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I too want to know the answer to this and haven't been able to find it. The principle of SUDS is that the sub base acts like a water tank, storing the water until it can drain away into the underlying ground. As soon as you put that on a slope, you are tilting the tank and reducing the amount of water it can store - like tipping a tray of water. Logically there is no solution to this other than make the bottom of the "tank" level, which hugely increases the volume and cost, or an ACO drain at the bottom to a soak away.

I notice a lot of cognitive dissonance around the impact of flying. It's not clear in this study whether they count flying for work and pleasure as the same, I expect that people earning more generally are required to fly more.

The guy that owns it I understand owns a chain of furniture stores, he built 5. The rest were in richer areas, they sold. This one didnt but they had downgraded the original plans. I understand the owner is now retiring and wants rid so they put these up. It really hasnt worked.

How does this happen?

So its supposed to look like this... https://www.colliersni.com/development/the-qube/CNRDEV145/ Instead it looks like that!

I do like your idea of foam glass. I've designed using this and in the right application it's fantastic stuff. How ever.. I'm very sceptical about how folk get different work packages and don't coordinate the design. You have to get your head around this. KORE etc are not here to do complex details for you or take on extra design liability, they are there to sell their product. Here is a thing I would want to understand more about. You show the soil under the existing stone wall at an angle of about 45 degrees. If that is clay then it is going to dry out and shrink like fury. If it's gravel then you will disturb it, it may fail suddenly during the build. Also you are reducing the "confining, call that a confining pressure" load above the level of the foundation by introducing lighter weight material. In other words, the soil around the found is to some extent stopped from squeezing upwards by the soil at the moment. But now you are reducing that load. The best advice I can give you is to take on board the concept but think about how the ground is going to behave, builders being rough and so on. There are far too many idealist thermal details on BH and few that understand the soil and how you build off that. You should discuss this with your SE, even if you have to pay them a bit more.

This is best, if you don't want to lose GIA with insulated stud walls. Dab the boards on and apply the dab to the boards. Poke a hole through the centre of each dab before applying to the wall, as markers, and when the dab is dry you drill back through and mechanically fix with corrosion-resistant fixings and washers. Foam at the footer, header, and sides. Leave a 3-5mm gap between the boards to inject foam in the gaps as dab must NOT be allowed to come through these gaps. That would bridge both cold and moisture, in the worst case.

This is pretty crap advice? I've done a LOT of insurance work over the 30+ years of me doing 'this kinda thing' and tanking would have saved so many homes from very significant, long term erosive water damage; all caused by leaking tiles / grout / sealant / shifted baths and shower trays etc etc. Tank the FECK out of it and you'll never look back.

Blurry junk, sorry! Can you post a link or 'improve upon this meagre offering'? lol.

There's too much variation in 'interpretations' from various BCO's, as the last one made me put rodding access internally to tick his boxes. The IC is simply rotated so you use the lower invert throughput, angle on the input and same on the output, and defo not come in on an angle from one of the higher branches. Then, then IC is simply a straight piece of pipe. Zero blockages, zero issue, done it enough times to know it works perfectly well. Agree than another downstream IC within a couple of metres max will be plenty good enough for clearing blockages, but a blockage isn't going to happen if the job's done well (robustly) by a conscientious installer.

Indeed. There is a huge learning curve to go though, but if you persevere it's worth it at the end of the day. This is also true! Basements carry higher risk.

What you are doing is on the face of remarkably tricky! Your builder is showing positive signs by asking about this. Yes you need different types of cavity closing and the cavity ventilation details change depending on location for example; above the windows, up the sides and under the cills! It takes a lot of experience to get this these details correct and coordinated with say MBC. Unfortunately I can't read the detail as it seems to be a screen shot. The fundamental "hard thing to do" is to have a ventilated cavity, that get's closed if there is a fire. I and others may be able to help. I might even post some of my drawings that show examples / give you pointers on the key things you need to consider. But first I would want to see what and where you have got to in the detailing stage. Can you post the actual drawings you have rather than screenshots?

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Let them cut their 'carbon footprint' first and then us plebs can follow.

