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Sort of... Doing this lot of samples herself!

I have, before, clamped a piece of timber 2400mm long, along the centre of the board (both ends) to be able to tilt on the short edge, to help me when lifting boards vertical on my own. Two people easier of course.

So after a half hour phone call & Whatsapp session she decides the Silver Grey has dried "too white". She loved it last night when it first went in. The difference I think is that it was wetter hence darker. This is it dry: And from a distance: So we've ditched Charcoal and I'm going to do some samples of Mid-Grey and the darker Grey which is one down from Charcoal. Just made my sample board up:

I finally conjured up the enthusiasm to do something this morning so started applying the tanking tape around the bath. SWMBO wanders in... "Now last night the silver grey looked darker.....the white's too white. Go with the silver grey if you've bought it..." Guess who's now en route to Rochester to get CHARCOAL grout?

I'd have it off you but it'll only depress me!

Landowners would often extract the gravel to sell then develop fishing lakes from the resultant "hole(s)". They did this at Lullingstone Castle near me when the family fortunes waned I believe (along with converting parts of the castle to private apartments).

I seem to recall that Dungeness power station had a huge steel earth mat laid down on the site because the ground is basically shingle.

If you want. Two rods a coupler and a box: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TLER58.html EDIT: Rods are 4' btw. Only way to know how good it is is by testing then periodic testing.

The bit about the proper kit is true but.... One old school way of testing earth efficiency is with a "light bulb". Connect one side to Live and the other side to your earth rod. The brighter the bulb glows the better the earth! At the end of the day it's a great practical demo of Ohm's Law. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

Earth rods are generally better external in "flower beds" etc than internally. As above the damper the soil the lower the resistance and under a slab can be dry. Soil resistance anyway varies massively; in Summer when the ground dries and shrink away from the rod, in Winter when the ground freezes. Most people bang in a 4' rod and think that's it. The thinner rods are obviously cheaper but go for the thicker ones and they're threaded so you can connect them together to go deeper. Or you can space multiple rods in a particular pattern. Another option is an earth plate. Again, if you have a "trench" you can lay a copper tape in horizontally even. Anything to get more copper in contact with the mass of earth. Soil acidity etc plays a part to in the life expectancy of the rod...most are copper clad steel. I was given a reel of copper bus bar tape which I intend laying in my water pipe trench (about 50m) and connecting to my earth rod. Should be interesting to see how much it brings things down by. Btw the connecting cable size on TT can be as small as 2.5mm2 if insulated AND mechanically protected. The only way to tell how good the earth connection is is by measurement with the proper kit.

Burnt toast in her case...

You get a 2Ah battery AND charger suitable for the 4Ah battery for £17.99. https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Non-Food-Offers.htm?articleId=15480

Sad git that I am I may buy the 2Ah battery and charger. I know I could CAD up a solid model in AutoCAD for a Parkside battery to LXT tool. Not sure if that can be exported to a 3D printer? Just had a look in AutoCAD 2010. Seems I can make a solid and export as a .STL Lithography file which I believe 3D printers take...

Not unless you want to CAD up and then 3D print an adapter!

Its a pity other manufacturers can't do Li-ion 4Ah batteries this cheap! https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Non-Food-Offers.htm?articleId=15479

Feathering is just where the filler is thick at the corner then itself tapers by sanding down to blend into the wall.

You could cheat and stick this sort of thing up the sides and across the top and forget the filling:

As I said earlier I couldn't tell from your camera res but it can be two tapered edges meeting, two straight edges or one of each. So if yours is two "standard" edges you'll need to feather both sides.

No, you only skim the corners of the board not the whole board:

Mummy's boy! (The girls first word on the other hand was DAD! ) I asked him what he thought, he asked what Mum thought and I said I didn't know. Next thing they're both in there discussing it. The rear of the pockets will be done in the mosaic. The wall tiles are the lighter grey - one sitting against the wall in the floor. Not sure about the pocket returns, sloping pocket shelf and soffit of the pocket. There'll be a nominal 100mm wide mosaic strip dividing the wet room area and this'll run up the side of the window, floor to ceiling. The white grout in the mosaic dictates then that the wall grout be white.

Overheard her discussing the floor grout with No.1 son just now: "I wanted white but I like the grey!" Progress but it ain't over!

Other way around here. Me and the lad want the rainfall and the girls the hand spray.

How do those reveal boards feel, solid enough?

No problem. I'm now on strong medication myself because of this thread. I was teetotal before this!

Not a peep from her since I got in. Bliss! It'll a be a 'kin long time until the grout goes down at this rate.