Onoff

No, NOTHING like that fugly monstrosity!

Is this ref the pipe size or what goes down it?

Back to "slopes" and I'm now hoping my 2 deg slope on my 110mm soil pipe is OK! What's that as "1 in *" ? 1 in 28 if I'm not wrong so way more than the 5mm per metre above!

Would you do this yourself? What thickness etc.

I've yet to grab a suitable chair base though there should be plenty to choose from in our works chair "graveyard" where things sit until there's enough to warrant a slip. Might have a trial run on his existing chair base. Then it'll be a case of drill the bottom and affix, probably with large, shallow headed bolts of some sort. Hoping to get the right angled drill in the 125mm gap in order to csk or counter bore the face to sit the heads flush.

It's going to sit on an old office chair base. The small 70mm holes are for the Lucozade bottles of water he takes to bed - two for symmetry. The grooves are so he can nominally line up his laptop square on top. The big 127mm hole will be directly under the laptop vents. He'll put his radio controlled, "atomic" alarm clock and phone etc underneath.

Second picture above where the verticals sit down in the through housings across the base board. Glue KEPT coming out either side of the vertical pieces. Guess tbh was just the gradual compressive action of the tranny and tinnies weight forcing everything together.

Opaque just like PVA.

No, should I have? Bottle says everything should be clean and dry and to apply glue generously. Specifically says "no foam" on the front. It's sorted now and no more oozing, just wondered!

Not so sure about this Gorilla glue I'm using as a change from D4. I ran glue in the housings then slotted in the spacers and weighted it all down. The spacer pieces are a nice tight fit. I then wiped the excess off with a damp rag like usual. Must have had to wipe the joints another half dozen times. With D4 it would have been one wipe and done. Almost like the Gorilla "expands" but it says it's not foaming.

At the mo he balances his laptop on a computer chair dragged alongside the bed. So this takes it's cue from that. Sanding & FINISHING tomorrow.....not a word I use often!

Zoom in there's a bolster there too!

With so many things to finish I thought I'd start a "quick" one for my boy as a bit of a diversion. So after 10 minutes CAD & with his input.....Not sure if a bit of old, freebie MDF cover board from the local wood yard counts as "joinery" though! Gluing with some "weight":

It's like one of those kid's kits where you have to chip away at the block to find the dinosaur: At least the clay pipe is heading lower which is good though it's holed and I'm pretty sure cracked:

My mind's on the next project before the last one's finished (or is that started?) Just wondering what happens to 4" soil stacks if you fit EWI? Is the insulation just thinner at that point?

This is a couple of steps I made with the same home made router jig as the full set I scrapped. Each tread set in about 1/2" and the stringers through housed. Then 6mm screws in from the sides with glue: One option I did consider was say a 9"x3" as a single, central "stringer" then thick treads set into that.

Half wondering, with hindsight whether I should have brought the new waste out vertical thru the floor of the new bathroom and under the footings, hiding the stack in the internal stud. Rodding might have been an issue though:

I made something very similar to TerryE but for access to my kids tree house a few years ago (10+?) before the spiral one that's on there now. Proper dimns on the rise and going. 42deg pitch rings a bell. I too made up a jig and routered all the stringers to accept the treads. The jig was designed to suit my router base. Worked a treat but I let it fall into disrepair over the years. Out of 8"x2" from memory. I do remember putting some (3?) lengths of studding from side to side to keep everything together just in case as well as gluing and screwing the treads in. I've only just scrapped it tbh but think there is a couple of steps section lying about, I'll grab a pic later. Doddle tbh.

Tbh one doorway I unblocked, removing 9" blocks, just had cut nails banged in every coarse.

I find proper, lemon scented candles lit at night on the patio table keeps the midges down.

Bit of an overview: Main, straight run down to the cesspool on the right. Then 3 runs into the manhole: First clay pipe from bottom left takes shower/sink from upstairs. Used to take sink/bath downstairs. Second pipe up takes upstairs wc and will take new downstairs wc. Grey is from small downstairs wc. Also to come up in this area are old, 3 sided footings (depth unknown) where it appears a room/outhouse used to be attached. It makes the area very wet as although on a slope it retains water.

I like/prefer the idea of one 4" pipe into the ground. I'll see what's what when I expose the clay. That black downpipe off the gutter is a mystery as in where it runs to.....

The Y branch will take the soil from the grey elbow on the right. At the mo that pipe the tools are leaning against is so high level wise in comparison to the other, horizontal clay pipes.

Good to know it is done and "works". If necessary I can chem fix some studs into the base of the walls / footings to help support any concrete block.

Cheers. More £££! Likely I'll end up cracking the clay anyway and having to redo the LOT.