Onoff

Kent, God's county!

It's a mixer tap, (single hole) on the basin, think the two bits of black tape confuse things: The basin & bath taps are only Bristan (bought before I knew any better ). You know me, never one to over complicate something..... So will this 15mm copper I've bought be OK (for EVERYTHING)? Cheers

I was trying to avoid joints under the bath, keeping it to JUST at the tap itself. Red tile here will be the removable one: Sink will be to the left of the tile: Likely changing sink style for a half height pedestal. So.....all the joints will be behind that one tile. At least that WAS the plan..... Thinking about this you mentioned before to do the runs in 15mm I think?

Sure I've read somewhere that the S'fix ones narrow down to an 8mm bore. The ones in my link are available seemingly in a 19mm bore. And they're a "commercial" grade. Something like this (with a couple of handy garden hose offcuts). Long flexibles, probably one @ 1500mm & the other 1200mm will come off the bath taps, go through holes drilled in the dwarf stud wall and join copper coming down the wall where there's currently no PIR. All joists accessible via removable tile.

Still on the lookout for decent quality, extra long flexible tap connectors to go from what will be routinely inaccessible bath tap connections to behind a removable tile where the basin & bath isolators will be I FINALLY found this company: http://www.mecserflex.co.uk/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=6655&idcategory=1424

Feel free to dump it in any of the number of pull ins along the single track lane to my house. Every other F****** does! For variety you might try leaving large loads of conifers from garden clearance jobs, stacks of old tyres, asbestos garage roofs or the odd mountain of cable sheathing (copper removed). Favourite spot seems to be against the "NO FLY TIPPING" sign.

My South African mate reckons tractors with glazed / meshed cabs are a must out there if grass has been left to grow or fallow land needs ploughing in. His brother has a farm out there. Seemingly the cutting heads etc can throw up poisonous SNAKES and/or bits of them still capable of biting. And apparently you should never run a snake over whilst on a motorbike for similar reasons.....

Hello & good evening! I find having NO schedule works. Also try and flit between a number of jobs at once and slip in "I'm sure if I'd been tested as a kid I'd have been diagnosed with ADHD!". You can just about get away with it with the missus if the end product is perfect and beyond reproach. I can't though use "The forum's down!" as an excuse to her any more. Tiles.....one day! It's no surprise I still need to complete the walls.

In the back garden we have a circle (more of an oval) of cowslips that just gets mown around and the grass left to grow and do it's thing. Saved a big slow worm the other day from the wife driving the ride on. She was mowing in ever decreasing circles on the front lawn and when she'd passed it made a "run" for it.

On windows the "proper" way using a pole is generally known as "reach n wash" in the trade and utilises de-ionised water either from a tank in the back of the van or via a wheeled trolley that looks like an oxyacetylene trolley and holds damn great cartridges. In the old days cleaners would go to back street filling stations to get their de-ionised water. The dirt on the window is wetted then agitated / loosened with a brush or dolly on the end of the pole which is water fed and controllable. The water is then used (no soap) to wash the debris off and downward. Leaves a fairly streak free finish. Kit's pretty expensive. If done regularly reach and wash is OK but if engrained then a proper dolly / squeegee together with nylon Scotch type pad is used. If you have heavy staining the cerium oxide powder or CO2 can be used. Window cleaners who miss the corners are referred to as "Sinbad" (think portholes). Listen to a couple of windows talking and you might hear one say "I did a Dionne!". Translated this means he knocked some or all of a particular job as in Dionne Warwick's Walk On By. EDIT: Meant to add that the lads I know who clean solar installs on commercial buildings use the de-ionised water fed pole generally.

Driving along the other day past a house VERY steep and high grass bank that meets the road and I was momentarily shocked to see a Flymo coming down then going back up the slope. At the top of the slope leaning back and digging his heels in was a bloke in shorts who could barely keep a footing on the bank. He'd tied a rope to the Flymo..... Must be about due for another cut. Next time I'll stop and take a pic. Just imagining having dash cam footage as the mower enters the picture from left and skids across the bonnet.....

Folkstone? http://www.insulation4less.co.uk/eps-70-100mm.html

My advice is whatever way you think of doing something if new to that particular task then ASK for the collective's comment first. G'teed there'll be someone on here who's done it before. Same with the "where to get" questions. And speaking from experience nobody'll think less of you for asking loads of what you think might be real numpty questions either. (Or will they? ).

Well I didn't.....

Proper job! Might be picking your brains when I do something similar. What's the rear extension for, looks too narrow for anything.....grow room?

They're both sitting safe & dry in the garage pretty much as you last saw them. An auto rotisserie / roll over jig is on the cards. As for a Summer project after today's grass cutting and hedge trimming I keep coming back to a bio-gas generator.....plenty of horse manure available locally for a 50:50 "green/brown" feed stock.

Like I could!

I'm BACK! Evening all, old and new. Greetings from Kent. I'm originally an apprenticed mechanical & production engineer by trade working in my day job on lifting and access equipment tending towards the electrical / plc side of things. Proud owner of a large, detached money pit, you name it it needs doing or re-doing. Wish I'd found the old eBuild site sooner as I'd have done so much differently and saved a bundle of money to boot. Learnt a hell of a lot and hope to continuing doing so here! And no, I've not finished the BATHROOM yet!