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Earlier in the week I broke two fingers Whilst I’m fine putting a couple of Velux windows in and grading and loading slates Knocking roofing nails in is painful So my wife has taken over slating the workshop Five years ago when we slated our house and garages she had a real fear of heights

Insulating the condensate pipe, regardless of size, eg if there's a slight risk of freezing, is observed in most installations if it's a cold roof space. Will be a few £ and you'll be insulating all of the other water pipes too, so an extra 10 mins work at most. I'd prob leave at 21.5mm and insulate, as a risk of freezing will provoke insulating regardless and larger pipe sizes will attract more expense on insulation.

I would upgrade it to a larger size, minimal cost and less likely to freeze so that’s got to be good.

Sounds like they don’t know what to ask for.

Typical non consistencies with building control officers.

Don't rush this. Lets check some facts before you do this in haste and make a big mistake. So this is a small annex above a porch and you want UFH. FIRST check there is a GOOD level of insulation under the floor. The 6mm insulation board you linked to is NOT enough. So first tell us what is under the chipboard that is going to stop most of the heat from this UFH just being lost down and out through the porch below.

I never got my wife on the roof to help with the tiling but she did do a lot of help in getting the tiles up onto the roof, which is a large part of the hard work. Actually laying them is the easy bit.

That’s good to hear, I like equality 👍

Well done her! However beware of future claims of ‘my workshop’ 😆

Roast for 2 today: Better than a single bin one which we have also had. Big enough for small cake tin. Lovely chips. 3 racks included. Very small amount of cleaning of drip tray. Heats up and blows the heat about: 60W when just blowing, 2000W when heating. Uses about 1.5kWh for a cake and dinner for 2 about 1kWh. Different to using an oven and takes experimenting with to get right. SWMBO well happy.

Paul made one post and has not visited since 4th September. You might get a better response if you pitched the question more widely, @thefoxesmaltings

I can’t fit chips and fish in for 3 people and mine is big. Ninja do one that’s two drawers/baskets but not sure how big.

It’s as I described above. It actuates the braking system. Some will hold it on the brakes until the car detects that you’ve moved off. Most just hold the brakes for a few seconds. My MY19 Jimny will hill hold for 2 secs.

I've just had an email from Octopussy saying that my payments will be reduced by £67. Current monthly payments are £65, and the credit balance continues to tick up. Plus an FIT payment is due. So I am now officially in profit ! Until it reverses...

Welcome. Will be interesting to see the difference in building methods and standards. (I got a speeding ticket in Austria, never paid it, did not have enough shillings left, it was a while back)

That's what I am thinking. I have found a few that look inadequate to me, some examples:

We live in a 400 year old house in Hertfordshire. We have largely finished restoring the house. On the route we've researched more than we anticipated about lime mortar and breathable insulation. We knew there'd be a fair amount of woodwork. The current project is turning the garage into a workshop. Improving the insulation, light and making the floor manageable and cladding the exterior so it fits with the local vernacular.

In the winter we worked in the house with a 2kW fan heater which kept the whole house comfortable. We didn't have the MVHR connected but found we didn't need windows open for ventilation. I think as there were only two of us working in the house and no other source of moisture and with the large total air volume, we didn't need a ventilation system.

Some people don't have a choice, eh @pocster?

some of us don't broadcast our mistakes, but it's good people have the spheres {yellow?) to do so

Don't forget those without the capital to keep patching it up!

And everyone on here 😁🤣👍

Finally all smart n tarty.. many thanks chaps- great result. Zoot

Firstly - if the window is at first floor level only and the height of the opening is less than 800mm above the floor level then the glass needs to be safety glass to act as guarding. Secondly - if the window can also open more than 100mm then then window needs guarding so that someone cannot fall out. The solution is simple - fit a non-lockable restrictor stay. Not one with a lock as shown by a previous poster. These do not comply. Fit something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Window-Restrictor-Hook-Safety-Handed/dp/B00D9190BM/ref=asc_df_B00D9190BM/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=214440742293&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10205647162280157693&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007277&hvtargid=pla-421872985378&psc=1

There are some decent options like incinerator loos you can get

Surely all you would do is move the lintel that is above the door now to being just under the wall plate. Then the window could fill whatever gap is between the underside of the lintel and the top of the door.

