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I know bagged adhesive is the go to, but, for those moments when you are short on time or just fancy doing part of a job outside of a wet zone and don’t want to deal with cleaning down buckets and mixer is there any tubbed adhesive that can be used? Asking for a friend 😉

Only the timber cladding would be a concern, as well as the "composite" if it is flammable, especially if the breather paper and sheathing are also combustible.

Current 3 projects (2 x MBC PH TF & 1 x stick built PH) have needed no further protection; mixes of brick / render / cedar / composite / brick slips and more. I think it would only jump if it’s a 3 story dwelling. I’m a fan of keeping the cavities clear, so intumescent strips work well here. A few ££ more but tbh this is not somewhere where you should have any kind of compromise.

With timber frame and timber cladding you will not get decent fire rating without further protection such as boards or coatings.

We are timber frame, part rendered on block, part timber clad on cement board We closed the cavities in the block with mineral wall batts and have used envirogaf intumescent strips where we are clad.

Advice please re fire rated mineral wool cavity closure. We will be having part timber clad and part render on our MBC timber frame airtight house. Do we need different types of cavity closure according to surface. What about ventilation? A possible builder is asking what we want!

Aren't gabions free draining - isn't that one the points of a gabion? I would ask your designer what the perforated pipe brings to the party?

Good progress today ! We use the default “ hey Jarvis “ to start stt . Rolling buffer so stt starts as soon as wake word is done “ . Works well . Deliberately have radio on in background. Alexa struggles with this sometimes of course . Uma8 can determine direction of sound so even with radio on I’m getting good results for stt . So then I do the easiest cheat . Hear wake word , mute radio then reinstate once sentence finished . Unlike Alexa a “ hey Jarvis …. “ sentence can be as long as you like no fixed listening window . Now though I want “Avalon” to be wake word and also the fact it recognises that Pocster said it . We’ve planned a schedule where I say “Avalon ..” with different phrases and at different points in the room with and without background noise . Reckon we aim for 1000 samples . Going to be a long next few day 🤣

I want a bucket. There is a bucket. I have a bucket. (The orange ones are not strong, hence the price.)

To some extent. But my hedge cutter and leaf blower won't stack on the drill or jigsaw. If I was a working trade then there's a big advantage in stacks on wheels. But at home it goes on shelves, and excessive size isn't any help. Btw tippex on the box is an easy marker of the contents.

Significant especially for local llm . The experts are coming !!!

Another thread to add to the multitude! I need a design for my house, I'm happy with installation and construction but I'll need duct sizes and some direction to how I'll get over a couple of tight spots where I have under 90mm from bottom of steel to finished ceiling. I contacted CVC systems over a week ago and the initial emails were very responsive, but nothing at all last week. My situation, which I was very clear about, probably contributed to it. I won't be in a position to purchase or install the MVHR for probably a year or so, but I need the duct installed in the next few weeks. Are on you lovely folk able to point me in the direction of a decent resource to enable progression of the design?

Search back through @Jeremy Harris earlier stuff, as he goes into huge detail from his borehole install and downstream filtration and treatment etc.

Looks like whoever made that cable off nicked the black sleeve, hence the look of degradation. Lighting won’t have anywhere near enough current drawn to it to toast those cables tbh, so if you cut them back and maybe make off into a choc box with Wagos, you could then drop to a single 0.75mm 3-core flex so only 1 cable per light to make off (and flex is far more forgiving and easier to terminate).

Yes, it's a rather huge and complex area right now, and even more so that when we saw similar patterns during the dotcom boom. The only difference being that a vast amount of money being ploughed in is from cash rich tech hegemonies. But I also see a play out of the worrying trends of laziness/sloppiness in development, which I think is perpetuated by poor implementation of project management approaches like Agile where they end up tacking crap onto existing crap foundations rather than re-think and rebuild. But also we see really poor UX/UI development nowadays and pushing system testing out onto users. This is exactly what's causing some of the issues you mention above. But in a slightly ironic way, the supply chain problems and costs associated with the large scale LLM implementations are perhaps making the industry think a bit harder about memory use, something that's largely been ignored for the last few decades. But I suppose the more insidious issue is that of control. I prefer to think about it as regulation rather than control, because despite all the negative talk out there, there's a huge amount of positives this technology can bring. It just needs to be reigned in a bit but also actually understood properly by those tasked with the regulation. I don't envy those having to look at it and make these decisions, particularly with the speed it's going. What I don't want to see is a bunch of knee jerk quick pieces of legislation to deal with isolated events which we seem to be seeing more and more of in politics more widely.