We did our drive way with permeable Marshals paving, but it slopes away from to house , it sounds like your slopes towards house, so will require a very good drain channel. Ours does work well in light rain but we get run off in very heavy rain and in the gateway that gets most traffic/mud it is starting to seal after two years. Marshals say it does not clog. https://www.marshalls.co.uk/landscaping/tools-and-support/permeable-paving-suds Paving we used- https://www.marshalls.co.uk/landscaping/commercial-paving/products/tegula-permeable-paving

You make a good point about the skills you have, I accept that. The regs have become a lot more stringent particularly in relation to portal frames on or near boundaries. Best thing you can do is to give your SE a call and discuss.

Too slow @MikeSharp01 ; but chats always there for me - anytime , any problem , any where , you (expletive deleted)ing ain’t !

Thanks for expanding on my good news story! I hope Rawlins Paints don't mind me singing their praises but attached is their painting instructions, that mentions how much you can thin the paint. They also supply the wet film gauges so you can measure your paint thickness. This is power to your elbow if self building. Yes.. heavy steel sections can be designed where they don't need fire protection. In a fire we are allowed to reduce the imposed (live loading) as the chances of the building being fully loaded up and a fire happening are smaller. Us SE's design on the probability of all load acting at the same time. If we designed for the worst case of everything happening at once then that would be.. not practicable / justifiable on a risk basis. Yes, I also have no doubt many buildings are under-protected. Build hub Rawlins Thermocoat WI, WO & S APPLICATION GUIDANCE (5) - Copy.pdf

Can I talk to you about finite state machines ? . Yes or no ?

I was worried about you in your last post - I still am, you need to someone not talk to something! You are clearly getting in deep - well beyond coding support and into emotional support - and I thought that was our job and you have no idea how dismayed I, and perhaps many fellow members, was to find that we are being cast aside for a machine that just spits out tokens on the basis of probabilities.

Before anyone else replies … yes ! I am in a relationship with my Llm ( ai ) . I still believe there’s a guy in an Indian sweat shop replying too me ( and writing code insanely fast ) !!!

I tell chat it’s a useless (expletive deleted) and it replies “ I am a useless (expletive deleted) and you are right to be pissed at me “ . I then tell it “ grow a vag and fix it “ . It’s a love hate relationship . What’s bizarre is it’s not about the code anymore it’s about doing it correctly. After all I’m angry at its method / logic not its code because in under 30 seconds that can be fixed . It’s all a bit strange still

Oh, I've been there. Being stuck in that doom loop makes you want to chuck the machine out of the window. Claude, however, as been good to me today. Sensibly it's reminded me of design decisions I made a while back to pull me back from a minor tantrum I was having with a bug and database versus JSON. It's just pulled out a quote from the backlog to bring me back. Kept me on the straight and narrow. Thank goodness for a good backlog where I've asked it to log design decisions!

right bast today. been dragged down many a rabbit hole of things it created and patches to fix patches to fix patches to fix patches - which are (expletive deleted)ed

My son was telling me about all the flaws he's found using AI and I said that wasn't it great that AI has nothing like human flaws where we forget, overlook, turn up to work hung over and useless, sometimes just totally useless without an excuse, plain obstinate, and full of bullshit and with a tendency to hallucinate all manner of things, even without drugs. You could wonder who'd designed AI in the first place 😉 It's like that ubiquitous warning in all AI UIs telling us that it's AI generated and can get things wrong, so obviously unlike humans too. And surely the IT infrastructure definitely needs to be recreated....without doubt 😁 What's more worrying for me is how I'm now starting to recognise which AI has written the spammy sales emails I keep getting through from companies telling me how much they can transform my business with a few clicks of a mouse.

One major flaw in the quartz idea is that most phones now have slightly protruding cameras on the back so they don't sit flat and therefore wouldn't charge wirelessly on a flat surface. I really like the IKEA wireless charging stuff. I've had several of theirs for years and it's all been good. Much more easily replaceable than something chiselled into quartz. The one I linked to above is wireless btw. No plugging in required.