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I'll be picking your brains at some time ref glass wings like this as I reckon my bathroom won't maybe be big enough for the wet room corner without them. I'm putting extra timber in to take them if need be. Don't wait up for the questions though!

Steps is the one on the left:

Aquapanel is Knauf's version of cement board. Can be fully immersed apparently. Was mulling whether my TCT core cutters like these would work. Just to see if they would more than anything.....

A flood of biblical proportions seem most apt given the theme...

I thought I was done for in Corfu about 30 years ago. Decided to trek into the hills on my own well off the tourist trail. Scorching heat when eveyone else was having a siesta or their equivalent (think mad dogs and Englishmen). Drank the 4 or so litres of water and needed more. Found a little village with an all in one cafe/general store/garage/pub. Walked in and it was full of swarthy Greeks playing dominos and drinking. Half sun blinded I was in there and at the "bar" before I knew where I was. They all stopped talking. Back then I had a blond crew cut, over 6' etc. The barman's first words were "German?". When I stammered "English!" he slapped a thimble on the counter and brought out a bottle of Ouzo! If I thought I was dehydrated when I went in! Over here I've walked into an English country pub with a girl who's skirts been barely there and had the same thing with disapproving looks from the locals. The talking stops as the in flight dart hits the board! "Remember the Alamo!" / "Stick to the roads lads!" EDIT: "Pub Tales" thread?

I think we may be at cross purposes here? The flexible tap connector you see inside the cistern is part of the Geberit package that comes with it. That attaches to a service valve in the left hand side of the cistern that you access through the flush plate opening. I think you're suggesting to do away with the Geberit valve and flexible tap connector and replace with a longer , 3rd party one? The Geberit valve presents a 1/2" BSP valve on the left hand side of the cistern only as I say. There's no where else for it to go. A right angle fitting is the only thing that will fit. You're right about future access, it's bugging me hence the debate . As the stud depth there is 145mm I might be able to scallop the rear out to give hand access from the cupboard. Actually.....Maybe mod the timber studwork to give "proper" access?

What did you use, just normal Starrett type ones? Guess my Aquapanel is similar to Hardiebacker.

Aged about 2 years old I got lost in Wales. A Welsh sheepdog found me! Mum and Dad had friends who owned a pub in Crickhowell. Wife's uncle married a Welsh girl, moved up there and learnt the language etc. Don't think he had any trouble. Had a place next to a reservoir....Niath...Nyeth...something like that. Near Merthyr?

This is an older UP200 cistern. Only has a feed position where fitted. I can get a pipe between the gap and wall: Erm.....what's wrong with what? Guessing a missing Hep2O link?

The Geberit frame sits where the hoover is in the pic below studs 500mm face to face. The stub wall is 145mm wide and comes off the two close together studs. The 15mm pipe I can reutiluse is far left. Would have been nice to just run a horizontal pipe with no dog legs etc straight to the cistern but it'd mean passing through or moving 4 M10 studs.

Yup, already thinking on those lines. Might do a convoluted copper pipe rather than a flexi.

That'll teach me to make it up as I go along! Doesn't help that the stub wall comes off two studs bolted the same way. I've got 4 M10 studs on that line!

Ta. What connection is that on the side, 1/2" BSP?

IPA is available at Lloyds chemists seemingly.....on prescription???

Un autre faux pas! To supply the Geberit cistern I was planning on reutilusing the 15mm copper coming up from the old stop cock position that was where the mains water used to come in. Would have been a doddle to just cut it back & put an elbow on ( behind the screw store): BUT....Sod's Law.....the long M10 studs I've used to attach the timber studs to the wall line up smack bang with the cistern fitting:

Thought you were going to say the offy:

Don't know what all the fuss was about : Mitre block wedged on for a nice straight cut: Can now cut the sole plate on the RHS. Decided to enlarge both cut outs so the frame can drop down OR slide in. Bung in, MUSTN'T forget to take that out: Holes marked. Will Fisher resin st/st studs in as close to the edge/the concrete falls away a bit: Seems like Maplin do IPA, 'kin pricey! (or £15/L tin) http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/isopropyl-alcohol-400ml-re79l

Ta. Got to shorten the soil roughly to "X". More of a worry is the expanding foam on the pipe though tbh it's not adhered to the pipe that well...if at all. Assuming just a good sanding will get rid of that. I'll MS then meths everything TWICE as I might have got some silicon spray on something where I've been experimenting with push fit.

The cat used to get large ticks burrowing into his head just in front of his ears. Seemingly if you just pull them out the bits that "lock in" stay there and become infected. We used to soak the areas with vodka on a cotton bud then tweezer them out intact. The byproduct was that the cat would then wash himself.....slightly sleepy cat thereafter. Once did one the same way on the dog's nose, left a damn great hole! It was @Nickfromwales on Jan 7 suggested meths after the Multisolve: And @PeterStarck reckoned meths over white spirit around the same time due to leaving a residue.

I'll see if I've still got this lad's number as I reckon he'd be ideal:

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.