Just purchased the Water Butt Kit, good value, includes the stand tap, and water diverter. I will dig a shallow gravel filled soak away for if the Butt fills completely up, but, not much water will drain off a 3.6 Square metre section of roof.
Where from and how much? Keep meaning to get one to help top up my pond.
Ebay £34.95, free delivery!
My guess is it’d be too big for what I need. Saw a small one in Wilko for around £20.
I did wonder where the water from the downpipe in that piccie of yours went.
Another little story from that Hackney job - I’d returned to Manchester for a long weekend (Thursday to Sunday) to see my family, and had to leave someone else to oversee proceedings.
On Friday, a plumber laid all the underfloor heating pipes. On Saturday, some other Polish people my boss hired came to lay the screed over said floor. At a later date, this was then covered with t&g chipboard flooring (glued together) plus some laminate flooring which had to be shipped in from Denmark and was pretty expensive. Covered the entire ground floor, with skirting boards/architraves placed on top of it so it looked “proper”.
After I left (had to return home), my boss soon went bankrupt. Had a call from the architect a few weeks later who told me there was pressure loss from the underfloor heating (ie there was a leak). Seems as though the plumber who installed it hadn’t bothered to pressure test it after all, or the screed layers hadn’t taken sufficient care not to damage it with their boots and wheelbarrows. I had left instructions with my stand-in to lay protective coverings, but it seems he couldn’t be arsed. No idea how they resolved the issue, if indeed they ever did.
Dex, having spent a fortune in time and money trying to do hidden jobs right, I would have been bankrupt in the first year as a professional Builder. In our old place, we had a hot blown air heating system which I removed (including low level asbestos), It was replaced with traditional Boiler and Radiators which I fitted, I did not like to see exposed pipework, and to make matters worse the property had solid concrete floors so, in each room I channeled down the plaster and blockwork in the corner of the rooms and installed square capped trunking to plaster finish level allowing service if ever required. We bumped into the people who bought the property a year or so after we moved out who, had had subsequent plumbing work done, the engineer commented, “who the hack went to all this trouble”.
Did the same job here but it was easy peasy because of the suspended floors.
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I try to do the same sort of pipework into walls. Good job. Makes it so much easier and neater when decorating, laying floor coverings etc.
I did the wetwork for our house (can’t touch gas, obviously). When we had some builders in, I did a rather neat bit of pipe bending stuff under the sink which amazed the builders in terms of accuracy and detail. It’s nice when one has the time to do things properly.
Edit- it is a bit annoying that one can’t buy pipe collars with sufficient diameter to go over endfeed/yorkshire fittings which might protrude from walls;-)
One exception Dex, the downstairs Loo.
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This was done deliberately as in character with the rest of the room.
The covers I have seen look cheap and nasty, especially the chrome finish ones, better off fiddling about with the plaster work.
First - downstairs loo pipework…nobody’s perfect and it’s nto exactly a majoy feature of the house 
Did once try to use a router to make a nice pipe cover from timber. Gave up and opted for polyfiller instead to make the plasterwork as neat as neat can be After all, there was going to be a sofa in front of that bit anyway 
We’ve got a 100 ltr one,cost about the same.Just asked the boss,it was from here.
It looks like the same one caricature, only your link shows it at £21.99:cry:
Typical bloody luck. So frustrating when you think you’ve got a bargain, only to discover…
Seems not to be a good idea laying a lawn on a lawn, even with a topsoil barrier, apparently the decomposing old lawn restricts the root pattern of the new turf, looks like there will be a bit more graft and another skip, just down the line.
For the size of it, it’s probably not worth hiring a turf lifter or even buying a manual one. I bought one when I did mine and ebayed it, and it did prevent lifting too much soil along with the sods.
Dex, it is once again time to get tactile, just skim enough, the small side first, always suspected this would be the case.
Spitty, yep. As you know from removing some for the concrete pads, you’re going to get hollows and bumps. Really not sure what’s best in terms of levelling it, since topsoil alone is bound to compact by different amounts over time and make the new lawn lumpy!! Might even be worth using some sharp sand under the layer of topsoil as you’ve got clay???
Dex, anything I do will be better than before, we will be upping sticks shortly so presentation is all important. Time to take the knowledge forward, not in a Taxi sense.
We have been blessed with a location, so, lets hope the next Location Location, Location will be as kind.
Twenty blocks to go, to establish the height of the three by two slab for the Water Butt. tomorrow should see it done.
Excellent stuff Spitty.