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So here's the South roof. The result of 3 days work by me and two friends. If you combined the knowledge of all three of us then I reckon you'd be half way to a pro roofer Actually one of the guys has done a lot of roofing but he's a bit agricultural, took me ages to convince him to use slate and half, he said it was fussy crap Note that we decided to scrap the sticky flashing stuff supplied with the GSE solar trays and instead went for lead. I think it was the right decision in our exposed position. I really don't like the way the flashing trays 'kick' the slates at the sides and top but if you install them to spec then there is nothing you can do about it. But I'm probably being fussy! If you're very observant you'll notice the colour difference on the slates below the solar PV. That's because even with two coats of patina oil as soon as it rained it chucked white residue all over the slates so I decided to clean it off. How did we do?

What happened then, wouldn't take the weight of both of you?

Finished!

As @lizzie said you can get the channels with the opaque covers but I'm not sure you'll want to take out your led's re-size the channel and refit. How about just getting some 2 or 3mm opaque Perspex and bond it on or into the gap? This seller seems to indicate he'll do custom sizes: Opal Opaque Acrylic Perspex Sheet Plastic LED Lighting Sign Diffuser Material

You can. Reasons against doing it are about efficiency . The Sunamp has very little standing / latent heat loss vs say an UVC, so less lost energy = less energy required. An ashp will have a poor CoP when delivering DHW, but if your not a huge DHW user, say retired couple for eg, then you may just be happy to suffer a bit when the ashp is providing DHW. Capital costs is one big point, but deduct the cost of an UVC plus yearly G3 inspections, and its losses, and then the cost of the SA starts to balance out.

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Now, the house is not nearly as cold as I expected - certainly better than the Victorian house with solid, non-cavity walls I have moved from. Nevertheless, I would like to improve it. The fibreboard walls are also inconvenient as they cannot be skimmed, wallpaper has to be applied directly. My idea was to strip off the fibreboard from the walls, insert a better type of insulation and then put up plasterboard in place of the fibreboard. I have found some companies*very useful, and the administrator has done something very similar but was wondering if anyone here has done anything similar. The usual advice is to reclad the outside of the house, but I'd rather not do that as it's expensive, non-DIY and I think looks ugly (basically it removes or covers up the only features of the house that give it any interest).

They've had the squeeze test. All joint faces were abraided with 60g and washed with acetone. I don't do shiny, I'm far too dull and abrasive for that

All the joints are solvent welded. The top joint will be bonded to the grp tonge using the stuff @Nickfromwales recommended.

Was a situation involving a 4 yr old wanting to wash the sand off some stones from a bag of ballast, a flip plug and me trying to take a short cut with a hammer when sand got jammed in said flip plug.....

We are currently building a detached property on land which was originally part of the garden of our house which we still own, Access to the new dwelling is to be via a shared drive which will remain on the title of the original house. We need to create an easement for right of access across it. The original title has already been split into two seperate titles via solicitors,land registry etc. The issue we have is that the mortgage company require these easements to be in place to release the money which we now are in desperate need of as the roof is due to go on next week and our personal funds are now low. Our solicitor is advising us that we cant create an easement from ourselves (myself & wife) to ourselves as both our names are on both titles, you cannot be the dominant tenement and servient tenement. There recommendation is to remove one of us from the current houses title/mortgage and then we can create the easements, This seems bizarre to me and will take time that we really do not have at this stage, I have spent hours online searching for an answer to which i cannot find and desperately hoping of a way to appease the new mortgage company. Should we decide to sell either property then this will not be an issue as the easement would be created with the new purchaser and ourselves. Hoping someone else on here has dealt with this issue and has an easier faster solution for us. Had the solicitor who split the original title informed us of this we would not have put both our names on the new title created. Thanks Neil

I think the answer is to point out to the mortgage company that because you own both plots you already have a 'quasi-easement' and that the law only allows you to convert that to a full easement when one plot is sold. Perhaps ask your solicitor if it's possible to formalise this in some way? Perhaps by inserting a covenant in the deeds of the old house requiring the owner (currently you) to grant an easement if that was ever sold?

The police will do sweet FA over a broken padlock. I think you can even "get away" with shoplifting now if caught, if it's under a certain amount. Police stations near me now 9 to 5, closed on Bank Holidays whereas it was 24/7/365 only a few years ago. Spoke to a copper, 51, the other day, he said "I've 4 years to go, can't f***ing wait!" There's not enough police and they're hampered by liberal do gooders. Protect your own property and there's a good chance you'll be nicked because it's EASY for the authorities to do so. Only solution in my book is sort it yourself, live with it and keep quiet. Just disappear the scum. Return to the concept of an Englishman's castle and all that.

I am happy that his attempt was a crime and that it should be recorded as such. To wait would have risked a couple of hundred pounds worth of laser at the best being damaged. There is a bit of legislation that allows me to challenge the local police over their actions Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 introduced the victims charter which gives a victim extra protection and rights if they are "a persistently targeted victim" The CCTV from yesterday was from my old cameras so yesterday i fitted one of the new 4mp ptz cameras that gives a much better picture.

Finish the bathroom first. Please.

Hi Neil Welcome to the forum..! I'm not quite sure where your solicitor is heading as creating easements at the point of title is normal practice and its the title that gains the easement, not the person... The issue is where the owner and occupier are the same, not the owner is the same. You may be best off talking to the mortgage company and advising them that you cannot legally create the easement unless they would like to take occupation of the new property as a tenant, and then you would have the ability to become the owner only and at that point the easement can be registered.

Simple. Just stop lying down on your kitchen floor . Dont thank me, it's what we do