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Managed to catch it and get a rad roller on it:

Typical, found the rollers during the ads.

Couldn't find the rollers!

I used 2.7s as for some daft reason I decided to go with a nom 2470mm floor to ceiling height! Meant wasting nearly 300mm. Idiot, I should have dropped the new joists lower. Could have avoided those rips by the ceiling, took forever.

Watching Wild Bill...

Sod it! Cupboard door off. Never painted a panelled door in my life. Wickes instructions: Going to be one of these as a first coat over the bare edges and factory white (primed?) faces rather than a primer first: The acrylic primer sounds good? Only place to paint it is in the actual bathroom so I've spread out an 8x5m tarp as best as to protect things: Need to be done by 9 to watch Wild Bill on ITV! ?

I have to take it off imo as they're the doors to/in a wet room and I want to paint the bottom edge. Don't want to get the hinges messy either.

Thanks. Are these figures pre painting? I'm going to btw, take the door off and paint it on trestle.

K.I.S.S. Fibre optic imo the best suggestion.

50mins runtime from the rechargeable battery?

To neaten things up, if you're really anal, you can get carriers to save the Wagos floating about. Meant to clip to a DIN rail but I've screwed them to other things: https://www.connexbox.com/din-rail-mounted-connector-carrier-5pcs.html You also get their bigger connection boxes: https://www.connexbox.com/wagobox-xl-junction-box-in-grey-for-use-with-wago-2273-and-221-terminals.html Even a Wago wiring centre.

Heating a compost heap for biogas? Greenhouse? I've seen a homebrew solar thermal project in Canada where the chap is growing tropical plants/fruit in his greenhouse and there's snow on the ground.

You mean "unlike my neighbour's solar thermal system" I'm guessing?

In their FAQs they say all their terminal boxes come with test holes.

Indeed. Their rating system is a bit odd the way they quote their current rating from memory, RMS or something?

The Wago lever connectors are superb imo. Wires retained forever but so easily removable. The Wago push connectors are also great and theoretically the wires can be removed by twisting them. Can be a bit tricky. Look out for the little T lugs you screw to the joist etc to hang the Wago box from. Not a bad idea to start off with the £15 ish starter box from Screwfix. TLC etc sell them individually. Last time I looked at S'fix they only did them in packs of 50 etc.

Me too, by my old man. Back when plugs were scarce and you'd be swapping them from one appliance to another. Got my worst belt ever aged about 9 or 10. I wanted a plug for my new, first soldering iron. Think it was an SR Brewster rather than Antex. (Up until then I'd been heating one up with a blowlamp). I lost the cover screw so replaced with an ELASTIC BAND. Months later the perished rubber gave way as I was taking the plug out.....I flew back across my bedroom into the wall.

Wago, Wago or Wago. ("Ideal" are a variant). I'd stick with Wago. Check out Wago and Wagobox on YouTube.

Only just noticed this. Thanks. Edit: Mine will be better, this doesn't have a motor!

Boy back from uni at the weekend so I'll be able to report how the first test of the wet room corner goes as he gets first try!

Up in the loft tonight starting to "box in" the body dryer: Basically I've this bloody great rectangular "hole" penetrating the vcl above the ceiling plasterboard along with the downlights and speakers. Going to do my best to "reinstate" the vcl at all these points. With hindsight etc I'd have put a drop ceiling in. The blue lining the hole, is dpm that's spray glued over the green vcl that originally covered where the body dryer is. The vcl was cut, folded up against the joists faces and again glued on: I ripped some 6" Asbestolux type boards to 145mm, the joist depth, on a wet tile cutter, to line the hole: A good bead of this intumescent sealant: Around where the boards were going to sit: Then the boards screwed on with some st/st screws and the sealant roughly gone over with the Fugi tool: Next a close fitting, insulated "lid", probably pink pb as the first layer or maybe Asbestolux... Needs to be removable to give periodic access to the body dryer as the connections aren't maintenance free (as in they're screw terminals. Thereafter a galvanised conduit run back to the board.

Amazon have just cancelled my chainsaw order.

Great thread start btw. As storage seems to be a key I think I'd be using (to avoiding becoming shark bait), that £12K roof saving and working a Sunamp into the mix somewhere. This assuming they've sorted their issues out. They've a longer decrement delay than a TS. I presume you're considering in roof pv to further save on the tiling?

Can I ask how that saving comes about please, given such a small pitch change?

Sod it. I'm going to go with whatever my 1980s Reader's Digest DIY bible says! ?