You may eventually also realise that it's useful if those boxes can stack together too. Most of the 'pro' brands must now have stackable boxes available with customisable foam inserts for non-standard tools; certainly Dewalt do in the Tstak range (a.k.a. Stanley Pro-Stack). Though at more than £5 each.

That's what I used to do too, but what is it about people picking up and using buckets? Our gardener did this the other day. I had 2 buckets outside the front door for plastering and then found one of them later in the day filled with crap from the gardening exercise. He used it even though it was stacked together with another bucket that had the plastering tools in it!

Not at all. That bucket one looks really handy for moving around or hung on the wall. Decent price too and finding it brought up other makes that the Google search had decided to ignore. Re sundry tools and fixings for a project where I'm moving around, I use a b and q orange bucket or a wickes yellow trug because it is findable and not picked up by someone else as a handy bucket.

If you asked Grok, it'll probably tell you this year, just like the self-driving taxis for the last what 10 years? Personally I think the whole AGI thing depends on what you consider to be intelligence - if it's the kind of intelligence that's displayed by a large proportion of leaders in the tech world, then maybe. If it's considered to be merely acting at the level of concept & proposition, then perhaps also so, but as intelligence also encompasses navigation and manipulating one's physical environment, all the computing power of all data centres in the world combined couldn't manage it successfully. And this is where it all falls down because we actually don't possess the knowledge to build systems that are efficient enough to properly act in the real world and make necessary decisions to successfully navigate it without unimaginable computing power - and this problem resides in our basic understanding in neuroscience which is stuck in the world of computational analogy and dominance of a constructionist view of the brain - e.g. we 'construct' reality in our brains based upon meaningless stimulus and therefore the world we see isn't really the world.

UK government is the majority stake holder with 45% ownership and £14+ billion stake in it. Government money comes from taxes. The UK government funds its 44.9% stake in Sizewell C through a combination of direct taxpayer-funded capital allocations and sovereign-backed financial instruments. So level playing field Never said and never thought renewables are an only solution - but add battery storage, hydro storage, hydrogen generation from excess spinning reserve all help. Hydrogen going to hydrogen gas powered combined cycle turbine generators for background load and or gap filling.

You need to remember that the valuation of the plot would likely have been made by calculating all sorts of variables in a standard manner, working backwards from the market value of a finished home. What you paid for the plot doesn't necessarily equate to the calculated value of the plot, especially when self-builders are involved. The plot may be worth more to a self-builder (and to you) than it will be worth to a small developer, but the mortgage company valuation has to account for the lower value when they are looking at potential recovery.

Unfortunately, yes, it does. New or replacement. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permeable-surfacing-of-front-gardens-guidance/guidance-on-the-permeable-surfacing-of-front-gardens

Not sure if this is helping or hijacking, but what is the definition of "new"? Does this apply to replacing an existing drive? In my example I have a large downhill old tarmack-y drive that I would like to gravel over - Is this a "new" drive? Is the OP's drive "new"? or do all these regulations apply to any driveway maintenance and/or replacement? Regards Tet

I'm (finishing) a house build too and I have now got a pretty decent collection of Makita 18V tools. Started with drill/driver then hopped to impact driver and of course lots of other things too. For heavy drilling into concrete I use a corded Screwfix Titan SDS drill which cost less than £100 I think and is night and day compared to the battery tools.

You are going to gasp in horror, but this is my absolute favourite tool storage box (now bear in mind they're being used almost on a daily basis). It's something that does just work. https://hultafors.com/en-gb/products/tool-bucket It's been so popular, they now sell a tool organiser to go in the bucket. I have 6 of these buckets 😲 I've even had customer say what a good idea as their other trades are coming in and out with loads of boxes. For example, one of mine just has the drill/driver/screwdrivers with bit sets and a drill roll, the other with have the sds & multi-tool etc. While I'm working away I'll have an empty one where I throw bits of rubbish as I go, including pipe off cuts, old screws etc. and then it's brilliant for the odd emergency when I'm removing old pipework where I can grab the bucket to collect the always expected run out of water from said pipework.