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I used Pex-Al-Pex 16mm pipe. It's as tough as old boots. @Nickfromwales quoted I think seeing labourers upending wheelbarrows on it without detriment to it. However... I am Mr Slow and then some. I laid the red tray, then the pipe but it was a long time before I poured the slab. My pipe suffered some abrasions from the rusty A142 mesh. This was simply where I'd been walking on the mesh for so long. Tbh didn't seem to have done too much damage. I added some bits of conduit where it had rubbed. Wouldn't have happened if I'd gotten my arse in gear and done the slab quicker.

Was it this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy7k0

From memory our neighbor's paid £65K two years before for ostensibly thd same house along the same terrace. In 92 we paid £40K putting down £10K deposit. Admittedly it needed work like a new roof, CH, DG etc. Neighbours were in negative equity by then. Two years before we'd been getting to viewings only to be told the places had been sold it was that mad.

Would adding a small Papst fan in that long length of 32mm increase the throughput? I could likely run off of one of the spare deck light outputs used for the pocket lighting.

& 100g of Whole Nut

Prepararation is everything! - 600ml Cobra - Chunk Red Fox Red Leicester - A Silesian sausage - Kimchee - Handful sweet chilli crisps - Packet Wagyu biltong Roll on tomorrow morning's clear out. Edit: + Cherry pie & double cream

I did bloody well with the first house (1992 I think). Put down a 25% deposit. Both working. No kids. Living WAS easy. How times change!

Thanks. I tend to want to leave fairly promptly tbh.

Excellent point. (Didn't want to burn my ar5e though! ?)

All in, glued and ready to test: As last night's beef shatkora etc "went through the system" earlier I needed a source of "odour" and got to thinking of smoke pellets my old man used to get at BG. In the absence of any I had to get inventive. Thus a foil tray from a mini quiche was pressed into service (with added foil when I realised it had holes in). A garden test confirmed a rubber glove as a good source of some nice, acrid and more importantly thick black smoke. With one kid on camera and a second ready to switch on the fan I set fire to the glove. As the video shows, I'm not confident Is this in the fail (phall ) / shouldn't have bothered category? Or is it that the smells it's meant to extract will act differently to smoke?

Oh impetuous me! It was going alright... Not as easy getting the bits together. The smear of silicone should assist: Where I think I've effed up is I put a bead (a big bead) of silicone around where the fan duct comes through the ceiling then pushed the extension tube down into it. Means it'll be stuck to the ceiling plasterboard. Going to be a bitch removing later if the fan goes wrong! Should have taken the fan out and stuck the extension on on the bench. Then waited until it was dry!

D'you mean 100 to 150? 1500's a no no as the flexible duct attaches and there's not a great deal of room under the hip.

All Hoovered up so I can stay in the loft now! Black, vertical 32mm, coming up through the ceiling will go to the right, under the grey soil. Means lifting the soil a tad and remaking my carefully crafted wooden cradles that support the soil at the mo! Not much room between top of ceiling joists and u/s of the grey soil: 32mm soil will then continue parallel with grey soil into the white, 100mm extension at the end. I'm not going use saddles so as to keep the height down going under the soil: @JSHarris, the elbow inside the duct, how much should I project by with a short bit of pipe? Cheers

Is this the winner for "Understatement Of The Year 2019"? ?

Going about as well as expected! Neirher the extension or coupler in any combination are a decent fit onto the fan tube: I think I'll slide the extension tube over the fan tube and seal with copious amounts of CT1. I'll put a couple of wraps of duct tape around the grey fan tube to take up the difference and centre everything. That'll leave the extension tube poking up into the loft. Of course where I had to cut into the side of the joist, it was still so tight I can't slide the extension tube on so more deft work with a bfo Starrett!

Making the solvent weld fittings concave/convex with some 80 grit paper and duct tape! Easy: Not so easy (big hands): Should fit nicely: I'm a little concerned about whether the plastic of the extension pipe and coupler are suitable to solvent weld... the (double female) coupler in particular has a softer feel like brown pvc soil pipe does when compared to black/grey solvent weld which always seem more brittle. Soon find out!

I bought a 100mm dia pipe and coupler to extend where the extractor comes up through the ceiling: The pipe coming up from the Geberit cistern into the loft is 32mm solvent weld so I've got a few extra fittings: The plan is/was to drill a 36mm OD hole in the side of the pipe then introduce an elbow, with a straight coupler the other side, linked with a short bit of pipe. I'd lay sandpaper on the 100 dia pipe and rub one end of the elbow and coupler on it to concave the faces. This to better mate to the big pipe. It'd put the 32mm pretty much dead centre of the 100mm pipe: Looking at it though this I think will severely impede the csa of the 100 dia pipe for it's primary purpose as a room extract, or will it?

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I remember being mortgage free! Got three of the f***ers now. Wrong turns, roads not taken etc! ?

So is your insulation under the slab 300mm total depth, made up of 3x100mm?

Manned mission to Mars.

Coke is good for marinating meat for the barbecue in. Strangest think I ever saw was steaks in a builders bucket of the stuff at a South African workmate's house years ago.

A few minor bits to sort like a mirror, toothbrush charger, bog roll dispenser, shelves in the cupboard...plumb the UFH in...plumb the towel rail in...connect the body dryer permanently...do the WC odour take off... So NO! ? But I've just had a nice rainfall shower with the Bluetooth speakers blaring.

- Soudal Genius Insulation Hand Held = 35W/mK @jack quoted that a couple of years on here. Think the key is in the word "insulation". It's meant for insulating purposes. Are regular foams designed specifically for insulating or is that a byproduct of their gap filling action?

Or worse, it opens the cars! ?