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Question is: Shall I drain the system, heat the spurring t and try to remove it? I have soldered pipe before... I can refill the system, add inhibitor and bleed the Not sure what I am getting into with the fiddly business of getting the T out. Perhaps cut out a section and put two couplers...

That would be entertaining. The idea is that the lock out works though.

I have videos of the bugger clawing away until it picks up the flap edge. As well as videos of it making very ****ed off noises when I temporarily defeated it with an ingenious but short lived solution. In the end this double lock version appeared second hand/ cheap. I can't wait to see it...

******* neighbourhood cat manages to defeat the microchip cat flap by using it's claw to pick at the door and pull it towards itself and get it's head under. It eats our cat's food, sprayed my speakers and sh@t on the landing. The new cat flap has a lock on both sides linked to the chip in the cat.

Thanks for the thoroughly reassuring input. Sounds like you know your bricks! Does remind me of the Fred Dibnah footage where his chimneys would seem to hold themselves up despite props being burned almost entirely away... So far so good. I put a card template to the wall and drew around it...

I agree that AI is highly flawed in many cases. It does though, always scour the totality of the information you give it. In this case particularly, including that the foundations and slab are dubious. Fully appreciate and thanks for the cautious anti-percussive removal methods. The loading...

You think I should put the hole through higher, and so maybe build a step?

Thanks Tony, AI advised very much against removing the lowest brick currently on the slab. I assume it gathers this knowledge from nerds who talk Bricks online. It never takes the p155. As my lion is so tall, it looks like I can leave the bottom two courses intact and sit the catflap on 2nd...

Deadly serious. Our cat is fat, and that's that. I know about the 'triangle' load spreading voodoo, having removed lintels above fireplaces. Wondering if it would be very bad, for instance, to remove the lowest brick on the slab. The cat is old and wouldn't enjoy a catflap 3 bricks high.

Apologies for rubbish drawings.... TLDR- Single skin brick wall 2.15m wide x 1.05m tall, under some load, and on dubious slab/footings. Will cutting a catflap through it, say 1 brick above slab, weaken the wall significantly? I am thinking chain drill and gingerly knock out. Long form...

I suspect this is a psychological phenomenon akin to the autopilot (but with awareness) where a person relapses to drug or alcohol use. I can't square where the reward comes into the mix, (not that am I in throes of addiction), but I too rarely get away with 'just a bit' of Expanding foam...

I am so grateful. . Thank you My dad offered similar; that the tiles, if stable and intact do the work and the membrane is a more minor backstop. I imagine it will still shed water... Spot on also re the construction...The material is made of gossamer thin layers. These are coming apart. The...

Yes it's the breathable type. I will try to find the name. Nothing odd stored in the loft....

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Roof replaced maybe 10 years ago. As in tiles, battens, and this membrane. The membrane seems to be cracking. Anyone seen such before? Why does it do this?