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Are you going to save it off YouTube? (I can if need be). Good quality I thought.

The elbow, from hose connector to brass male passes through the chrome ring: There's an O ring that tbh gives a pretty good seal around the elbow. But that's it, nothing else comes with it. Beats me how its supposed to go through a tile and lock / seal! Still nothing from the suppluer. I'll phone on Monday.

Indeed. Lisa Rogers is welcome to inspect my plumbing any time...

No response from the shower suppliers and I've emailed to both their sales@ & info@ addresses with a nice, polite email asking if the elbow should come with a locknut etc. I used them before and when there was a delay they were on the ball in communicating and apologising hence my using them again. A phone call next I guess then if no joy name and shame here and see if I can get any joy with the credit card company. I still don't really know if there's a bit missing though there must be what with no instructions / the box torn etc.

One of my favourite tools the biscuit jointer. My chippy mate gave me his spare which is OK but his main Elu is superb. I too used ply when I made my gate from old scaffold boards. This is more making T&G than biscuiting tbh. (I didn't want people peeking through the gaps when the boards shrunk. I only glued them one side). Mind this was done on the table saw with a mate helping. A router with biscuit cutter is the other option if only a few to do and on a budget.

The mitre on that trunking under the inverter's a bit rough! I wonder how much Sunamp paid Robert?

Draughts are good for wet wood! A covered stack with spacers in between is how they season wood without / before a kiln. Make that shed airtight and it it'll rot and go mouldy quicker than a quick thing........unless you plan fitting MVHR! If you use the wet boards make sure you screw where you can get them out again. If that wet you can probably afford to butt them up tight. When they dry out once covered you'll hopefully have a shrink gap that's not enormous.

TLC have some deals on network cable at the mo. Just make sure you use solid copper rather than copper clad aluminium. https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Cable_Index/Computer/index.html They also do co-ax. I'm running a 50m length from there strung between trees for about 10 years now for the terrestrial aerial and it hasn't crapped out yet.

If you need a piece of ali supplied and folded then P & W Nash in Hoo would do it. PM me and I'll tell you who to contact etc. What finish are you wanting, powder coating?

Never ending story? For a minute there I thought someone had changed the title of my bathroom refurb! Welcome aboard. We like pictures btw!

Am I missing something? Shower components arrived. The 3-way valve seems OK with all it's packaging intact and sealed but the slider rail box is torn and the indivudual component packages open and a bit grubby. On the right angled wall outlet isn't this supposed to come with a locknut? Also there are no instructions in the box. I'm on to the supplier shortly!

One of the reasons I hang onto my old Focus estate. It's done more trips to the tip than I care to remember! Seats down, tarp laid in there etc. I even get relatives messaging me, "Next time you go to the tip...". I've a tumbledown stable block >30m2 that would be ideal for storage other than it's that decrepit. Asbestos roof caving in, cracks in the wall you could get your hand in. But it's on the plans so until such time as I come into some money it's staying. Wife had half a plan to put a lot of stuff (kids toys etc) she wants to keep into large plastic storage crates, stack in the stable and put a tarp over the top. The stable is so wet inside through the roof and through/under the walls. Then there's the double garage roof but that's truss rafters. I've mulled turning that into workable albeit low headheight storage space. Have even considered a big, garden room. Build it properly, fully insulated etc. Storage for now then a man cave later!

@Nickfromwales, water jetting tiles... Seem to remember you occasionally have tiles cut like this. I have had metal cut like this for work and home and seen them cutting "stone" though not paid much attention tbh! How do you supply the tiles to be cut to the water jetter? Maybe marked with a Sharpie that a magic eye cuts to? And do they clamp the tiles to hold them still? @jamiehamy just thinking this outfit might be handy for you sometime: http://www.jetcutit.com

I've half a plan to empty one downstairs bedroom which then temporarily becomes the lounge. When the lounge is done do the bedroom and so on. Unfortunately the missus has kept every toy the kids have ever had (19 & 11 now). Clearing the bedroom come playroom which they don't even go in is a challenge I'm not up for! Hoarders?

Exchanged the drill tonight for another, again all sealed up in its packaging. Forward function feels/sounds acceptable but reverse doesn't! Need to find A N Other with the same drill and compare notes.

The "fourth" option is for chisel position: I just hope they have a good one left tomorrow. This was one of the few where the box was intact and unopened.

Draughty house, I feel your pain! Oh and a warm welcome too!

Agree but my Makita cordless won't chisel and something stubby that does would have been the ticket. Got something this weekend when it would have come in dead handy.

Maybe I've got the January blues (I have) and in need of a tool purchase pick-me-up as on a whim I've just bought one of the £34.99 Lidl drills: Their corded multi tool I have is excellent. Their, again 230V drywall gun is actually OK too. I'd have stopped there but my own Bosch 230V hammer drill has just died after 18 years, the one before that lasted 16 years. Tbh I've been getting a bit sick of hauling in my big Makita SDS and the trannie that goes with it of late. This having rotary stop for a bit of chasing and being so light convinced me. So...it's slow start & makes a nice enough noise drilling. The selector switch could be better maybe. BUT the reason it's going back is due to the fwd/rev switch on the pistol grip. It's not what you'd call positive in its positioning and when in what must be reverse it's all I can do to pull the trigger it's that hard work! Duff one maybe. Will find out tomorrow!

I've a SLY500 for my sliding gate, 1.5A: http://www.easygates.co.uk/liftmaster-sly-electric-gate-opener.asp

This works for me: Duct tape a vacuum cleaner hose one end of the duct. Cut a 4" round out of a decent carrier bag. Thread light string through centre of plastic and tape so it doesn't come loose. Insert plastic into duct. Switch on vac other end. Get a helper to pay out the string. Hope it doesn't catch on the dodgy repair joint! Wait till plastic gets sucked into vac and fish out. Use string to haul thru heftier draw string. Aka nothing lost to try.

On the subject of vermin... The youngest is into making miniature clay squirrels at the mo, this ones going in the oven shortly!

I wanted "Gotwood" in nice gothic letters but SWMBO vetoed it! Plus I thought people might think I'm Welsh...

...if it's good enough for Princess Michael of Kent...