ProDave

What size of build? I am expecting to complete for £1000 per square metres for a nearly 150 square metre house, so within your budget. that was getting a builder to put up the bare shell and me doing everything else myself. It has taken 5 years so far but that has been budget contrained not just that I am a slow worker. £1000 per square metre is the lowest you can expect and that is with you doing a lot of work.

A big thank you. That looks just like the one I have only the flange part (which is a separate part) is a larger diameter and will cover my bodged hole. Just off to order it. EDIT: only after ordering it and looking at the expected delivery date, do I find it's coming from China. Amazon don't seem to make that as clear as Ebay.

That chart would suggest the exchange is closer than I thought at more like 4Km for the speed we are getting. The new router has not dropped out yet, so who knows it could have fixed the problem? Time will tell.

Phase one implementation is going to likely be anounced on 28th May for implementation immediately or within a few days, This phase 1 will also allow you to meet 1 other person from outside your household outside, and will allow outdoor non contact sports and limited travel to get to them. Our sailing group is discussing this and we think there is enough to allow us to launch the boat and go sailing. But only because we cans slipway launch. I can't see crane in for the larger boats happening any time soon as that involves too many people in one place.

I have fitted the new hub and it is currently working so we shall see if that has fixed the problem, or it's just one of it's good spells. @SteamyTea your script did return a load of 0's for the time the router was off and until I had entered the password and connected the laptop to the new router. So it is working. What can we read into that, that your script still connects even when everything else is struggling?

I am sure you do, just as you need an electrical installation certificate for the wiring. My gas safe certificate was done about 3 weeks ago.

Our old house, 100 metres down the road used to consistently get 2.5Mbps When we first moved into this house we got barely 1Mbps so reported a fault and an engineer spent several hours here. I was impressed with the test kit he had that looked for reflections in the line and he had every junction pit up in the road (our line goes through 4 junctions just to reach the top of the road !!!!) and re made a lot of connections and got us up to 3.5Mbps reliably. It is possible of course that those connections have gone bad again, which would not surprise me as last time there were so called waterproof junctions sitting in a pool of water at the bottom of the pit and when opened, water came out. The state of the network I am surprised a voice telephone line works let alone the bodge that is ADSL. The replacement hub has arrived and I will be fitting that shortly. If that does not fix it I will be insisting on an engineers visit.

Possibly, but oh the price, I had not gone that far down the list.

We are about 3 miles as the crow flies to the exchange but the copper path is longer. Typical download speeds 3.6Mbps The router is currently synced at4167kbps. I can't see anything in the router to give me signal to noise ratios etc. the router is showing it has been connected for just over a day at the moment. Even while we are suffering an "outage" is has not disconnected or tried to re sync, which makes me feel the problem is further down the network.

I am in the middle of one of our "outages" right now. Music box is playing a few seconds of musing then a long pause, then a few seconds of music. Forum pages that normally load in 5 seconds are taking typically 2 minutes. But Sorry to say @SteamyTea your script is still returning "1" for every test so not logging the fault.

If that's the strongback in picture 2, it does not appear to be connected to the joists.

Fitting the en-suite bathroom now. Had a slight problem with one sheet of multipanel that despite being templated needed a bit of adjustment. The result of that is the hole for the shower outlet had to be enlarged slightly. So now the hose outlet fitting I have does not quite cover the hole. so I need a larger one. This is like the one I have. The flange that touches the wall is 45mm diameter https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keenware-KSA-003-Brass-Shower-Wall-Elbow-Outlet-Round/153689371778?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225114%26meid%3D16e9edb5c6bf458a8cec18299a196493%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D114199202223%26itm%3D153689371778%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWebWithBBEV1Filter&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 I have found this one that would do, it's 60mm diameter. BUT it's plastic. I really want a proper sold brass one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shower-Outlet-Supply-Elbow-75-x-60-x-35mm-Chrome-60mm/171729719523?hash=item27fbe390e3:g:KakAAOSwEeFVD8y7 I have also found this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184167866578 That does not state the size. I have messaged the seller and waiting for an answer from him. In the mean time any other ideas? I think I need at least 55mm diameter, 60 would be more comfortable and I really want solid brass not plastic.

