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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.

F**k Stoptober, bring on Cantremembernovember!

We'll pretend then that I MEANT to drill the holes for the NRV access at 35 and not 40mm!

Unfortunately the highly reflective, chrome flush plate will make everything look smaller!

In the cold light of day I'm happier! The offset is only around 10mm: What's interesting (to me anyway) is that my CAD was bang on. Pity I'm so inexperienced at tiling that I couldn't make the CAD a reality. If I had got the mitre corner bang on instead of 10mm out laterally (aside from other cock ups), then everything would have shifted 10mm left and the grout line would have been bang on central to the wc:

High Rocks?

I don't think you can beat lead for longevity, solidity etc. There's various alternatives some based on EPDM with a layer of aluminium I think. Bet the life expectancy is nowhere near that of lead. Of course lead has that "nickable" factor. Can't think of anything nicer that lead flashing with seam welded joints. Met a roofer years back on a Laings site. He was that good it was unreal. Known as "Ted The Lead". A dying art sadly...probably due to lead poisoning!

Nards! Should have made the mosaics 5 tiles wide rather than 4. Then the grey tiles the valve is on a little narrower: Why? It would have allowed the mosaics abutting the other wing to be 5 tiles wide too. Why does this matter? By not doing so means the grout line will be offset laterally to the centre of the wc and pocket above by +1" maybe more! It's the little things that separate the men from the boys!

I'd like the money back I spent on Pernod & black back in the day. Drew the line at the brandy & Babycham drinkers though, too deep for this apprentice's pockets!

Cough?