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Apply a good few coats of primer / water solution on to it a few days before tiling, to ‘size’ the surface and reduce it’s porosity. Mix up some 75% water 25% primer and give it a good few lashings, a couple of hours apart, and you’ll soon see the board becoming saturated. Apply some neat a day or two before tiling, and then tile on to freshly applied wet, neat primer.

We used it in a few places but didn't tile directly onto it. One thing I'd suggest thinking about his how porous it is. I don't know what adhesive you plan to use, but I'd guess it would suck a lot of water out of, say, flexible cementitious adhesives. All speculation on my part, so please don't rely on it! Yeah, it's so much more challenging to work with than plasterboard. However, once up, it's dead solid, and you can hang just about anything off it.

Oh, one more thing. We installed 15m of frameless ballustrading. Part of it was to go onto a brick wall. SE was having none of it. So we used a length of RSJ that was secured at each end to stop twisting. You might have that option there- length of steel running along the top of your block work, then encase in your roofing material and ballustrade fixings.

I’m tempted to use Spirit Energy’s £150 DNO application. We are going ‘max-PV’ to try and get self-sufficient power into the shoulder seasons. Is there a sense that you need to tread lightly with the DNO and finesse your application to get closest to what you want - or just go for it and see what they say? Our DNO is UKPN, we have single phase supply, and we want oodles of panels to support shoulder seasons use. House is PH-like but not particularly low energy because of the geometry.

Someone mentioned that Ajax are quite expensive, so you could add a line to the prompt above asking for good value options.

Maybe it’s worth re-visiting potential guardrail designs? You have one round the rest of the terrace, would one using the same aesthetics not blend in well? Maybe an hour or two of SE time to ensure the fixings work and satisfy BC? You might need that anyway for the rest of the rail.

ChatGPT being a right shit yesterday! (expletive deleted)ed the project with wank patches as it “ improvised “ even though I gave it real code. After a good talking to it admitted codex does better patches than it . So back to my menu loop system .

We are in a bungalow and have an internal corridor, we have two small roof lights only and it's surprising how much light the bring in. Other ideas, at the leading edge of the roof windows build up a wall and place the roof in windows higher, so they are at window cil level. Get natural protection. Same window just install higher. Question - Realistically will you ever use that space, when and how. For me and our household we never would. I would really look at the reasons for even doing this, not cheap, not easy, maybe never used space.

@raja22835 drop me a message, I may be able assist.

That's a better use of your money, looks like you have a huge garden, so may make more sense. We had a basement in one of hire properties, a pain in the arse is how describe basements. But depends where the water table is etc. On one occasion the sump pump failed, and it filled with water - fun - not. But be careful with sizing so you overheat the place. Yes to all the above

We have huge subsidies. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/public-transport/cornwalls-transport-services/enhanced-partnership-and-bus-service-improvement-plan/ A new allocation of £10.59m Bus Grant funding for 2025/26 has been awarded to Cornwall Council. This includes: £9.72m BSIP funding - £5.48m revenue funding will be focused on maintaining the existing bus network. £4.24m capital funding will improve access and deliver upgrades to: bus stations bus stops and real-time passenger information screens £0.87m funding to include: Bus Services Operators Grant (BSOG) to support tendered bus services. As well as an allocation to support BSIP delivery. About £17 quid each. They may be spending the money on the wrong things.

We have a bus run through the village three days of the week, once in the morning and returning in the afternoon. Without huge subsidy there is no way public transport could be used for even a fraction of the journeys made locally. Most people live in urban areas and don't have a clue what public transport is like in the countryside.

Build a garden room for your music and put the £75k you saved yourself into your retirement fund.

On paper it looks fine, but I'd just check Part H document to ensure the falls work ok with the arrangements connected to each run.

What stage are you at? It's not an ideal design, a better one would be a full roof terrace, with an alternative way to get light down to below. E.g. light tunnels, windows on the gable wall. Or, my preference when we toyed with a similar design, smaller sections of walk-on glazing roof lights spread across the roof, same dimensions as the paving. You get a lot of light from horizontal glazing, you need a lot less than you think. It's a good example of a design not considering CDM. How do the glazers install the windows? How do you clean the gutters? The roof light on the LHS might be an issue as well as looks to be low enough to fall into. Good luck, hopefully an easy solution is waiting to be discovered.

That's different - usually those leads only have the power lines connected.

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Average 8? Probably 20 used it in total. It was going that way anyway. So close to zero fuel used for us. In term time it would have been packed. It is possible some of those people don't have a car and were coming back from hospital. Exactly. One solution is that your local community has a vehicle and volunteer drivers plus a free parking agreement at the bus stop. Stand as a local councillor and you can do this using the huge fund that the wind turbine people will give you.

Average 8? Probably 20 used it in total. It was going that way anyway. So close to zero fuel used for us. In term time it would have been packed. It is possible some of those people don't have a car and were coming back from hospital. Exactly. One solution is that your local community has a vehicle and volunteer drivers plus a free parking agreement at the bus stop.

Hi all, Was going to submit this to BC but thought I'd post here in case anyone can see an improved design/obvious issues. Don't want to have ICs at the front of the house or to have to dig too deep nearer the house hence this arrangement. Thanks very much 050626 Drainage Plan.pdf

I think my point is that the amount of work flying someone does is less likely to be affected by their environmental ideals than their personal flying. For example a company CEO could choose to never fly for personal reasons but is unlikely to be able to do the same regarding work travel regardless of their personal beliefs, so not considering this distinction introduces a source of bias into the analysis.

Did anyone in this post go for it? I've heard it scratches very easily. Anyone able to reccomend for or against? I've looked at polish concrete but just isn't practical with my limited site access.

Thanks all. I'm waiting on a quote regarding a walk on glass rooflight. Hopefully it isn't too eye watering.

We both have bus pass. It does not get much use. There is only ONE bus per day near us, anything else is 3 miles to the bus stop. We do use them occasionally for instance visiting another distant city where parking is difficult, but we still have to get to the bus stop, so that probably means a taxi. Now a taxi is no less polluting than driving our own car, but do I trust my car left in a public car park for several days? NO. Solve the local link, e.g with affordable (subsidised) electric taxi's and we would use the bus a lot more.

Maybe not the best statement