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You can get a tap with a dcv already fitted. This is the one I used: https://www.screwfix.com/p/outside-tap-with-double-check-valve-15mm-x/37241#product_additional_details_container

Behave!

Just to add that neighbouring properties have been suffering too. I've made contact with the pest control guy an adjacent landlord uses and will get him to visit. Charges £180 and visits four times. Any more issues and I'll drag the WM out and metal plate behind there too.

I don't know how old your parents are but you might want to consider good access for later in life should they become infirm/need a carer to assist. @Ferdinand (who's going to put the link to his thread up ? ) fairly recently did an accessible bathroom refurb. Tanking tbh is pretty easy. You could consider one of the very low profile shower formers and have no tray, just tile the whole floor, including the shower area then bond the glass screen(s) directly to that. Takes a bit of attention to detail that. @Nickfromwales might be able to point at a former. My kids are just going to sit me in a plastic garden chair and point a hose at me! One thing with the rainfall head, if you go in after someone else has used it you can get cold drips coming down on you. Though I really wanted to do the rainfall head I mainly use the spray hose/riser. That Hudson Reed shower valve selects rainfall/spray hose or both. Quite a few people on here have the same model.

It would be very awkward to get in there and redo the "plaster" that came off when they removed the skirting. I was wondering about fitting a small angle iron and if there was some cementitious product I could get in behind it that they wouldn't like chewing? Maybe a sloppy sharp sand slurry?

Found another hole! A mouse was seen disappearing up under that side panel where the skirting returns: Took the side panel off, draw out, cabinet back out: Mouse had chewed up through the foam just near that earth wire: Plated over with steel sheet, packed any gaps with wire wool and foamed over: Plated too under the side panel:

Country lanes here. If you want a kerb at the bottom of your drive you put one in yourself. All the rich folk have granite sets.

235/45/17s here. Like bloody rubber bands on the these roads with all the potholes!

There is a whiff of squirrel about the new (to me) Mondeo here...

That'll have been Speedo Gonzalez...

I've started a reply to this thread and will post it up when finished.

I'll raise you a RAT under the fabric battery cover of my then daily driver, the Golf GTI where it had built a nest. I'd not been driving the car much during the first lockdown.I popped the bonnet to check the fluids etc and it was like whack a mole.

Good mouser ours.

Think I've mentioned before our cat always leaves that greenish internal organ on the stairs right where I tread on it...

My cat would bring a mouse home and the dog, a flat coat retriever would snatch it and gulp it down if it could just to deny the cat. It ALWAYS came back up at the most inopportune moment...whilst we were having dinner etc.

Down to one mouse...we think, or a least a lot less. Hoping maybe a trap will sort. I reckon a big issue is where they removed the original skirting exposing the ends of the floor boards where they don't quite meet the wall. I'm hoping to pay another visit. One more cupboard to get behind then maybe angle iron time!

Bedec?

Nothing wrong with my grouting, it's the tiling that's crap!

What with Jesus being a carpenter and all that? ?

Sadly the truth hurts...

Yes, it's an issue potentially. On my garage this has happened. The felt at the ridge is holed/collapsed. Going to change to a dry ridge and hips.

One for when you do your fence:

I can't rate my Lidl Parkside collated screw gun highly enough though it's mains powered. I'm going to invest in one of these in my continued quest for ever cheaper, no name tools! [£20.24 48% OFF]Drillpro Upgrade Chain Screw Gun Drill Adapter Chain Nail Gun Adapter for Electric Drill Tool Accessories from Tools on banggood https://banggood.app.link/q7VtTpj9veb Tbh I reckon I could design and print an adapter to take the front end of the Parkside gun and attach to a cordless drill......

Plasterboard screws are cheap, go nuts... Then spoil it all with crap tiling! ?

You could go SPD and all double pole RCBOs... SBS-Price-List-2021.pdf