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Aaaarghhhhh. I know, what does Gary think? @nod, are you around? How do I dig myself out of this hole? Simply put, the Dursiol hasn't been ' sealed' before the windows went in. So the Compriband wasn't fitted. Is there any way of sealing the reveal such that the Compriband can be fitted? Come on Gary, show us what'cha got......

The clay was dusty: and in today's brisk wind, I almost needed eye protection. So now.... Tomorrow tarting the hole up and popping it in. That should be a laugh.

Yes. For an ostensibly intelligent person, I can be remarkably bloody stupid. Really, seriously bloody thick.

There's experience for ya!

The pipe in the picture is the post-treatment discharge ' line ' , i.e. the final trickle to the stream some 150 yards away. To save us going all the way to the discharge point, I'm putting in a manhole so we can sample the treated discharge. @ProDave I am trying to work out the exact centre of the hole that I should dig for the treatment unit. To do that, I need to work out where to put the sample chamber. The position of the post-treatment pipe is a given: about 1500mm down. So the vertical gap between the tank invert (700ml -ish) and the post-treatment discharge line needs to be '' bridged' with a manhole. My question is; horizontally, how far away from the treatment unit do I put the manhole- (sample chamber). I ask because I know there is a rule about putting treatment tanks at least 7 meters away from a dwelling. I don't want to have to nudge the treatment unit any closer to the house than I have to. PS Just found this schematic diagram. The thing I call a manhole is referred to as a sample chamber

And here it is, much deeper than I thought..... about 1500mm down. Yes, @Declan52, I'll leave the bucket on tomorrow: the back of the bucket acts as a cam. Hadn't thought of that. I need to put in a post-treatment inspection chamber, so how much space do I need to allow for that before I start digging the 2100 mm square hole ( 2440 deep) for the tank? I dimly remember that I need to embed the chamber in pea gravel.....

Will the digger lift the tank - weight's not an issue (250Kg) : but in terms of reach? Yo Sushi! With 300 mm to spare. I am officially pleased Now to find the end of the pipe which we buried this time last year.... and dig down to it......

We have three (one's a door) The whole house design relies on the light harvested by those three windows. Looking at them now (they've only just been installed ) I'm thinking about privacy: you can see straight through our house..... and my relaxed attitude to undress. Hmmmm.

I write to let everyone know that the Manager of Ecowin, Thomas Froelich sadly passed away on Saturday. Ecowin supplies Gaulhofer windows and doors Thomas came to visit us a few times on his frequent trips up and down the M6. He lived up to his name : Froelich translates to Happy in English. He was always cheerful. And I was always glad to chatter to him in German - we could share seriously politically incorrect jokes and compare notes about how in Austria and Germany things were done ' richtig ' (correctly) whereas in other countries (he talked about installs of Gaulhofer windows and doors in other countries), that was not the case. The sales team up in Dalgety Bay (the other side of the Forth opposite Edinburgh) are devastated. Despite that, Craig found the time to ring me and talk our install through this morning. I'm sure we all would want to express our condolences to Lorraine his wife and his children.

I never ever think of that............ Our site has a gentle slope: the tank is going in at almost the lowest point on the site - still some 10 meters higher than the discharge point 150 meters away. Right then, off to have a coffee and take some piccies and then get stage 1 done..... just need to check if the digger really will lift the tank. Its not the weight that's the issue: its the vertical reach.

Right, then, thanks. Obvious case for digging a trial hole today and watching what happens overnight. (Yes, I'll cover the hole, and double check nothing is in it tomorrow morning)

Folks, quick question: how do you define a high water table? How high, relative to a 3 meter deep hole, is a high water table?

And not one of them belongs to a teenager.

Exactly. We're two opposite ends of the spectrum : I clear up shared areas all the time (my office is a tip). That's why it's so important to have properly planned places in which we can store stuff. Which is why @Onoff , you scored a bull's-eye with S-Box. The eye-watering price, though....

@HerbJ's idea and yours has yet to be discussed. Thanks for the plan @HerbJ, you arrangement for steam extraction is very discreet: it is in the ceiling space?.... There's a better than evens chance of me having to be in a wheelchair, I think ; at least for short periods - new hips on order. So the clearance is an issue - quite close to my heart also because my mate is quadriplegic. She's changed her mind. ? We are for EVER charging something. If not the phones or tablets, then the external batteries that we need for the bloody phones. It would be great to hide the damn things while they are charging....... in a shallow drawer maybe?

@Onoff - Debbie says have you got any advice on childbirth?

Thats the sort of advice which is almost priceless. Ditto.

You are right, once you take the basic decision, sooooo many questions follow. Hence the post. Yes to in-island extraction. If we pop the hob off center, then that allows for 'placing' hot stuff. Maybe 1500 square would be better? Should we put the island on the slab, or on the finished floor?

Debbie's been really patient. And the moment we had our windows in , I thought it might be time to start a conversation about how she wants her kitchen to be organised. We get surprisingly little talk-it-through-time and when we do it's clear that mental pictures aren't good enough. There's only so much Pintrest sharing that anyone can stand. So, out of the windows packing casing I made this. The box shape in the foreground is the island - which we hadn't planned for. In an effort to reduce the amount of yet more piss-poor planning, I'd like to plan the island in detail. I've made a start, but what the hell do I need to do next? She wants a hob, an in-island extractor, a fridge, somewhere to charge her command and control device (phone), somewhere to eat, a built in place for hot pans, and a bit of storage. All in 1200 square. Yeah, right.

Exactly Gary. As a hairy sergeant once growled at me on a street in Norn Iron: Be grateful for small Murphys, sir.

I'll be talking to the company on Tuesday, @HerbJ. Gently does it initially, I think.

I'm eyeing up our colander. Stick some coarse sandpaper inside it..... could work a treat. Think she'll miss it ?

I was hoping you'd pop along @HerbJ. Bang on in every respect except one. I am not certain that the fitters were given the instructions to fit the windows using Compriband. However, they now know (because I've shown them) that the Compariband is there to be fitted (£600 quids worth....). They gave me a clear explanation of why it wasn't fitted, though. @Stones I've talked to the lads (one was the foreman) today and said that, if I have time, I'll rake out. On balance, perhaps I shouldn't have. But there is no rush on this one: the door and windows shouldn't take more than a day to fettle. So, until then, I'll keep hold of my retention fee. They are a really nice crew: there's a bit of a language issue , though. @nod, never mind. It's all coming out in the wash, eh? At the root of this thread is the same issue as occurs time after time here. Talking to people . Or not. And had I watched a few more videos about fitting Compariband, I'd have caught it - maybe.

I have been given (bought with the windows order) two types of Compriband. Wide and narrow. The narrow stuff fits in the gap between the window and the wall, like this, I think. The wide stuff sticks on the side of the window and the wider section of the tape, sticks to the wall. In which case I can't be arsed to pay. There is no outside handle: just a key hole. Because the company said it is what they require. In which case, the fitters should fit it no?