SteamyTea

I shall have a good look in the morning. The rest of the plants need a good watering.

Pretty sure it is knotweed. May burn it. Or just take it to the dump where they have a special place for it.

You need to look at the volume to solar exposed surface area. The larger the building, generally, the less exposed area there is, this limits the energy transfer. Best to just do some calculations and scenarios for different conditions. I think Jeremy Harris's spreadsheet can accept solar inputs.

If you assume that a normal wall needs to cope with low losses when it is 20⁰C inside and 0⁰C outside, then you can work out an acceptable loss for a floor slab that may be 35 to 40⁰C but the ground will probably be no colder than 10⁰C. So 50% greater losses, and no solar gain available except what shines through windows in the summer, which is of no use. Can you not put in conduit for all the buried cables, costs very little and gives you flexibility in the future i.e running cable for a car charger, shed, ASHP.

Not really enough in normal circumstances. Yes it does, your electrician will know all the regs about it, I hope.

Do you know how an ASHP really works and what the limitations are? And have you done a heat loss calculation?

I am way to young to know, but is this 5A circuit wired into the normal lights and then just one fuse for the two circuits? I appreciate that some houses are smaller than others.

Welcome Ask yourself how much insulation you can get between your UFH pipes and the ground, you probably need 200 to 250 mm. Sort out all the other thermal elements and you won't need heating upstairs.

Welcome. Be vary careful. I think a small time builder converting commercial properties to flats open to a lot of abuse, rule misunderstanding and fraud. There was a reason no Fensa certificate was available for my front door, the fitters were crooks and conned the previous owner. You may be better off walking away now.

I know a midwife who was called into casualty to 'help the fire man' remove a pipe fitting from a young man's member. When she got there, there was also hematology, trauma, neurology, police, press, Et Al. all giving advice. Not sure if a blacksmith was called.

Mate of mine got superglued to a toilet seat. I once saw cling film on a urinal. But the best is my sister. After a long drive down to the South of France, she was busting. Ran to the loo, flipped the lid, sat down and let it flow. She forgot it had a secondary lid to reduce the odor when left unused for months. She may as well just have done it in her pants.

I found a broken one in my garden.

Don't know, I can't get into others tiny minds.

Does seem strange that it found its way into my planter. Right where I found the crossbow bolt.

Not any more. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prevent-japanese-knotweed-from-spreading

Cornwall had a large program to eradicate JKW a decade or so back. It was largely successful and I have not seen any for a good few years now. So this was a complete surprise. 15 years ago I started spraying it when it appeared in the car parking area. Couple of years of monthly spraying and it went away. Shall go out and check the area tomorrow when everyone has gone to work. If it really devalued property, why have homes in Cornwall always been relatively expensive.

Luckily it has taken root in a large planter, so when it dies down a bit, I can remove it, along with the bamboo.

No idea where it came from, the area has been free of it for several years now. Glyphosated it, but that will probably kill some stuff around it, including the echiums and bamboo.

Much easier knowing where you want to end up than trying to find materials that get you there.

Wasn't it called university then, and just how old are you. Last house I saw that had round pins was my Grandmother's, that was build in 1936, but the wiring was upgraded to AC not long after WW2 (by my Father and Jean Shrimpton's Father)

Mine still looks good when I get home in the dark and don't turn the lights on. My car looks clean as well.

Look up the R-Values and calculate. You can always build a timber frame place inside it, that will stop the noise getting out. (Your noise issues are build quality/design, not an inherent problem with timber frame. Most of your floors are going to be timber, unless you are going for poured concrete.

I used to make display panels for Shell, the painter came to me one day with a sample. It looked the same as the other speckled panels he had been painting for a year or so. Then he ran a large bastard file over it. No damage. I should have noted down what the two pack paint was called. Also, I used a resin with diamond powder in it, that was tough.

I had a new car 35 years ago. Owned it for about a year, then, while getting my bike out the back, put a tiny scratch in it. Now I just run my key across the doors to get it over and done with. Oh hang on, that was the woman who I asked to stop taking up 3 parking spaces. When u confronted her about her act of vandalism, she drove off, and not been back since. Scratched my hob with some oven crockery. I got over it.