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Interesting - the £7k one is a Moralt door. Didn't get any joy from Moralt directly (told they don't deal with the public only wholesale). But was put onto Principaldoorsets in Barnstable who provided the quote for a Moralt door of the appropriate spec.

To be clear when I said robot mower I was thinking of a fully automated set and forget thing. For 6 acres they are still expensive but sensible 4 figures not 5. But they are only going to deal with grass and similar so to get started you'd need something heavier and then rely on them to prevent anything coming back. (They go out every day to keep things under control)

I doubt you need to close the cavity in any case, but I would look at a Rockwool sock compressed between the wall plate and the outer leaf, resting on the wall ties.

remote control is the right term --you walk behind it good distance and control it not sure i would trust an e-bay unless i knew someone that had one when you see the the professional ones are 30-40k price of new digger

There's remote operated (rather than robot) tracked flail mowers, starting at about £2K on eBay, but I'm not convinced they have the weight to do the job in brambles etc. The AS Sherpa has a remote control option (as well as ride on) but second hand they're at least £8K. If it was a one off, then Sherpas are often what the hire companies have. My experience of flail heads on diggers is they're narrow and diggers are slow. OK for hedging, but would take ages to do 6 acres.

Am I doing the wrong thing 'letting them get away' with it here ? It is always hard to know.

The flooring guy that did my levelling used small self adhesive sticks (see photo). Snapped them off to height and then stuck them onto the concrete surface, they then stayed there embedded in the levelling compound aftwerwards. These were his levelling guide. However... When setting out he used a spirit level and seemed happy as long as the bubble was 'somewhere between the lines' rather than dead centre. He didn't actually put that many level indicators in - may be one every 1.5-2m (I had to explicitly ask him to put one next to my floor length window). Using a level end over end across 8m is not that accurate tbh. I had taken quite some time using my water level to put reference marks around the room at skirting board level - but there was no interest in these and they were ignored. The pour was done straight from a mixing tub without a tipping frame or spout. The mixes were made up by the junior outside. They only had 2 mixing tubs. So it was gradually work across the floor pouring one while the other was mixed. The actual level was generally a little below the marker sticks (obviously if the pour went higher they disappeared and became useless as guides). For some reason the levelling compound dried to somewhat different tone/darkness on some pours - makes me wonder how consistent the water mix was. Though the second layer used a different compound with the liquid mix supplied with it - no water to add. A lot comes down to how patient, hard working, diligent and conscientious people are. From photos on their facebook page it looks like most of the time they are doing small rooms around 8-15 sqm, rather than my 38 sqm. The problem is most people have someone that gives a good sales speel, and a bunch of good online reviews, and photographs. Getting references out of most tradies always seems to be a challenge - 'I don't like to bother my customers with that', 'people don't want to be disturbed', it is on the website, all my mates haves posted 5* onto my facebook page, or just no response etc. If you are going to take every single trade, then contact 5 and get them come, look, get a quote out of them, get references out of them, follow up references including visits and impertinent questioning - well it is bloody hard work. One customer might be blissfully happy in their ignorance that their levelled floor isnt actually that level. No housewife uses a spirit level.

Remote controlled things like that exist. Doubt you'd find a fully automated robot though as it sounds too dangerous for unattended use. Jeremy Clarkson hired something similar for brush clearance in Clarksons Farm.

maybe a robot tracked flail mower? any one got one

spoke to my digger man - he is getting a price for a suitable fail attachment for my digger we will see then depending on price

Yeh. I will be interested to hear how the new deepseek flash model does compared to Opus. I've heard good things about using the frontier models to orchestrate lower tier, cheaper agents.

Yeah - mid life crisis purchase like we all have!. NEW TOY!. Also once the gpu AI is used I can expect maybe a 4 fold increase in local LLM speed.

Wow, wasn't expecting you to actually go for it. This is gonna be one hell of an expensive home automation system lol. Cheaper than a sports car though I suppose!

Fuuuccckkkk! At the start of this thread refreshed Apple website every 55 seconds!. Missed this though!. M5 256Gb ordered!. Might keep might flip. Nice one @-rick- SERIOUSLY appreciate the heads up!. Also means it will always be 60fps!

This is the high end of my Car Port, 10° Monopitch roof. The inside is facing brick, 65mm cavity, medium dense concrete blockwork outer leaf. The bevelled wall plate has a DPC under it and is resin-bolted down. I didn't have the foresight to utilise a wide DPC to allow me to use it to close the cavity. The outer leaf is to continue up to the underside of the deck. I'll then attach a circa 100mm deep OSB fascia to the ends of the Posi joists for the single-ply membrane to turn down onto and with ventilation behind it. Is it sufficient to attach a DPC to the inner vertical face of the DPC, then turn it over the cavity, landing on the outer leaf? I wouldn't want to lap it in by more than 20mm or so, because of course the final blocks needs to bond. Any words of advice from the invaluable Buildhub experts?

Seems an expensive way of doing it (if you have to pay for an electrician anyway). In a garage I guess there's not much else on the ring (that couldn't be left unplugged if not in active use). Most likely it's the freezer itself or, if you had heavy rain recently, a damaged cable getting wet (at least here we haven't had much rain at all, and in a newish build I'd expect if an area is wet it'd be pretty obvious). So my thought is spend a little time trying to track it down, but maybe instead of paying an electrician to investigate just put that money into a new fridge/freezer.

What you can do for that circuit is separate over current protection and earth leakage protection. That would tell you why it is tripping (though not stop it) which would make solving the issue easier. And a separate circuit for the freezer would also protect it from something else in the garage tripping it.

There are some pretty beefy robot mowers that can keep a large area under control and don't care about the incline (but you'd have to clear it first). Not cheap though.

not sure it would be safe on a 40degree banking good idea maybe look for cutter attachment for my digger .LOL

Mac Studio M5 Ultra is out. Up to 512GB but not sure pricing is available for that yet (they say wait until October). The 256GB model with maxed out CPU/GPU is £10,799. How rich is your blood @Pocster?

Unless you are in Scotland and then a score better than 3m³/m² @ 50Pa has to have MVHR - so applicable to any low energy loss house, so not an extra really for Passivhaus.

Well if it’s already in your own house, then nobody is going to force you to change it, but you can’t install a new socket without RCD protection or remove RCD protection from one that already has it.

Best drink it quickly anyway, just in case.

There have been a few developments around here, all small scale, where a number of plots were sold individually for self build. Yes it can take a while before they are all finished, but generally the results are good. If this link works https://maps.app.goo.gl/S3TDGbpQvWBsd7a59 All the houses to the west of that point were sold as individual plots, I wired one of those as a new build, and another when they extended into the loft. These are the detached houses around a green. The houses to the east of that point were all built by a developer. Guess which end of the street I would prefer to live.

You are right that the bco hardly visits. They used to tell me that was largely down to trust, but now it is just minimising cost. There were always things where I wondered why they weren't asking anything. I worry about other people's projects. My photo file is very boring indeed (to most people). "How many pictures of a hole in the ground do you need?"