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Holes drilled and ready for resin. Quite impressed with my cheapo Hammer drill, bought when other drills had died drilling through the garage slab. Was a time you'd be looked down on for having a Titan, don't you have one @pocster?

This bead around the wc in a rental was done in BT1:

Don't know how clear this is but this is my sink pedestal. I had to use like a 10/12mm Fugi tool. The pedestal casting was so badly made there was a 1/4" gap one side. Done in Forever White from memory:

Exactly that. Clean everything. I assume the pan is having to stay in place? Lever it up a bit and sit on some say 10mm if possible, packs, mind fingers! Clean under the pan edge as best with Multisolve and the tiles. Gun in the CT1. Remove packs and let the pan sit down into the CT1. Don't move it anymore. Baby wipe off the excess from pan and tiles, use a bit of Multisolve to help. Walk away, don't touch, don't FFS sit! A day and half later come back. Clean again with Multisolve and run a nice white bead of your chosen cosmetic silicone around where the pan meets the floor and tool off with the appropriate Fugi tool. Have your open bin bag and bits of big roll at the ready.

Want to put some slip pins in between old and new slabs. Cut some 200mm long st/st rod and made some indents over half the length with a 3mm disc to key the resin. Other, smooth half will get a wrap of Denso tape to protect from the concrete.

Well I've just tested negative! ?

Aim for nothing bigger than a 5mm silicone bead if you can. Not always possible. The Fugi tools have it stamped on them. Do some practice runs on an internal corner made from scrap etc: In all honesty I did mine with a generic, looks like a Fugi tool but wasn't and ripped it all out when the good folk here pointed me at the Fugi kit. A revelation!

Honestly it's amazing. What I found was to have a black sack folded back on itself and open, like half height. Grab a bog roll and have a pile of torn off 2 sheets. As you take off the excess with your Fugi tool, grab a bit of roll, wipe the tool and drop the messy bit straight in the bin. Good luck with 3 way corners, they're a bitch! ? No I'm saying don't use BT1 for a start as it's an all in one and won't be so easy to periodically refresh. Use clear CT1 to seal between pan and floor not around the pan. Let it set, i.e to glue the pan down then seal around the pan with Forever White or the Dow if you prefer as the cosmetic. In this case the CT1 is acting as a bloody good adhesive. With the shower, and it depends on your detail, I'm saying use the CT1 as a waterproof sealer in gaps where you think water is getting. Go over the top with Forever / Dow as the "cosmetic" finish. I learnt a lot from this:

Do not use white CT1 anywhere on show. Has a bit of a thing for going cloudy / yellow. Use clear CT1. There is a new ish "BT1" from C-Tec, the makers of CT1. Meant for bathrooms etc and supposedly mould resistant. I did use it once recently on a rental pan and in all honesty it's been spot on. I Iike however, the idea of separate adhesive and periodically renewable over silicone.

It's a pig getting silicone off to redo, proper hard graft imho. I have a Vitrex, plastic tool, silicone removal kit from SF. Not wonderful but I got there. I coupled it with one of these scrapers, the type that takes non Stanley blades. "Siegen" brand. Used this sparingly and lightly on tiles. Watch the glaze! Got mine from the local motor factors. It's razor sharp and be bloody careful. Tbh I wouldn't go near plastic with it and whatever, be oh so gentle. I also used the silicone removal gel from SF, not bad tbh. When I'd gotten as much off as I could I used CT1 Multisolve, let it work in as per the instructions, repeat. The cleaner you get it the less little bits will show in your eventual silicone. With the shower I'd get all the old off. Multisolve again, then pump clear CT1 into the gap and baby wipe flush. Once dry go over with a white silicone of your choice that can be periodically renewed. Be careful where you silicone. There's a good few threads on here about sealing shower screens and instead blocking drainage channels that are meant to be kept open. With the pan then clear CT1 would, 100%, stuck it down to the tiles with no screws. Multisolve bottom of the pan and tiles. A good bead of clear CT1 between the two and lower the pan onto it, don't smear! Again wipe the excess off with baby wipes. Walk away and sh!t somewhere else for 36hrs whilst it goes off. For the white silicone thereafter I've been really impressed with Forever White by Everbuild. Does what it says and hasn't gone mouldy anywhere in my wetroom corner / around the bath. Seal the pan holes with it and a bead around where the pan sits on the tiles. +1 on the Fugi Cramer tool kit, it's mustard.

