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Not your fault bud. My mother in law reckons I am always in a perpetual state of pissed off, It just depends on the amount of annoyance it causes me that changes. If it gets to a high level I put the perpetrators in my book, come the day of reckoning I will get the book out and deal with them all. ??????⚰️⚰️☠️☠️???? my wife made me edit this to include the laughing face, just in case you thought I was a stark raving lunatic.

Maybe you have a use for the walk on rooflights. You could glaze over the pipe runs and have a real game if pooh sticks ??

I have these Eurospec Ceam hinges. You can get them for around £17 each ex VAT here, a little more if you need fire proof or heavier duty ones. These were by far the best value I could find. https://www.doorhandlecompany.co.uk/concealed_hinges/ These are the magnetic latches that I have. https://www.doorhandlecompany.co.uk/excel-hardware-precision-bolt-through-magnetic-tubular-latch-18364/

That's for 220mm diameter bottom-driven steel cased cast insitu reinforced concrete piles driven to an assumed depth not exceeding 6.0 linear meters. The price was for 33 piles @ £7722 plus £900 mobilisation, so that's £261 per pile all in. I've actually since had a cheaper quote, to the same pile specification, of £130.00 per pile up to 4m with £30 per meter per pile add-on for additional required depth. Mobilisation costs are £1200 with this one, so if we needed to go down to 6m that would be £226 per pile all in. There was no mention of pre-augering in the quotes I received - don't know if that's implied or unnecessary. Our ground is definitely not firm / stiff. My structural engineer has taken it upon himself to re-engineer the entire piling layout for 150mm piles so I'll be gathering some quotes for those soon. I did find a great variety in the quotes I received, the highest being about £600 per pile.

There is a large house 10 miles from me on a main road with an impressive entrance gate and an illuminated house name in stone = "Effemhall".

His tenants will do that ...

A bit old but still true???

I can't tell you how disappointed I am to learn this @Ferdinand. You'd have been my "phone a friend" on a question like this.

What’s the go daddyo many going im sitting here wondering if to go today or tomorrow or if I’ve seen it all and it’s the same old window salesman telling me that their quadruple glazed xenon filled light reflecting windows will increase my life span by 20 years.

Surely the latest one? For the avoidance of doubt I would quote the full text of the condition you want removed.

Latch keeper striker spring bit...

I bought these ones. https://www.screwfix.com/p/eclipse-fire-door-ball-bearing-hinges-satin-chrome-102-x-76mm-2-pack/5532j Cheaper if you have an electricfix or plumbfix account. And it was cheaper to buy them in packs of 2 as that got me over the quantity for a cheaper price.

i got frustrated and started just stuffing it in ....seems to be working ...fingers crossed

I have a rescue myself and I foster so I understand.

no no - away and down is where you want poo going - (sorry, will stop being childish now)

Sounds like a game of Mouse Trap - but for turds!!!

Not yet. It's all smoke and mirrors at the moment...well no mirror yet!

Thank you for the kind offer. Unfortunately a rescue with a very, very sad passed. He only knows, and is comfortable with 8 people in the world, and that took a lot of effort

Oh god, he’s putting a chocolate fountain in, which is what happens when a macerater goes wrong with an unfortunate failure mode. TMI? ?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dangerously-balanced-ladder-landed-roofer-16032222 Not my house, I hasten to add. I can only dream of turn of the 20th century terrace housing character...

Just got home fella. Definitely big. If you saw a VERY large frame wandering around with a dirty karrimor backpack and a blue t-shirt with dots. That was meeeeee Some residual anger there maybe. I deliberately didn't talk to any window salesmen. Wandered around with my earphones in. Chatted to a nice bloke on the Stamford stone stand though.

I now have some membrane! Thanks to both Christine and Jamie for offering, I took Jamie up on his offer, it transpired Jamie and I were only a couple of miles apart when he was at his work so it was logical (if I run out of this stuff Christine, I will be messaging!!) So this afternoon I collected from Jamie a part roll of ProtectTF200. The man was a gent and would not take the money waved in front of his eyes. I owe him one and this forum can be witness to that. Thank you Jamie, and it was nice to meet a fellow forum member in person.

