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Whilst I am still researching all the various options of blinds and films et al I have found a temporary solution to my main problem window......3mx 2m £150 job done it works a treat and will not to to waste whatever longer term solution.?

I'm in Kent, if you can plaster, tile, don't mind crap cooking and fat birds then you can move in!

Can't you use a genny until the plot gets developed and then just pay 1/6th of the cost when it, inevitably, gets done? The owner of the other plots may be purposefully avoiding you so you do the brunt of the work, so beware of that.

At the VERY minimum he'd have to touch my "special place". And that's just to be granted the rights to ask. No guarantee I will lend it implied.

@zoothorn it sounds like you are reasonably happy dealing with wood so why not go with solid wood surfaces and paint the cupboards ...?? A paint finish means you can “hide” any alterations to the doors or drawers, and timber work surface is easy to work with. As I said before, Homebase have this https://www.homebase.co.uk/acacia-oiled-hardwood-kitchen-worktop-220-x-60-x-2-6cm_p400774 Looks good, easy to work with and can be waxed with Osmo or something similar as it’s oiled. Laminate worktops need precision cutting and you can’t sand out any imperfections - £150 for worktops and paint and you will have that kitchen transformed.

1p At 20.3mm diameter. 50 x 50 ish plus the extra for a hexagonal grid. £30 per sqm so the same as a nice tile. But you get backache even more and resin is not cheap.

Ah yes, I remember that feeling, before my innocence was ripped from me by the rest of the build Gorgeous setting. You got me with the building inspector comment too, until I scrolled down.

Some day for it. Today was one of those special days where suddenly years of work starts to come together in front of your eyes. No machinery here just elbow grease. It was all going so well until the building inspector turned up. A few internal load bearing walls to be finished and then on Monday we have the telehander coming to stay for a couple of weeks, followed by the delivery of the attic trusses on Tuesday.

Like this..... http://web.archive.org/web/20150424130649/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/11760-any-borehole-experts-here

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now that is a very good idea, he might even want to keep an eye on it and come and supervise

Base drawings are in (finally!) so marking out and digging begins on Monday. In the meantime, here's the view from the top of the world (ok, topsoil bing...).

Thanks very much for your kind comments. We got our Kerto and our steel beam today. Hopefully we will be able to make good use of the telehandler for shifting these around. Weather looks good for next week as well.

The filters will work better at the bottom, rather than the top, as their losses will be slightly less.

The heat loss model is here: http://www.mayfly.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fabric-and-ventilation-heat-loss-calculator-Master.xls I may well be able to help you with some estimated U values to populate it if you let us know the wall, door, window, and ceiling/roof construction, with any insulation. If you list each in terms of material and thickness by layer (i.e., plaster, brick, cavity, brick, render outside) or similar, giving the materials and approximate thickness, I can have a stab at giving you estimated U values. Knowing the starting point is key, as the whole reason for creating this spreadsheet was to allow fairly easy "what if?" studies, so that people can get the best bang for their buck when deciding what to fit.

Nice hat.

No-one will ever talk me back into a petrol chainsaw for occasional small-medium tasks around the garden. A decent electric provides more than adequate performance, with none of the drama if you don't use it all the time.

True. For example I’m sure that we’ve all seen traffic wardens parked on a yellow line to give out tickets.

Yes, appalling. When the party that has a vested interest in a pass chooses the one to be tested I think that it is a stretch to say that testing is done on a sampling basis. The sampled one clearly is not representative of all. An awful state of affairs.

