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Remember the wet room corner has only just been done this year, with my home brew, SBR laden mix!

It'd come out with a good twist if need be. Wrap a bit of stiff plastic (dpm, etc) round the pipe and tape before filling round it - that'd give enough "slip" if worried. For later access to these pipes and that they look a bit green. I would replace them personally, in copper but with Hep2O fittings (for ease/speed) and bring down the face of the new pb and along. Can't see the op doing that though. I'd be worried about leaving soldered joints "in" the new wall.

A tip for mixing up mortar and filling small holes like this: Make up a milk container of 5:1 water/PVA. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. Soak the gap you're filling and use instead of water to make up your mortar mix. Sticks like the proverbial to a blanket.

There's the answer chaps, wait three years before tiling!

I REALLY struggle with your abbreviated style sometimes... We (at least I) am going to forget all about the earth cables. Just leave them on the pipes. The hole: Dig out what looks like a bit of expanding foam on the left hand edge of the hole. Vac round the hole to clear the loose debris and dust. Channel your inner Michelangelo and shape with a bolster and hammer a piece of brick that fits that hole with no more than 10mm gaps all around it. Mix some mortar and in the mix chuck some finely smashed up glass. Work it into the hole around the pipe / the gaps around the shaped block. This is an old soil pipe hole I had to contend with: I core cut a bit of lightweight block: To hold in place: I tried foam but could still feel a draught. I used therefore an epoxy "mortar" that comes in a gun to completely seal the thing in there. (You can btw get epoxy resin like this in tubes that fit a standard mastic gun but you need a new nozzle each time). You do not have the core drill, besides the hole shape doesn't suit it. Nor to you have the resin gun kit or I doubt a mortar gun. You need to shape, by hand, with a bolster and chisel something to go in that irregular shaped hole. Try and taper it a bit so you can gently knock it in and it stays there while you get the mortar in all round. EDIT: Oh and its Mickey not Mikey Mouse!

As I said, I'd have preferred a sinner!

TF for A142 mesh!

No, the missus has a 1975 Mini Clubman.....

I'd prefer a sinner...

I reckon they just can't be ar$ed using Compriband. Window fitters are notorious for this sort of thing. Whatever's quickest!

Sounds b@llocks to me. I'd insist Compriband is fitted however rough the Durisol is. It'll stick to the window & take up the bulk of the gap and you can foam the edges if necessary afterwards. I've used both on two successive retrofit DG windows (foam on the first, Compriband on the secoond) and the Compriband is far superior to foam imo.

If only I'd picked an easily led one, we could have been living in a caravan on site now for the last ** years!

F**cking hope not! I thought that's what flexible adhesive was for on a concrete floor. Isn't decoupling mat a must if your tiling say a ply topped floor?

I'll gladly swap my 7.72Mbps down / 0.83Mbps up for some heating oil!

I can feel a mini project coming on...

Laminate here. If it were my choice it would have been reclaimed scaffold boards and/or cast concrete.

Just come across this which seems quite handy: Pipe Sizes and Dimensions Chart

It's only the vertical section after the two 135o bends that is outside and the two (slopes) to the drain. The higher horizontal sections are within the hip roof. The blue "L" bit of pipe on the sketch comes from the existing upstairs ensuite - currently white push fit at 41mm (bought I guess as 1 1/2") outside dia. I can look to replace that in solvent weld easy enough. What I haven't shown, though you can see it in the photos on the last post, is the upstairs ensuite basin waste that comes, in 35mm outside dia, (bought I guess as 1 1/4") push fit, from under the 9"x 6" supporting the dormer walls. For now that has to stay in plastic so I need to go from that into the tee of the 50mm solvent weld but guessing I need a rubber "bung" of some sort.

I do mine with the cordless angle grinder,. That's a prettier result though!

Back up in the loft..... Amongst other things I need to get rid of the mass of bodged sink & basin waste pipes. Before anyone suggests it I will not be taking them into the newly re-routed grey soil via solvent weld bosses! Thinking on these lines in 50mm solvent weld: Slight concern where it comes down the wall and meets the bath waste at the tee. That "MIN" dimn might in fact be zero with the fittings butting up to each other. Does it look OK?

I had one where you made an alginate mould of whatever you wanted to copy then poured plaster of Paris into it.

Tell me about it...

Steady on! I'm going to start small with a coffee table! Been looking on eBay at getting some resin...not sure what!

I think you should make a lava stone one:

Keep 'em connected. Just 'cos an electrical installation is done to a previous edition doesn't mean it's inherently unsafe. A lot to be said for bonding imo. Do you have a separate "main earth terminal" near the consumer unit screwed to the back board with various green and yellow "circuit protective conductors" terminating. Something like this. We're going down a whole new rabbit hole here btw!