Have a look at the MI’s as you can pump quite a distance with the turd crunchers Post a link to the weapon of choice, but agree to go for a pumping station and take the sink waste down to that to get rid of the macerator for the kitchen sink. Just on a hygiene POV I wouldn’t like to pump any McFlurry into the kitchen unit as that’s under immense pressure, and if it blew off you got yourself one fcuked up jet wash. ? I very much doubt SF would endorse that without an ‘open vented’ ( AAV capped ) pipe which would allow the McFlurry to fall to the second unit by gravity. Ew....

Don't burn the house. get a potty...... Remember using one as a kid at my grans.....Nice............

Should be entertaining between my french and zero knowledge!

Yes, i agree in principal, dining area is incidental and if i leave the kitchen where it is I keep living area options open. Good point about upstairs, i have not really looked at that much. There is a bedroom above kitchen at the moment and the bathroom is over the utilty area. The ensuite is over the other side on the terrace side, so that may make the decision for me then ( thank goodness) it may be difficult to put kitchen at the back on the right. Think I was ok with either option but not to have living room at back.

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Smart dogs eh! He, was a rescue dog from just outside Edinburgh, he was the kindest most loving animal and behaved so well. Dog's deserve longer lives.

Am a blog novice but will do some research and think about it.

It can be quite handy! Our dog will bring you things, if my wife is in the kitchen and I need matches for the stove for example, she can send him through with them. Or if I am upstairs and she wants to send me something she will give it to him and say take that to dad and he appears all happy with himself. Our border collie could open doors but only if you were not looking. Shut various doors in the house, come back and he would have opened them all en-route to the bed! If he wanted out the a room and you were there he would sit and look at it till you opened it for him. He was not daft.

I taught my last dog to open door handles

Lovely - I was further on than Aix near Montpellier. Love that Southern area of France. If I were younger and things were different I would have moved there permanently. As @vivienz says please think about a blog.

How well insulated and airtight is your house? If it is really well insulated it wont need much heating anyway. You are also not going to be generating from the pv at the time of year you need to heat your house so no point linking to ufh. We have similar no bedrooms and bathrooms with passive type build and have 300l super insulated unvented cylinder and a small gas boiler that moderates from 9 to 3 kw. Heating is wet ufh on ground only and not had that come on since january. We have wet towel rads in bathrooms and these come on for half hour a day and that is enough to heat the house along with normal day to day activities and solar gain. With a 5.5 kw pv system we started heating all of our hot water last week as we had sunny days and will pretty much continue to do so until October. Dont underestimate how low pv generation is in the winter. 5.5kw system will generate well under 1kwh on a dark grey winter day but has been doing over 30kwh for the last few days.

I have 4KW (soon to be increased to 4.5) of PV. At this time of year all our generation is self used by either the house loads or DHW heating. So far since installing the immersion heater diverter I have exported just 2.9KWh. Obviously the larger PV array you install the more surplus you will have. I am not convinced about battery storage yet. Even if the electricity is free, the "cost" of the stored electricity when you factor in the capital cost and life of the battery works out at about the same as just buying it from the grid, in other words a lot of technical stuff for no gain. That I am sure will change as battery storage becomes more of a main stream product and prices will fall further. So I would be in no hurry to put that in just now but factor in the possibility later. I am going to wait a full year to see just how much of our generation we can actually self use and how much gets exported. That will tell me how much storage capacity is needed and whether it is worth it. High summer I am sure will be the time we simply can't use it all and some gets exported. Yes you will find in the winter, when you really need it, you won't get much from the PV You even have to price the install cost of the PV. For me it was only worth it by searching high and low to get the equipment at rock bottom price and self installing it. I installed 4KW for £1500 and it will be about another £150 when I add the extra 2 panels and a small inverter for them. I expect this to pay for itself in saved electricity costs in about 6 years. If I had paid typical installed costs the payback time would probably be double and I am not convinced that is good use of capital.

