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Where there's muck there's brass! "They" have to make money from somewhere. Think how local councils have householders sorting rubbish into streams and and many cases fine you if you don't. (Speed cameras, parking fines, late tax returns etc. All a tax on "living"). This is interesting: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/batteries-sector-set-for-shakeup-after-portable-ruling/ & https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/battery-collection-costs-expected-to-shoot-up/

With cheap labour here I guess these things are readily recyclable. Is there no way of you popping the seals on the batteries you have and regenerating them somehow? Even if I'm means storing them upright thereafter.

There's legislation came in in 2009 which pretty much prevents Joe Public buying second hand batteries like this. The cynic in me says it prevents you doing anything "off grid" on the cheap. No different to how "they" reduced the FiT rates when they realised the amount of cash they could lose! It's all about provable, documented waste streams & waste transfer tickets now. Saying that the "mixed" loads I see still going off site suggest otherwise unless they get sorted elsewhere! Things like batteries and waste oil, anti freeze etc are going to attract more attention than a bit of old timber and Unistrut though! I'd try a battery recycler like this: http://www.g-pbatt.co.uk/industrial.html Maybe play on your SHC connections? I think even they have to prove where a customer's waste went now in that it was properly disposed of.

You might try a used forklift truck place like here: https://phl.co.uk/about

Most of that area under the window will be covered by the heated towel rail which might help take the eye off things!

So that line of rips up the rhs of the window and at cill level is "acceptable"?

AEI USED TO do what you want: https://www.flameport.com/electric_museum/sockets_13A_BS1363/aei_socket_with_fused_outlet.cs4 I'd go surface dual pattress box carefully positioned over the old one. You can get them different depths: https://www.ukelectricalsupplies.com/Click-Dual-29mm-Surface-Pattress-Box.htm?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shop&utm_campaign=feed&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt8jgovKv2AIVab7tCh1WgAB9EAQYAiABEgJF3PD_BwE Then a 1G socket and separate switch. EDIT: It will be proud off the wall!!! Or bite the bullet and let in a dual back box.

Erm...two cables could just mean it's a a spur feeding a spur!

Can't think off the top of my head but how about a surface mount dual box positioned over the 1G existing?

Ta. To the rescue as per usual! You mean like this? (There's an art to this, can't just start blindly slapping tiles on! )

Nor me. It gets worse when I tile the stub wall, I get another line of small tiles: Half debating more vertical mosaics in that corner? I wonder if stretcher bond all over rather than stacked would work better and get me round the problem corners?

Not what you're after but similar to what I did all those years back: http://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/sg194-metal-plate-only/wall-plate-2g-cutouts-usb/dp/AV16630?CMP=KNC-GUK-CPC-GEN-SHOPPING-UNBRANDED-AV16630&gross_price=true&mckv=skeuL1FSh_dc|pcrid|224635168920|kword||match||plid||pid|AV16630|&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItanQsKav2AIV6rDtCh25cABbEAQYBSABEgIjo_D_BwE Found these "hotel" media plates, their other media plates are interesting: https://www.nexxia.co.uk/product-category/audio-wall-plates/hotel-media-wall-plates?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2uyx46av2AIVYbvtCh0ptAV7EAAYAyAAEgIHQ_D_BwE

A candle is about 13 Lumens according to Wikipedia.....

This is 1:10 scale. Hula Hoop probably good at 1:5? Can't stop, off to get print more tiles!

Yellow insulating tape!

As delicate as it sounds would heavy duty tin foil work?

This is actually HELPING me never having done it before! The plan for the wet room corner, nom 1200x1200, was to have a vertical strip of mosaics to define the wet room corner and break the big grey tiled walls up. I'd also anticipated I might later need to add glass wings to protect the wc / towel rail from shower spray. Thus I put vertical studs behind these strip lines. Happy enough with this wall where the wc is going though I'll end up with some slim bits to the left of the wc. Thought it important to put the tiles symmetrical to the wc centre line. This wall will have pockets above the wc and in the wet room area. The shower controls will likely be to the right of the mosaics: This wall though, a few issues. As an aside this wall will have no pockets or shower components: Slivers up the right hand side and under the window. If I lost the mosaic strip and shunted the tiles to the right of the strip right, that would help but I can't really lose the vertical mosaic on the wc wall. I was thinking of cheating and trimming all 4 sides of the window in mosaics. It could change again if I mitre the corner! Going to sleep on it.

Back in the day with the first house I attempted that; 5-pin DIN, phono, co-ax and 9-pin D. Only the aerial ever got connected! Excuse crap photo from yesteryear!

Got further than I thought with the tiling and got the mirror on the wall!

Something I'm not understanding...surely the plates should be aluminium or something heat conductive?

@Spangles, depending on what materials you can score on the cheap/for nothing then DIY solar water heating might be a option. The lower efficiency possibly offset by the abundance of well, Sun! Loads of project ideas here: http://simplysolar.supporttopics.com

How about just using the Deta ones for the tv/data plate and better stuff elsewhere. Can't see that "matching" with other white accessories is a huge issue if using these as they're covered in "gubbins" anyway. Edit: Btw I used that manomano site the other day for paint of all things. They seem to do all sorts.

Deta are favoured by the bulk buying house builders. Sort of the contract emulsion of accessories imo. Maybe a bit more than that. Go to your local CEF and ask to look at say a Deta 2G switched socket compared to an MK or Scolmore Click. See what you think as to ease of switching and noise (dead of night). http://www.detaelectrical.co.uk/about

Our kitchen was from Homebase. Couldn't deliver first attempt as the truck couldn't get down the lane. When it did arrive all that was (slightly) damaged was one 3m worktop that I got to keep anyway and made good use of!