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Onoff

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  1. You forgot inventive and keen to try new things...but I'll take it!
  2. Wasn't just me then...
  3. Was that you in the car park flashing your lights the other night then?
  4. I still haven't done this despite having the new Honeywell valves sitting here. Fear of it going wrong / leaking / sudden cold snap / plumbers being shut at the weekend for those bits I never knew I was short of. Of course I may just be prevaricating!
  5. I find a crap camera handy when posting pictures of my tiling!
  6. If then you have an existing mature tree on your property can you fell it or is there an automatic TPO on it by default? I've a 50+ year old beech which is majestic but imo too close to the road and overhead cables. Then 3 equally impressive "firs". I'd take the lot down given the opportunity but conscious of the wildlife havens they all are. Gone, it would free up the front garden and I could have a nice circular drive with maybe a pond or cedar as the centrepiece. The fir nearest the house is superb but it's like the bloody thing from Avatar!
  7. You're posh up there, mine's a sheet of Antinox!
  8. How easy to recreate the heat exchanger in one of these? Doesn't look a lot in them:
  9. Not to pi$$ on anyone's parade here but if that hole you're blocking up is the ONLY access to the void above the kitchen ceiling then what are you going to do the day you get a burst pipe in there...or a chewed wire? I'd be making an insulated door / removable panel.
  10. Are you meaning Rockwool batts?
  11. Ta, I did promise a warts 'n all journey with this! Tbh the last few, up high / down low, if it was a 2mm or 4mm gap rather than 3 and I couldn't get a 3mm spacer in or it was loose I just whacked 'em up!
  12. Vapour control layer. Go way, way back and I put up pics (discussed?) of a green plastic sheet that I put over my studs after filling between them with pir. I did the same on the underside of my ceiling joists. The pb then goes on sandwiching the vcl between it and the studs/face of the pir. Belt and braces against draughts slipping by poor fitting pir.
  13. I seem to recall suggesting a vcl like I did in the kitchen to stop draughts...was too involved or something. You can lead a horse etc!
  14. A few (very few) done tonight: 2 on the floor under the basin: The left hand rip above the window that's been bugging me for ages. I removed the original tile that was just wrong ages ago and tonight multi tooled the old adhesive off and put a better rip up. I can trim the edge now and tile the soffit. Poxy little one in the top corner done now: Last two pockets done: 3 rips above the bath: Focus now then is on the soffit and sides of the window reveal and the mosaics and trim along the painted wall shelf. Then THE BATH!
  15. Are the opposite walls parallel? Seem to remember I had a similar situation in the bathroom which was basically an irregular quadrilateral. I just had to accept that the majority of the joists would be 400mm centres but the last one would run in <400 and not be quite parallel to the adjacent one.
  16. Lime mortar is that maybe???
  17. Trust me fam! See the data sheet. For example: https://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/camlocks-cabinet-locks/3222562/ That's the difference between T'station & RS.
  18. Thickness of the door I think.
  19. You've got to do it? How much are they paying YOU?
  20. A scheme member? If so take it up with their scheme provider.
  21. Pythagoras Theorem for getting things square.....and a long tape. Knock up a quick jig that'll hook over or screw to your wall plate over the Thunderbolt position & use that to guide your flat wood bit for counterboring. It'll have no meat to centre on 'coz of the existing bolt hole. Flat wood bit a bit oversize to suit the socket you're using to wind the bolt in. Flat washer same size as socket.
  22. Pythagoras Theorem for getting things square.....and a long tape. Knock up a quick jig that'll hook over or screw to your wall plate over the Thunderbolt position & use that to guide your flat wood bit for counterboring. It'll have no meat to centre on 'coz of the existing bolt hole. Flat wood bit a bit oversize to suit the socket you're using to wind the bolt in.
  23. CPC do a few too, e.g: https://cpc.farnell.com/cam-lock/3101-1a01-td0501/camlock-20mm-keyed-alike-td0501/dp/SR08263?
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