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BEFORE you have the lino done! My own kitchen might have some parallels. Pic shows it taken from outside with the phone stuffed through the fan light. SWMBO's fo'd to Bluewater or somewhere. Nice to come home to it all tidy!  I have no heating in the kitchen. It is 'kin cold. Even been known to leave the oven door open to warm the place up. The kitchen is a years ago add on. Concrete floor. The oddity is that the concrete floor is just a solid 5" slab cast over the ORIGINAL concrete floor. I could likley Kango it up and gain 5" in room height. The readon for this we think is that without it there would have been a 1' step down from the boiler room to the kitchen floor. So from outside you step up into the boiler room. Then one step down into the kitchen, then step down into the rest of the house... I've discussed on here previously about digging down a bfo rectangle in the kitchen floor. Then heavily insulating underneath (& sides) and concreting back up with UFH pipes in. It has some merit.

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From memory you have open doorways? To a draughty lobby? Won't matter if you've 300mm of pir on the walls floor and ceiling! Gotta stop the draughts and heat loss points elsewhere. Any heating in the kitchen?

You might struggle to find anyone who does! The generic term working with a bunch Kiwis was "sealastic" for anything that came out of tube like this.

How quick does it go yellow between bleaching?

I want least revisiting! I spoke to Kevin at C-Tec, the CT1 distributor who's been v.helpful on a number of queries. He said the "yellowing" of white CT1 is known but it comes off easy enough with a quick bleaching. Can't remember the exact reason beind the yellowing. Interesting about the bleach as here it suggests only a moderate resistance to chlorine: ct1_product_info_sheet_10-03-2015.pdf

Just looking for people's thoughts / experiences on the "best" white sanitary silicon. Forever White seems to come up a lot. Cheers.

Seriously...like meconium in a tube! Bloody expensive way to tile though...

Really? I've just sat down to watch Law & Order! Hang on... Edit: About 50, pretty much all cuts. 8 out of that lot cut/whole & ready to go on when I next mix up.

Best stick 'em down I guess...

A proper roofer's lead knife maybe? For example: https://www.raygrahams.com/products/2117-monument-sheet-lead-knife-1027l.aspx?

I had a go at grafting about 400mm extra onto a 600mm worktop: You can't tbh see the join in this picture. (The line between the plant and big glass jar is just a reflection from something) I ran the router down the two edges to be mated then routed out for clamps and joined with D4 wood glue. To start it was perfect but me being me left it for a while before siliconing over the joint and rubbing it in. Water got in behind the sink and swelled the join a bit. Now covered over with Duck Transparent Repair Tape the whole length of the joint. Near invisible tbh.....except for the swollen bit.

Probably should have done the other way around... Second time lucky!

Yep. I do one weight at a time now.

A Manual Handing Course beforehand perhaps? Never had them in my day. Been regularly carrying a 56lb weight in each hand since the age of 16. 35 years later I've got disc trouble to show for it. Maintaining a solid core seems to act as a natural "girdle" but it took me a long time to realise it.

I recall a very disturbing live performance of It's A Sin by the Pet Shop Boys in the late 80s at Wembley Arena!

Side access: End access: Push comes to shove the "room" side of the bath surround can separate if I break two tiles and split the tanking tape (the darker blue patch).

NOT enjoying this bit:

Don't think that'll worry most people!

Think I made my old man's one out of a bit of 32mm (?) conduit... Starrett cutter thru the end then slit so it sat over the "round bar" of the stop cock. Will get a pic / have a measure if up there tomorrow.

That's enough for 2018: (Waiting for foam to expand... )

Great concept. Like a kiln in a forest fire surely? "Mr & Mrs Potts"!

More luck than judgement but it looks like the tiles will line up! Didn't expect that!

SWMBO just got all excited seeing the basin, pedestal and wc gone from the study. She came out from the bathroom... "I thought they were in!" "They are dear, in the cupboard!"

Missed the bit about a kiln!