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Seriously 1200 tonnes? 120 seems immense!

I think @Construction Channel ended up underpinning as his footings were shallow. Probably a video.

You must be having a laugh? I had to pretty much beg for tea...twice! Got a sinking feeling this not having the tiles behind the wall hung wc perfectly flush is a big nono... @Nickfromwales?

5kg of adhesive and 5 tiles laid! Did the hose outlet tile. Wrapped the 1/2" BSP brass bit in sticky side out tape pre tiling: The four tiles around the wc hit a bump in the road and ended with a right faux pas! Duct tape, sticky side out around the blanks: Looks OK here: After re cutting the bottom left tile that snapped as I pushed it home: However, the left hand end must be 5mm low! Load the pan with Sikaflex before I put it on to take up any gap? Cheers

Have you a pic of the wiring inside the switch or switches that control this light?

Leccy tape, sticky side out is my fave at the moment.

Happy with the nom 5m clearance around the (yellow) blanks: Obviously these have to stay in place whilst I tile but how do I stop the adhesive, which is inevitably going to squidge round the blanks, from sticking to them and making it a bitch to remove them? Silicon spray? Cheers

Oh I bet that hurts, having to break into the "Emergency Annual Heating £5". Thought it would stay in it's glass case forever! Thinking further on this, trade Wendy in for @newhome and you'd get at least another couple of months grace on the heating!

Because of mitral valve reurgitation issues my father's blood doesn't pump/oxygenate the way it should. Standing up for too long he gets massively swollen lower legs (he's skinnier than a rake btw). He can't either lie dead flat due to pulmonary hypertension. If he moves suddenly then, bends too low, reaches too high he can get dizzy and fall. This latest break is from him simply sitting up in bed too fast and in effect fainting. Having the sockets higher and switched lower would mean he has to bend less, struggle less etc. I'm a huge fan of the Part M heights btw.

Without measuring I don't think my parents place has doors wide enough for wheelchair access. The doors are later DG types so the thresholds are even higher than original. Then there's the 90deg entrance through the tiny porch after negotiating the foot high step up.

Imo it's all very well putting in then slyly doing away with disabled access but if you or yours should suddenly find themselves needing it it's the last thing you want to be worrying about. If you're currently the primary DIYer you'll be having to get someone else in potentially. It might even mean you're kept in hospital. Speaking from experience of late with elderly parents who've taken a turn for the worse. Resisisted the offer of a (free) rewire to mainly move all sockets and switched to accessible heights "because of the mess". We then got brochures and quotes in to turn the dilapidated, tiny bathroom into a wet room. At the mo it is an absolute nightmare for the carers to manouvre in there. Its even still got the lead wastes in there. The resistance here was down to cost, not that they can't afford it. They cited that the Social putting some grab handles on the wall for nothing (after the last fall) was enough. With a dementia patient covered in the brown stuff you want to sit them in a chair and hose them down...like SWMBO does with me! (I have to try and laugh).

I dream of anywhere here being 16deg!

I bet that was like music to Jeremy's eyes...

Wait until I start my "how to connect my one room in the house with a UFH loop to the 3/4" nominal bore , single pipe CH system". Wendy may suddenly become less interested in the subject!

Another faux pas methinks: I've cut these tile templates to allow a few mm clearance around the flush and poo pipes. A 54mm holesaw for the 45mm dia flush pipe and a 102mm holesaw used for the 90mm dia poo pipe. But I'm thinking these are too small a diameter. On the sudden realisation that I should tile with the YELLOW blanking plugs in place then my holes should in fact be a few mm bigger than the yellow blanks? It'll be just a few minutes work to reassemble the jig and drill with bigger Starretts.

High praise indeed! The existing, upstairs basin waste as the red arrow points to below: That cannot be raised up. It's touching the underside of the 9"x6" that white JB is on. Sure, I could drop the shower in like you said but the basin waste, best I could do is come into the grey soil via a side mounted solvent waste boss maybe?

Discussing the pallet shed I "supervised" with the owner yesterday: I proposed you could, if pallets were free, 'fill in' the walls inside and out so continuously boarded and then fill the gap with expanding foam. With the addition of purlins I reckon a SIPS esque roof out of pallets is possible.

In the mid 70's when I was taught the rhyme above it was a even more non pc! I've changed it slightly do as not to get banned.

0 - Black - Bad 1 - Brown - Boys 2 - Red - R*** 3 - Orange - Our 4 - Yellow - Young 5 - Green - Girls 6 - Blue - But 7 - Violet - Virgins 8 - Grey - Go 9 - White - Without

I hate it with a vengeance. Total monotony but a high level of skill needed imo. Really need to labour for someone good to pick up those little extra tips to get good I think. I quite like the holes and complicated cuts...when I get it right!

I worry me. Hoping the jigsaw blades @Nickfromwales recommended will do the job on these curved tile cuts: https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Power+Tool+Accessories/d80/Sabre+%26+Jigsaw+Blades/sd2581/Tungsten+Carbide+Grit+Jigsaw+Blades/p67688

I think she secretly wants UFH!

Looks like I needn't have allowed for clearance around those plastic sleeves then! Where 4 tiles meet: So a little jig: Fire up the Starretts: A few 50mm clearance around flush & poo pipes. A bit more round the studs! Just got to transfer to the 4 tiles now!

@Nickfromwales or anyone with a Geberit wall mount wc: These 16mm dia, "soft" plastic tubes that slip over the studs, should they go thru the wall board and touch the blue metal frame? I assume the hole thru the tile for them wants a few mm clearance? Cheers

No, because I may now have to use a box spanner rather than the 1" AF 1/2" drive socket I had intended as it's got a thinner wall.