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Got 'em off a plumber I know. It's his thing when the clients go out..

Tbh I was looking at the top looking scoff and the BEER!

Thought I'd best get one in before she starts making a noise cutting the small lawn...

Ta. I presume the fittings don't wind all the way in quite because of the tape?

This is weird...the second steel wheel. The electrolysis has removed huge amounts of rust but the resultant surface is really rough, black and almost oily, stains yours hands like nothing else. I don't remember having the same amount of this stuff on the first wheel. It reminds me of when Jenolite converts iron oxide (red) to iron sulphide (black) but that I'm sure is like a hard substance. Thinking the only way to remove this black stuff is sand blasting of which I was hoping to keep to a minimum. Maybe it just needs to be left in the tank for longer?

@Nickfromwales, how many turns of PTFE shoul I apply to these 1/2" fittings into the valve? Cheers, I assume also it's OK to leave the 15mm copper overlength sticking up in the loft and solder my elbows on later? Or will I risk crap dropping down into the valve? But before all that I've a corner to insulate/foam up as well as making sure there's noggins in the right place to pick up the Aqua Panels. What a lovely day for cutting PIR on the patio!

Looks a nice shell to be getting on with that. Weird ref gables. It's mix down here, some places have gables viewed head on from the road. I understand it was a planning condition of our garage (we didn't build it) to have a hip facing the road. All that wasted space! Our ridge is parallel to the road and we have hips. I'd love to change to gables.

Really pleased for you both. Top result, looks stunning.

It'll be USB-D by the time I get around to it!

I've stuck with MK for any sockets with USB outlets. Reassuringly expensive is the reason I guess! I'm still not sold on the idea. There was a consumer protection report out a while ago that had some nasty failures detailed. Have to save up for these : http://www.gil-lec.co.uk/mk-edge-lustrous-black-double-usb-socket-k14343lbkb

In our "done before I found this forum else it would have been so different" kitchen, we have flat plate, matt black Volex insisted upon by SWMBO. To be fair all the fittings have a nice switch action except for the cooker switch for which I have to back the car up against! However...the terminals were a pita, very tight. I've changed most visible plug tops to decent black ones where I can so they stand out less. Less popular makes will have less range. I couldn't for instance get a neon version of the cooker switch. Then when I wanted a switched fuse outlet with the outlet in a particular place I had to an obscure make as a near match (Hamilton). I now want some USBs in there. The MKs they now do that would near match are about £60! Be aware too if you've used 25mm back boxes that some flat plate stuff won't fit.

I'm back on good old white MK as I think their quality is back to what it was. A few years ago their terminals I'm sure were made from cottage cheese. Sollysta by Hager, Click Mode, GET (now Schneider) you won't go wrong with. I've fitted the odd bit of Varilight not too bad though had a couple of 20A grid switched disintergrate. But how about showing the missus these for a Sunday morning discussion you probably don't want! https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Wiring_Accessories_Menu_Index/Varilight_Freestyle/index.html

Best not mention the knicker drawer then...

I'd have expected a cat flap for that money!

And if it's not making a noise? Until you open the box you won't know whether it's dead or alive...or even if there's a cat in there...

(I did manage to sneak in a crafty Cobra...) Oh for a clean slate! At the mo this is what I'm going to have to tap into for the shower. Left to right: x2 pipes ending in flexis from the shower pump the other end of the house. Feeds the bar mixer in the upstairs ensuite. Not sure what's hot / what's cold tbh. All are hidden within the dormer ceiling: Still, made some progress: But I need really, and I've been putting it off, to move this grey, diagonal soil pipe that runs across the top of the new bathroom ceiling. (Copper left to right is hot to shower, rainfall head, cold to shower). Moving that soil wil make plumbing and electric runs so much easier and even help positioning the rainfall head as well as giving better all round access. Can I lay a swept soil bend on it's side? Figure better than an ordinary 112.5deg elbow.

Congratulations! Must be gutting seeing others progress when you can't, but you're off the blocks now. Enjoy!

I couldn't do this plumbing lark for a living: Bloody nerve wracking if it doesn't fit...but it did! 140mm offset. Yes, first go and minor trimming: The hardest one done at least.

This is where somebody on here has your address and sends Mrs @joe90 the Petwalk brochure...

Certainly don't try and get a DW625e router back in the box when you've had a couple. It's hard enough sober!

Worth having a go at them then...nothing ventured...

You do get the odd f***wit who didn't take the opportunity when he had it to lower the kitchen floor and put UFH in...

Gotcha! The holes right but you're wrong! (Takes me a while...).

A) He's planning on getting one but can't find one expensive enough to match the cat flap. B) He's got a dog!