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IP67 Quinetic switches are now available: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/QUWP1.htm I might try and plastic prime one to go next to the bath end top coat to match the decor.

I need an estate in case I see an old abandoned >insert any white goods appliance here< by the side of the road.

I need to get my MK1 Focus estate workhorse back on the road. Didn't realise how much I miss it! Mechanically sound and outwardly tidy but rotten sills and then only the "soffit" sections due to a stupid design. Yes I've got them and the welder but haven't gotten around to it! (Rear subframe etc also needs to come off for a refurb). Tempted the other day by a Volvo V70 XC. Circa 2002 for £1.5K. Looked mint. Must resist, got enough old cars!

Face like a bulldog licking pi$$ off nettles tonight for some reason. Can't think why, I even let her go large at Otford McDonalds... Where's the tongue in cheek emoji?

26 years today! I'd have been out in less for murder!

See, this is why SWMBO puts up with me. I take my time and pay attention to detail in EVERYTHING I do!

You might be unlucky and have an "NiS", nickel sulphide inclusion issue. I know of at least one offfice block in London that ended up replacing every panel. It made the news after a couple fell out! You can also get cracking like that stemming from a small "shell" on one edge. And of course the frame being stressed by building movement is another possibility.

Btw, Gyproc SoundBloc boards you can get bigger than normal 8'x4" pb. They are incredibly heavy compared to normal ones but do the job I guess as they're denser.

I'd say batten the walls leaving service voids for cabling. Then pack with Rockwool batts and overboard with SoundBloc plasterboard. If you haven't got too many sockets and switches easy enough to crimp extensions on. The face of the new pb would be something like 65mm off the old wall. You could mess around stacking extension boxes or possibly move the sockets and light switches up/down to new positions and even take the opportunity to add extra ones. Observe safe zones of course! https://www.ukelectricalsupplies.com/search.htm?search=Metal+extension+box

What's the lifespan on the steel battens out of interest? Are they galvanised?

The plumber and tiler are one and the same where I am! He's a bit slow, some might use the term glacial even.

That a deliberate, totally unnecessary feature just because you can! Like a fall line yet no fall. LOVE IT! I think you should celebrate that with a night...on the tiles!

You could repost on the Talk Electrician forum and search out @binky on there. He's a solar guru. https://talk.electricianforum.co.uk

Didn't a Mike Harding sketch go on about when he went to see a house for sale and every surface except one was covered in cork?

If Ian replaced the studs in his hobnail boots with neodymium magents he could hang upside down from the steel in his winter garden!

Magnogrip do them along with work pouches and wrist bands like the CPC one I linked but much pricier. I've wondered about them before but I go through gloves at a ridiculous rate so have never bothered.

I used a couple of second hand acoustic foam panels at the back of my Geberit frame to hopefully damp down the flush noise. Off eBay. As good as new the front with just a bit of spray glue on the rear. DODO Mat is used for sound deadening in cars etc.

Rather than gut my kitchen I did discuss on here a while back, the merit of just digging a bfo rectangular hole in the large, clear floor area, insulating the bottom of the hole and sides and putting UFH in. It's probably a goer idea wise. BUT...the existing kitchen ffl is nom +100mm than the rest of the ground floor. So it's back to gutting the kitchen and digging down. Not like I haven't done that before!

I've a 12V Ryobi, charger and one duff clone battery sitting here if ever you wanted another.

If I could get this stuff foc, would it be any good in this application? Could it be used, thinned down as a mist coat too? Any "againsts"? https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p45146?

As least you know it can be done like they say! I'd hit the weak point with the punch NOT the hammer!

Something like this maybe? http://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d01764/wrist-magnet/dp/TL14067

One looks more silvery than the other...

Reckon I'd need a legacy or big win to do a major refurb even!

Stainless maybe?