Hmmm...bit of a night cough thing going on here. I don't like it . No joke this... An Amazon driver rocks up today. I've a long drive so called out to him "I've got Covid mate!" He stopped in his tracks and in his I'm guessing eastern European accent said "I don't believe this!" I asked what he didn't believe and yes it was "Covid" he didn't believe in. "Erm, my Mum died of this mate and I've not been well with it!" That made him think I thought. "It something else, last year I chef and test positive for Covid, I have no symptoms though!" "Sorry for your Mum!" He said as he walked off. Gobsmacked I think is the word.

It's a date once I'm better! Maybe we could go onto Thorpe Park afterwards?

Really? Is there not a single thread where you've not brought it down to your level? On a more serious note how come this fitting only just came off? Did the previous owners not have an issue? No evidence of stains etc?

I can TASTE! Beetroot with vinegar, like the best thing ever! ?

Um...this barrow was free, as was the new wheel and bit of steel. I've never taken as little as an hour on anything!

Throw nothing away! I knew that bag of yellow painted, batten off cuts would come in handy when I put them in the existing shed, (to take up space), 10 years ago! All level pegged, I'll get a nom 3" of hardcore in there which I'll whack down. A couple more barrows of soil to be taken out from off the high spots.

More piddly little bolts in shear! ? Tipping loop to be added next, fire up the Hilmor!

I don't think tentative tiptoeing on bloodied feet will cause much to loosen. I'm referring to those lucky enough to escape, only to be haunted by a lifetime of memories of what went on. (I still wake up screaming). On a serious note.....I have frequently seen water get in and around the expansion anchor, freeze/thaw etc and go loose. Could be an issue in that side wall. Usual to put a good ring of silicone around the bolt then push whatever you're fixing onto it.

Ta. Conscious of that. Getting a hankering for beer which I imagine is a good sign but doubt I could taste it. Dosed a tuna & cheese toastie earlier with extra hot chilli sauce. Couldn't taste a thing, just texture is all you get. Going to do a blind test with some crisps in a while. Just really cos I like crisps. Results to follow! ?

Just done the half bag up the slope, did I say half bag? ? Sweat pouring out of me, gasping and my left side chest weakness saying hello! What doesn't kill me etc! Bloody trooper I am! Suppose I'd better check for levels, dig out a bit if necessary and find some shuttering. To some extent that's going to be dictated by what I make the walls from. I'm rather tempted to shutter and cast the dwarf walls once I get the base down. Or I could hunt round for some stainless bolts and resin some studs into the old slab edge.....

The 13mm hole goes all the way through the post? Drill it at 13mm and if it's too hard going in whack the pointy end from the other side using a 12mm bolt or bit of studding as a drift.

I'm going to cast a base. It'll be done with integral waterproofer and a sheet of A142 mesh I have here. Is there any poor man's technique to do a water bar detail? If I leave a groove in the slab where the dwarf wall is going? In all honesty I'll likely just leave a 6" gap, stick a membrane against the dwarf wall so it goes down past the slab and back fill with pea shingle.

...oh and the mixer stand is still knackered.

Still banished. I tested positive Tues 14th still. I'll do another test today. Still waiting for the PCR results. Still don't feel 100%. Annoying cough last night that did go, woke up a little snotty with a mild headache. I wouldn't recommend it tbh. Still, today I've to barrow half a jumbo bag of ballast 150' (I measured it) uphill to the base. Then my neighbour is going to back his trailer up to our adjoining boundary and I've got to shift 8 bags of dust and another metre of ballast to my side. Then knock up some shuttering, resin in some studs to join the existing slab etc. Should keep me out of the house!

Sorted. Pretty good with just that brace across the rear. Spanish winch: