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Show them the pipe, where it goes, and that next door is also on a combined network sewer. You can provide percolation test results, DIY'd, to fortify.

In a nutshell. If it's still standing with no 'San Andreas' cracks then it's time to drop to DEFCON 5.

I contacted the utilities company some months back to get a drainage plan from them. Unfortunately they hold no plans until around 4 doors down. I know that the main drainage route/pipe goes through the back of the gardens until 4 doors down and then kicks out to a big inspection chamber at the back in a farmers field. (This is were the utilities have their plans from) The utilities company said that this will be because the pipe is on private land that they’ll hold no record. My only current issue I have is the utilities company won’t discharge my final pre-commence by condition until they seen my full drainage plan. Which is fine but they are adamant I have to explore all avenues in soaking away the rain water, despite having trial holes dug for soil sampling which states the ground is unsuitable for a buried soak away.

I would and did, stainless mesh screwed up and stuffed in, and the spray foamed it all together. Next get bait traps with this in there https://amzn.eu/d/0fyW3NPc It's a one time eat and their dead.

What is the proper way to seal this opening through floor? Garden is infested with rats I’m worried they might end up coming through this pipe. thanks

You'll need to find out if it's 'adopted' or not. Contact the utility company and then if it's adopted then you should be able to connect into it. Will be a gift if you can.

We may need to conduct Buildhub's first ever exorcism..........

Hello, I wondered if somebody could help or offer some advice. we are just digging out for our self build plot. The foundation is a raft design and as we have dug close to the neighbouring boundary (their drive way) we have located a 110mm pipe with a blanking cap on the end coming on to our land by about 1 meter. Now I know the neighbouring property was built in 2020 and at the time the guy who built it was also hoping to build on the land that we are now developing but he was refused planning. I am wondering if he was future proofing it at the time in the hope he would get planning. There is an inspection chamber on the neighbouring properties driveway approximately 3 meters from where I have discovered the pipe on my land. My question are; 1. Am I able to connect on to it? 2. Do I need to notify the utilities company? just for context the whole road is on a combined system, unfortunately the ground isn’t suitable for a soakaway to be installed (SUDS) as it’s got clay all over the land. 3. Am I able to send/direct both foul and rainwater to this pipe? any help or assistance is greatly appreciated?

I learned that the hard way too. For me the rule has become: work with people who raise my game: as well as force me to think hard, but laugh harder.

Part Two: The Spark Gap https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sr4f Dale Vince and Greg Jackson falling out.

Sorry to drag up old thread. How do you know if the model reolink camera you're looking at does timelapse? Also with these if I have an sd card how much storage does timelapse take up per day/week/month. What's a standard photo rate one every few minutes during daylight hours? Can the reolink camera be hotspotted to your phone so you can download the data without having to fetch the sd card out of it. Even if no WiFi locally.

Did this today.... Went as expected, tho I needed an extra hole in the ceiling in the hallway. Fiddly and uncomfortable job. Hopefully first and last time!!

I worked with an electrician and he had a very long, flexible, coiled steel spring, with a light at the end. Was a simple bit of kit but made pulling cables through easy. No idea where he got it from, or if it has a name.

Heat output is pretty poor on low flow temperatures, you don't really want to be flowing 50+ on the cold day. I would be doing 3 or 4 not 1 or 2. Or better still a proper fan coil that is wall mounted. Design them to provide enough heat at 30 to 35 degs and then run fixed flow temp. Suspect towel radiator output at low temperature will be almost zero, they have almost no surface area. My opinion is if you want to run high flow temperature in a low heat loss house, don't bother with the heat pump, save on capital spend, just go direct electric or storage heater. Use the money saved on heat pump and buy a battery, use octopus storage heater tariff at around 10p per kWh from April. We did UFH, you don't know it's there.

Our patio doors started going in today.... and the threshold levels were wrong, or incopmpatible...it doesn't matter except that they didn't fit. That's with me and mine being perfect, remember. It's sorted now, due to collaborative working...and us paying a daywork guy to sort it instead of the intended work. It will always happen.

@JohnMo Thanks for the thoughts. No UFH (sorry!) or radiators. I'm hoping that over time the house will mostly be at the same temperature. Not planning cooling with the heat pump. I thought this KS might be ok. Says it goes down to 30c. And I can always disable the flow temperate relay! https://kitchenheaters.co.uk/product/thermix-kph-1-5-smart-wifi-heat-pump/

Are you planning on just 1/2 small fan coils and towel rads? Or do you have UFH/radiators as well? The kick space coils, I would look at the spec, as they will most likely have a flow temperature permissive to run the fan, this could be based on a boiler flow temperature and not suitable for a heat pump. Are you doing cooling also, that will make a different answer.

I tend to go with adapt and overcome.

Maybe not - panel may generate something, but not enough to trigger anything to work like your inverter.

I think the cells are bi directional, so when you go glass / glass you inherit some degree of uplift if irradiance is bounced off something and hits the back / underside of the panels, and afaik there aren’t any panels / manufacturers where anyone would purposefully place cells on the rear. You still get salespeople telling folk that light reflected by the moon can add to generation…….all of these idiots are dynamite lovers with a 2” fuse lol.

How big is this house 🤯

How do people get on with solar panels if not shown on planning? Anyone ever had a pull on these?

I meant buying melamine, mirrored doors and hanging rails etc. If you have supply and fit it would say fitted robes.

Whilst experimenting, I was mindful of the plane of the roof. The adjustment timber brings the rafters in to the same plane and down to the same angle as the unadjusted rafters. I chose stainless screws for the glue/timber connection specifically because they will bend and not snap. With the cascamite and the large bonding surface area, the connection should be stronger than the wood itself. I'm not using nails to hold the rafters themselves in place. I'm using M8 stainless coach screws through the rafter into the wall plate. Pull-out/pull-though force for each connector is considerably more than skew nails.