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Definitely an alien space craft. We get a lot of them around here.

I'm off to Screwfux to buy their finest sink plunger, as a last attempt before attacking the basin. But it needs re-plumbing anyway and probably hasn't been unblocked since installed. We get a lot of lime scale here and it breaks off and settles in traps and corners.

tried everything already!

Right I'll have a closer look. I only need to lift it a few mm to be able to pull out the pedestal - and problem solved, perhaps.

Thanks for the comments. Looks like I've got to cut it off then! The problem is that they have put copper pipes in which make it impossible to reach the trap and unblock it, which needs doing. The pedestal is loose but can't get it past the bowl. I might have a look at it again before I saw the...

Is already fixed, nothing visible in the holes in the back. Trying to remove it, but no sign of fixings other than mastic. Sounds like I've got to cut through the mastic? Haven't got any suitable wire - might try a guitar string.

Ordinary modern WHB on a pedestal, VitrA S20 against tiled plasterboard. I've got to take it off. Can't see how. Have peered into holes with a mirror but seems to have no fixings other than white mastic itself. Is this likely, or could there be hidden fixings? Some sort of french cleat which you...

I've seen it somewhere too, if not in Sturt it could be in "The Village Carpenter" - Rose https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Village_Carpenter.html I'll have a read. Both excellent books. What's interesting about the idea is that things can be made accurately and precisely, but without a...

Oh well, he was being a bit belligerent! And relentless - he was accusing you too of nit picking and being ignorant of his imaginary "rules"!

It's the normal trad way of laying out marks for a project, particularly if simply rectangular like most joinery and furniture. Basically a full size sectional drawing on a board, on to which the components are laid and stacked, with the marks taken off directly, with a pencil and a set square...

Well yes. Something of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch about it. The patronising tone a bit tedious and the quasi religious delusion of "correctness" rather strange. Have to ask, does anybody else use the "Mark Wrong" method? I sense no takers. Don't all answer at once!

I was wrong about the BS guarantee, on some later squares at least. https://www.findmytool.co.uk/new-joseph-marples-square-trial1-review.php#gsc.tab=0 Makes no difference though - they are accurate both sides of the blade so you use the outside edge for marking in the normal manner, the inside...

This is nonsense. If you knock the outside edge then the inside edge will move with it and be equally out of line. They are connected by the metal in between. Have another look at one! Well you were! I hope you are not too disappointed, it's obviously a bit of a shock! Maybe take the day off...

Do you actually do much woodwork?

No. Not dogmatic, just well taught and fairly experienced. Also under pressure of time to do things efficiently Cunning! But unconvincing and problematic. Also you'd have to be a bit of a contortionist. Would like to see a vid of this manouevre but I don't suppose anybody has made one I'll...

It was both unusual and incorrect. I seem to have spent half my life marking up, basically stacks of components for sash windows, panel doors etc. On a big job it would be a day's work or longer. Your method would have been not merely difficult, but quite impossible. n.b. from a rod, not...

You were wrongly advised - or possibly got it wrong under your own steam? It is simply not possible to use the inside face, e.g. on the face of the workpiece to pick up from a mark already on the edge, as you would not be able to see the mark. It would be under the stock. Also as mentioned...

Well yes the Marples type square is for marking only and not so good for checking things, other than the marks, though it does get used. Easy to correct the outer edge of the blade if you want to use one. Only the outer edge matters and they are well designed for the purpose.

For me basic marking is from the rod to the edge of the workpiece, with a plastic set square (or wood etc in the old days). Then this mark is taken around the workpiece with a Marples marking/set square. Impossible to use the inside edge because the stock would cover the previous mark. In any...

Are you still confused? :LOL: You use the outside edge of the steel blade for marking, with the inside edge of the brass faced stock against the workpiece. They are designed for this. I can see how you might misunderstand this, from loose descriptions of usage. Would a drawing help? How do you...