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You're going to have to sketch it pls...

@newhome, according to SWMBO there are only two types of screwdriver bits: "Flatty" ones used for opening paint tins and scraping stuff off. Then you get "pointy" ones. These you hit with a hammer to make holes in things like flower pot bases or walls to fit Rawlpugs!

Good shout. Do you mean turn upward the far 90 or further bend the start of the passover and cut there?

Frankly a lot of blokes make a right f*** up using a blow lamp...

Didn't think I could reduce the flame size? But the brass knob seems to do it. Wire wooled, no solvent. A smear of Templars around the joint line. Flame down to the minimum: Not so black as before, honest: Some snots hanging down: Better? If they are going to leak will they do so straight away or fail over time?

F*** IT! ?

I just always have. Never had these issues though. I've done it how I always have on the tap connector and that looks alright doesn't it? At this rate I'll be ripping it all out and doing Cuprofit push fit. No confidence in any of it except for the tap connector!

OK, why are the fittings going black?

Tried again, cleaned the joint wire wool then spirit. Got some Templars around it. MAPP gas from the side about 30 deg off horizontal: And cleaned up, still looks crap: Dads flux and solder on the tap connector:

They're all Yorkshire...

The solder didn't seem to want to "go in". Using that Templars flux everyone's on about here. Going to clean and go over this joint again. This is the flux / solder combo I've always used in the past. Using this solder now but with the Templars flux:

Playing around with a 500mm flexi pipe trying to envisage a rise and fall mechanism. Not looking promising as the pipe wants to twist as it rises. The worry is it would eventually loosen either the compression and to the copper or tap connector to the rainfall head.

1) H&S 2) Quite likely.....in your NEXT build!

Cheers. A bit late as I've used wire wool! Btw, does this joint look "dry"? Cleaned pre fluxing with IPA.

I must admit I always try and involve SWMBO. I went out earlier to Screwfix and was also tasked with getting bread, milk etc. I returned home to a thunderstorm with sheet lightning. I rushed in with the shopping and asked SWMBO to go out to the car and bring the copper pipe in.

Pre soldering, then after wire wooling I always clean my copper with white spirit before fluxing. Is meths or even isopropyl alcohol (IPA) an acceptable alternative (better)?

Tbh you could do that with a new blade in a hacksaw and gloves (for when you slip).

Their 24" long ones for £10.99 should do it. Tbh longer handles mean less effort but of course are heavier to wield! I find most Aldi and Lidl stuff NOW is really quite good. You get the odd for still. Worst case you get a refund.

Think so. All the bends up to now, with the new copper are fine.

So with the shower going into the soil stack if the trap dries out you smell the brown stuff?

Lovely clean lines on the roof etc. That triangular glass bit on the dormer I love.

I'll email a chiller lad I know from site in the morning. He fits GSHPs. Maybe he'll know the name. Edit: I've had a beer, I meant ref your dosing pot thing!

As I'm so low down it the bottom of the valley my aerial is up slope, about 50m from the house, on a pole with a mast head amp and is the biggest Band A Yagi aerialsandtv do. Pointed at Crystal Palace. Most neighbours gave up and went satellite but not me! I've made a couple of horizontally polarized, corner reflector antennas for neighbours too, to go on gable ends that work a treat.

No, Dremel is far too small tbh. Freeads etc? So you not have pikeys up there? Just leave outside your gate and it'll go.

Is it just me sees Stargate?