ProDave

Worktop Express have (in effect) told me to bugger off. £286 delivery for a £255 worktop. Hell I could drive to Glasgow and fetch it myself for considerably less.

There is no feed in tariff any more. That removes the need for an MCS installer to do the job. So any competent electrician can connect them. If you do that, you won't be able to claim the miserable 5p export rate, but the amount you are likely to export makes it not worth paying the "MCS premium" just to claim such a smal amount. (I would have earned about £12 export payment in the last year had I been eleigible)

That's new information. I would say centred on the visible floor after accounting for what is covered by the unit, and accept at either end it might look odd. Then try and centre the toilet also on that bit of visible flooring, No I won't suggest also moving the off centre window.

Bolt some unistrut to the top and build a frame from that,

Down the centre is very wasteful. EVERY edge tile will be just a bit over half a tile leaving you an offcut just a bit under half a tile, with nowhere to use it. Centred on the WC would be much more efficient. Just a sliver cut off the right hand side (and with luck enough to reach into the door recess) and the other side will need less than half a tile so each full tile will do 2 cuts. That side looks like it has the basin anyway, so centred on the WC puts it pretty much centred on the walkway.

Just to burst your bubble, self employed got no SSP whatsoever, not even now.

That might backfire if you wing it for 2 weeks. What happens if you get it for real later on? Is THAT where the idea you can catch it a second time is coming from?

But still NOTHING for the self employed.

Rearo have a few at 16mm thick that may suit you but not many, and they are twice the price of Worktop Express.

Yes they have a few that might do (no blue ones though) I will probably order a sample pack. I sent them a terse email because their website makes it impossible to find the delivery cost unless I enter ALL my details and register with their site which I only want to do if the delivery cost is reasonable. Why can't they just give you a delivery cost from your postcode? (rant over)

So SAVERS no doubt and with immediate effect. to BORROWERS probably some time in the future and only partially.

For our bathroom en-suite. These are the compact laminates that are about 12.5mm overall thickness with a solid (plastic) core i.e. not a timber core. Howdens do them, in 2 colours variations on grey stone. Magnet do a few more colours but mostly emulating some form of stone. WE don't want stone. SWMBO would like blue. Does anyone know where I might get a compact laminate worktop that is not pretend stone and might be vaguely blue in colour?

I used Air Stop window tape with the pre scored backing so you peel the backing off the thin strip, stick the tape to the window, then position the VCL and peel off the larger section of backing. It helps to use a tiny bit of tape to tack the two ends to hold them still so it all stays put when applying the main strip of tape. Saves you needing 4 hands.

BPC is well known here and generally well thought of. Several of us have either bought complete systems from them of just components.

Never encountered that, I have found 110mm of all makes and colours has the same outside diameter (unlike smaller diameter waste pipes) You did chamfer the end of the black pipe and lubricate it?

My Redring (Lamona Aka Howdens) one has an adjustment dial so if you were not after perfect tea, but instead wanted warm water for coffee you could do that.

I don't understand your problem. The black "solvent weld" and the brown "underground" pipe are exactly the same size and BOTH will fit a push fit connector. That is how you join them. You can use a mix of solvent weld and push fit on the same pipe inside if you wish. Strictly speaking you should have finished the black pipe just inside the house and that bit from the house to the inspection chamber should be brown. The brown stuff is stronger and less likely to crush or break.

You need to understand, private landlords are the scourge of the earth and are a cash cow to everyone else. If we make a profit, it's obscene so they have to bleed us dry to ensure that does not happen. You wait until the compulsory legionairs assesment hits you.

We have I joists downstairs (there are no services under the floor) and posi joists upstairs as there are plenty of services. Both are very good and solid. I believe the posi joists cost more.

One got into our house when I was fitting a velux window and left it unsealed for over a day (we had previously heard it on the roof between the roof tiles and sarking board) After about 2 weeks of the cat not getting it, and it fully exploring all the service voids and scratching about just about anywhere you could mention, I put poison down for it. It has gone now, but no smell at all. It can't have got out, it will have died somewhere but no smell.

Strictly the smoke alarm is not a failure on the EICR. If the sparky has "failed" the EICR for no hard wired smoke alarms then he is WRONG. However hard wired smoke alarms is a separate requirement for rental properties. Only just coming into force in England, but has been a requirement for Scotland for some time. There is a lot of discussion on the electricians forum as they are trying to bring in a different competent persons scheme for doing EICR's over and above any others. A non 18th edition CU as noted is a C3 at most so NOT a failure. There is no such thing as a failure, it is either Satisfactory, or not satisfactory. and to be not satisfactory it has to have 1 or more C2 or C1 faults.

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Ah, so a power cut and then back on, may have powered it up in the wrong order then.

The first thing I would try, is find the consumer unit, identify the power feed to it. Turn it off wait a few minutes and turn it back on, i.e. re boot it.