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I could quite happily "survive" in Peter's house! It's the free from draughts feel and overall quietness does it for me.

Well it works! Piece of random 1.5mm thick st/st sheet cut to a nom. 28x9mm "blade": Corresponding slot cut at an angle in the ply: Blade sticking out, (needed to cut a corresponding slot in the rib of the soil coupler): However... In use, as there's no clearance holes/slots for the swarf this melts / solidifies, then jams the thing up to the point it BENT the blade. I had to knock off this solidified lump: I think too that the non cleared swarf is what scuffs the first few inches of the pipe. Another issue is that when it jammed the nyloc that was a tight fit in the ply (last pic) whizzed around and rounded off the ply where it had been pressed in. Video later, the phones dead Would I use it? Maybe if I had a load to do but for a one off probably the grinder as usual! Another one for the abandoned project pile!

@recoveringacademic, so if your soil pipe is at 1500mm is that too low to attach to the unit? Is that the inlet facing out in the picture where you're lifting the tank with the digger?

Make damn sure there isn't a gap under that grey waste elbow just above the floor that you've missed filling with mortar. Remember, mice will get through a hole the diameter of a pencil! If you're not going to re-plumb then the pipes are staying where they are. So you will I guess be fitting rectangles of pir in wherever you can leaving channels for the pipes. Whether you foam fill these channels afterwards and cut flush is up to you. A leak will be a leak and you'll have to rip some of it out whatever.

I've read more advocating using BKF on quartz than not but possibly the liquid one. Get Googling! Baking soda & water paste with a soft cloth as a first thing to try maybe,

Barkeepers Friend is superb for removing stains: https://www.therange.co.uk/household/cleaning/cleaning-products/multi-purpose-cleaners/bar-keepers-friend-original-powder?

Usual cheap Chinese sh!t! You need to earth both ceiling bracket and that black cover imo. Something like this...green highlighter looks blue for some reason... If you don't earth both, either could become live when separated. Does the grub screw in that conical black bit just "crush" the 3 core cable to secure it?

Someone's been on Pinterest!

@recoveringacademic, these? https://www.appliancehouse.co.uk/shop/EVOline-BACKFLIP-1-USB-2UK-Socket.html?

I quite like this type: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/KBSK003.html?

Leave the can on. Make sure the valve at the rear is screwed fully in i.e. closed. Sometimes foam dries around the nozzle - you will see the little ball bearing in the very end. You can clean the nozzle up of dried foam with a pan scourer as linked for the mice, or a chunk of wire wool. Sometimes necessary to get the very tip of a Stanley blade around the ball bearing to GENTLY clear dried foam. Don't go mad and score the ball bearing or it might leak.

CPC then: https://cpc.farnell.com/brennenstuhl/1396203003/tower-power-table-extension/dp/PL15780?

...maybe get a chippy in? Just think of the brownie points you'll get for this!

That's £17 inc VAT now at Machine Mart.

You could make it flush maybe, easy enough in solid wood, incorporate a drainage channel etc. Still be a crumb trap!

Very nice until you spill something on the worktop!

I considered it for ST panels and EDPM was my first thought but thinking under the panels might get too hot?

CT1 Power Grab "n" Bond?

I prefer the look of the S-Box kit:

I've considered similar myself.

Like I said...but so quick!

So if you back butter the tile you use the FLAT edge of the trowel? I used the notched edge on the floor then again the notched to back butter the tile but at 90o to the floor. ???

Won't be so funny when we're too old to fix the decrepit, freezing house and living in one room.

No argument from me. SWMBO won't hear of it due to £££. Would rather splurge cash on takeaways and tat rather than improving the fabric of the house and cutting fuel costs.

That's currently the indicator we have a problem, that and the upstairs wc level rising / going slow. Then it's drain rod and if I'm really lucky shovel time!