I have this one and it’s brilliant, Acti fry (with rotating paddle) is a pain. Most used thing in my kitchen. I live on my own and fiancée visits. Just so much quicker and easier for small portions than using the oven

No need for it for any type of cylinder, it is a paranoid nonsense. The problem is with unserviced, badly designed and maintained, air conditioning units, not peoples domestic hot water. If it was, we would be reading about thousands of cases every week. The WHO estimates 10 to 15 cases per million of population for Europe, Australia and the USA. About half what road fatalities are in the UK, and a ninth of the USA fatalities. And they are fatalities on the roads, Legionella does not kill everyone that gets it. Or put it this way, have any of us met someone that has had it?

You could just put it on the floor and use some flexible connectors to the manifolds. Make sure nobody kicks it however. We put ours in just after I'd painted the skin coat. It really dried out the house. I would beware of dust getting into your ducting however. All cutting should be done outside, especially MDF. The bloody dust gets everywhere. We went through 2 sets of filters sharpish. I love the sound of your I beam walls. Any pics?

Well done. Needs a new topic on how you managed that.

I suspect there are lots of really inefficient gas boilers out there. Not the boilers fault, oversized by the installer, running to hot, multiple zones, short cycling like no tomorrow. Just like lots of new heat pumps are going to be, but gas boiler poor quality install is hidden by the historical low price of gas and a customer base that doesn't know anything else.

Congratulations and welcome. Well done for sharing with the crowd. I wish I had. So much knowledge here. I'll keep it brief. Good. 1.Layout. 2. Form factor. 3. Simple shape( Only one sticky out bit and one sticky in bit ) 4. Elegant overall proportions. For further consideration. 1. OVERHEATING!!! Large SW Windows with no shading will bake you not to mention the skylights in the living room. 2. Stone facade. A bit disengenious looking, not to mention far more expensive compared to other cladding on a TF. 3. Window jumble sale. To paraphrase Goldilocks, they're either -too small ( lots of thermal bridges and no light) -too tall(poor views) -too large (overheating and heat loss) -too wide ( structurally expensive if done well thermally) 4. Flat roof on sticky out bit would be better off pitched and ditch the parapet. It's a recipie for long term trouble. I really like TF but you need to be doubly defensive about weathering. Good luck!

Our secret weapon is a row of trees on the south of the plot. Conveniently they grow leaves in summer and shade most of the garden and a lot of the windows. In winter they fall off and let the sun into the house.

It’s a shame they don’t actually enforce solar panels on the roof of all new buildings too, and then offset some of the electrical usage.

Can't slate her for not getting stuck in.

“ My wife swapping “ …. 🙄

Don't get me started on this issue. Octopus Outgoing is 7.5p. Octopus SEG is 4.1p. I'm on Octopus Go to charge my EV and Octopus won't allow you to be on the Go rate and the Outgoing rate at the same time. If you get Octopus Go, they will only allow you to go on the Octopus SEG rate. Their reasoning is 'we've already got your business, you're tied to us now, so we're not going to give you a good Outgoing rate'.

Where is the fun in that, I have procrastinated, debated and put off doing stuff for decades.

I remember the first Nissan Cabstar we got will hill assist, we fitted a crane to it. I took it to do a demo, parked on a hill, got out and put the jacks down and performed the lift perfectly. Problem occurred when I lifted the jacks again and the “auto brakes” were now not engaged and the truck set off down the hill. Luckily I jumped in the cab and stopped it before hitting anything

I usually end up with blood on mine