I would just like to say

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DanClarke said:
My first house had the internal skin of the walls and all internal 4 &1/2" walls in those clay monstrosities. :(
Hard to hang a sink to a wall when the wall is only 1/2" thick effectively and 1/4" of that is the plaster.
My Dad taught me how to resolve the problem by knocking out the "failed" screw mount holes and filling the clay "pot" with mortar and setting studding (with the tails cut in 2 and fan-tailed out) in the right place. A solid fixing was available within a day.

On the plus side...... the internal wall betwixt bath & bog was easy to take down. :)
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First thing I did in the french house was, of course, the bog. Didn't realise some of the internal walls were in these blocks. Had a sink to fix to the wall. Discovered what you did. so ended up cutting a strip out of the plasterboard then doing similar to you to fix a thick batten to the wall flush with the plasterboard. Skimmed it back in etc, so it looked OK and bolted the sink to it. It is still up 15 years later and I know that W uses it to lever herself up off the loo as it is the only one with no disabled toilet seat in the house! (There is a proper bar on the other wall for her left hand!) Finking about it, that wall is load bearing as there is an upper floor above it, the rest of the house has no upper floor.

But yup, total pain in the rear!!
 
Brown said:
then the only bit that's skilled is applying the skim.
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When we took our place on in Frogland the barstaff hadn't skimmed the walls nor nuffin, the jointing was the worst job I have ever seen. We appealed to the builders and in the end they agreed and paid a bloke (an English bloke) to go round "making good" the joints, but it still took us a long time in each room to get the surface good enough to accept paint and look good.
It was sold to us as "pret a decorer" (forgive the lack of accents) so ready to decorate.
Big mistake, if we had paid the extra to get it all just painted matt white they would have been forced to do a decent job.
 
So have we all had a good day?
We spent part of it with W in hostible to have her lower colon inspected internally. :(:(:(:eek:

Total wash out, in more ways literal than we'd have liked. the enemas, two of, both failing, as there had been, shall we call it, an information/ communication break down? i.e. she was given no medication etc to empty her out. We both thought it was a bit strange. Well so it turns out. so they couldn't see enough, yet again.
So back to square one in 2 weeks time, this time with the emptying stuff!

"Chic"
Le freak, c'est chic"

forgive me, sidetracked there!!🤣🤣🤣
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Total wash out, in more ways literal than we'd have liked. the enemas, two of, both failing, as there had been, shall we call it, an information/ communication break down? i.e. she was given no medication etc to empty her out. We both thought it was a bit strange. Well so it turns out. so they couldn't see enough, yet again.
So back to square one in 2 weeks time, this time with the emptying stuff!
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Glad I've had my evening meal already :eek:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
When we took our place on in Frogland the barstaff hadn't skimmed the walls nor nuffin, the jointing was the worst job I have ever seen. We appealed to the builders and in the end they agreed and paid a bloke (an English bloke) to go round "making good" the joints, but it still took us a long time in each room to get the surface good enough to accept paint and look good.
It was sold to us as "pret a decorer" (forgive the lack of accents) so ready to decorate.
Big mistake, if we had paid the extra to get it all just painted matt white they would have been forced to do a decent job.
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I bet they wouldn't. They'd have just painted everything white, including the uneven gappy joints.

Re: the other matter, it's so frustrating when these investigative procedures are inconclusive. You think there'll be some answer to the problem, and maybe even some sort of treatment that'll make things better, but it's just more of the same - waiting, more investigation, more waiting and so on. Have you considered getting your own sigmoidoscope and having a look yourselves? There's usually a few on Ebay.
 
Brown said:
I bet they wouldn't. They'd have just painted everything white, including the uneven gappy joints.

Re: the other matter, it's so frustrating when these investigative procedures are inconclusive. You think there'll be some answer to the problem, and maybe even some sort of treatment that'll make things better, but it's just more of the same - waiting, more investigation, more waiting and so on. Have you considered getting your own sigmoidoscope and having a look yourselves? There's usually a few on Ebay.
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