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I'm sitting back waiting for the explanation. I was tempted to ask what "being 'awake' which turned into slang 'woke' to social justice, more specifically racism and discrimination" has got to do with policy decisions regarding renewables and fossil fuel extraction by the UK government, but you beat me to it.

It requires a methodical approach, and a lot of careful execution. Shower trays don’t typically break easily, more like mechanical damage or accidental dropping of things onto them. If you’re not having a shower tray then maybe consider a wet room former? You just set this in place with tile adhesive, test the drain for leaks, then screed to it.

Also just clicked on there are no real rodding opportunities. Take my chances, eat less protein and shave my head?

It’s what we do.

Good - go with 150mm. But stuck with 100 and 50mm. 150mm are a pain to install well. Stick with PIR at that depth. You 50% more depth of polystyrene boards for the same U value as PIR. A blunt saw is good for cutting PIR. Foam in any gaps. Stagger joints between layers

SketchUp for the 3D stuff, Illustrator for the flat drawings. I'm the kind of person that needs to draw things up before my brain lets me do any of the work.

Please do not omit the fixing(s) - it's only one or 2 per board (check MIs). In a fire any plastic insulation attached to the plasterboard will melt or soften and the plasterboard may fall off the wall. This exposes more fuel to a fire (combustible insulation) and blocks possible escape routes. Additionally it could be a major hazard for fire fighters if they have to enter the building if people reported in there.

In terms of insulation I will putting 150mm PIR even though 100mm will suffice. Going with the extra insulation hopefully should be better. Initially though plan was to fit 100mm and so I purchased most of the boards already. Now have changed mind and will be ordering the 50mm boards. So I will be laying 50mm PIR first and them 100mm on top. In hindsight I should have ordered 150mm board. Other option is to use use 50mm Polystyrene such as Jabalit and then 100mm PIR on top- Cheaper option. Watched a you tube video about this and learnt the following: Polystyrene boards break easily and can be a bit more tricky to cut but I don't have prior experience so basing everything on what I saw in the video. Have you worked with Jabalite? Is it fairly easy to work with?

Not an "expert" but have done exactly this in an outbuilding with shower, WC and sink with an AAV added. Like your drawings, what application are you using?

Both will be equally slow, which is the whole idea of UFH. Unlikely to be any cold spots - but a floor well put together isn't hot either. Many because most if not all the time it's actually cooler than your body so will never feel hot. I assume you have thought about and installed plenty of insulation under the UFH pipes?

The submission was done by the Heat Pump installer, the only thing they were concerned about was the design of the UFH, I dug out the original design document which demonstrated that the UFH had much greater capacity than the calculated overall heat demand and they were happy. They applied for the grant without any drama.

Having UFH for 3 rooms: a kitchen , a bathroom and a living room. In the bathroom I will be having a walk in shower in the shape of a rectangular box dimensions 165cm long and 90 cm wide but without a shower tray. Worried shower trays break easily and also I think it will more cost effective to create the falls needed in the shower area with dry screed. On one of the longer sides will be a fixed glass screen running from external wall with a gap to walk into the shower space and on the opposite side is the internal wall. Shower head and taps will be affixed to external wall on one of the shorter sides of the rectangular box- see diagram attached I will make a small rectangular partition in the floor where the shower space will be if I use wet screed so can get the falls for the drainage. Floors will be finished with tiles. I am in 2 minds about Dry vs Wet screed. Dry Screed will be cheaper but a bit more laborious which I don't mind. Wet will off course be a quicker install but cost premium attached. For Dry I will go with 75mm thickness and for Wet I think the recommended is 60 -65mm thickness. Considering it's a DIY project which screed finish would you opt for? Are both types of screed equally effective for UFH in terms getting the space warmed up quickly and avoiding cold spots?. I suppose the thicker the screed the more time the slab will take to warm up but equally I suppose the more time that heat will be stored in the slab. BTW I have no prior experience with living with UFH so not sure about which direction to proceed.

Avalon wise made significant progress . What I struggled to match is Alexa’s shear speed “ Alexa , what’s the time in Tokyo ? “ Virtually instant response . Hard to find exactly how Amazon structure this . A voice response or acknowledgment just a few 100ms slow can feel painful . So ! We have Avalon ‘skills’ I.e fuzzy word match for speed . So “ Avalon , what’s the time in Tokyo ? “ , is super close to Alexa speed . Whisper transcribes realtime . Wake word software was all too slow . We have a weighted graph of probability and misread / mis said word library - so that’s far quicker than an llm trying to work it out . Chat’s code was a spaghetti mess - so I got it to rewrite as a finite state machine - easier for debugging . We also ‘smoke test ‘ so input can be a text of words , mis spellings etc . Really happy with “ what’s the time ? “ and “what’s the time in Tokyo ? “ - the fraction of delay or not defining the question . The time/date skill obviously of little use but it’s a good test for the pipeline . Next will probably be a ‘general knowledge’ skill I.e anything you ask goes to internet to get answer .

