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Not sure, but rest assured it'll take the missus by surprise and I won't finish...

.....of getting your nails and hair done ✌️

It’s all discontinued before you’ve ever used it? ?

Dai Doubledecks playin' the final vinyl?

Not again @Onoff !!!!!!

Mr Bean style might have worked. Bucket full of tiles, adhesive and boom ?! Job done. Leave for 48 hrs and grout it with a mallet ?

Not a bad guess tho @Nickfromwales. Surprised you know so much about hair and nails! ???

Hi all, Been a while.. Ive just come accross the pics i posted on here quite a while back.. I just wanted to thank everyone for all the input regarding sorting out this house.. Heres a couple of pics.. been finished now a while.. and its been lived in again. :)

I believe that Howdens do them ?. But they do seem to leave a lot of space unused for the gubbins, and have fairly low weight limits. More practically, I get to use the top shelves while my mum who has now gone to under 5ft uses the others. The same even applies in the Bear-Fridge, where my frozen low carb breakfast portions get exiled to the top, whilst the cornettos are lower down. I am sure you have lots of stuff that is not of interest to the boss. Alternatively, do not forget that glass shelves can be a less expensive alternative for top cupboards for things like crockery, and your teapot library (should such exist) - as long as they can be identified from below. For base units, deep drawers are a good alternative. I learnt that from a nice Scottish lady in the Edinburgh 'burbs, who had her mugs and tins arranged on their sides in drawers below the workstop. Again a possibly money-saver, perhaps used in combination with some of the pull-up shelves. I think that pots and pans and tins and crocks (ie heavy or bulky) would be good in drawers below, whilst lighter stuff (dried ingredients, herbs, tea and coffee and so on) would work quite well on these. Cocktails and chocolate, obviously, should always be out on the worktop. Ferdinand

When are you starting the actual tiling?

Yes, the floor area is just the internal ground floor area, the bit that can lose heat to the ground. Again, yes, taking the total heat loss and dividing it by the floor area will give you the very worst case UFH output per m². In practice the house will have incidental heat gains from people (roughly 100W each) electrical appliances, heat losses from the hot water system into the house, cooking, solar gain and even pets, so this really is the absolute worse case heating demand, with everything except the UFH switched off and no one in the house, with no solar gain.

That detail was copied from my build.

My friend (5ft 1) has no wall cupboards either for the same reason!

We are very similar set as epsilongreedy but with a bosch one. Not great in daylight but being using it from day 1 (insulated raft & icf) and managed fine. Very easy to work. Would also recommend the receiver.

Think the water level will do what you need it to do quite easily for the wall. When it comes to do the house hire a proper rotating laser level and go round each corner and drive a nail in so all the nails at each corner are level. Then as you build moves up you can use a tape and see how close you are after every 3/4 course.

I have been to Grand designs a few times - I live less than an hour from the NEC. I wouldn't bother again myself unless I had a day with nothing to do but thats because most of it is stuff you can find anywhere plus the candle maker, glass pictures, vegetable choppers et al....those even seem to find their way into Crufts these days. My top tip if you do go is to get there at opening time, the place is heaving by lunchtime and its difficult to get to see much with the crowds, also take your drinks and snacks in with you if you can, the queues and prices inside are horrendous. If you have never been you will enjoy it but not sure you will come away with much of any real use. If you are looking for interior design ideas then as well as the usual Pinterest Houzz etc I would suggest you do a tour of the show homes in your area, go to see the pricey ones with more upmarket finishes too there is nothing like seeing things in the flesh so to speak. If you are unsure of yourself on interior design then yes go on a course if there is one available, it may give you confidence. You could always employ an interior designer to give you some pointers, you don't need to employ them to do the 'scheme' just give you some ideas on things and help in pulling the look together. Would probably cost less than your trip to Birmingham. Very worthwhile going to upmarket kitchen and bathroom showrooms too, ideas are there for the stealing. A good independent is very useful for kitchen planning - a cut above the sheds etc, you dont have to buy just get ideas ditto on the bathroom showrooms. Get tester pots of paint, paint onto big pieces of card or the back of a piece of wallpaper and pin up on the wall to see how it looks, get samples of everything, paint, flooring, upholstery etc and put them together, you will soon see what 'goes' and what doesn't. Its easy to do mood boards - just get a big sheet of card and from your short lists stick on the paint swatches, flooring, carpet and curtain samples etc, photos of lighting, all that stuff it gives you a good idea of how things come together and you can note details like suppliers etc.................I prefer an actual mood board that I make myself better than a virtual one on the screen because I think you also need to consider the feel of things not just a flat photo. Texture, not just colour, is an important part of interior design in my view. When we moved a few years ago I came across my mood boards for the house we built in the late 80's........Hoarder LOL When I am doing something be it a whole house or just a room I always carry with me samples of my colours, bits of wood, tile etc (very heavy handbag) so that if I chance upon something I can whip out my samples and see how they look, you never know when you will spot a gem that is just the piece you need. Don't be afraid to mix bargain buys with more expensive designer options along with a few treasured pieces that you already have. Confidence in your own personal taste and style is what you need, who wants to live in house that looks like its come from a catalogue, you need to inject your own personality into it, make it yours.....but not lime green and purple of course! Anyone visiting the NEC for GD wants to pop in to me for a visit and a cuppa you would be welcome.

