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Who says roofing doesn't pay? The retired roofer of my acquaintance turns up in his sleek drop-head Merc. Smelling of new leather, a spec of dust here and there, he daintily alights from his car. Rather like a catwalk model, he removes his shades (driving shades you understand, not the roofing shades he uses), puts them in their case, and changes from his bordello-ready driving shoes to his work boots. He's brought his retired mate along fer 't 'craik - laak. A small piece of carpet ( a sample piece) is dropped on the dusty drive, and the bordello-creepers are neatly dropped, side by side, in the exact middle of the carpet . Whassa matter? I ask: Had a bad day? Wodjer mean? Shoes, I say, pointing at them. They are pointing North - South and not East - West like the other roofers who visit here. A big grin. The piss-taking had started before he got to the scaffold . The next hour was going to be fun. Tha's got sum rewfin called Noooooluck, I 'ere. Nulok, I counter. Ya wut? Nulok, Jim. He reaches up to his forehead ostensibly to push his hair back. In reality, he switched his hearing aid on. His mate does the same. Now that, that's a real compliment. They are both listening - or attempting to. More than I get from the average teenager. So I dig the bits and bobs out and he looks at them. Wha's 'at grewve fer then? (top of the image) Dunno, mate says I. Then a gentle sucking sound: the old fogey's sucking his teeth clean, I conclude. Wha's 'at nick fer then? (bottom of the tile) Dunno, mate says I. 'Eeeer, sin this? Wha? The back of the tile does indeed have the word Happiness emblazoned on its surface. You couldn't make it up could ya? I mean, just imagine being the tool maker for the mould in which the tiles are made...... Oh, by the way , the customer wants you to engrave the letters H A P P I N E S S on the back of the mould. Ya wot? Yew avin' a laugh? If it had been me I would have been sorely tempted to change it slightly: but in present company I'd better not write it down. Just ask yourself: how would a French person tend to pronounce Happiness? ..... Remembering that they don't pronounce the letter H. On to the battens They're not messin' abart are they? Why metal? Dunno says I. Tha' dun't knaw much duz ya....... He has a point. And I've delved round 'tinternet for hours as you will suspect. After they both left (of which more in the next post) I came up with this Installation_manualUSA.pdf Something new to get my DIY head into. The current Nulok videos are for advertising purpose, I think. As they left, because the roof of the car was down (they must both have had fond memories of when they were on the pull, I think) I noticed them both surreptitiously switching their hearing aids off. Bless them. Here's looking forward to their return. Installation_manualUSA.pdf

Hello Everyone, I've been slowly converting an old brick barn by myself, picking up the skills required along the way. So far I've been able to achieve everything I've needed to by research and reading forums etc. I'm about to embark on building the internal walls to form a cavity and have been unable to find the answers i need, and now it's time for me to post a question I've found that ebuild is no more. So here i am *wave*

So would she so thank your lucky stars! PS send her my condolences She deserves a medal! Congrats tho!

The plumber and tiler are one and the same where I am! He's a bit slow, some might use the term glacial even.

is underway and he is doing such an amazing job cutting all the angles in I wanted to share it.?

My wife found a crack in a window today. It is the middle and inside pane of a 3G window. Looks like some kind of stress in the frame to me. Should this be covered by the warranty?

I fixed that for you ?

See, this is why SWMBO puts up with me. I take my time and pay attention to detail in EVERYTHING I do!

All the care and attention that you put into your build doesn't really count for much when the blinds on my patio doors get left open all day and you come home to a real toasty room sitting at 29 degrees.

Likewise here - 100/150/100 brick bead and block with some rooms having an additional 25mm kingspan. Roof is 200mm fibre, 25mm kingspan internally and most is room in roof. All the glazing is 3G but have a gFactor of 0.4 so tend not to have massive solar gain. This is all standard build too, just lots of attention to detail on air tightness etc

I don’t doubt Jeremy,s house is cooler than most with his attention to detail and high decrement delay materials, we too have had comments, when it was cold in the winter visitors thought I had the heating working but I didn’t, in this very warm weather people remark how cool the house is. I explain that insulation works both ways (think of a thermos flask, keeps tea hot or cold drinks cool). The only problem I have is convincing her indoors not to open the curtains and windows during the day, best to keep them closed and keep the heat out ?.

The ones that look nicest in my view are the slim section flush LED panel lights, like these: https://www.brightlightz.co.uk/12-watt-frosted-round-led-ceiling-light-office-panel Alternatively, ordinary 12 V MR16 downlighter fittings work fine with pretty much any 12 V MR16 LED lamp, like these: https://www.ledhut.co.uk/spot-lights/mr16-led-bulbs.html?fq[base_type]=MR16 Worth looking around, though. I made a test unit up so I could compare different MR16 LEDs and wrote a short test report, attached. MR16 LED test data.pdf

I'd say batten the walls leaving service voids for cabling. Then pack with Rockwool batts and overboard with SoundBloc plasterboard. If you haven't got too many sockets and switches easy enough to crimp extensions on. The face of the new pb would be something like 65mm off the old wall. You could mess around stacking extension boxes or possibly move the sockets and light switches up/down to new positions and even take the opportunity to add extra ones. Observe safe zones of course! https://www.ukelectricalsupplies.com/search.htm?search=Metal+extension+box

Its already magnetic. And, no: the bloody things can stay there.

Flint work gettng there

So pick the min 100mm and work from it. Some gaps will be bigger than 100mm but none will be smaller. Then get blown bead insulation installed - fills every cavity and you will have no gaps and a really decent level of insulation. The only plans you would need to change for TF would be for BRegs as planning doesn’t care what the inside looks like ...

Evening, just thought I would put this out there, even though it is very short notice our steel driven piles are going in this week if it is something anybody wanted to look at to get an idea of how it works I would be happy for anybody to visit. Site is near Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Welcome and remember there Is no such thing as a silly question, silly is not asking! .

Welcome and I hope it does go hazy - I'd rather forget the whole thing

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