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Or do what the major developers do even when there is a TPO. Accidentally drive a 20t digger into it and make it unsafe (or horizontal!!). Thats not a recommendation or endorsement just an observation!

Im finding beer is quite good at that too Daft question........ ive never tiled with a tile that big. Is the job incrementally faster with a larger tile. I.e. Less tiles, less work. Or does the added complexity cancel it out?

Lovely tiling as always @Nickfromwales. They look huge, 750mm wide?

Giving him the benefit of the doubt perhaps he intends to pop a bit a 4x2 under the pipe at the far end before he's completely finished. Thus creating a gentle fall? Out of interest are rodding eyes as essential as they once were now there are high pressure air/water clearing systems? Or do you sometimes still need to poke the poo with a stick?

Oh, yea of little faith

I've been contemplating this further today. I think the only answer is to have a "trap door" frame fabricated from stainless steel. Then it will be a case of fabricating some sort of void for a standard metal back box and socket. In all not that tricky.

Two words: fug ugly

Yep, going to have to make decisions. Still though need to find a "near invisible" cover though.

Hi All We've got a couple of fairly open plan spaces and SWMBO has a particular passion for table lamps. In our last place one of the annoyances was that she couldn't place tables and lamps in a central place without trailing wires. So........ I've been pondering provision for floor sockets. The biggest issue I see is trying to second guess where they need to be. There's fat chance of the boss agreeing on precise furniture layouts until things are built but I should be able to achieve some approximate locations. So it should be a simple case of ducting in the slab and some sort of floor box? Now what I'd really like to do is come up with some sort of hidden top to the boxes in case they don't get used, downstairs is going to be tile or slate. Upstairs engineered Oak strip. I've seen plenty of those commercial ones where they match the carpet tiles but that's far too big and industrial. The domestic ones I've seen are those metal hinge plate types. Oh and one last question. How far does mains wiring need to be away from the UFH pipes? Has anyone had any experience or done something similar? TTFN.

Dont panic. The novelty soon wears off

True but when dealing with natural slate the potential for damage from an aluminium ladder is high and so the two combined could work well?

As Nick said they should be replaced or the very least professionally repaired so they look like new.

Interesting thread as I will face the same issue as I also intend to use MBC and Internorm Lift and Slide. what interests me is it seems to suggest that what has been written in the two posts above seems to imply that MBC have said "what do you want" where their sales pitch is very much "we work with your chosen window supplier"? Surely if they're building as many houses as they claim and as they also claim regularly work with Internorm they must have provided this detail before?

I'll remember that. I think I was being too descriptive!

Yes, yes, yes! Cant find a UK stockist. but I've dropped them an email. Thank you!

OK, no amount of Googling is sorting this. I swear I watched a YouTube video (but for the life of me don't remember which!) that showed a guy using what I can best describe as a rubber set of steps laid across the roof tiles and hooked over the ridge. Such a good design in comparison to a clunky metal roof ladder. But did I just dream it?

I have to agree. Polished concrete does look lovely when done properly but it's a huge amount of work and skill to make something like a worktop look good. The issue is you just can't keep a handheld polisher with a small head horizontally aligned with the peice to create a good result. The pro's polish on a huge bed with a fixed arm. Ive been lucky enough to visit the factory of these guys https://www.mass-concrete.com and they turn out some stunning work in concrete.

One on each foot and you should sink nicely when you next upset @MrsRA

Welcome. Your post reminded me of the lyrics to Eclipse. It could almost be the "Self Builders Poem" Eclipse (Waters) 2:04 All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

@Grosey mine came from http://www.dainton.com They were very helpful.

Theres a chap at my local pub who only has a stump for one arm. An experience tree surgeon of 20+ years and one day he just got unlucky with a chipper! Not for me thanks, I'll leave that sort of work to the experts!

My local BM is reporting rises in timber (and other goods) as a result of the Euro being weak against the pound. I'm sure that some of it is opportunistic to enable price rises!

I went through your pain and in the end just bought one. I paid £1,900 + VAT for a 20ft container which was "new" (they are never new but actually come over with one load and then are sold). Second hand prices are strong so you'll easily sell it again. Plus if (no when ) your project overruns you'll not be shelling out more.

Nope. Not in our database so our supplier has never formulated it or mixed it. So as @Tennentslager said pop it to your local paint shop that has a spectrometer and they'll match it.

Thats not a current NCS code that I recognize. Give me 10 minutes and I'll get one of my guys to run it through the database.