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Indeed! Won't be doing mine until I've tapered my recesses with tile adhesive, painted the ceiling and done SWMBO's poxy clutch!

Screw loose!

I neat PVA'd my hole... My foam strip is so close to the edge of the glass I really can't see that a small bead of generic silicon would stick the hob down so much that a deft whip around the edge with a blade wouldn't free it.

The manufacturers likely won't say to silicon the edge. AFAIC it's a belt and braces to stop debris getting in there. If it's anything like the strip on my induction hob then there's no air flow route through there anyway. I went a bit ott with mine and routed the top strip to get some air flow through there figuring there's a nominal gap above the doors when they're on:

Aco drain, French drain of sparkly aggregate that SWMBO gets to choose?

@recoveringacademic, sorry but I forgot before now to check my Gmail account. I emailed Techscrew below on this. Apologies if a bit late! "Hello Clive It might not be Forgefix brand but if you speak to AT Engineering in Preston, they may be able to help with wing drillers fro timber to steel. They are on 01995 640058. Kind regards, Sam Crooks General Manager Woodall Fastening Systems (Phone No : +44 1384 263900 (Fax No: +44 1384 263908 (Mobile No: +44 7795 623468 yEMail Address:sam.crooks@techscrew.com Web URL: www.techscrew.com "

Off thread a tad but my friends and relatives delight in taking the pi$$ how well my "UFH" works. I had to "temporarily" divert the downstairs, single pipe system in order to gut the bathroom (the date stamp suggests it was taken 9th July 2015 ) Running at whatever the oil boiler kicks out, under now carpet tiles, the white pipe just under the surface of the floor provides a lovely warm strip in the depths of winter. This in an otherwise unheated room. Visitors, the kids and various stray cats migrate towards it and will fight over who gets to lie on the floor!

Sink all in. Mid knocking hole etc. Done with a flat bottomed punch. Said he had to just grow some and go for it!

My mates kitchen. Following on from his knocking the hole in the ceramic hob. He's getting there! His induction hob (like mine tbh) simply sits with a foam rubber gasket between the underside and the worktop. Should it also then be siliconed?

Manrose surely?

Ta. Are the fans a matched pair in terms of lpm?

A bit of dpm and duct tape might be stronger?

Sign up for an account so they have your email. Stick a big order in the basket but don't buy. Sign out and wait for the introductory discount to drop in your mailbox!

How did you trigger it: pull cord, humidistat, occupancy sensor etc?

Identical to the one in my opening post!

Is there an ideal size on this twinwall polycarb (Coroplast) stuff? I think I can get some 16mm for free.

I dip into some American, DIY solar forums and if anything they tend to use banks of RV batteries. Of course a good few are talking about Tesla. They're also big into building giant, insulated tank, thermal stores heated via solar thermal. I guess many have the space. Their homebrew panels never seem that efficient a design but they are again massive!

@Nickfromwales, sorry, should have tagged you on this question: CT1 or Sikaflex EBT or standard silicon to bed this into the worktop as it doesn't have any clips? Cheers

...and the time!

Doing everything internally would have meant a clean wall for me. Would have even have had knock on benefits when it comes to re-rendering this back wall. Btw, the above is tidy compared to how it looks now!

You're on a hiding to nothing messing with old pipe. Mine was worse in some respects being iron. So rusty as fast as I tried to repair it it sprung another leak. There are some superb (expensive) Plasson fittings that will go from copper/iron/lead to MDPE but even they failed as my pipe was so rough. Everyone on here told me to replace the pipe but I must have done £50+ on bits before I got the message. With lead, change it if only for your health!

Refurbing...there is no mid point and no foreseeable end. This is pretty much where I am now:

I had a chance to hide mine but didn't know enough about the subject to do so! I tbh didn't even fully grasp the concept of cold bridging. I was a slow realisation what I COULD have done ? Would have made future EWI easier and more effective. Got to a point a little while ago when I perhaps could have ripped out some of what I've done to bring the wastes inside but I decided against it.

Looks great. I must say I love your rug!

Isn't down and out under the thermal envelope the best? (Talking with hindsight! )