@Ferdinand To rearrange channels, select what you want to move (i.e so it has the white box around it) then press the * button on the remote. It will bring up a menu with a move option. For yesterday and really - catch up is available via the UKTV Play app and live I think is via the TVPlayer app (subscription may be required) Seems UKTV have just pulled thier channels from TVPlayer according to https://support.tvplayer.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025349832-CHANNEL-CHANGES-UKTV-Channels-no-longer-on-TVPlayer

Thank you @newhome that worked a treat.

Try Challenge Quoterack? We used them when our self build insurance expired before we were finished and I was struggling to get insurance. They have a decent broker network that specialises in unusual cases. https://www.quoterack.co.uk/ChallengeQuoteRack.aspx

Yep @zoothorn isn’t this the area ..?? from what I can work out, you have planning permission to put a box on the top end of that shaded box in the bottom end. You can pretty much put anything you want in the area that has the red/yellow dotted outline. Shed / garage / workshop is fine, keep 2m from the boundary and keep the ridge below 3m. Up to 30sqm you don’t need planning or building regs.

@Ian @recoveringacademic The money is not important, it’s more the fact that this just shows me how the world is nowadays it would have been very easy for the company to send me a message asking for permission, TBH I would have been flattered a bottle of wine in the post I would have been ecstatic. It just annoys me that everyone thinks they can do as they please without a bit of common courtesy. I have gone from being slightly intrigued, to marginaly pissed off.

Assuming they are a smallish company I’d charge about £100 as a minimum. If they agree then I can give you some wording to use regarding the license and copyright issues

Delighted to discover that a Vomitorium is actually a thing ! Never learnt that at school. The nearest now would be the exit tunnels from a football ground. Ferdinand Bonus trivia The Latin word vomitorium, plural vomitoria, derives from the verb vomō, vomere, "to spew forth". In ancient Roman architecture, vomitoria were designed to provide rapid egress for large crowds at amphitheatres and stadia, as they do in modern sports stadia and large theatres. ?

That's a cute system. It's a shame the mapping between words and lat/longs is proprietary. If they go out of business then anybody using the system is stuck. Ditto, if it becomes popular they have the leverage to exploit it heavily.

Got my copy of Passive House mag today. So instead of lining up the head plate of my studding..... An article / advertorial about Passive Purple on page 77. Truth to be told, working on my own, I haven't had the courage to focus much on airtightness. So sticking a coat of paint on the inside of my ICF appeals. Here's the website. Anyone know anything about them?

I’ve got a section of blockwork where I may have to use something similar. Looking at this product: https://www.blowerproof.co.uk/ which has been mentioned in a few posts in the past here. Looks to be a possible for DIY application.

This is where I think an UVC is a better solution. The problem with a thermal store is the temperature in the tank needs to be a lot hotter than your desired DHW temperature. If you heat it hot enough with the boier, there is not much capacity to heat it further with PV On the other hand, I can heat my UVC with my ASHP to 48 degrees, which is plenty hot enough for DHW and that still leaves a lot of scope for the excess solar PV to heat it hotter. If the PV heats it hotter then that just means it is a lot longer before the ASHP comes on again to heat it. No complicated control system other than a time clock to say when the ASHP is on and off, and a home made solar PV diverter that sends any excess to the immersion heater.

It’s arrived....looks like even I will be able to manage it......bring on the next wobbly tap!

How not to get a large 100kg stones up to the top of a house to repair a chimney. No further comments from me on this one. I also deny having anything to do with this, don’t even know the these guys or where this is.......... and NO this is not a screen shot iof a video..... it’s just a random picture of the internet ?

I LOOKED CRAIG ...BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MARKINGS ON IT i contacted he company that fitted it ...but as they have been paid and i have waited now over a week ...i am getting the impression they dont know ...or dont want me to know their supplier

If you still need it let me know!