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I do need to decide on the first track I'll put through the Bluetooth speakers when the bathroom's done and I'm lying in the bath with a tall beer. Strobe by Deadmau5 probably, 10 and a half minutes of relaxation. Long intro then it builds into a bangin' choon. I like listening to it on my own in a darkened room with a drink in hand.

Never noticed...it's all about the choonz!

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To use a "lesser" cable than SWA you would need to mechanically protect it. A plastic duct / conduit would v.likley be crushed by the weight of the backfill etc. Encasing the conduit itself in concrete is more work than I imagine you want to do?

Let's be honest my thread might have been better as a blog...possibly on another forum!

I bet with unlimited funding you could support the as built house, excavate underneath and "drop" the house...

Something dropping from a great height? This then. A tenuous link but I just love the track. It gets me "going":

Crushed/broken glass in the mix or held in place by foam is supposed to work. A lot of the old shacks down here had concrete floors laid on a bed of broken glass. I wouldn't fancy any sharp edges on cables though.

They'll still need the downstairs cloak wc bearing in mind the time I take! Crap photo but that cloak waste comes in from the right and enters the stack below the penetration to the new bathroom. I'll be working at the top of the vertical stack: I can also leave the branch access cap off as any "use" will be below.

Rockwool FIREPRO is an intumescent sealant and Soudal FR an intumescent foam. Both specify in their bumpf for cable penetrations. Ref the steel wool use stainless steel.

I might nick those silhouettes for my CAD drawings...

Like I'd have something as naff as that in my bathroom!

Thanks all. Not a job I'm looking forward to, cutting a "live" soil pipe in a hot loft even after the 10 or so bleach laden flushes I'll give the en suite wc! I usually wear a mask smothered in lavender essential oil.

Paid it off? FFS I've got THREE!

3rd pocket panelled and cheapo deck light whacked in loose. Looks SO much better in real life in the dark: Continuing the theme of making things accessible for replacement I've decided I'll drop x3 25mm galv conduits down from the loft above each light fitting. I'll stop short of the light itself. Should allow me to easily withdraw these lights and cabling at a later date.

This suggests your lender / mortgage provider will hold The Certificate of Title until you've paid everything off. https://www.pocketpence.co.uk/certificate-title-mortgage-6009539.html If you've paid it all off or have no mortgage I guess you'll have it in all the bumpf.

"Not tonight Faye I've some reading to do!" https://www.gov.uk/guidance/land-registry-portal-how-to-request-official-copies

Any help? http://freeconveyancingadvice.co.uk/sale-purchase/mortgage-offer

If it's similar to this then yep, old GPO drop cable: And for some light bedtime reading: http://www.britishtelephones.com/gpo/overhead.htm

Got all my bits to mod the soil pipe runs in my loft. It's 1.5m horizontal left to right, goes into the branch/bend then off left 3m where it goes into a bend & the external stack. I've got to make up some timber packs here and there. In terms of minimum fall I've read between 1 in 40 to 1 in 80. Any preference?

You would have thought they might at least have cleaned and locally repointed the original wall!

Of late they're bouncing off our windows like hail at night!

Did cross my mind...slippery though!

Nice aren't they! (Thought I'd put these up before actually). Something died & got its head flattened millions of years ago: Beautiful but brittle: The scale of them (amethyst?): Vertebrae? Maybe I'll CT1 this somewhere! They all hold sentimental value. I also have his flint collection, parts of which will be inset in brick gate pillars.

I've got this possibly irrational, possibly not, worry about interstitial condensation in any voids I leave. Unfortunately as the walls taper I can't always avoid it. If I fill this bit between the battens then 25mm pir will sit flush with the front of the battens and be touching the Celotex behind on the rhs. On the left though there'll be a 1/4" gap between the rear of the 25mm pir and face of the Celotex. Best I can do is foam the edges before it goes in so there's hopefully an "airtight" void. In the floor is a really good shout for those rocks. Too late in the bathroom but maybe I can incorporate elsewhere.