) The Bible of Home Lighting : Ideas for every room in your home. Quattro Publishing. London. It's a useful book because it sets out simple core concepts, and then gives practical examples. My experience of asking people locally about lighting design is that they suggest they do for your job what they have always done on every other job, and don't think about what your needs are. In the private sector, of those people who market themselves as lighting specialists - and that I have contacted - seem generally to have no qualification to practice as lighting designers. I suspect that properly qualified, competent lighting design is focused on high end top notch private work and the industrial sectors. The second book? The dog ate it I think. If I find it, I'll put the reference on this thread.