Time for some more core drilling, this time to fit a vent for the humble drier
Well, having not checked the vent I'd bought and assuming it'd be 110, I discovered it was 125mm. You can't have an assumption without ass happening, and not the good kind. Lucky for me, they also do the vents in 110mm and they're dirt cheap, because re-coring drilling a finished hole is virtually impossible, the bit just bounces around with no pilot hole there to steady her journey thru brickworld...... WHOA THAR!!!! WHOA!!!! is what you have have to say, then... damn, what happened to my beautifully clean waste pipe. I've yet to find a good use the nice cylinders of brick that pop out of the core bits. Maybe I could sell them as artistic candle holders at Ikea. Man... I wish the terrorists would nuke Ikea, that'd be sweeeeeeeet
A 2.5mm^2 twin & earth going up and across the battens for the sockets where the washer and drier will be. Both are moderately high power appliances. They could draw a few kilowatts each, so skimping on it with 1.5 or 1mm cores is asking for a fire. Note the twisty pattern of the wire hanging down. I've yet to discover an easy method of straightening T&E to make it look neat, besides brute effort and swinging it round like a tangled skipping rope. Answers greatly appreciated
The batten is taking it from every side now, and I need to run some wire for the alarm system as well. Someone pinched my neighbours garden lights last night. Pinching my mitre saw would send me on a rampage quest for re-weng-way
Wow, now there's something I'd never have thought we'd have the luxury of, a connection to an outdoors tap. We're living the high life now baby
The drier vent and waste pipe from the inside, squirty foam is too useful. And for those naysayers out there.... YEA, it's screwed in place, and yes it's glued and sealed with stickycone
I told youZ, silicone!
#war-ter, warter of life, jesus us brings us the warter of life# the b-A-by jesus, it makes the baby jesus cry. how many hail maries must I say to wash the blackness from me soul.... screw jesus, I provideth
Some essentiall brackets to stop the shelves bowing. I've also fitted some more trim above but forgot to photograph that. Hell, you're lucky if I manage to make any sense since I'm usually drunk when I'm writing this, that or eating a sandwhich before going back to work, as I am now. NO MORE GRUEL, you have to robot dance to the Surfin' Bird if you want that
Ahhh masonry work, one of my least favourites, unless it all goes well, then I'm super chuffed with myself. That there step is in the way, since I need to take the water mains behind it where it won't get kicked to death and burst all over the place later in life. "DeWalt hammer selected, chisel blade mode"....
And s'gone, that's how fast it went
And... s'back, version 2.0 betamax moFO! Breaking things is always easier than putting them back together, most of the time. I never knew how heavy those 600mm pavers are. I have cuts on my forearms from carrying them round. I had to diamond saw the top two bits out of the original two 600mm's that were there. Now the mains runs under the step. My disgusting pointing will eventually be covered with some Epoxy based paint I have in the post, which is all but bulletproof it's that thick and hardwearing. The pointing will then disappear anyway
Wise man once say... where you have plumbing, you have drips.
Could be a bit neater, but I'm not wasting weeks doing this, I need to press on, with a billion other tasks calling my name in my dreams and waking me in sweat each night, so little time. That's all folks! While the lion sleeps tonight
LeRoy knows what I'm talking about
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