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Lidl often have some great deals on long drill bit sets. Think I've got a 450mm long set and a 1m long set. They both include a 20/22mm ideal for a bit of conduit thru the wall. One thing is that they might be an SDS Plus fitting. Ideally you want an SDS drill. As my Makita SDS needs surgery at the mo I bought a Lidl £29.99 SDS cheapo job. Proved it's worth a few times tbh. However...fit the front handle to your existing Bosch drill and you'd likely get thru those walls with one of these thru a knocked out hole in the back of the existing socket box: https://www.screwfix.com/p/straight-shank-masonry-dril-bit-20-x-400mm/3220V?

You might say that I was a DG window virgin until a little while ago. Fitted a couple as per this (sometimes off track) thread. First window I foamed in, second one done with Compriband and minimal foam. You might find something useful in there:

As for an external power socket ruining the quaint, quintessential Welsh cottage thing, it won't! You've already got the light on the eaves and something over the door. If that fussed plastic prime it and spray it white! WAY back my (blue) dpc up the wall and (green) vapour control layer over the face of the battens / Celotex was mentioned & I think was referred to as "belt & double braces". Smell free and draught free bathroom, can't say much more. Your smell WILL dissipate. One thing I did find helped here was to install soffit vents around the eaves where there were none. Easy fit with a 70mm hole saw. As well as venting the eaves it makes it bloody uncomfortable to vermin to live there. Reminds me that I still have one elevation on the house to do and 3 on the garage! https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p68777?

Just back from the gay very happy capital of the South East! More like the smack capital, even in the sunshine it's a shithole! Opened the fridge in the student house and all that was in there was 4 cans of cider! Dropped my boy off, his 3 mates were already there so we went shopping for him. When we came back all they had done was set up the Virgin router and were raving about the 90Mbps and climbing internet speed, & that as they've got 2 Occulus Rifts they can do 360deg tracking. FFS all 4 oblivious to the student totty walking up the road outside!

Doesn't MVHR itself "create" convection currents?

Just watched the video below which I thought really good. Surely I need a vertical "batten" to come off either by the window or over by the wc?

Bet you're looking forward to the plague of FLIES! A similar smell is only just dissipating here. Whilst writing this I've just had to swat one of the bastards that landed on my leg. I twatted it with the nearest thing to hand and then had to get up and Dettox my leg and the magazine. When I looked it was the Passive House magazine...if ever there was a sign...

You'll have done all three before I've even started, just can't get it together.

Did you hear "One for the road, lads!" and see a thermos?

Tough lads. Did you ever find out what happened to the glycol they drained off from the ST system?

Those drugs doing funny things again? WTF rip off reams of foil when no need, I meant just where it was touching etc. Too late now. The dead mouse smell will indeed be dead mouse. Either you've trapped them in there and they had another exit route within the room or now that you've sealed stuff up there's less air flow to clear such smells. Probably a combo of both. Bet you're wishing you'd sealed up all those "2mm gaps" you left! You don't need mortar on top of the foam. Just level it off as best as you can i.e. cut the gun foam to about 25mm thick and stick the pb down to it with the low exp. foam. Just thin lines of it, not effing great mountains of the stuff Screw the pb to the batten at the front,

Would mouse pi$$ work as an electrolyte?

The Celotex is covered both sides with aluminium foil. You don't want that touching bare copper due to potential electrolytic reaction, dissimilar metals and all that!

If you were being really OCD you'd aluminium foil tape over the infilled bits! Of course then you need to make sure the copper pipe doesn't contact the aluminium foil of the pir! To lose that timber support under the waste you could get a pipe clip? BTW, does it feel "warmer" in there?

Gearing up...the temporary, over bath "work bench/platform" , last seen for plastering has made a comeback:

Good shout. The brown soil fitting is I note a bit brittle but then it's been lying outside for a couple of years.

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?