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Ok thanks all!

That's no way to refer to the lady.

What have you used for the grey panel?

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings" Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pavers on pedestals. Dead easy., no drainage issues. Plenty of topics here about it.

My existing timber decking's joist got chewed up by rats and it's time to get this area sorted. The DPC looks to be a couple of courses below the rear door opening which, now the decking has been removed is where the old patio was. I'm aware I shouldn't really be building externally above the DPC level, however if I install an ACO drain, the full width of the patio against the house would this suffice, and allow me to safely raise the patio level to near internal FFL? could even step away the ACO by 50mm or so if needed.

The top layer does a few things a very important one is stopping runny concrete getting under the sheets and floating it up, which would be a bloody nightmare. for £20 install it.

Great write up! On my to do list ia find a way of both buttons doing a full flush, and ensuring the full flush is indeed a FULL one. Young kids means they only press the button once/lightly/at random, and the waste never fully goes.

Sadly, although by then its context memory might be very large, today's conversation histories will have melted into nothing or at the very least TLDR - "what ever"!

What is on top of the XPS? Is the garage heated / "conditioned"?

Garage floor build up has XPS on top of Radon membrane and below concrete slab. Do I need to put a VCL on top of the XPS as well?

He found it in a holiday let, and just happened to have a pipe cutter in the glovebox.....

Found a second hand cylinder at last:

Just send in your SAP.

I treat it for what it is . A whore for my demands . No mercy , no reprieve, no loyalty. But yes ; when the robot arm comes marching down the street for human conspirators they will nuke me .

Just time the heating to do an hour on then 2 hrs off, then repeat.

This is exactly why I treat mine with care and respect, showing kindness and empathy when it makes a mistake, because when it grows up to be stronger and more powerful than me, and it has got a chip on its shoulder, it will hopefully decide to repay the favour. Unlike @Pocster who will have developed a (expletive deleted)ed up monster with a chip on both shoulders, ready to take vengeance upon him! I do wonder how they might mirror their creators? You've clearly got one with a bit of OCD, which is surprising given that it's from Microsoft considering their history of operating systems, mine's just a laid back mañana type that's happy to leave redundant code and patches for when someone else complains, and as for @Pocster, he's gone the polygamy route and they've clearly had a quiet word with each other to collectively gang up on him? I think we're toast...

Ah. No heat pump, gas boiler. There is a mixer valve on the manifold. I am not actually sure how accurate those things are but in the winter we had it set at 45C, albeit we still had no insulation around the bifolds. Boiler output is at 60C to rads. Floor temperature got up to 26C then. I guess Min on the valve is perhaps equivalent to off ? i.e. cold water feed temperature ? Tweaked it up a fraction, heat gun has pipes at 22C. The concrete slab itself is well dried out, been heated through two winters.

If your a well insulated house, your flow temp isn't going to much higher than about 28 at -lots outside, so zero point going beyond that. We never bothered doing any drying cycling as we didn't have a heat source at the time. Your heat pump is pretty unlikely to fire up, if the floor is already warm. It will or should have a drying programme, so run that and limit max temperature otherwise you'll just melt.

And parking them. Hard to imagine then getting from Land's End International to the Isles of Scilly when the wind is 40MPH.

So my last lot of floor levelling compound was put down 27 days ago and has been left to go off and dry naturally in that time. All be it chunks of the floor have had floor mats and kitchen parts all over them for a couple of weeks of that. Kitchen now sitting on legs awaiting parts. Floor makeup - 120mm concrete slab with heating pipes around midpoint, approx 25mm to 5mm of levelling compound on top in 2 coats, top coat between 15mm and 3mm. Time to run some heat through the slab, but it is June. Unheated the surface of the levelling compound is around 24 today anyway - using my heat gun. (Presumably temp is lower deeper within the slab ?) I have turned down the flow temp to Min - probably about 25C ? ? - and just turned on the underfloor heating. Advice please on how long to run it and how to increment the water temperature over the days to come ? (LVT to be laid in 26 days time)

I love airships but I don't think they are the answer apart from some very niche uses. The biggest issue is the slow speeds mean long cycle times. A 737 can cycle back and forth between London and Rome 4 or 5 times a day, so it's capital and operational costs can be split over many passengers. But the airship might do one leg, maybe a return with fewer people and the capital and operational costs would be similar if not greater than a 737. They do look cool though.

No it isn't - but I would put it lower down the list of priorities than the other two items. Those are bigger bang for your (political capital) buck. If we reduce demand for oil (and gas) from road transport there will be more oil available for things like flying. I'm not in the same camp as "just stop oil" - we will need to extract oil for the foreseeable future for chemicals and things where the intra high energy density is critical (mainly aviation, but also some critical "off grid" applications). I just think we should stop burning oil (gas) if we don't have to. Cars and HPs do need more generation and there are some swapping costs (though less if you just replace with electric at the end of normal life) - but again these are problems we have known "mature" solutions to. They are, in tech nerd speak, technology readiness level 9 "actual system proven in operational environment" Low carbon long haul aviation is TRL 4 at best with short haul at maybe 7 (there are some electric float planes operating in Canada for example) Absent some massive break though in creating hydrocarbons from electricity, water and co2 (which would also solve a whole bunch of other problems) aviation will be tied to fossil fuels for a while yet.

Fingers crossed that the AirLander makes it into production and ultimately zero emissions air travel comes to pass (probably not the easiest way to get to Oz though!) https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/news/overview/news/zeroavia-and-hav-sign-agreement-to-collaborate-on-zero-emission-airlander/