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Like it when we moved in. SWMBO added the tat. You can have first dibs when I redo it!

Nah! Bathroom will be done. Hopefully nice enough that going in there will be an escape / cathartic experience. I'd like to tackle the lounge / diner knock through next but reckon it'll have to be the dormer and roof that gets sorted. All the temporary repairs have failed. When and only when the roof is done can I tackle the UPSTAIRS bathroom!

So I could re-title my thread "Quick Bathroom Makeover"?

I'd have built a tre-poo-chet...

That's why I'm making the walls strong enough to do a handstand...

I've ordered both of those Hudson Reed ceiling shower arms (from The British Bathroom Company), the short one above (ARM15) just for now, to get it going and a 300mm long ARM16 for when I build the motorised, "rise and fall" mechanism to raise / lower the shower head either flush to the ceiling or a foot lower. (Yes, I've started the mechanism, it's a scissor lift . Well aware I should be getting on with boarding and tiling but short attention sp..... ).

Thanks @PeterW & @CC45. If ever you remove the shower head for cleaning is it just then a case you need to firmly grip the chrome stalk coming out of the ceiling to stop that turning, or you could end up undoing / backing off the joint in the loft and affecting it's PTFE joint?

Setting out for the rainfall shower and I thought I'd get down off the stool and have a beer. Back up I went and promptly marked out about the other mark I'd originally marked for a downlight when I wasn't having a rainfall head or mitred corner! Bear in mind the mitre corner board wasn't in place as I was insulating the wall. Boy did it look wrong when I put the corner board in! Duly adjusted: I've the centre of the shower 570mm from the mitre board. Seems to give me enough elbow room. Fitting a ceiling shower arm then. Yet to get one. Seems there's a short type: And a longer version: Both the above are Hudson Reed dimensions. Does the short one day affix to a thin steel bracket above the plasterboard and the longer one through a noggin? Cheers

Looks like then you've a UP320. I by contrast have the older UP200 that limits the flush plate choice to the Kappa range. Had to explain to SWMBO why she couldn't have a Samba flush plate she wanted as it was for the UP320. Thus she had to settle for what was available...not for the first time!

This might make it clearer: Geberit_Flush_Brochure.pdf

Probably saw your avatar and thought you might turn up in person!

All the soil pipe people do something like this: https://www.marleyplumbinganddrainage.com/media/5423/pipe-laying.pdf

The 111.383.00.5 should be on one end of the cardboard box the frame came in. Other than that do the measurements tie up with this? https://catalog.geberit.com/public/product.aspx?cat=GB_GB-en_1&a=111.383.00.5 Then the accessories: https://catalog.geberit.com/File_Container/Overview_Tables/en-GB/DAS_157930.pdf If it is a Sigma then choose your flush plate: https://catalog.geberit.com/public/chapter.aspx?cat=GB_GB-en_1&ch=CH3_100500

+1. The stray we took on when we lived in the centre of town was scared of it's own shadow. It lived in the airing cupboard and was scared by frogs! 6 years later & taking it to the country where we are now and it virtually turned feral overnight and even grew tufts out of it's ears. Mainly a mouser than one for birds it'd clear a nest one by one in a constant stream of presents for us. Nothing like waking up and finding the "gifts" it'd brought us during the night. Never did find where it poo'd until it was in it's last legs then it was anywhere; lounge, hall etc. Still, she made 23.

Kevin McCloud did that Man Made Homes series using pet poo to produce bio gas I think.

Me!

@PeterW, what contactors are you after? I've a few collected from panel upgrades/rip outs etc. Only got a couple of timers though but I'm keeping them...can't remember what the project was though! Something like this, 230V coil, 20A rated? TeSys K_LC1K0910M7.pdf I might have 3. Got some plug in, 11-pin base stuff too. 10A @ 250vac but 24vdc coils. Could do you a psu as well I think!

Tiles BOUGHT! Sitting in their boxes gathering dust...

Ive got 25mm of eps (offcuts) behind the pipes. It's got to be better than nothing?

Sounds like a pretty standard control panel to me. 4 circuits in a box...no different to a cu. Most manufacturers offer timers and contactors to go in their cus. Go for it. Tbh there's DIN rail mounting time switches that'll handle 16A on their own without the need for a contactor(s) if that helps. Not cheap if you go for a name though! I'd try and standardise on say 16A throughout if going that route so you can chop and change in the event of a fault. Preceeded by its own appropriately rated circuit protection. Or buy slightly more obscure ones along with spares.

I know. Tbh the packs aren't as numerous as they appear. Originally it was just 5 fixings per vertical stud but the concrete screws wouldn't hold very well in this bit of the wall. So in went some horizontal 3"x2"s fixed with resin studs.

Cheap seats here! OK, no EPS beads but all this "old crap" is going in the wall with copious amounts of gun foam and foil!

Good shout other than I've got to BUY it! Was hoping to just use up the old crap lying around.

@Jude1234, what is the Geberit part number for your Duofix frame? This link maybe, under Pro Area, lists for the different flush plates for SIgma, Omega, Kappa cisterns etc: https://www.geberit.co.uk/products/bathroom/geberit-flush-plates/

I decided the shallow pocket could be made deeper by chiselling away the two projecting breeze blocks. OMG THE dust! Should have worn a mask but washing if down now! ? Not for the first time SWMBO unimpressed by the mess my Lidl tool's made!