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I've seen some videos where people use a clear plastic storage box, without the lid Cut a hole in the side and tape a rubber glove to it, another hole for the hoover pipe, then just hold the grinder with one hand and the box against the wall with the other. Seems to work reasonably well.

Could you possibly get me dimension for the supplied fixing brackets - height of wall fixing hole centre from the floor (if floor standing) please? I'm building a stud wall that will have a PAX wardrobe in front of it and want to put in noggins at the appropriate height to take the fixings but...

I'll probably get slated for this but - it's outside and you don't need to smash it apart, just scratch it a bit; unless you put your nose right up to it and try to inhale anything that comes off as you scratch it, you'll be fine.

I'm redoing my upstairs bathroom and have changed the positions of the soil pipe and shower/bath waste exits Is there any reason (e.g. regs) that I can't or shouldn't do it like this with a Y then boss the 40mm bath waste into the new vertical bit of branch? I'm anticipating a question along...

I've also, when digging out a section of solid ground floor to fit a level access shower, hit a gas pipe running a strangely convoluted route through the concrete. Dented it pretty badly and must have been pretty close to puncturing it with the SDS chisel before realising it was there.

Fitting a sectional garage door and drilling in masonry screws for the side brackets that hold the cross beam for the opening motor a couple of meters back from the opening and about 2.5m up the (plastered) wall. Pop and the power went off. There's a cable in that wall running down from the...

Looks decent enough. The appearance is indistinguishable from new estates up and down the country. They all have a certain look to them. Usually involving cars parked here there and everywhere, both sides of the road, making access difficult. One thing I noticed this one does have going for it...

The reason I recommended panels instead of tiling is that it will be much quicker and cheaper to do than a retile and getting a tradesman in over the Christmas period will probably be tough enough as it is. Do you have power tools etc to fit the panels? In the meantime you could always just...

Ooof, where to start with this? First I'm a bit puzzled by the photo - it looks like there's evidence of a combed pattern of tile adhesive on the backs of the tiles but at the same time they look like they've been dot and dabbed. Perhaps they were originally fixed with a combed bed of adhesive...

Agree with that. Apart from the one at the top left, it looks like there wasn't enough adhesive or the tiles weren't bedded down onto it.

Assuming the rest of the tiles are secure that seems like the appropriate remedy. Just don't go mad 'grinding back' as assuming that there's tanking underneath, you do not want to damage that. Then use a cement based tile adhesive to replace the tiles. Then get that silicone sorted :sick:

Grout is not water impermeable - on a shower floor, you would expect some dampness under the tiles at least in places, especially near the lowest point/drain. That's why you always tank a shower. The mesh backer is only intended to hold the tiles neatly in formation - once they are bedded down...

That's the spirit (y) :LOL:

You don't want to reduce flow. Flow is not a problem - you can never have too much flow capacity, only too little. You can have too much pressure though. 1 bar will definitely be fine.

Looks like a decent job to me (y)

What do you mean by 'choke it down'? As madrab pointed out - flow and pressure are 2 different (but related) things.

If I remember rightly, in the video you're talking about, he shows that silicone does indeed stick to silicone?

I used STS boards in one of my bathrooms - straight to the stud using the PU adhesive and stainless screws/those big washers. I didn't tank anything - just used some patches of Impey Waterguard membrane I had laying around to cover the screws and washers, although I consider this to have been...

It wasn't because I'm a tight arse. I mean I am a tight arse but that wasn't the reason :LOL: edit: To be clear - I wouldn't have wanted to leave it like that indefinitely, just saying as a short/medium term situation it wasn't a problem edit: Also my mains pressure might be a lot lower than...

I've run a pumped shower on mains pressure before when I had my DHW/CH system changed over. Not a Mira Platinum, although funnily enough it was a mains pressure Mira Platinum I was putting in, in the other bathroom. Was only intended to be very temporary but in the end it was there for well...