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Like that time we played doctors and nurses! You can get close celled foam strip to pack in gaps and the silicone goes on top. Saves it slumping and cuts down on the quantity needed. Used extensively in commercial curtain walling etc. Wedge in nice and tight then pump your stuff over the top:

There's a UK map somewhere with lightening strike frequency by location.

Interesting comments referring to metal cladding affixed to an underlying steel structure and lightening: https://blog.tatasteelconstruction.com/lightening-protection/

First time a girl's said that to me! I predict imminent thread drift.

Like a moth to a flame.

I think the general consensus is you have a cracking house there.

Yep, near Sevenoaks.

Magnetic latches all the way!

It was fun following him! I kept well back. Not sure if he'd have made it unscathed if EDF/UKPN hadn't recently done some tree trimming. He's driving along the valley floor in the pics. 3 miles straight down the road is a river. In the second pic he's taking a tight left turn (kudos to the driver) then the property is a bit up slope from the valley floor. I'm not 100% sure but I reckon this could be a drainage field job. There was talk on the local rumour mill years back that somebody up that way cleaned/emptied a lake, pumping the run off to a field down slope and a/some horses got ill. The road he's driving along is a seasonal watercourse. Before it was tarmacked it was regularly a stream with plants like watercress growing according to very elderly neighbours. Even now during heavy rain it'll revert. This is the same road outside my house a couple of hundred yards from where the above pics were taken. My property is one of the closest to the road. Beautiful place but a damp, frost pit that the Sun misses in Winter! I imagine a certain amount of "run off" from the upslope properties finds its way to the road. It's then all downhill to the river. Unfortunately it's common practice here for people to pump out the liquid content of their cess pools during heavy rain straight onto their gardens etc to save in emptying costs.

I think your address has to be registered at the Post Office. I must admit I thought you first found a provider e.g BT, Sky etc then THEY instructed Openreach who are separate to BT.

Looks like one of my neighbours is fitting one then.

Are they still legal?

Just followed this:

I favour M10 studs, square plate washers and dog washers between new and old joists. Even if it means taping nuts onto spanners to slip between wall and joist.

I see a sunken bath opportunity...

Not really. People 3D print in solid PVA now, akin to lost wax casting. You just immerse in water and the PVA dissolves. Similarly with dual (or more) head printers they'll print the temporary supports in PVA and the actual part in another plastic. Once printed, again immerse in water and the supports wash away. Water jet cutting is great! A mate introduced me to it when he was having 8" thick stainless steel plate cut. Love this one:

Try Control Waterjet in Chesterfield. I've used them. 5-axis jetting is the kiddie. Just split your 3D model into pieces and print in bits. Then glue together with mitre bond.

One track mind some people.

Mate had a terrace. Spent a fortune sound proofing the walls either side of his chimney alcoves due to noisy neighbours. Didn't do the breast itself or ceiling / suspended floor area at the party wall. Didn't make as lot of difference tbh.

I'm too tired to explain.

Ah, acronyms! When I first joined the then eBuild forum I couldn't fathom for the life of me why people would put anything "passive infrared" under their floor slab.

Snap. I've been considering a bfo car port, like 6mx6m.

Look specifically at the Varilight PowerGrid system. The Varilight Quinetic switch modules fit that. https://www.quinetic.co.uk/products/grid-switch-varilight/ https://www.varilight.co.uk/ranges/powergrid-range.php#grid-modules

I tamped my bathroom concrete floor by attaching screed rails to the walls. Slab came out flatter than a flat thing:

Apologies for labouring a point but I can't for the life of me see how this is going to work and keep the two pipe clips on the back wall. Maybe it'll come right when everything is assembled loose and I can wriggle it into position then solder 3 new elbows. The 28mm 1" elbow is I guess, going to have to have its short section of pipe on and nutted up as it gets wound into the boiler with Loctite 55 on the threads, until nearly level. Then fit the elbow at A and make level. Then fit the long pipe and swing / swivel B & C into position. I wonder if I could just cut the long pipe back and solder an elbow on or even put a compression elbow on there and avoid disturbing B & C. Tricky to know until I do it.