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Some take that long...

That's generally an Essex thing, fugly builders with well fit other halves...

So what swayed you to take on this 28 year old builder?

Going with compression. Ordered some 15mm x 1/2" straight couplers and elbows too. How many turns of PTFE tape on the 1/2" bit into the shower valve should I do? Cheers

So into the shower valve with 15mm copper: Compression: Tectite: Or solder ring: Thinking solder then foam as @Tennentslager suggests to insulate behind the valve?

Or rely on the copper for support!

Ordered a set of Bluetooth ceiling speakers, these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BATHROOM-WIRELESS-BLUETOOTH-AMPLIFIER-2X-WHITE-165MM-6-5-INCH-CEILING-SPEAKERS/123069555028?epid=18003051144&hash=item1ca7846154:g:snkAAOSwstJZQAvO

I knew this pocket would be trouble! Almost a "more trouble than it's worth" job but hey ho! The tiles will fit between the Aqua Panel at least (pb standing in for Aqua Panel): Rough calc, with area "2" being proud, I reckon the pocket depth will be only 80mm deep and thats with ZERO insulation at the back, just the Aqua Panel "glued" to the wall (inner leaf of cavity wall)! I want to put some token insulation behind the valve. I reckon I'll manage 20-25mm max! Probably have to fab a clever steel plate to mount the valve on!

90's Hit Mix (Eurodance) on YouTube & a beer! Funny how the sound of the impact driver only adds to it!

Wot she said! There was a bit of suspect render that I gave the benefit of the doubt.....one of those think about it later jobs. I just KNEW it'd come back to bite me come pocket time! The tip of the crow bar confirmed it lifted easily: Over an inch thick some of that. Area with the red "1" is rendered brick...which they had rendered over! Area "2" is rendered breeze and that projects about an inch beyond area "1"!!! Bit dusty, got that disturbed old crap taste in my mouth. So now...

Our resident shower guru who loves leeks will be along shortly...

Ta. NOT the hose, the brass back plate! Might make the copper run to the valve easier if it's one way or the other!

@Nickfromwales, just figuring how the shower valve sits in relation to the pockets. So.....pockets, plan is a full tile width pocket either side of the mitre corner. Tile is 400mm wide and I've balanced one between two bits of 2"x"2 approx. where they'll go. Then I'll decide whether the hose backplate gets fed from the top or bottom: On plan then the pocket will look something like this: Do I want to not see the grout line like at "A" or have it visible like at "B"? Cheers

Touch wood I never finish anything too soon!

The cable is POSSIBLY routed how you've sketched. It may be though that those drops just feed one of the double sockets and the other is fed from say another socket on the other side of that wall! Belling it out is the only real way to tell. Assuming it is how you've sketched then why not keep both sockets. Fit the new back box then just chase between that and the lower original one. Renew the lower cables. Tbh I'd have used the knockouts in the boxes to link them together rather than a loop over the top.

No problem doing that whatsoever. Lets hope you don't find any oddity like those two sockets are actually interconnected a little higher up. You could disconnect the wires in those two sockets and start belling out but you'd need a proper electrician to do that... Don't suppose you can get into the loft/floor above and see the cable drops?

I continue to be impressed by the Clas Ohlson laser I bought in their clearance sale! My mate was impressed too, bought the same one and has FINISHED his son in law,s bathroom . Said it was great for tiling.

Was that recently, in Scotland where you were very drunk?

I'm not sure what I'm even looking at from your picture...or your description. Is that gap horizontal, vertical etc? Is the slot ply one side and something else the other or hollow? Can you take one standing back a bit?

Screws at 100mm ctrs...they'll be cursing if they try! I'm into bottled Cobra now anyway!

Could you raise it higher with the Hiab then pull it / swing it in with light lines tied to the ends of the beam? Edit: Just realised the Hiab had gone hasn't it?

Coming on:

Because I had it (actually went and scrounged it off my nephew to save me going to Wickes or the timber yard ), I've glued and screwed (lots) a full 2.4m length of 4"x2" to the back of the corner board. That'll give me a really solid piece to affix the slider rail. Just about to figure the solder ring backplate and counterbore it a la @Nickfromwales's method. I've given up questioning him, it ALWAYS comes right!

I was planning Sikafkex EBT where all mine abut to each other, then where they meet the floor & any walls. That whole mitred corner I'm working on including the feature pockets will be Aqua Panelled. I've only done one Aqua Panel so far and that was where the wall hung wc is going. Sika'd the ply before screwing the panel on with the proper knauf screws: There was a bit of a gap on a couple of edges where the flush box comes thru, tbh I just foamed that. One tip is to use that Sika EBT up quickly. I bought a few tubes via a link Nick put up. It was cheap and I was bit worried it might not be in date. Date was fine but for me it went off real quick in the tube even when I taped up the cut nozzle. I think it's down to me being slow more than anything!

Yep. I'm seriously trying to set it at a height that's both convenient now and makes a nod towards Part M if we ever need to sit. Tbh I'll be under the rainfall head when I'm in there!