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The more "speckly" the finish the easier it is to hide the join. You need to factor in the cost of a bit too. Depends how handy you are with the router? On that score the bigger, better the router, the better balanced it is. The big, heavy 110V DeWalt I have on semi-permanent loan is so much more superior anything else I've used. When I cut an "edge" I: - Support on trestles - Masking tape the cut line - Mark a line 3mm off the cut line and jig saw to that - Clamp a straight edge and cut to the cut line in 3 or 4 passes, increasing the depth each time I use the router for pretty much everything, cutting / edging Contiboard, holes for hobs etc @Construction Channel I'm sure could do a video!

What finish are you looking at?

If you're desperate you can join worktops pretty much invisibly. The pattern helps greatly and this "granular" one was hugely forgiving. The key is to use the router to cleanly and sharply edge the abutting ends / faces. The cat in the photo is sitting on a 400mm wide piece grafted to the stock 600mm worktop over a 3m length.

Northerner? I'm a soft, Southern, shandy drinker I'll have you know! Have been know to brave Passport Control & frequent the Halfway House on the A127 for Capri meets. Some interesting, related reading here about how fire bricks themselves are made. Powdered clay that can be melted, who knew! http://www.traditionaloven.com/articles/101/what-is-fire-clay-and-where-to-get-it

Sharp sand / cement mix & a bit of dye with plenty of exterior PVA or SBR, tamp well... waterseal when dry.

Post? I'd have driven and met halfway or something. I'm only the other side of the bridge tbh.

I have some old storage heater bricks but not sure how many: And I ain't venturing North of the Dartford Crossing this side of Chrimbo!

Yet!

Trust me, when you've had a slipped disc TWICE, those board lifters are magic. I've been using the 2700mm moisture resistant boards and carrying them on my own with one of these:

A bitch when you come to rewire though unless you do the drops in conduit!

Luckily I borrowed the one I used. It was either that or make one from Unistrut & conduit with a spare hand winch I have.

Absolute Godsend:

Half thinking of making the tiled panel on the bench with the LED strip inset then sticking it "up"...

I can't decide if this is a bit of a steal for maybe a Banana Pi based (because of it's SATA) NAS or something: https://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/2TB+HGST+UltraStar+A7K2000+7200RPM+SATA+3Gbps+3.5-inch+Hard+Drive+-+PULL+HDD+?productId=64458&utm_source=Aria+Super+Specials+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=83bfd8278a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_88b2ce3cea-83bfd8278a-177222113

I scored some free 15mm board, the blue one. Sound proof one I think. Works very well.

Ta. Looked at them before tbh. I'm being tight with trying to use the trunking! I'd need 2m of it plus postage... I was debating putting the LED strip in (the trunking) then clear siliconing the strip in situ. Thinking heat disipation issues might lead to early failure though. I'll get back to trialling the bath I think!

Cheers @Nickfromwales & @ProDave. Been there, done that with the flexible edge ones back in the day, the one and only time I've been involved in tiling anything. I just put the strips on years back and the wife tiled things. Going to have a crack myself this time now I'm "calmer" This evenings conundrum is the LED light strip alongside the bath. It fits absolutely perfectly in 12x8mm Tower self adhesive trunking. Just slides in a treat: The Devil's in the detail etc I don't want it that visible when your lying in the bath but rather recessed up into the soffit of the shelf in a groove. Pointing down is better than pointing back at the mosaics. Think I'll have to bring the edge down a bit to overhang. Grey is the tile, green the plasterboard and brown (hatched) the timber: I've figured I think how to run it in 20mm flexible conduit behind the bath, put the remote sensor at the foot of the bath and make it all easily replaceable!

He got off LIGHTLY there! We've all done it though. I think it was a site down in Gravesend a few years back where a kid (16 ish) working on site with poor PPE, suffered partial amputation of one leg and serious caustic burns to the other. Seem to remember they had given him a pair of wellies.....that filled up etc

I've sat there a few times listening to the site agent droning on. Just as everyone's falling asleep "that" slide comes up on the PowerPoint. There's a slow realisation of what they're looking at for those who've not seen it and everyone wakes up! Some of the lime injuries are pretty horrific where people have been working knee deep in concrete etc that has soaked into their "jeans" etc.

Top Trumps! http://www.npc-se.co.th/pdf/LessonLearn/Loose_fitting_harness.pdf

Nearly as good as the one where the bloke didn't do his safety harness up properly and "make a pouch" of his crown jewels! Always wakes people up during site inductions.

White PVC tile trim, what's best? Closed like this Genesis one: Or open like this Dial one (Homelux is similarly open at the back): Cheers

What pc did you get your lad in the end?

You can install Synology DSM on an old pc.

Don't you really need dedicated NAS drives (e.g WD red/purple) if they're going to be on 24/7? I did start a Pi based NAS project to sit under the telly in an old DVD player enclosure. Still "ongoing".....