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Lid??? Mine came in a cardboard box!

Mate's kitchen: The consensus on YouTube seems to be you punch a hole thru with a chisel and chip it out round by hand to fit the tap? Is that right or would a grit edge holesaw be better? He's putting it off as scared of buggering his sink! Cheers

They do some odd things for sure. I got my LAP deck lights from them for £14.99 down from I think £49.99. Well, £4.99 as I had a £10 voucher!

Was more worried something was missing!

Out of interest did it come with instructions in the box? I just got the last one at Screweys in Gravesend and tbh the box looked as though it had been opened. I mentioned it and the girl said it was where they had stuck the collection label on with masking tape.

Yeah right! Whilst out picking up the tile cutter SWMBO rang to inform me the clutch on her Peugeot has gone! So I've had to come home via the motor factors!

Came across this I thought quite interesting:

TS list them in 3 sizes: https://www.toolstation.com/search?search=Techfast+heavy+duty

I've pm'd you about trying XR Fasteners in Rainham. As an aside a mate used these people for all his Spax screws. Says they were far cheaper, even with delivery than the UK. https://www.klokow-gmbh.de

@Nickfromwales, Vitrex or Rubi for a tile cutter? Was looking at this Rubi Practic 60 but very mixed reviews. Some say it cuts a treat, others that the bars bend and it cuts off. I did think of hiring a top flight one but the time I take etc it'd be better to buy! About 400mm cut would do. https://www.screwfix.com/p/rubi-practic-60-manual-tile-cutter-610mm/8115K?

That'd save me making one! But where's the fun in that?

If you've never actually been in the loft then how do you know they're really there? Shrodinger's cat etc...

New thread; "Show us yer tampers!"

Necessity is the mother of all invention and all that! Pity you didn't have any small glass roof lights lying around, you could have covered a larger area with it...

Searching at random I found thin wall plastic tubes in 4' lengths: http://www.visipak.co.uk/tube_packaging.shtml

Landscape fabric over a solid retaining upstand. You'd only need drainage along the base so leave a gap?

Anything to delay finishing and having to talk to SWMBO! More loft time this way plus it's FUN!

Thanks. So the extract takes in moist warm air and displaces with air drawn from under the bathroom door? Right then, onto fan size. Do I just get into Part F to size the extract as normal as in the lpm requirements? Would it need to be bigger to account for losses and restrictions through the exchanger? I guess I'd also want to take my diy Geberit pan extract pipe to this? Otherwise I'd be losing the heat from that warm, moist pan air!

As a bit of a hybrid design could a long, thin stack of hit & miss Coroplast sheets replace the drinking straws then just seal around the rectangular hole where the stack passes thru the plates at the end?

When do I ever listen? Any excuse to play with the junk I've got here! Would 15mm copper pipe do for the "drinking straws"? Appreciate they're a bit bigger! The layout and runs maybe work? It'd be dead simple: Soffit is close by, easy condensate run to. Have I got the shell & tube inlet/outlets in the right position? Is it ok having the inlet and outlet in the same room? Could drop straight through the ceiling from the main tube. I could load it with sensors to try and gauge the efficiency.

So you need a thinner wall? Just edited my post btw with more info.

"If you're serious about it, I have some closed cell PE tubing left over from our MVHR installation, which might be of use as an outer housing for a tube-based unit. I think I have a length of 180 and another of 200 or 220. Happy to send it your way if of interest." @jack, cheers for that, Figured I'd reply in here rather than detract from the other thread! "SE England" - I could likely collect! What would be the advantage of using your stuff over say soil pipe fittings for the outer tube, drain pipe up the centre and encasing the lot in "insulation". I'm thinking whether I could do a hairpin or otherwise cranked design up in the loft. NO idea btw where to start! So: - Single, well insulated room with vcl. - 150pir + 25mm eps in the floor - 145/150mm pir between joists in the ceiling (currently 100mm with rest to be added) - multiple downlight, speaker, body dryer penetrations in the ceiling but these will be insulated over and the vcl reinstated - several galv conduit drops in the walls - will be intumescent or Wiska gel sealed once wiring is complete - gap, tba under the door leading to the rest of the house - room is nom 3m x 3m x 2.47m high so nom 22m3 volume. Fan sizes etc? Vent positions?

Floor tiles are 330mm sq. 8mm thick, ceramic: And this is the first lot to cut: A bit worried about how the super pointy, "scalene" esque ones will come out!

The bathroom is in effect an all round insulated, sealed via vcl box. The only gap will be at the door. Quite keen to have a bash at a DIY single room solution. The one thing I do have is space for a "long" unit like the tubular one. It would have to go in the uninsulated space above the bathroom ceiling but the tube itself could be externally insulated. I'm pretty close to the soffit to site the intake and extract. Where to site the other two ducts?

Yep