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Just realised that to finish insulating my wall I used up all the 100mm pir I removed from above the ceiling when I fitted the downlights, speakers etc. Seems a pita to have to buy a whole sheet to make good I'll shall have to keep an eye out for skips!

I would imagine you will want A142 mesh or similar in your slab to limit it cracking for a start. UFH pipe is comparatively cheap. A LOT easier to put it in now than later when tbh wet UFH will be impossible. Pipe gets cable tied to the mesh. I'm thinking 75mm would be better 100mm or more, more room to play and more mass to act as a heat store if your insulation levels are good. I think there's some free UFH planning software available for you to work out your loops. Someone will comment on this shortly. Although pumped concrete have a look at @Construction Channel's thread/blog on a mesh/pipe system above PIR. Think he's the latest to do this. Read also @oranjeboom's stuff on what can go wrong in terms of pipe springing out of the slab etc. Again that was wet concrete. Cleverer people are reading this as we speak and will be along shortly to comment! Edit: Worth a read:

For our avid readers it turns out that @newhome & I have mutual acquaintances if we go back far enough! We've just been doing the whole "small world" thing via pm.

You might want to consider stainless steel fixing studs affixed with injectable resin. Much better if close edge distances etc. Less chance of break out. Edit: In one of @recoveringacademic's threads, the use of resin anchors into hollow blocks is discussed in depth I seem to recall inc the use of mesh sleeves / socks to contain the resin.

Any make on them? Are they double pole?

Aren't you building the wrong side of the Medway now? Been using the bath sans jets and lights for months now!

A bit of pb slapped in ready to test: These fittings best be good!

So you're from the same area as SWMBO, weird that you have such a GSOH. Mind, I bet you don't have a penchant for skip diving and collecting broken white goods!

127mm is the biggest Starrett I have here.

That's my bath warranty f***ed then. Mind I think it might be well past it anyway!

No option to redrill the tray for a bigger trap? With something like my patented double Starrett adapter? Could do 50 to 89mm no problem. Not sure if you can get a 90mm Starrett.

Well, a bit more done. I used up all my offcuts of vcl. More of a nod to reducing draughts than anything else. I gave up with attempting true air tightness what with the multiple ceiling penetrations anyway. Everything will be sealed "best as": Maybe I'll pressure test the towel rad piping tomorrow and start getting the Aqua Panels on. Gave in to the call of the mild tonight...well some generic lager anyway.

I know my Irish forebears were called bog warriors but I have no wish to join their ranks! If nothing else it seems sensible to maybe find it, define the area and maybe fence it off even.

Well thanks to @newhome's sleuthing the Tacwise 140/8mm staples work fine. The odd miss but that was trying to fire into hard ply. Only thing is they're too long a strip to fit the Lidl stapler so have to be snapped in half.

Not as confused as when SWMBO asked the teen something girl behind the bar for a Pernod & black last year on holiday. She went and asked her couple of years older colleague and so it went on. They eventually discovered a dust covered bottle estimating it was 3 years since anyone has asked for it.

In the last picture above, the brass 15 to 16 elbow is within the wall.

Not at all. We've some nicely managed lawn areas etc but the cess pool is in the deliberately left "wild" bit.

I believe HiKOKI are to launch a range of safety footwear too. You put your right foot in...

Will do. Debating a petrol strimmer / brushcutter and possibly even a small chainsaw to assist in finding the cess pit!

I need to pressure test the 16mm Pex-Al-Pex loop I've put in for the towel radiator before I board it all over. As discussed an age ago this will be fed from an eventual manifold. The pipes come around the wall then there's a 15 to 16mm compression elbow onto a bit of CHROMED pipe: This is the detail, obviously substituting chromed pipe for the copper: I was just going to bridge, with push fits and a length of pipe between the chrome tails in the first picture then expose it all to my 8bar mains pressure via my DIY gauge. Seem to recall a potential issue with Hep2O on chrome pipes as in blowing off?

I wonder if there'll be some Hitachi deals coming up where sellers offload "old" Hitachi branded stock? I remember there were some cracking deals on the old, heavy, blue AEG quality stuff when it got bought out by the Chinese and came back orange. Or maybe the Hitachi labelled stuff will command a premium?

Might be worth keeping an eye on FFX this week. They're having their "Magnificent 7" promotion. It was DeWalt yesterday, Bosch today. Guessing it'll be Makita somewhere along the line. https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/Mag7/~/1/0

Opened a new TS catalogue, saw a full page ad for power tools called HiKOKI and thought how much they looked like Hitachi. Figured it was some low end Erbauer / Einhell type rip off until I read the text. Seems Hitachi are rebranding as HiKOKI. Have to wonder why. Apparently they will continue to support the old models in terms of spares etc and batteries will still fit. Makes more sense maybe than Makita with their G Series range that's incompatible with the LXT range.

Cheers Looks like Tacwise 140 Series is the size. T'station tomorrow then. I think you should be appointed the forum's "Chief Person Who Finds Obscure Sh!t"