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Absolutely no issue doing it and will. Looking now for a hatch. It'll mean though a mid lockdown visit to the tenant to measure, return to fit if I can't do it there and then and then BG returning to check. Literally before the tenants moved in I had BG in I think 3 times. No mention of hatch being needed.

Best suggestion so far! ? Going to get my barrister big brother to check my draft letter of complaint to them. There's a nom 600x600 ceiling where the pipes go up in the airing cupboard into that roof. I'm guessing pipes to the bathroom will run across it there. Seems a bit daft putting a hatch up into what is a draughty, cold roof thus surely well ventilated? Would have thought there's more risk of fumes coming through the hatch unless they have seals of some sort. Or maybe BG would prefer an access hatch through into the kid's bedroom? Found a bit here: https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/help-and-advice/gas-safety-in-the-home/get-your-appliances-checked/flues-in-voids/flues-in-voids-faqs/ So BG should have told us about hatches for the the last 7 years we've had the property! Really aggrieved about that. I've no issue going and fitting a hatch but it's the whole hassle thing for me and the in particular the tenants. The Covid issue too. I'll get on it asap whatever. Some sort of a surface mount hatch maybe? With gas seals, might be a tall order? BG overall are w***ers imho.

Just had the annual Gas Safety Check at a rental property. Just recently in fact rented it out again and in getting it ready had BG in ref the boiler where they did some repairs etc all under our landlords package with them. Then this year we get told we have an appliance that isn't safe because the flue can't be inspected: It goes up in an airing cupboard and out through an inaccessible roof over the bathroom extension So we've rung them to be told that since 2013 if they can't see something thay can't pass it. This despite the annual chacks up until now haven't flagged it as an issue. The guy went on that it was likely done by someone fresh out of college and a more experienced fitter wouldn't have flagged and thus passed it. We're quite welcome to find a 3rd party who will pass it and their cert will void the BG one! The report says he turned it off...he didn't. They made the suggestion we get a builder in to fit an access hatch, thereafter there'll be a £79 revisit charge. At a bit of a loss at the mo. Any suggestions?

Get your thyroid checked?

Silly question but is it a little compressor with a short duty cycle i.e getting hot if running for too long?

Actually my little compressor sometimes struggled to start when new and needed a whack... occasionally it'd trip on the overload. Something stuck / tight probably. Got better the more it was used.

Apologies, weird day. No excuse, I know!

Soaking wet, rat chewed cable in a ceiling. Could actually hear it fizzing for a bit before the 30A breaker tripped. RCD just didn't work period. Mole grips attaching an earth wire to a scaffold pole in the ground. TT farm style! Live corrugated tin roof was a good one.

I once helped a smallholder who's wood work shed 230V supply would trip the house RCD every time he plugged it in. The supply was a red, 5-pin Commando socket on the house wall. Supply to the shed was 3-core, rubber flex that ran across the yard, on the surface...under the wood pile. I stuck the Megger on the lead and the IR was way down. Cleared some logs and found a cut mark in the lead. "That'll be Dad with the axe!" I watched incredulously as he proceeded to spray Damp Start on the damage. Was even more impressed the IR went up. Walk away!

Did you read the op? He HASN'T got a generator.

Worth checking all the terminals are tight for a start if you can do that safely. As likely suffering from volt drop Do you know the cable run length in metres and what size the cable is? If it's armoured cable look for something like the 4x2.5 below. G'teed it won't be white anymore! ? Often it's raised / embossed.

I usually tip the front up a tad and slide the door mat under the front legs. Then pull.

Get a couple of fingers out and the clip might tilt over at an angle, enough to pull it off.

If you can live with it. Watch SWMBO doesn't go breaking nails and catching the J cloth in it when she cleans! I'd still persevere with the silicone. Do some trial runs on two spare tile offcuts butted together at right angles.

Gotta be the concave faced, internal trims if anything imo. How the experts must look at us and laugh!

https://youtu.be/-q0cVCgRYUs

Starlock / push clips them.

Could you.....re tile the back and sides using internal corners, even to the point of CT1'ing new tiles to old. Then use that bfo angle trim on the front? ...re do back and sides in a smooth tile? ...get a fabricator to make some 316 stainless boxes to insert in the pockets? With hindsight eh?

Buy the proper Fugi kit today. I had some similar "shapes" to what you have there. Look and feel similar to the Fugi but they're just not. As I say, something magic about the Fugi material.

That really is the icing on the ? Crap tool by the look of it. The real Fugi is a revelation. Made of magic stuff.

This old WC detail. I don't think it's helped that the short 110mm pipe from pan to the branch has been "rocking" on the 9.5mm pb where it passes through the stud wall (clouded bit). The weight then of all that soil pipe gubbins in the eaves has been on that point. Can't have done much for the pan seal either, over time. Some scalloped bits of ply (fixed to the studs) using the 114mm Starrett are in order I think to support the short pipe for a start. Some nice draughts too coming in around that pipe! Looking at all this and I can't help wondering, if long term, it'd be better to take the soil waste though the floor rather than the wall. There's enough gap between the u/side of the dormer joists and ground floor ceiling joists.

The FiL has a dual fuel set up on the one stainless steel flue. An oil boiler and adjacent wood burner feed this same flue. He's of an age where he'll burn anything from pallets to MDF and household rubbish, plastic bags etc despite repeatedly being told not to. (He doesn't like using the oil). On more than one occasion the resinous build up inside the stainless flue has caught fire.

In the cold light of day..."somebody" ?needs to put the breaks on this. Literally at risk of chucking good money after bad. Get the WC done to make it useable then reassess I reckon. I will not under any circumstances overboard. Just knowing what's underneath "offends" me. I'm thinking gut it then membrane the lot like I did downstairs. I will remove the shower and wall and that might just make madam see there's not that much more to "gut". The roof leak isn't tbh that bad. If I went membrane, pb, battens, low profile LEDs, pb I could maybe relax a bit knowing the leak was outside the membrane. Then just say f*** it and drop the ceiling, old Artex, rat city 'n all. It can all be bagged up and go out the window onto the flat tiled roof. Of course extending the dormer rearwards will make it all a bit pointless! ? In a strange, indecisive mood this morning...

Believe me it's soul destroying doing it.

Have you seen / heard the Nigella double entendre montage? All her naughty phrases spliced into one...