ProDave

You mention wall joints. You are not talking about those plastic strips the tile shops try and sell you to do corners, and worse still, the ones they try and sell you to finish off the bottom? Work of the devil, should be banned from sale as unfit for purpose.

I have an electric one that can be used single handed., but it is still easier with 2 hands.

When Scottish water turned up to connect our water and make the road crossing, they cut through the tarmac and pulled that up, only to find a thick concrete road underneath. Much cursing and swearing and off to fetch a concrete breaker. Good job the road crossing was a fixed price.

If you are looking for a recommendation, we have Protect VP400, chosen by the builder as it can be left exposed for a long time. It was close on a year before the roof git tiled, and the walls of our sun room are still clad in this (with no outer covering) 3 years later with no problems.

We have both. the ladies wanted the rainfall thing. Dreadful invention. I want a shower that I can have wetting my body, and wetting my head when I choose it to do so the rainfall you can't stop it wetting your head and I hate that. I won't be using it and as far as I am concerned it is redundant. but I am outvoted so we have both.

If it is a garden office, the last thing I would be building it from is blocks. I would want a well insulated timber framed construction, which as I am sure we have discussed many times, could very easily be built as a portable building so exempt from building control.

I gave up trying Roller Door UK. They never answered their phone, and then a negative review popped up on ebay. I tried a couple more, and ended up placing an order with Roller Doors Direct in Scunthorpe, they are another one that lists on ebay. £505 including delivery for a 55mm insulated roller door made to measure. Paid for in full by credit card so I should have some protection if it fails to turn up. I will keep you posted.

Rationel from ADW in Cumbernauld. Of the 6 quality window supplier I got quotes from, they were the cheapest and second best in terms of quality. Only beaten quality wise very slightly by Internorm who were twice the price.

I must ask my neighbour how his situation ended. He has the "Dounereay line" passing over his garden on a temporary wayleave. About 2 years ago he served the 1 year notice to have it removed. It is still there and indeed they have done some upgrade work on it. I suspect there was a settlement involving ££££ to keep it.

the dress sold for more.

Thar's one team of men who will sleep well tonight.

it might have sold by now.

You must be remembering that famous ebay advert for a dress

That's what I thought, but the invoice came back Bradford bathrooms. One of those companies that trades under multiple names?

I wanted a remote shower mixer and found it strangely hard to find. We visited a couple of the bathroom "sheds" in town, and none of them had one, just a variety of showers with the controls directly below the shower head. It was only asking on hear that I found what I wanted and bought it all mail order from Bradford Bathrooms. To me it just made sense. Whenever you turn a shower on, you always get cold water out first before the hot gets there. Why would you want your arm sprayed with cold water?

I am astonished that give the summertime temperatures, that any surface is cold enough for moisture to condense. It must be part of the cold window detail where it is condensing then finding it's way through the SIP panel at a joint perhaps.

Video won't play for me on either computer or phone (probably because they are not i thingies. What is directly above where the pool of water is? it should be obvious what it is dripping from.

The Scottish Government are bringing in a new rule that rented properties need a Legionela risk assessment. I think I will be basing mine on that analysis.

Something missing there. I would expect the top left "call for heat" contacts to connect to the boiler to turn it on when the UFH wants some heat. Without that connected, what turns the boiler pump on and off? I suspect at the moment it runs all the time the boiler timer is on, so I would expect the radiators to work. It would be better if this call for heat contact controlled the boiler, and you could put an upstairs room stat in parallel with that, so the boiler would only come on when either the UFH or upstairs actually wants some heat.

Yes here is mine, or rather my two

I do, temporarily have one hot water dead leg, the feed to the utility room that as yet has no sink or tap on the end of it. But if there is nothing there to grow and multiply anyway.....

Yes that's the one. When we first moved here, before the new treatment plant was built, when there was a strong SW wind it wold stir up the silt near the outtake and the water came out of the taps with a slight brown tint. That has gone with the new works, but the water still tastes pure. I really notice when I go south now how much chlorine is in a lot of the water.

Ours went the other way on the last house. We had the NHBC solo for self build. At completion, I got the NHBC inspector out for the completion inspection. He signed the completion stage in the log book. I asked what other paperwork we would get and he said that is it. 6 months later the 10 year warranty certificate arrived, dated for 10 years from that day. so we got an extra 6 months.

Thanks for that reply @JSHarris Yes it's a sealed unvented tank, mains water supply. The water comes from Loch Glass about 6 miles away and treated by Scottish Water in a relatively new treatment plant. I don't know what treatment it gets there, but unlike some other parts of the country, it arrives to us a pure water with no taste, smell or even hint of chlorine. But we are to assume it arrives as tested potable water, so you are saying there is no risk and I should not bother? I still need to sort out the thermostat so solar PV has the ability to store more unwanted power in the tank.

Thermowatt RTS-3 thermostat. No numbers on the dial, just marked + and -. Hard round all the way as far as it will go in the + direction, hard against the stop.