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I find the red tinted goggles that came with my first laser really help with making the line visible.

Got her number?

I had an Orion in 88 from memory. 87 I had a MK4 Escrote.

Gets worse as because of the grief I've never upped my monthly pension contributions ...since 1988.

One problem after another eh? ?

Co-craft from Class Ohlson. Cross line, indoor/outdoor setting. Best £29.99 I've spent. What it can't do is turn me into a tiler or brickie!

I'm f***ed. Equitable Life me.

Force/farce Scheme/scam

You might have a Part P cert, (as I have), but if you're not a member of a competency scheme (scam?) then in theory you should be paying full building control fees per job. You must have a very understanding BCO. And I might add, a reasonable one. I don't know if it's still in the approved document but it did at one time I'm sure refer to individual offices having discretion over what they would accept. Most used it all as a cash cow. My Part P course I'm guessing was a bit different to many so I've come up believe. 35 weeks, 6 hours per week over 2 evenings. 3 hours theory, 3 hours practical. I remember it cost £1066.00. It was going over stuff I was doing daily anyway but back then everyone was suckered into jumping on the Part P train. (I had grand plans of becoming a property tycoon but that's another story). In fairness the course was very good even covering practical work with SWA & MICC. There were postmen on the course and even a roofer hoping to change career. A couple of plumbers wanting to stop having to sub that side out. They didn't have a clue, one I think took an online test 6 times and he was a sparks mate! Other courses I've heard were 5 days. In terms of pure hours I am then a "5ww" ? I then though went on and did 3 years for the Level 3 C&G 2330 plus the regs. What was the point I wonder, it's now deemed not an NVQ so I've given up. (Though I have just this year done my 18th). Part P was always doomed to failure imo unless they were prepared to restrict access to who could purchase gear. The current document is a shadow of it's first incarnation.

Erm...I forgot the fibres in my main floor pour (never did find the bag) but it's 100mm of 4:1 wet concrete with de aerator / waterproofing additive with A142 mesh over the whole area. The underside of the slab was in effect "castellated" as it was over Polypipe panels (saved a lot on concrete volume). It never cracked over the couple of years before I tiled. I continued the mesh into my wet room corner and when I did that I did add fibres. That was an sbr heavy concrete mix based on 10mm pea shingle after much research as I wanted a very resilient almost resinous end result. That was laid perfectly to falls using an overly complicated set of screeding angles ? Different kettle of fish to yours methinks as I've no screed in the build up. Tiled straight onto the concrete as it was dead level due to my using screed rails ei. Pleased with the whole floor in general. Time will tell when I eventually get the UFH loop connected and some heat in the slab!

Looks like your screed has already cracked where the two sections meet! How thick is it? Why no A142 mesh?

Galvanising fumes are horrible and potentially hazardous with any "hot" cut aside from the sparks issue. Recip saw would be my goto, even then with a mask. Less hot swarf of all the processes. Remember having to chop out incorrect bolts on a roof years ago with a recip saw. Only thing we could use because of the rubber roof.

Quicker than the bathroom then! Just been to Selco and got the bricks I was short for the other pillar.

Without Googling, Celtic fertility effigies. (I've some Irish in me). Given me some ideas for a letter box and somewhere to hide bullet cameras though! ?

I quite like these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-NEW-Cliff-Hanger-Gargoyle-Wall-Hanging-Garden-Stone-Ornament-Concrete-Gargoyles/132290679801?

I do use a lab for oil sample analysis...

I want gothic/grotesque but SWMBO wants cute and cuddly. Toying with making our own. Maybe let my daughter loose with some chicken wire, expanding foam gun etc. Quite like the idea of something serpentine that wraps around the pillar. Like the bad guy from Monsters Inc...or at least something(s) that peer down at you. Is there such a tool as a 3D pantograph?

Paddington 2

Could you vary the batten thickness from "nothing" or say 5mm minimum up?

How to cap these pillars? or

It's like Wayward Pines here!

Fix temporary bit of timber under the end of 1 to rest 2 on I would. Drill thru 2 into 1 and screw.

@JSHarris, thanks for that. There's no g'tee I'm assuming of hitting water though is there? Happy to pm you a link to see exactly where we sit in relation to the two boreholes. How did you know you were going to hit water to make it worthwhile drilling? Based on what was around you already? Also on the old surveys there's no analysis of the water. How do you go about that / rough cost? Cheers

Ressurecting this and following on from @patp's thread I took a look at the data for the nearest borehole to me last surveyed in the 60's. No idea if these figures are "good" or not and what they'd be like now, 50/60 years on. The next borehole down, I'm literally between the two, showed similar figures. We're at the bottom of a valley and there's a few boreholes, in a line. Can't see that we wouldn't be on this water course.