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If you're happy with it then leave it. Imo it'll look a bit fugly and unusual for the sake of a quid, and hard to get the pb cutout to look neat. Saying that it's in a weird place anyway!

Back off the face plate and use longer screws and a finger plate if only 10mm or so...? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/X2-WHITE-FINGER-PLATE-LIGHT-SWITCH-SOCKET-WALL-BACK-COVER-SURROUND-PACK-OF-2/292677770014?

A breathable membrane imo would see a reduction in draughts. Any dry lining boxes with open knockouts I'd tape up too. Gaps in floorboards and around the edge. Seal it up too well and you'll have ventilation issues though!

She's an expert on everything trust me! Well at least she feels she MUST comment. Everytime I mention MVHR or passive esque stuff she batts on about not wanting to suffocate and the fact you can't have the windows open! Still doesn't solve the basin waste being too low.

A plastic angle I think it was he was using? Thought he'd done it tbh...

The highest point of the flashing...where it cuts into the stone wall.

No, I meant where the flashing goes 6" up the stone wall and tucks in.

The slot in the wall where your flashing goes, does it slope up?

If I get any blockage in the soil run in the loft then it's backing up in the shower. Again if the shower trap dries out we're letting in fumes straight from the cess pool rather than one longish waste pipe that's open to the air where it exits above the grill.

25 x 450 SDS bit - cheap before it was in the clearance section! https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-sds-plus-drill-bit-25-x-450mm/30352#product_additional_details_container

Yes. Just need to cut the mosaics.....

Vertical "batten" just felt right:

I'm just about to go ask if any of them fancy tiling!

Bastards! Sitting here with a pen and paper thinking how this place could be redone. Got as far as putting North on the paper! However one of the 11 year old sleepover lot wants to be an architect, maybe I'll ask her!

The shower/basin waste run as is (in white), just ends above a grill over the drainage gulley as per the sketch on p77 so no gas ingress as such but maybe a little "stinky waste pipe" smell yes. SWMBO really not keen on dropping shower etc into the soil pipe so I reckon it''l be my long run idea but with a universal solvent weld AAV like this and then run the wc overflow separate and out the eaves.

Thinking further on this...the current run in white, compression fittings has never had a issue with the shower or basin discharging and there's no AAV in the run. Is it maybe that the upstairs ensuite overflow thst drops into this pipe is acting to allow air into the run? In the last pic above it's the small white L shaped run appearing from the insulation halfway up the wall.

Could you maybe drape a full length tarp along the wall(s) where the upstand is, just before heavy rain perhaps tucked up under the gutter to negate water running down the walls and behind the flashing etc?

No offence but companies who advertise on here get shot down but you as an author can self promote? A bit "double standards" tbh.

No chance the block paving has split the membrane at the upstand(s)?

It'd be nice if on here we had a "Gallery" of finished builds with a rough location and maybe a very brief construction method; TF, ICF etc

I like the American solar forum, forget efficiency just make it BIG!

I even posted a picture of my foam trimming weapon of choice on 30 July...

Sliding door to the kitchen off the utility room? Folding door?

Use a bendy old bread knife or blade from a hacksaw to cut foam flush to the surface you have just filled.

Vermin btw will quite happily run up a rough cast wall.