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This is our version. Two big trestles with a series of scaf boards over the top.

Nah. I fitted them they are nice and bright in the other circuits. Sounds like nothing’s by is obviously stupid in what I’ve done (comments on not using earths) excepted

I’ll correct myself, there is an earth in there and I have connected it. I assumed that we had a cable in and a cable out. Hence connecting the lives to lives and neutrals to neutrals. If you put 12v on mains g9 will it light? I wonder if someone has inadvertently added a 12v adapter in the circuit.

The lights are these, https://www.slvlighting.com/en-us/luminaires-lamps/plastra-cube-plaster-wall-700020u.html six of them on a single switch. All have two cables (twin and earth) and one has just a single twin and earth.

Hmm. There is nothing to connect Earth to. Only fittings for live and neutral. The fittings are porcelain if that makes any odds.

I've got the up and downlights in the lounge wired up. When I fitted the fittings in second fix I absent mindedly connected up the neutrals together, and the lives and left the earths. Now each light is very dim and and I'm starting to wonder if the switching actually goes to each lamp and there for I should have used the earths but sheathed as Com. Does anyone have a view on my muppetry? in a normal wall light with twin and earth how should they be connected?

I do very much enjoy your Blog posts Caliwag, but I do sometimes struggle to understand what you are leading me to think about. Perhaps your writing style would benefit from a lead in paragraph and a summary back at the end? The old Tell what you are going to tell them, Tell them, Tell them what you told them ? Looking forward to the next episode - I'll respond more on the above in the coming weeks. I have a plan for a cottage garden that respects the area with a soft outline from the lane, but then taking on a more formalised and perhaps slightly japanese feeling garden facing the front glazed elevation when you reach a given view point.

Thought you lived a mile south of there... not sure about drawing arbitrary lines you are on the wrong side of!

Probably Winchester or poss Newbury.

If you buy the Ikea sink that rides on top it comes with a space saving setup? Or do you have the sink already?

Do pockets need purpose? I’m inordinately pleased with these pockets now they have light...

Pockets are exciting I like pockets! We have a feature stair in our house with two quarter landings. Under the first landing is log store / cum Robo hoover charge point, under the next one is an appliance garage from the utility so the washing machine tumble dryer sit flush to the wall in the utility saving space. Above that and below the quarter landing we have another void, this is a wine cellar access from the downstairs WC..

Uplight it? and grow plants down? no-one will know

We are just at the point of commissioning the UFH and looking at the pumps on each manifold. They look pretty well, weedy. Do we need a pump to take from the thermal store to the manifolds as well as the pump on the loops?

We are finally approaching being remortgageable with our project. With this in mind we’ll need a valuation figure. As I understand it, this is the value of the property on the day of the visit. We have a broadly complete house, but we are missing skirting, architrave, ovens, floor coverings and landscaping. For arguments sake let’s say the value of the property turn key and ready to go would be say 700k. What sort of a mark down should I be expecting for the current state of affairs? 10k? 50k? 100k?

I worried about this with our stairs and newels, but it seems to me that over the week or two after applying they seem to gently lighten up, also the second coat is nowhere near as extreme as the first.

I've been doing our internal doors, you can do one with a brush in 20mins or so with a brush, just go lightly on the cover so it doesn't run everywhere. It'll take longer to mask them up and spray them

I think it was the magic man.

The sill is a slate matching the floor, notched into the wall tiles to give an overlap like outside :-) Possibly easier to see here.

No chipping at all, lovely clean cuts with the cutter with a few light passes.

Been tiling the bathroom this weekend and taking a borrow of my builders tile cutter. It’s one of these https://www.buybrandtools.com/acatalog/rubi-dc-250-electric-tile-cutter-230v.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvtfQqsSW1wIVhBbTCh151QiQEAQYCyABEgLIKfD_BwE about £800 quids worth but what a piece of kit. Suspect you could probably buy one and sell on for a couple of hundred loss. if I had more to do I’d be buying one myself. I do love a decent bit of kit.

He is the chosen one. May be one day another of us may move in too.

I have no idea why it’s necessary but it was an attraction to the velfac system for us as they only sit about 30mm back from the front of the reveal

As I read the post it's already gone?

Really I wouldn't bother, even if it was asbestos what can be done? you'll do more damage with the stress and the worry. He could have inhaled more at a trip past a building site or a badly filled skip.