No wonder there’s a (expletive deleted)ing shortage ! Guess what @-rick- …. 😊 . Managed to grab myself an m3 256gb 😎 Yes ! Paid a premium - but not insane . Will copy everything over from 96gb and reckon I can sell that at near what I paid on eBay . Last time I checked there were zero m3 96gb on eBay . I’m surprised how capable it is especially after watching all the pointless YouTube videos comparing it against rtx4090 etc - tokens per second blah blah . If the models shit speed does not matter ! Effrctively I’ve now got a near codex workflow locally . Chat is still the boss . It’s SO much more capable than previous version - genuinely surprised. Excellent software engineer / architect for 20 quid a month. Whilst frontier is clearly more capable, local is catching up real fast !

Two points: 1. The basis of this thread was that if you ignore emissions, it is still a national security priority to get off fossil fuels as we don't have enough and we can easily generate enough power using renewables if we just built them.* I tend to agree that the way that we have implemented the drive to renewables has done some damage which could have been avoided if the programs had been structured differently, but that's a different argument. 2. Emissions are cumulative, so even if our emissions are low now, we are one of the highest emissions countries in history because the industrial revolution came to us first and for a lot of that time we were responsible for a very large percent of the worlds emissions. You may say it's woke to consider history when considering energy. I think of it as taking responsibility for our actions and trying to lead by example. * The argument that China controls a lot of the supply chains for renewables has weight. But so long as we are installing solutions that work without a live connection to China then if anything happened with the supply chain the installed base keeps going for at least a decade. Compared to fossil fuels which if the imports stop of those we are utterly screwed within a matter of weeks renewables wins.

Now we know where all the 256GB m3s went: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/15/aws-racks-m3-ultra-macs-that-boast-specs-you-cant-currently-buy/5240901

I used foam onto my concrete blocks but regs said I needed to use mechanical fixings as well. If you're not getting it checked I'd just use the foam personally.

theres no doubt about it, im a worrier and always need positive reinforcement on tasks. Thats why this forum has been an absolute gem of a find during my refurb. Looking at it, the very short stubby solvent weld boss might be the best way to go as its lower than any push fit i can find, that will help with my fall. That means i'll have a weld section on the top as well so id need either a joining piece of straight and then a triple socket boss or even better a socket welded in then i can go with the "normal" push fit boss, could even use the socket i need to cut off the pipe i have in-situ. Not sure why im overthinking this...

Along the landing, we're having Sapele hand rail and base rail with painted spindles in between and painted newel posts. The stair itself is an Open Stringer (or Cut Stringer) design and we're having Sapele treads with painted risers, stringer, spindles and newels. On the stair, the spindles have to be dowel fixed into the treads since there is no stringer top edge to put a base rail on. Every installation I see for spindles along a landing involves the glued packers, a blob of glue top and bottom on the spindles and perhaps some narrow pins through the edge of the base rail and hand rail into the spindles. Does anyone dowel their spindles into the base trail? Would that be excessive? I want to make sure I don't have an unpleasant surprise with the BCO if he says I should have added some fixing to the spindles. https://www.grosvenorstairs.co.uk/product/sapele-low-profile-handrail-44mm-x-60mm/ https://www.grosvenorstairs.co.uk/product/sapele-traditional-baserail-60mm-x-30mm/

Finns are apparently much happier than they are portrayed or pretend.

Can you explain what exactly "woke" is? It seems to be thrown around alot as an insult.

The question then becomes "do the policies of electrfying hearing and transport whilst increacing renewable production negatively affect the UK economy and security?" It boils down to do we think uk renewable power is going to be cheaper and more reliable than importing oil and gas from the world market? I think, and studies on the overall cost per Mwh of the various technologies bear this out, that renewable power is cheaper and is much harder to disrupt. Bear in mind the cost to the economy of transitioning to the NZ position is less than the cost of one oil/gas shock like either of the two we have already had this decade.

@Gus Potter& @Nickfromwales Thanks for asking for a photo. I hope this one will do.

https://www.mwps.co.uk/product-category/used-wind-turbines-offered/ Just to whet your appetite!!