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Sparks mate just fitted one of these Quinetic like switches to his own place: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinkbee-Wireless-Required-Self-powered-Controlled/dp/B075SBRH7F/ref=mp_s_a_1_2 He / his swmbo preferred the brushed effect to the Quinetic ones. Says it works well.

Welcome back! I wonder how many eBuild strays are still out there in the wilderness!

Random link but it's basically a trim/bead that gets attached to the wall before rendering. Sometimes plastic, sometimes steel though you want st/st ideally not galvanised. The render goes on then tapers out at the bead like the base of a bell. The profile is slightly tapered down on the underside. This is just above the dpc. As well as shedding water and preventing it getting under the render it strengthens the edge of the render as a whole helping protect against knocks and scrapes. I feel your pain! The very original bit of my place is rendered straight across the dpc. Later bits, like the garage have had a bit of 2"x1" nailed on at dpc level to render down to and form a taper. Its a classic short cut / bodge. Looks pretty if you can get the batten off without pulling the formed bell off but weak as Hell in the long run! Might just work if a super strong mix laden with adhesive. The damp wall in the bathroom was due to a bridged dpc. For that matter the ffl inside was slightly above the inner leaf dpc! A "bit" of digging a couple of years back sorted that!

Not for a while...

Zinc naturally oxidises over time and goes dull. Try some Zinc Perfect Light spray from Wurth. https://eshop.wurth.co.uk/Perfect-zinc-spray-ZNSPR-LIGHT-ALUZINC-PLUS-400ML/0893114114.sku/en/GB/GBP/

Tiling and everthing else taking a back seat at the mo due to elderly parent issues! I was bricking it using the bagged Laticrete stuff as it was a first for me but in reality it's lovely imo.

Are you a youngster still full of hope and believing in the system? It's all done to the lowest spec under the guise of "value engineering"! I dare you to bring up the energy costs of convening and attending the eco cost saving meetings!

Is that because the maintenance providers charge a premium for looking after "new fangled" stuff?

You only pay for insulation ONCE. Payment for "fuel" in whatever form is ongoing...forever.

My relative had a vertical, internal soil stack within his cavity wall that became "calcified" internally where the wc run entered at a right angle. Like a white & brown, combo stalactite and mite all at the same time. Had to have bricks removed to sort it. Of late I've seen blockages of a similar sort on site where in trying to "chip" it all off with over zealous use of "snakes" they've actually broken the pipe! With hindsight I'd still have gone "internal" and hidden a vertical stack in my mitred corner in the bathroom. Would have made future ewi so much easier!

It's a wind up mate! For every 100 or so ideas I start probably 99 and finish 1. I'm going to have to have the mailbox within my sliding gate I think as there's a steel running up through where the pillars are. Concept, Aug 2012: June 2014: And that's as far as I've got! Anway, traditional mail services will have been replaced by matter transportation by the time it'd take me! Worth a punt on here to find someone local who'll make you something bespoke: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/

I'm lost...bc are only interested in the new extension surely. Get that all signed off and re-use the old windows in the existing house when they've gone.

Just realised (SWMBO should have checked ) that the mosaics are 398x248 and the main tiles 400x250mm. So on the height of the mosaics I'll have to "lose" 2mm at each tile. I'll just position the mosaic strip central to the tile and have a 1mm wider grout gap.

Lost as to why you can't sell the bits as a kit? It's how all the sellers of FM transmitters used to get over contravening I think the 1948 Wireless Telegraphy Act. Used to love making two transistor bugs as a kid!

Using the bath and I've tested the body dryer, all good. Everything was new / unused for whatever reason. The bathroom suite was in a Homebase 50% off sale. The two Geberit frames; they had a very thin stud wall downstairs and these were too deep. They could have used one upstairs but the SWMBO wanted upstairs and downstairs to match. Both for £100 result! The body dryer I got when the people had just had a new suite fitted and didn't want the hassle of running a new dedicated supply. They thought it could come off "the light circuit".

As has my body dryer and Geberit frames...and bath!

Dai Doubledecks playin' the final vinyl?

Resident DJ at Gwen's dad's club in Uncle?

Yeah, but just LOOK at it! Worth every penny imo. £325 cheapest I've found it. (It's a Vado Summit SUM-137 SUM-137-C/P by the way).

Nah, I hate it! It's on a quick release mounting anyway so I can bin it and fit the one I wanted:

Not sure, but rest assured it'll take the missus by surprise and I won't finish...

USB3? Is that like OSB3?

From 7 full tiles I've cut 21 for the vertical mosaic strips that define the wet room corner.14 tiles with 1 factory edge + 1 cut edge and 7 tiles with both edges cut. One of the tiles with both edges scored, cut & diamond filed.

You're lagging mate, already used the phrase "pipe"!

I think that's a pipe dream...