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No, I meant use Buffalo Board instead of normal ply for the enclosure. It's like a black / brown resin impregnated, phenolic faced, birch ply with one side smooth like Formica and the other non slip & embossed. http://www.advancedtechnicalpanels.co.uk/products/buffalo-board-birch-plywood

Tell me more! What's the difference between the two types? I was thinking to make o/of Buffalo Board and incorporate a st/st drip tray in the bottom.

Once the ply has been tanked can it be tiled onto with tile adhesive? Seem to remember it's best to stick tiles direct to ply with cheap silicon but as I say this will be tanked not bare ply. Ref tanking...not being known for speed can I tank and then come back to tiling a bit later? This assuming I don't puncture the tanking in the meantime.

I need to get some more tanking strip if not another complete large tanking kit as I need to do around the bath and long pocket there. That pocket rear face is just mrpb. The bath deck and up to the pocket is 12 & 18mm marine ply. I'm planning strip at the rear of the bath on the ply and up the mrpb wall. I'll tank that ply wall then to the height of the pocket. Where the pocket is I'll put a strip from the ply bath deck up where it goes vertical - there's a black / white Sikaflex EBT seem at the junction you can just see. Then in the pocket a strip over the ply/mrpb interface. Then tank the lot and try and not get it on the bath!

There's a thread here on a DIY plastic sheet head exchanger I found a while back if you're intetested:

+1 to Co-op. Had a good few appliances off of them. Only issue we had was a dent in the side of a Hotpoint WMD960 washing machine found on delivery. Saying that it isn't visible once installed and we got a HUGE discount off it. The machine has been crap mind, so glad we have a service contract on it. It's paid for itself numerous times. From drum bearings to main board to rust!

Good shout. I can make a little former / tamper so all 3 are the same. I'll do that THEN tank them. Should I prime the Aqua Panel with anything prior to doing the filet d'you think? Neat SBR maybe? What angle do you reckon?

I'd forgotten about that thread. Soon came flooding back, it's the one I showed SWMBO whereafter she wanted a mitre corner like Nick did! I'm going to apply the strip to: - the floor / wall junction - floor to ceiling either side of the Notre - over the mixer I'm not sure ref the pockets though? Do the internal AND external corners with strip? As an aside on the pockets I'm still debating whether to put a slope of a few degrees on the bottom to aid water run off? If I do, how to do it? Some sort of packer to raise the back of the tile up maybe or a series of accurately cut wedges? @Nickfromwales, in the link you cover the mixer with tape but there's a gap in the centre. Any reason why I cant just cut 3 accurate holes in mine and slip it on?

Figured I might as well ask some questions on the subject of tanking a wet room on it's own thread! Might assist someone else. I have an Aquaseal Large Waterproof Tanking Kit. First off it comes with a "Waterproof Tanking Drain Mat", this: It's about 400x400mm. It's meant to go under / around the shower waste. However, as I'm having a Geberit wall drain that has a membrane built in: I was wondering if I could then use the now spare Drain Mat over the shower mixer?

Anyone recommend a manual, score & snap tile clutter?

Erm...Nick, Dave, Nick, Nick again, various Geberit videos etc.

I find it best to wait until someone else has worked with a lighting designer...then COPY them!

For my mist coat (s) on the bathroom ceiling and half a wall I'm going to just use whatever crap emulsion that's lying around here I've decided. If it needs more than one mist then so be it. I'll then buy if necessary a decent quality white for "kitchens & bathrooms" for the ceiling. SWMBO can choose the colour for the half wall later at her leisure once the tiles are done.

Is it worth buying paint specific for new plaster? Like this, gets good reviews: https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-trade-bare-plaster-paint-brilliant-white-10ltr/51004

I was thinking a light key then mist coat first on my ceiling? Thinking as in the bathroom the top coat needs to be something special? Sorry @Redoctober hijacking your thread!

+1 on this. Can I paint the bathroom ceiling this weekend?

Just edited my response.

If it's timber I'd use your stuff as I think it's better for getting in the grain. If upvc then mitre bond imho. I think that's a 30mm white upvc trim in my photo...6mm thick I think. What colour's your Evo stuff? Main consideration is it doesn't ooze out and spoil your frame or hold the trim off the frame so you see a shadow gap. This was the edge sealant I used. Some advocate using it as the adhesive too: https://www.screwfix.com/p/sika-sika-plastix-upvc-sealant-white-300ml/7454P?

Thousands of window and kitchen fitters can't be wrong? Less messy than that Evo stuff I'd say...thinner bond too. Just seen the drying time on your one. Totally different stuff/application. With mitre bond you can assemble a complicated, cranked shape kitchen cornice in seconds on the bench and lift up into position. Fix and "flex" it into position as you go round putting a couple of screws in.

Was that for the YMCA gig?

You can sometimes find that years of adjusting mean that some cupboard door screws are loose and the door or carcass material had disintegrated around the screw. You'll need to carefully repair with something that'll take the screw again. I used some chopped fibreglass on one before. Not pretty but if you're painting...

Nyotaimori? Or was that one of the Wombles?

I was going to make a dragon/gargoyle/Alien Queen skeleton out of the stuff I've left over them foam it, carve it and GRP. To sit atop my gate pillars.....

I might have an old flow switch off of a NewTeam shower somewhere... Think it's 15mm though...come to think of it it might be for 24vdc. Edit: Found it:

I've got to tank things first I know but it might not be long before I start tiling! My chippy mate gave me this tile cutter so long ago I can't remember whether it came with a water tray which I assume it needs? I'll have to take another look in the garage from where I've just dug this out. I remember Ferm being Screwfix's cheap I brand a few years ago. Question is is it any good for my tiling? Thinking thd rusty blade might stain the tile edge of will that wear off after a few cuts? Cheers.