Sometimes there are accidents; fake iPhone chargers catching fire spring to mind, and I'm sure more than one person has had an electric shock from one of the many illegal lights that are around - the one I took back to a well-know DIY store had a 50/50 chance that the metal ring on the front would be at line potential. Thanks to other safety provisions we have in modern houses, like RCDs and sensible fusing, I suspect that many of the faults could well just result in a non-lethal outcome, with many, perhaps, putting the purchase down as a bad experience. If you want other evidence of how dangerous some of this imported stuff with fake marks may be, then it's worth looking at Big Clive's YouTube channel. Here are a few examples of some of the dangerous stuff he's bought from eBay, etc, and taken apart to illustrate how lethal some of it may be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifTI0GfoAFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbt2ojkXPuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNoGCdX1IdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW9ijW8Dkm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNKGrvD1ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRNYDLp4zdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMuXuIYkco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0iFNKvkT6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOTiQKkQMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjA0aee07k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB1DlBpyS9w I've posted these as links to save filling up the post with video, but this is just a sample that I grabbed in 5 minutes - there are dozens more.

Many breather membranes used in TF and roofing are degraded by UV light. Check with manufacturer the maximum exposure, some as little as 3 months, others up to 6 months.

Hi - would love to visit some projects and help out. I'm based in Surrey, a Chartered Construction Manager with an engineering background, and keen to get involved in some self build/renovation projects prior to moving into property development. So, if you would like some remote help, or on site help if based in/near Surrey, let me know. I would be happy to help in any way I can, but would aim to have an immediate impact in areas of project management - dealing with other professionals, site analysis, planning, tenders, contracts, trades, site set-up, contract administration etc. You get free help and I get experience of resolving a range of real project issues quickly.

Look great, and what an amazing view. This was my favorite part of the build. Felt like we actually had a house until I realised that there was so much more to do to make it one.

My reliable marine engineer used to resuscitate gummed up outboard engine carburetors by putting the parts in an ultrasonic cleaner. Something to consider next time you are on your umpteenth carburetor disassembly.

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Additional to this I have found the design and install guide that has much more detail on it on how to select what systems and how to mix and match: http://www.bublshop.co.uk/files/pdf/pdf2040.pdf I found my system in there though mine pre-dates the UniQ and the packaging is different!

Well done and what a lovely site! The frame going up is definitely the best part of the build apart from the actual bit where it all gets finished!

Makes me want to go outside and knock my cottage down and start again...... watching a new build go up like this is fantastic but also mildly soul crushing when you got on the renovation wagon and missed the last stop..... looking great well done mate.

The beauty of TF. Talley 'hup, and there it is. Bingo ! Nice plot.

+1. Pre cut everything before glueing up as this stuff starts curing as soon as it gets out of the tube. Use a very damp cloth to wet the plywood prior to offering things up as this stuff is moisture cure.

This stuff ... Polyurethane but in gel form https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p78519

I was always told 6" (150mm) is the height an average raindrop bounces. It's why all our lead capped plinths for plant atop roofs are this high as a minimum.

And there was me hoping it was OneOff with a typo, in the vain hope that there weren’t Two or Three of them .. ?.

OMG is it like the Veet for Men reviews? https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 We went down this road once before on my heating thread ......

I was talking to a chap yesterday on a large site that we have been working on for the past five years He was air testing one of the completed properties I remarked that I hadn’t seen him for a while He then told me that they only test one in eight and apply the same score to the other seven I wonder if the people who are buying realise this

I suspect this is the tip of a very large iceberg. I've mentioned before that a fair bit of electrical stuff, in particular, sold on eBay, Amazon and the like, is not properly inspected or approved, as I've had lots of examples of demonstrably unsafe stuff, including a car battery charger that had the mains line directly connected to one of the battery charge terminals, a earthed metal case power supply that had the line and neutral swapped internally, with the internal fuse in the neutral, several metal cased mains LED outdoor lights with the earth wire not connected internally and LED power supplies that didn't comply with the EMC directive and emitted lots of interference. All were marked as if they had met the required approvals, including an LED light purchased from a well-known DIY store (which they took back and immediately removed all their stock from their shelves). I now work on the view that anything purchased online will be inherently dangerous, and do my own safety checks before assessing whether or not to use it. At a guess, I'd say around 70% of mains-powered kit doesn't comply with approval requirements without some modification, often this is simple stuff like an illegal plug, cable or missing earth.