I,m buggered when I burn the toast then?.

From 7 full tiles I've cut 21 for the vertical mosaic strips that define the wet room corner.14 tiles with 1 factory edge + 1 cut edge and 7 tiles with both edges cut. One of the tiles with both edges scored, cut & diamond filed.

This scientific paper addresses internal air quality in Passive Houses with MVHR. It suggests a significant source of internal PM2.5 is cooking and that MVHR may be inadequate in removing such contaminants, even in boost mode. It also looks at contributors to air quality, such as CO₂ and formaldehyde. It is a current paper, with a forthcoming publication date of 15 October 2018. The houses monitored for the study are in Colorado, USA. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S0360132318305183/20180907T163100Z/1?md5=5e4246e165b6c901268110a047c99c37

Must be a first ..... JSH and PeterW not knowing every last detail about [xyz] Stand in front of any of your eye-level kitchen cabinets - any one will do. Look up at the top shelf. Now tell me what's at the back of that shelf. If you are like me, you don't know because you cant see. This prevents that. In effect, the back of many cupboards are wasted space - knee level or below, shoulder level or above. I am starting to hate bending down. It'll only get worse. Debbie stands on a stool to get to the back of top-level shelves. Every time she does so, I wince at the potential for a broken this or that. Moving into the bedroom, those storage units that are shoulder-level or above are similarly inaccessible. This time round I can plan to mitigate that problem. Pull-down, fold-out, and rotating shelves seem to me to be a way of slowing the inevitable descent into decrepitude - if I'm not already there....

It’s also worth noting this scheme only works on bigger builders who are beyond the flat rate vat scheme in turnover. If not then the 5% vat just costs them 10% of the job.

If you are going to use it outdoors Red are useles without a detector Green are far better I’ve a green Hilti rotary which was the very first green laser on the market Still works perfectly I also have a couple of Hilti line lasers in green Great value at £300 Two years guarantee Free recalibration within that period and when you have finished with it It will sell all day long at £200 on eBay Bosch and Dewalt are ok Id stay away from the cheaper ones Ok for hanging a picture or two

I have a good rotating one like the one mike sharpe mentioned, the thing to do is buy the best you can, look after it and sell it when you are finished, i think you will find a good quality one will sell better than a cheap one. Leica have always been a very good brand for anything like this. If you want to save a couple of quid, don’t buy the tripod or the staff you need the laser and receiver tripod can be replaced by setting up on a pile of blocks staff can be replaced with a nice piece of 2x1 painted white so you can write your own marks on it.

Hi Neil. Warranty is something of a concern though they seem to be pretty reliable, but mine also gave me a couple of spare panels and Solaredge micro-wotsits when I asked them the day before finally agreeing the order. It was a 9.98kWp install, however, and 35 panels on 3 elevations all with Solaredge. £11.7k in 2016. Warranty not materially different from yours. That £7k should be more like £4,5k-£5k unless you are on a street needing a scaffold permit etc in London, or Fort Boyard, or other special circumstances. Ferdinand

Plus all panels lose a lot of efficiency as they get hot anyway, and temperature differences between one installation and another (due differences in cooling) may well partially nullify the relatively small change in efficiency between the various panels available at the moment.

Planning is a pile of shit . Half ‘plans’ , half politics . We experience about 5 refused ; lost 3 appeals . But I never gave up . I’m not familiar with your exact application but you might want to try the ‘wratchet’ Approach . Just get ‘bits’ passed as you go - then hit them with it . Admittedly this takes time ( years ) and costs a bit . Trust your own judgement....

I just added above the FFL recommended by the EA. They recommend a FFL of 6.13 m ODN for a 1:100 risk level of 5.83 m ODN, a difference in our case of just 300mm, rather less than your 1.5m. In our case I spoke to people who had lived locally for 20 years or more. They said that flood water has never even reached the access road (which is at about 5.9m ODN), let alone my building which will be at 6.42 or above with my no-dig and passive-raft foundation. However, with global warming, perhaps the future will not be like the past. The annoyance for me is that I may need to put an evacuation door in the rear of my property (I have no garden). The EA considers the access road to be flood prone and so assumes I may need to high-tail-it across my neighbours' back gardens in the event of a flood. Rather ridiculous I think. Perhaps they are envisioning a Krakatoa-style flood with mere moments to respond. I would have thought a sedate egress in wellies would be more than sufficient!

His bathroom won't leak though

The NW elevation on our plan shows the neighbouring rooflines and edges of their property, this was based on the survey of the original house, if you had the same detail and including hedges to show visibility and even perspectives from the road it could help. Also photographs showing current with an overlay of the new to show impact if any! I was frustrated by having to hip the roof, it add complication and lost me good Solar PV area, it also means my attic storage though large is not as well laid out as it could have been, but we can't have it all.

Christ that’s nearly 5 times hair and nails then! ?

Ouch! Kick a man while he's drowning down why don't you!