@SteamyTea I've got that script running now. I will see if it picks up any outages. Also got the pi music box streaming radio Caroline so I will know when it next drops out as it will all go quiet.

Using your own is fine, until something does not work. Take my case of intermittent stopping and starting connection. the first thing they would say is it must be your modem. At least using the BT thing that is one less excuse for not fixing the problem.

I am afraid that one has failed as well. It was giving 100% packet loss for every test. It suggested it might be a router firewall issue. I looked at their router setup guide only to find BT Home Hub is not supported.

Before you can design a house, you need to know the plot and what size building will fit on it. I like our layout, but it is only 3 bedrooms (but not far short of your size) The main feature is the house is wider than it is deep (you need a decent plot to do this) and it is based on a stair well in the middle with all rooms directly from the small hall at the bottom or small landing at the top. Very eficcient use of space and good separation of bedrooms (master is the other side of the stairwell to the other two) EDIT: I have added my floor plans to the bottom of the post Thinks I particularly like. The two living spaces downstairs open top the entrance hall with double doors. Doors open and it's like one big open space downstairs. Doors closed and you have 2 separate living areas for when you want to do your own thing. Upstairs the master bedroom (for us) with it's en-suite is separated (from a noise point of view) from the other bedrooms by the stairwell. Stairs in the middle means everything links off the two small hallways so very eficcient use of space. Not to everyones taste is the combined utility room and downstairs WC. But I could no see a way to make these separate rooms without extra wasted corridor space. We quite like the arrangement now. BW005_-_GF_Plan.pdf BW007 - FF Plan.pdf

Thanks Temp. I have now registered using that link and it works. I now have the bizarre situation of two log on accounts at thinkbroadband both with the same use name, email and password, but they do different things!!!! I have set the monitor running and when it has been going for a bit I will post some results here.

I am composing it in my head already. That's the only way I got the issue sorted with Talk Talk last time.

There is someone near here, who bought a building plot with PP to build a house. He has been living there so far for 3 years in a yurt. There seems to be no sign of him even starting to build a house. Not sure what planning will or can do about that?

I agree with the above to match the floor. Where I used to live in Oxfordshire there was an old cottage by the river that regularly flooded but only an inch or 2 of water. That had cement rendered walls, quarry tile floor and quarry tile "skirting" When a flood was due, small stuff went upstairs, large furniture went up on blocks. When the flood went, mop out the floor and put it all back. I think the sockets were all a bit higher up the walls.

Yes all devices. Both times the BT person I spoke to made me go and boot up the only wired PC in the house and confirm the problem is still there on a wired device so it is not a wifi issue. It is a BT router plugged into the master socket. They are sending a new router so that has to be worth a try but I am not holding out much hope. This is sounding awfully like a few years ago at the old house where we had a similar issue except it was a permanent fault (which should have made it easier to find) and we were with Talk Talk at the time. I ended up with half a dozen talk talk routers because that was there stock answer to a fault and they would not believe that the last 2 routers they send did not fix the fault so they sent another, and another......... As an aside, at the start of this, they sent me a 4G mini hub, but I have not been able to get that to work at all. BT customer service is rapidly going down in my opinion at the moment........

I have tried a bit more but still can't get it to work. If I individually check upload it works. If I just hit the "test" icon (which is what I presume it does every 10 minutes) then that is when it does the connecting to WAN, failed to connect to WAN thing. I don't have time or patience to learn the foibles of a bit of old software that does not work as installed.

2.5 is the normal stuff used for ring mains today. This is an old house. you probably have the imperial sized multi stranded cable that does look a bit larger but only because it is multi stranded. It is also probably 50 years old.

There is no voice line fault, no crackles etc. The lights on the router suggest it is connected. even when not working. I am convinced it is at the exchange or further down line. The two BT operatives I have spoken to both did no doubt the same set of tests and both concluded "something is not right" but could not quantify what was not right. First one said he would phone next day to give me an appointment time, never did. Yesterdays call resulted in "I think it might be your router" so I am waiting for the replacement to arrive.

Tried that one as well. Seems an old bit of software full of bugs. I can manually test ping, upload and download, but let it run an auto test and the first thing is says is "trying to connect to WAN" followed by cannot locate WAN. Next?