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That's rather clever. How does it get insulated?

Another bit of the jigsaw arrived: Now, if we can only agree on the actual wc itself!

I was looking round some of the uni rooms with my son recently. Those with en suite, I was quite impressed by the size. Some had fridges in but all had a large shared kitchen & communal lounge. The one thing they all had in common was a campus pub close by!

There was a very good piece in The Times last year, I actually saved the page. Too big to scan and I'd probably fall foul of some copyright thing: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tiny-homes-become-the-next-big-thing-smnj8ns9t It's on about "Twodios" being built in London at 29sq.m. Two beds each with en suite and kitchen area but hardly any living area. There's a lovely little plan in the article for a 5 x 6m flat with wet room, double bedroom etc. Garden room?

So a UVC is basically just a "reinforced", traditional hot water cylinder able to cope with mains pressure. Mains in at the bottom instead of from the cold water storage tank above? Does the fact the water is hot increase the pressure by much on top of whatever the mains is at? What's the normal sort of pressure a UVC is run at? PRedV is obligatory I assume? Picked at random I see a copper Grade 1 cylinder rated at 3.65 BAR. My incoming mains is nearly triple that! I can see where the safety concerns are now.

I mean just look! Whatever possessed her to paint this? Tbh the 27mm insulated plasterboard I have left over from lining the main bathroom window reveal would be too thick.

Well I hope she realises just how lucky she is!

I just hate to see good materials poorly utilised. She's more than happy with what I do just goes on about how long I take. I just hope when the bathroom is done she'll see I was right all along!

Is she impulsive? I should say so! She tries but WTF is the point? I fitted the window and suggested I remove the old sill to line and seal the reveal. I come home and she's glossed everything! The sill which I pushed back a bit is letting a gale through! I gently mentioned it and got "Can't you fill it?" Mind you she's convinced you'll suffocate with MVHR!

Have a look too at Click Minigrid & Varilight for instance. Best to make sure the range actually includes the ready engraved appliance switch you want such as "Dishwasher" etc. You can if course get them custom engraved with "Quinoa Mill" or whatever you loaded types want!

MK grid, other makes are available: GridPlus.pdf A typical grid back box: https://www.fastlec.co.uk/893alm-mk-grid-plus-6-or-8-gang-flush-back-box-with-knockouts.html?gclid=CIzY17b-hdICFcQV0wod5cEAIA

You mean on the returns immediately round from the grey cupboards? Sounds OK (without getting into the suitability of what you're mounting them on) I've seen it done. You'll obviously have to have any back box projecting into the cupboard so will want to achieve a neat detail there with conduits etc as required.

Couldn't you have just kept one of the single gang plug top outlets and replaced the other with 1-gang cooker connection plate that has an oval cable grip anyway? Were the "20A spurs" in fact radials off their own mcbs?

Moved by @Nickfromwales and @PeterW to keep things on track... I'll start a TS thread sometime. Need to do a drawing as points of use, boiler etc are some distance from each other so it might serve better to alter their positions anyway. Everywhere there's pipework the easiest rather than best route has been taken.

I AM running my bathroom UFH where the wet room corner is (far left) but I'm having a Geberit wall drain rather than traditional waste. Figure it'll dry the corner out quicker but hopefully not the trap. I very nearly continued the UFH pipes up the wet room corner walls! Nothing under the bath. I've also run it under where the wc will go but that's wall hung. So I'll have warm feet as opposed to warm, wet feet when the kids miss! The hoovers roughly where the bog's going, cupboard on the left as you walk in not heated either as it'll house the (dirty) linen basket:

Erm....yes?

I have to consider something like this at some stage. I know @Nickfromwales keeps shouting "UVC" at me. From a quick Google I see a TS is unvented and imparts its heat to mains cold via a heat exchanger. Learnt that in the last 5 minutes. AND seemingly doesn't need to be G3. What then is the advantage/disadvantage of a TS over a UVC?

Why virtual? https://beersbypost.com/?gclid=CLTyi5eqhdICFYK87Qod43ED4A Come to think of it I owe him too...

Helps that my Mum's from Stab City! Still says "lurry" for lorry.

You'll be able to get a dedicated cooker control switch that matches the grid finish. Put it separate to the grid imo. Anyway, don't forget anyway the switch needs to be within 2m of the cooking appliance. If you use the one switch to control two appliances neither should be more than two metres away. You can feed 2 or more cooking appliances via a single circuit >15A / <50A but they need to be in the same room. EDIT: I would implore anyone embarking on such work to buy a copy of the IET guide to the building regs. Full of info. http://electrical.theiet.org/books/amendment-no3/egbr-4ed.cfm

I don't think he was advocating removing the plug top per se, just having a dedicated radial like you would for say an immersion. I'm sure he means 16A opd, 20A DP switch then unswitched socket thus keeping the plug top. Don't forget he's foreign! A non electrical manager asked the other day what DP stood for so we told him to Google it.....on the firms monitored intranet!

I was looking for a photo of grid switch wiring but this was all i could find: Much better is this sad bloke I found who takes photos of everything! http://myhouseproject.me.uk/pages/electrics.htm

One of the Draftsight versions a little while ago was unusable on Ubuntu/Zorin! Don't know if they've fixed it as I tend to use AutoCAD. I'm running Draftsight V1R5.1 x64 on a Win 7 64-bit pc with no issues My AutoCAD 2010 will only run on Win 7 32-bit but NOT 64-bit. You can pay about £100 to get a thing called Longbow to sort it.

CAD is often just a replacement for the back of a "fag packet" / Hot Works Permit / RAMS in my world! My mate once threw an empty packet of JPS out the Transit window coming down the M1 from working on Manchester Airport's control tower. Pity as it had details of all the modified brackets we needed to have made. Needless to say we went back.....

Oh to have a nice square hole to fit the window in! I could have faffed around rendering the ragged brickwork.....but I didn't! This'll have some the new (undrilled) 15x13mm trim stuck on which'll be rendered up to and then a bit of paint. Concerned I might not be able to match the original finish, anyone got a chip pan?