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Note dropped into neighbour. SWMBO said the other day for me to "leave it as I'll make a mess"! Said "did I have any rope" she could tie it around herself and start to investigate whilst I'm at work. No wonder people die. Off to find her some rope then! ? Looking like this could be the next project then, the side of the house. Always a bit of an out of sight / mind area. Like the Somme since I had to dig the path up to replace the water main. There's old 3 sided footings projecting across this area from the house. Partly removed but they laid chain link fencing in the concrete and the clay soil pipe runs through them in line with the man holes. First man hole under those rubble bags centre of the picture. Used to be a clay soil coming in from the left from an outside wc. 2nd manhole, clay soil runs through it parallel to the house, from the first then on down to the cess pit. The cess pit I think is roughly under where those yellow and white bushes meet. (Bagged rubble from the bathroom and path excavations). Standing at the end of the "grass" looking a bit further in. That rectangular "pool" is about manhole cover size and rings metallic when poked with a spade.

I could really use a small chainsaw around the place. General branch trimming and more so now as I need to cut back some small trees and scrub to find my cess pit. BiL's just bought a 36V jobbie that takes two 18V batteries. He's an old school out and out petrol head who's been petrol chainsawing pallets etc for years for firewood. Has half a dozen chainsaws, all petrol inc some real monsters. For him to rate the Makita one it must be good! I can pick up a bare DUC302 for just shy of £100 from a quick search. BiL is using a couple of clone 5Ah batteries and a dual charger on his and well impressed. I'm down to 2 clone 3Ah batteries here and a single charger. Hoping that'll get me by until some more pennies in the bank.

I'd avoid the multitool on these screws. Even the better make bi-metal blades don't tend to last long on something like Screwfix Gold Screws they're so bloody hard /brittle! 1mm thick cutting disc in 115mm angle grinder and pair of moles for wiggle 'n snap would be my choice.

@canalsiderenovation , mind me hijacking your thread with my own "cess pool" questions? Got a big issue here with a never emptied one. Needs emptying like now. Trying to find it yesterday evening and the only way I can describe the ground area where it is is a "lasagne of sh!t". Ostensibly unkempt garden I managed (by prodding with a spade) to find what I think is a rectangular manhole cover under about 3" of this stuff. Disturb it and it really chucks up! Trouble is I don't know where the pit is exactly. That man hole might have been before or even on top and I'm a bit worried about the top collapsing in with me on it. It was dug about 1950 I think and the elderly previous owner said something about the "roof" being an arched brick structure. The whole area is covered in thorn and slow bushes so that needs clearing just to access the area and find the edges / access hatch. New neighbours down the road have just bought and renovated one of the last remaining older properties and a few months ago I saw a treatment plant being craned into a hole. I might pop down and introduce myself and ask what they went for. (It was green and beehive shaped). Similar position from the road to where I think I'd put one so guessing it'd satisfy whatever requirements.

Suspiciously like my CAD drawing...glad I could help Looking crisp, proper eye drawing feature that ?

Reject scaffold boards as in new but unfit for use as scaffold boards. 3 coats of satin black Bedec Barn Paint.

She still gets out occasionally! Anyone wants a good range of gate hardware then I can recommend: https://www.barrier-components.co.uk/ They even do shower screen hinges. All my gate automation gear was from: https://www.easygates.co.uk

Tbh the top curve will "eventually" be reduced by about 6" to have gothic-esque spikes on top of a curved rail. Brick pillars and gargoyles/dragons/the Alien Queen will decorate the pillars. If they get in then freshly dug graves await! :) Gate decoration will take the form of fake hinges modeled on the ones in the church where we got married. There'll be a false centre piece too maybe something from WoW or some such fanstasy realm.

It'll be programmed to only open say 3' as pedestrian access if required.

Yes but you can easily "decorate" a sliding gate with faux hinges etc to make it look like a pair of openers. It's what I'm going to do on mine.

Just an area of the garden we don't venture into and never have tbh. You can lose a lot of sh!t in half an acre! Just looked at the Council website, not sure if that figure is the emergency emptying price? The "view our charges" tab takes me to some weird, near blank page??? https://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/info/20000/rubbish_and_recycling/166/cesspool_and_septic_tank_emptying

Quite happy to pay that sort of figure. We've been here 18+ years and it's never been done.

Cardinal sin according to the PASMA course I've just done. I'd never do anything like that...

Really? I thought they needed emptying more often? I am needing to do something imminently about our cess pit / septic tank / Guy N Smith's Sucking Pit Loos are backing up more often and rodding only works for so long aside from being the most unpleasant job! First I have to find the bloody thing. SWMBO reckons she found another man hole near the "pit" that I never knew about. I'd have it emptied a bit for a start but don't want to get caught by some pikey crowd doing it. I don't know how much firms charge, per X litres removed? Would the local council have a list?

Just purchased another Geberit wc frame, model, 111.292.00.1, same as the one above to that's 3 I've got now. All because SWMBO wants the 3 wcs the same. Impulse purchase but £108 brand new & delivered.

Sliding gate? Assuming these are "get out and open close them" gates rather than electrically operated?

I swear my BiL got bought one of these devices one Christmas. We sat having a beer throwing random questions at it. Discussed the whole "listening in" thing with it in ear shot. Neither of us are golfers but as a test we started talking about golf. Within minutes golf related emails in his Inbox.

? Respect!

Reminds me of the castle I built for my daughter...

Won't be long before it's a Chinese brand imo: https://www.sunamp.com/sunamp-and-gomon-sign-agreement-at-ish/

Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles! As in missile silos. ?

Really good I believe actually but expensive? Smooth as finish wise going by some pictures on here, like glass.

Well there you go. Everyone of our "eps" layers are on free draining compacted sub bases. Hardly moist! I'd suggest your comments are irrelevant. Stop scaremongering so we can put our Kangos away! ? Edit: Do you have shares in a DPM company?

Some good links here as to what flush plate fits what etc:

Shouldn't there be a condensate drain somewhere on the diy one? What would improve the efficiency or is the Correx heat exchanger the limiting factor? Would encasing in pir improve efficiency?