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Encouraged by the recent and unrelenting storms (during one, in fact) causing the leak-that-only-appears-in-heavy-rain to spout forth, I ventured outside one morning this week to finally see what the underlying cause was.

Ended up digging 3 holes and a trench in the front garden to find where along my drainage hadn't been connected by whoever installed it.
They had buried 3m of pipe from the house, and 1m back from the front retaining wall, but left a metre gap between the two for me to deal with years later. In the interim roots had totally filled the pipes, meaning I spent until sunset pulling the growth out with a drain rod before fitting new pipe to join everything up.

Good clean type 2 fun.

This reminds me, I have an Aer Duffel 2 I'm no longer using and was going to flog [but as usual haven't got around to] if anyone is looking.
I wanted a single do-it-all bag and this lacked waist straps for hiking. Otherwise two thumbs up.

No it should be solvent welded. New page fail.

Echo skinny - pay a plumber to mess around in your effluent.
Fitting new pipes is easy enough but mussing in confined spaces trying to get new to play with old is a right pain.

Those straps look grim to use as a daily backpack.

I bought a Highlander Forces 30L one the other day after someone here recommended it and it's been fantastic. The wee 20L one looks just great as a day pack, with side pockets etc.

Otherwise, for sidepockets on that Savotta just bosh some molle whatevers on the side.

Midnight Special?

Idk can you still bring a kitchen in for £5k?

It's easily doable with a bit of patience, tools and basic skills.
We bought our kitchen for £600 on eBay and I fitted it with my dad over about 3 days. Wooden worktops of course. It just meant keeping an eye out over about 2 months for one that ticked all our boxes.
Osmo oil and cupboard paints probably another £100 or so.
5 hob, 3 oven induction range, eBay again: £700

I'm holidaying in Dorset, and fancied an end-of-summer walk back from the Sturminster Cheese Festival to our holiday cottage.

Fuck me, the footpaths are singularly the worst paths I've ever had the displeasure of using. Styles totally overgrown with blackthorn, brambles, and stingers; I was spending 5 or so minutes bashing things back and still got cut to shreds.
At one point the path was a literal 8ft wall of brambles, I had to cut through the woods using deer paths.

Do people not walk in Dorset? If I was the first person this year to use some of those paths it wouldn't surprise me. Some of this was meant to be a national walking route.

44t chainring. Don't forget to shorten the chain

Leaving Alton is never the wrong way

Magnifico 👌🏻
Yellow bikes are best bikes

Velocio, have you pushed any changes to the site today? My Dark Reader extension (firefox) has stopped working, only on lfgss.

Both my stupid dogs tried to jump out of my bag, because they're stupid.

They're excellent, but I very rarely see people using them correctly (if they wash their hands at all, the scoundrels).
Put your hands in and draw them up over 10 seconds. Boom, dry hands.
Conventional driers take 20-30s minimum to get anywhere close to dry.

https://brilliantbikes.co.uk/brompton-handlebars-and-seat-posts/1804-brompton-saddle-height-insert.html

Am I stupid for even thinking about this and should I just replace my current bars with the JK mid rise bars and deal with the riser bar look?

Yes and yes.

Use a hollow bolt like this?

Quite the title for the classifieds.

Make a post in the Stolen Bikes thread, you'll get more views no doubt.

The full suspension bicycle.

You self-certify for up to 7 days initially.
After 7 days you need a fit note (new name for sick note). You can then ask the doc to backdate the note to include the initial 3 days if you want

LOMO dry bag?

Plastic but good strapping.

I'd have to cut the tiles out and into backer board if anything goes wrong, hence why I want to get it right now

Thanks all. Even 28 wraps of PTFE still had a drip after a few minutes. Managed to get a good seal with a good few wraps of sealing cord. Loctite 577 wasn't available near me at the weekend.

A few posts on other fora suggest bonded seals and they do look the ticket, but A: I don't know how long I can expect a nitrile seal to last, and B: should I fix what ain't broken?

No olive on the ¾" inlet. That's definitely the one that's leaking.

100% I've crushed the olive in the 15mm joint but it's not the problem. Just went a bit overkill, some of life's stresses got to me a bit yesterday!

I'll remake the relevant 15mm copper section then when I reassemble I'm going to go absolutely ham with the PTFE tape.

I used tape first, about 15 wraps. The joints were spitting water.
This attempt is the entire thread covered in water hawk, plus more at the seal, before reassembling.

More shower questions, apologies.

I'm fitting this unit and the inlets won't seal properly. I've boshed a load of water hawk in there which improved it but hasn't fixed it. Everywhere I've read said that should fix it.
The washer can't sit under the threads like you see on a flexi hose etc, the inlet is like a half-moon going into the unit; it has to go over the threads. I spent far too long trying all the different washers available at Screwfix to no avail, they're all sized at OD.
It's two G¾" inlets. The G½" outlet seems to be fine.