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Thanks for the tip, was just looking at them on SF! That's what I'll do then. Only just starting to drain down my CH now. Had a crap night with vermin in the wall/ceiling then the poxy cat bringing something back and devouring it on the stairs! Ended up sleeping on the sofa. Off to get a 28mm pipe slice at TS first. I forgot that I took work's one back. If I get the IntaKlean in I can let the system cleaner run round whilst I wait for the decent pump valves. Going to be a cold night here!

When replacing pump valves (28mm pipe) should I go for gate valves or ball valves and is a name like Pegler important? Cheers

You're not in an AONB are you? That complicates pd rights...ask me how I know! ☹️

These any good? Seem to recall it was a fluted style you were looking at: https://www.archiexpo.com/prod/reguitti/product-58834-2222898.html

You can get knobs you can turn? Found at random: https://www.villahus.co.uk/shop/86-brass-door-handles/3251-door-knob-single-turning-brass-orion-50mm/ Got a pic of the style of knob you're after? People on here are good at hunting down what you want.

Not to everyone!

Just got to the bit in the book where Jobs launches iTunes and stuns the World with the fact that Apple can and do offer the whole package from software to hardware to distribution. Lots of competitors wondering how the Hell Jobs pulled it off (read genius / force of will imho). MS & Sony who in theory had the means to do similar, try & fail miserably. Bloody long read mind.

Yep, know the history. It's like Apple took Unix then decided what the users wanted and locked it up.

Yep, know the history. It's like Apple took Unix then decided what the users wanted and locked it up.

Out of interest have you tried a modern Linux distro? Mint is superb. Zorin allows you to have a Mac looking desktop.

Sausage Sandwich I heard.

Tesla deliberately make things simple for their Apple users.

You can't catch your hip on a concealed hinge as you brush past it naked! I'd go for latches.

Are you sure...you'll dream about them now...never be able to look at those horrible "ordinary" hinges again... ?

This guy does kits: The build detailing ideas have a few issues being discussed in my Timber Carport thread on here but overall it's pretty good.

These are so incredibly easy to fit: AM60Installation.pdf

There's square ones and round ones. I prefer the round ones. I have these as does @AliG who put me onto them: https://www.doorhandlecompany.co.uk/excel-hardware-precision-bolt-through-magnetic-tubular-latch-18364/ He also has concealed hinges. Something else for you to want after! ? https://www.doorhandlecompany.co.uk/concealed_hinges/ A mate has just fitted these throughout, I don't like them. Are cheap and look cheap: https://www.morehandles.co.uk/eurospec-magnetic-tubular-latch-tlm50.html

Better still find a wobbly table.

Until yesterday I'd never heard of DZR brass. Noted it whilst looking for a couple of 22mm ball valves to isolate a section of the CH system. Looking at SF then a Pegler DZR brass valve is maybe 3x the price of a standard Pegler one. The question then is is DZR worth the price? CH system will now have an inhibitor in so guessing that'll help? (As an aside I do have a seized 22mm valve elsewhere that's on the mains (very hard) water feed from the CWS tank to the HWC. This is one that I fitted in place of the seized gate valve on there originally! I guess they will size up if not excercised regularly?)

Thanks. 3 speed I think. Any particular reason why it would suddenly become noisier after never having been?

Creak? A fixing issue, something loose? The frame side of my install doesn't make a sound. The soft close seat is though on a bit tight I think and creaks a bit opening and closing. Keep meaning to strip and smear some silicone grease in there.

B@llocks! When the CH is on its like there's a little tune being played in the pipework, a regular tappity tap noise. Guessing the Grundfoss pump? Of course the valves either side are all crudded up! ?

So SWMBO here tells me! ? Seriously, we were only yesterday discussing how good the combo of the Geberit frame and Bernstein, wall mount rimless pan here is. (This on the back of the upstairs ensuite WC with old school cistern & floor mount pan that seems to have a little leak somewhere).

We've been doing similar "stud anchor" plinths in my game up on roofs for the last 70 years to keep cranes and window cleaning rigs on roofs. I did similar for the kid's "treehouse" base here (no tree). If in uplift then the studs and plates get connected back to the slab reinforcing steel or go through the slab and are plated underneath. (Sometimes resin or expanding anchors into the slab are used). The big difference is our studs are stainless steel. We also take great care to seal up where the stud enters the concrete block. The tops of our plinths are min. 150mm off the finished roof and lead capped. Pre 1981 when our BS made st/st a requirement many installs used plain steel. The necking/waisting where water has got in, sat and rotted the stud but below the line of sight, has to be seen to be believed. Bottom line is a lot of people have really nice garden rooms by the looks of it even if some of us might do it different on here.

I feel like I should have done a practice bathroom first! ? Learnt loads mind. I remember being just really unsure about the tiling. Worst job of the whole bathroom refurb for me. How quick will this stuff set I was thinking and rushing it. I put too much adhesive on for a start and got in a right mess. I should have relaxed, stood back and viewed the bigger picture. What about a really contrasting grout...like black to take the eye off the offset grout lines?