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Great stuff! Thankyou both!

You've got a chance to spend my money for me. Need about 50m2 of sound insulation for my stud walls. Thoroughly confuddled, I don't want to end up chasing marginal gains at the expensive end of the market, but likewise It would be nice to see benefit from the effort involved with cutting and fitting. Typical wall build-up 95mm timber stud, faced on 1 side with 18mm ply + 12.5mm plasterboard on and 12.5mm plasterboard t'other side and 90mm metal frame with 18mm Ply + PB on one side and PB The ply is there because it was kindly donated... So making use of it for it's fixing properties rather than having to think about future placement of tv's and fitting extra noggins.

Not sure about plasterboard, I guess it depends a lot on the stove and distances and how much heat it will need to absorb, failing that then render/plaster it. If you can I'd call your BC and ask what he'd expect to see, mines pretty good at answering my sometimes daft questions. VITCAS do some high temp stuff but might be belt and braces. HWAM have some nice tall'ish stoves I reckon might give a nice balance of modern and traditional... A bit of stovepipe, a flexi, coupling, register plate, and chimney hat... Is what I think an installer will probably want to use I think. Even on mine where we've got clay (or something or other) liners installed.

Might not be the BM's goto brand but Floplast have 110mm solvent, I'm sure OSMA aswell 110mm Solvent Soil | Floplast

Looks alright does that!, A decent stovefitter will know what to do with regards a liner if you want a stove. You can core in an air feed for direct connection to the stove. Just requires a bit of careful selection on stove with regards room sealing, primary/secondary feeds. What you thinking of, inset, or floor standing? Putting an inset into mine just for the cleaner lines, more than anything, but that's a personal preference.

I'll be the outlier... I bought a 2nd hand Festool saw, 3 batteries etc, had it for 18 months, then sold it for 50 quid less than what I paid. For me it was worth it.

Soudal repair express maybe?

Dont forget to mark on the new boards where the timbers are hidden! Don't ask me how I know why this is a good idea... 🤣

I've deployed a load of pi3 at work running my PHP/mysql data input system on chromium to feed our ERP and production planning system. I think this PI 5 might just be overkill! Good to see the price is still attainable and hopefully they have a good production run so plenty of stock available.

I've seen it defined under and over - maybe a regional thing, so had the vision of what you were doing, it's confusing, thankfully @Gus Potter has an eye for detail and asked the question. I'm a bad dobbie and must ask more questions before giving answers! You'll probably do this anyway (sorry), but don't forget foam if needed and foil tape for the joints...

it'll be fine.

You can half a twix for that effort!

Question timed to perfection, so big thanks for asking. Will be on job soon too!

As I was clipping the pipe up anyway, I opted for blue/red pipe clips.

Have you got enough elevation in the ground levels for the drainage fall to go round the outside of the build, or will you need to dig a really deep hole for the treatment plant invert?

Nice elegant solution! So one of these from your link. to one of these? (Grohe, others are available too!)

Just did a web search for the timber profile that @Russell griffiths posted as I love that. Just enough of a mix between modern and traditional. AGS Skirting boards - AGS Systems | flush doors and skirting boards (ags-systems.info), theres a few how to youtube construction videos aswell which may be useful.

Nope, but will add them to my list for consideration when the time comes.

Whoever had this place before me has buried various flavours of broken up asbestos looking sheet material, my only problem with this is just they didn't bury it deep enough as I keep coming across it whenever I get a digger. Not really arsed about it, I just dig a deeper hole out of the way, collect it up with the tractor and push it in.

in the ground. A full load 8m2. Reckon I could of used another cube just to tidy it off but I emptied the wagon and It's not going anywhere. However, neither am I. My body is broken! 32mm MDPE pipe inside 110mm waste pipe as a duct. Got some 2" twinwall but decided on using waste pipe, so If go digging again one day, the waste pipe will put up more of a fight than black twinwall.

Sol weld should do a decent job to be fair with the SP124, it's not like you need to mark angles and set, clean up the pipe, use some of that stuff to prep the pipe(sorry cant think, my brain's frazzled! ) before the sol weld, then a good dollop of sol weld, give it a good twist back and forth (apologies, you've probably done this all before). I'd probably look to smear up the inside with some goo whether it needed or not, but that's me going OTT! On a tangent, I've got an SP124 mated to a stub on my treatment plant inlet. Rewatec have goo'd up the inside of this!

agree with @Dave Jones pull it out if you can. I'd replace with a piece with a socket on the end. However, since it's screeded and taped up it probably won't want to come out without a fight, you could core round the pipe and remove some screed, or chip away (probably safer) to expose a bit more pipe, use a coupler and if you are concerned about the seal, plenty of CT1 round the inside?

Yep you’re right, cover now back on had to take it off otherwise the lifting strap fouled on it.

Today, I will cut a channel through the field to lay 70m of 32mm mdpe in ducting. Made the decision that we'll fill the channel and surround the ducting with 2-3ft of 2" clean stone to act as a drain, we've done this at the back of the house and round the other side of the riding school and it works well to drain the surface water. You can see on the photos that we are blue/grey clay under the top 3ft or so of sandy/gravel and is really slow draining after prolonged wetness!

Deep enough I think! Ready for lifting at this point I'm thinking Hole too big! Plenty of Room for concrete, concrete for the base is coming Tuesday, about 2m3 I calculated, base will be about 300mm thick as I miscalculated the dig depth a little 🤔.