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@FarmerN - very useful thanks - there's a Huws Gray that says it has a 'brick centre' 20 mins away. Lovely.

We don't get clicks but we do get bangs as the metalwork heats up. But they aren't often and aren't that loud, more a boom than a bang. So it does't really worry us. The bangs and your case clicks can't surely be from expansion across the corrugations, so must be from expansion along the sheets. Our roof is screwed onto horizontal battens. So maybe there's play in the battens which takes up enough expansion to only occasionally have to jump and cause the bangs. Part of our build also has the walls clad in crinkly tin. Again the sheets are mounted vertically across horizontal battens. It would be a shame to have to demount what's already installed but the idea from @Spinny might be worth trying. If you do, do a test, then to really check things out, you'd have to do it with a sheet the same length as your roof and with a similar build up of at least the external part of the roof, otherwise you wouldn't be sure. Another thing to check might be the screws and washers - we used EJOT low profile screws. See the attachments. Hope you get things worked out. JT3_FR2_4_9_timber range.pdf JT3-FR3 range.pdf

Flemish bond ,pattern of laying expensive to match with a cavity wall, involves half bricks.

Stick a load of PV panels on it?

Pointing almost as important as bricks. Your picture looks like a lime based mortar. Bricks look like a non standard size. For our build used Furness bricks, Natural Orange, with “weather struck” pointing. Our builder built several sample walls with different mortars and styles of pointing for us to choose from. Furness bricks sent us a list of builds, using their bricks, in our area we could go and look at. https://www.furnessbrick.co.uk/clamprange Took us ages to find the builders merchant with a big display, found one with over a 100 different bricks. https://www.huwsgray.co.uk/branch-finder/huws-gray-brick-specialist-centre-llay?srsltid=AfmBOooEFD64AmY0O74nf7f4WBMuWxwa7IFkcH1dfvjX8aSZYIeKeboo About 700 on their web site, but that’s in N Wales a long way from you.

Maybe you can try to identify exactly where the noise is coming from, does it eminate from the fixing points, or the overlaps, or movement against the battens etc ? Not sure how you do that, but maybe you could rig up a test piece at ground level replicating the roof structure, then apply heat ? Maybe you could photograph/measure the sheets/fixings etc when cold and hot in different places ? I can only say plumbing felt helps a lot with noise from copper plumbing/heating pipes expanding and contracting as they get hot and cold. They eliminate the friction between the pipes and the joists they pass through. So if you could identify the exact source, you might be able to insert some felt or other material which allows movement without noise

Old bricks like these will have been from very local brickworks. In some clay areas there could be a brick kiln in almost every village. The variations in colour usually come from temperature differences in a primitive kiln. Ends got hotter too. A modern brickworks can get this effect but it will never be the same. Best is to go to a local merchant who should have samples to suit the local style, perhaps even in stock. Some of these may give the effect through the use of sand facings. But also try local salvage yards. New bricks will be easier to use and have more life left in them.

Willma in a cardy............😋

This is from a local church and is the look I want for the brick plinth around our black Suffolk-barn look-alike. Some of these will be under nominal ground level. Any leads on how I might find bricks with similar mixed colours? Any specific recommendations?

Hello, I have been doing a refurbishment of a 1980s timber framed house and have replaced two roofs with black 13/3 corrugated steel. I'm very pleased with how it went and how it looks, however... it is noisy! I was warned that it would be louder in the rain but it is not that significant and I quite like that sound. It is, however noisy when the sun hits it and there are pops and clicks all over the roof, I think caused by thermal expansion. I would expect this to happen a bit but it really is very noticeable and when there is intermittent sunshine it happens a lot. One of the roofs is a (celotex) warm roof and so the noise of this travels inside quite effectively. I'm supposed to be cladding some of the walls in the same corrugated steel but am loathed to do this until I've figured out how to mitigate this. A bit of googling suggested that it may be do with the fixings being overtighted but I just had a roofer look at it and he thought they looked fine. Anyone had any experience of this or have any suggestions about how I might be able to fix it? Painting it all white would help I guess but I really don't want to be doing that! For context the layup of the warm roof is: Corrugated steel fixed with 65mm BAZ screw from Cladco 45x70mm timber batten breather membrane 45x70mm timber counter batten 200mm PIR insulation Alutrix 600 vapour barrier 18mm Plywood original 38 x 100mm timber trusses The cold roof is the same but minus the PIR vapour barrier and plywood deck. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

With regards to the 100mm ducting. Do you simply just put a bend in it or do you buy a preformed smooth bore bend? If such a thing exists.

Is it the grey cardigan that does it for you?

The unit itself whilst noisy does seem to work !

I would

Is that a sex robot. Not quite what I imagined, but each to their own. Something for everyone here.

Some of these portable AC units can be simply modified so that the air intake is ducted outside too which makes it closed loop. A whole internet ecosystem of people doing it!

Better!

I’m surprised also . If DB is shit ( or indeed anything else ) I assume chat 5.6 will sort out 5.5 mess ! 😂

Don’t just don’t !

what the feck on earth is that?

Presumably I go out and burglar just opens window and steals everything. shite I think a simple piece of board fixed against frame with hole in would be better . Take seconds to setup and take down . This is shite with a capital S !

Boring yes, but also essential. The problem is that you might just end up with shite database design that's poorly normalised as I've found that AI is typically lazy when it comes to entity relationship modelling, preferring to chuck stuff in as JSON without much thought instead of distinct columns and rows, and also needs to be told when to properly use one-many & many-to-many relationships. This is because it can't deal with the full context of a development and it has to be fed smaller components and steps. I made the mistake letting it create my DB on its own to begin with and then we had to have words, after which it created a proper entity relationship diagram and model that I could review and approve. Unfortunately because I didn't feed in my DB design in at the start, we're up to something like DB migration 017 (in Postgres but about 11 more on previous DBMS as well as a full DB re-write) which wouldn't have happened if I'd known all this to begin with. At least it will write all the migration scripts, but not without a handful of crashes on deployment. This is kind of why I'm still surprised you haven't had to touch any code at all with your project.

What a pile of wank . I think just a piece of ply somehow fixed to opening ( not (expletive deleted)ing window ) would be better ! Wank concept and wank install

Just a warning - some window & door suppliers show windows on quotes & drawings as viewed from inside (e.g. 21 degrees), some from outside (e.g. Rationel). This makes a difference re handle / lock positions etc and other asymmetrical detail. Also, some UK suppliers show the handle position at the point of the triangle e.g. 21 Degrees, some e.g. Rationel show the point at the hinge side. Often this is fairly obvious, but sometimes not. Just to add a bit of spice ... if the suppliers source extra detail drawings from their European suppliers, they may well be the other way round.

I had the opposite. A builder that was on the ball. I had laid the drains expecting to have the sink waste out through the wall and into a bottle gulley. He said no, lets do it properly and bring that one up inside as well.