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I'm desperate to AVOID a UVC. Don't want somebody having to come in every year.

I've just brought back from my parents house my old Technics 315 system. Mum bought it between me and Dad in the early 80's (We're up there at the mo what the Scandinavians call "death cleaning" ). Record deck, tuner, amp and double cassette deck. Couldn't afford the matching CD at the time. Might have a look on eBay.

That was just that waving a bit of ali foil interferes by blocking and at the same time reflecting the FM radio waves.

No standard as far as I know plus they'll be hidden. Give yourself space to wield tools. Presume you'll be going with flexis from the mono to the hot/cold pipes coming up?

Surely there's a cold bridge through the clay lines?

No doubt teaching you to suck eggs but when you foam UNDER the long run pipes they can lift and bend in the middle shifting the traps etc. Worth weighting down in position with a couple of bricks/blocks.

The foil won't interfere with anything. It's aluminium anyway so wont have any effect on the magnetic coil side of things. It WILL though nicely short things out like across terminals etc. Bit of a difference in those speaker prices, even I could afford the fugly ones! I'm a big fan of good old twin and earth for speaker wires. Of course you can kid yourself this, that or the other OFC, £XXX per meter sounds better.

The Kappa20 one I chose specially as it has magnifying properties!

Bugger! Missed that one.

Presumably you'll be losing the foil face where the speaker is? There'll be no issue with interference. Got any thoughts on what speakers yet? Something like this? https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/product-ranges/super-slim/css230/ Conduit is always good.

Still not used the Lidl drill in anger. Half tempted to take it back citing unhapiness with the reverse function still, then add a fiver to the refund and buy this Aldi offering: https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-rotary-hammer-drill/p/095035187316100 More bang for my buck etc.

You can't beat good mates. "John the chippy", and me help each other out. We are both avid "collectors" of well, whatever! Trouble is I have more space than he has so I've been taking in his "might come in handy" stuff to the point where I'd have a lot more space if I didn't have it! There's never any money changes hands. If he wants "33m of 4mm2 SWA" it's his. 6m of 20mm half round bar, stuffing glands, fixings and I'm there with it. If I want something cut or planed and don't trust myself it's over to John.

I'd get board very quickly.....

Think I'd take the top planks off and run through a table saw to bevel. Or buy new plane blades when they catch that angle!

Definitely "cap" the top edge of the top board. Angle, strip, plastic trunking / trunking lid, inverted mini guttering, tile offcuts as you say. Some even bevel / double bevel the top. As an aside I've before capped wood fence posts with the aluminium from heavy duty foil take-away containers! Back to "long" edges, on my curved top wooden gate I temporarily put plastic trunking over the cut ends. (The gate will eventually have a rolled, galvanised steel, spiked feature). For now it's disguised in black duct tape. (That's my versions of "temporarily", "eventually" and "for now").

Insulate the vertical with some decent thick wall stuff then this? https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CG802BK.html With an ordinary S'fix / B&Q / T'station foam tap cover on top.

Line it I would. I've seen people use slaters felt before on the basis it's quite oily.

"Recess holes" sounds so vulgar! "Illuminated pockets" sounds so much better!

What??? I'm 6'5"! I actually really like our Kappa20 flush plates: I reckon it'll just be like when you first get a big flatscreen. Seems massive at first but you get used to it.

I believe Grohe are Chinese owned now. Let's hope the quality doesn't suffer like AEG! I was looking at both but scored a couple of Geberit frames on Gumtree so that was that. I was admittedly amazed by the size of the Geberit flush plates and worried SWMBO would kick off but she didn't. Guess she's just used to big things!

I'd put a rodding eye where you can. You won't really see it behind the sink. Wall mount or pedestal btw? Will you have space to the wall out of the picture to get rods in?

I would imagine it's quite genuine tbh. I've bought loads of stuff from Europe / the Far East etc never had a problem. CAREFUL...two prices there I think and the cheaper one will come with a pump up tyre. Hence my asking out resident German for a translation!

I was bought for my 40th a galvanised B&Q barrow. They seem to last longer than the black painted ones by miles. That was 10 years ago. Battered to Hell but still going strong. The solid /run flat wheels are a boon unless you have a foot pump or compressor handy. A properly pumped tyre makes a massive difference to the effort required to push. I'm sure I either added a puncture proof wheel to mine or made it so with some deft stabs in the tyre and carefully filling with gun foam...didn't do it that long ago! @recoveringacademic what does she get here for least £££? Seems good value but needs translation a bit! https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Masko-wheelbarrow-100-LITER-garden-barrow-200-KG-garden-wheelbarrow-Galvanised/222453399860?hash=item33cb418134:m:mnNDazNyIi01vm5wkZ9a0PA

I draw the line at water sports

This thread is more a case of having "kicked the hornets nest" I feel. Nice to see how the members here have, by and large, all come together. Team spirit et al!