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I haven't drunk vodka since the Great Vodka/Bacardi/Lager all in a pint glass(es) incident of '87 on The Isle of Sheppey. Last used the voddie for getting ticks out of the cat! EDIT: Think @Nickfromwales said MS can leave a greasy residue whereas meths is sometimes better

In the absence of any MEK for cleaning these pvc joints before solvent welding I've got the choice of: Multi Solve White Spirit Meths Vodka Meths best?

At last! Two 135o solvent weld fittings should give the 50mm offset. So it'll be the one rubber seal where the black 110mm goes in then 3 solvent joints to the brown soil. At least I now know how far back to cut the soil. That paste came too: .....and the bits "for stock"

OK, cheap & staple-less: Ideally you want to radius where the wires go thru to give it a chance to tension up and slide thru the holes rather than bite into the wood. A bit like I did on the spiral staircase handrails up the kid's tree house: Drill the posts before putting them in the ground. Then see if you can find some good old fashioned creosote!

First time I've been called that! Usually it's "idiot" or "pervert". My only issue would be if upon tensioning it you pulled the staples out. So use chunky vine eyes at the end & BFO staples on the intermediates and don't bang all the way in. Leave say a 1/4" gap between u/side of staple and the wood. Screwed in vine eyes at each location because of the screw would obviously be more secure but more expensive.

No offence but anyone who blatantly posts these up is at risk of breaching copyright and the wrath of the IET. My latest OSG was £27 from memory.

Well.....I might as well put the two 67.5deg & two 11.25deg solvent weld bends back on eBay 'cos in pairs or using one of each I can't make the connection between the Geberit pipe (well, Peter's donated 90/110 elbow) and horizontal, brown soil. Swinging past two Screwfixs' later to get a couple of 135deg solvent jobbies. Will have spent about £50 trying to figure this joint. Hopefully these or some combo with what I've already got will sort it. All to avoid rubber seals behind the wall. Peace of mind I hope! (I knew I should have drawn it in 3D on CAD first! )

Quite seriously.....sewer gas + sparks.....is that an explosive combination?

Is the existing cast iron soil pipe in use? Assuming you're replacing above the new swept tee.... you must be otherwise you'd never get it (the tee) in. Lop it off above the floor then use that mad old bastad's method in the video I posted to cut the pipe from the inside out. Will need to find a suitable washer to go on a slitting/cutting disc and over a length of studding.

@Tennentslager, bear with this old boy: Clever old sod! Can't see tbh whether your pipe in the corner stops short under the floor or not. Drill a hole through floor etc. Slitting disc on a bit of studding. EDIT: I think I've just found my father!

I keep thinking of a wire saw like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Metal-Wire-Hand-Saw-for-Pipe-Cutter-330mm-Plumbing-Cutting-Flexible-Spare-Blade/111538359069?_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150313114020%26meid%3D0b9f9170a9184870838954bc1be7c09f%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D9%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D112114817083

I'm not going to lower myself and bite on this tonight.....

Hand job? https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/5nr/Stanley-Hand-Tools-12in-Carbide-Hacksaw-15-412/B000KKWRVU

I was recording gusts of 95kph earlier, mind you I was 89m above sea level. Doing IR & continuity testing whilst dodging the showers! I

I have some half reels of white 1 or 1.5mm2 T&E (red/black) here somewhere. The sheath has actually broken down to the point where you could strip it with your fingernails!

Plasticizer / old cable? A philosopher once said.....

Use big galv staples. Don't knock the staples all the way in. Do as per my sketch but include a turnbuckle for periodic tensioning. Even if you run out of adjustment on the turnbuckle you can adjust at the wire rope grips and wind the turnbuckle back.

Post Guinness but u get the drift: Whereabouts are you? I've got bundles of spare 8mm galv wire rope. 100m + lengths.

Here the ORIGINAL, up front RCD (hanging down) had gone u/s. Using it as a temporary isolator I fitted a permanent Wylex REC2 along with the new RCD. The blue/brown is heat shrink not tape. Thus no visit from the seal fairy required. The meter monkey just nenewed the tails from head to meter then used the supplied tails from the REC2. (Garibaldis and chocolate Hobnobs usually work).

I bet you can..... "I was having a quiet pint with the wife, this chap comes in, .........It was the freshest move I've ever seen,like he was floating on air. I dunno what came over us, I just got up and danced with him. I've never seen anything like it in my life"

I was bottling cutting this, crazed and holed pipe surrounded by concrete: Surprised myself! Could only get to one side but came out pucker:

Wonderful! Really looks like "a brick". Why are you going to destroy it, to look at the internal formation / structure? Will you glaze it later? Just wondering if the letters are recessed enough? Has Faye says she doesn't feel you've gone deep enough!

Lights, camera, move over Ed! You can just about hear a drone in the background but don't tell her I said that!

"RSJ" time methinks!

Fair point. Though there's PVC tape and PVC tape. Pet hate is switched lives marked with a big chunk of cheap, sticky red tape that's gone all gooey or mods under the dash where someone has redone the loom in cheap, nasty black tape.