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This is what I got for a tenth of the price. https://www.screwfix.com/p/kitchen-sink-drainer-stainless-steel-1-bowl-760-x-430mm/6547K Remember 'hands that do dishes, are as soft as your wishes'

You could get one of these. Then send it to me as I want to know if it is any good. https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-erb561srg-700w-electric-hvlp-spray-gun-220-240v/11628

Lightly sand the surface of the paint above the damage. Use some filler to create a new 'paint thickness' below the damage. Lightly sand and then paint. If you really don't want to see the difference, there are some wrist exercises that make you go blind, similar to sanding.

I am coming to that conclusion, this possibly the exception of swimming pools.

That is just an opinion piece from a supplier of lime. Someone had some actual numbers. I can find them for other materials, just not cement and lime (though this may be because the mixes can vary so much). Here is a page that shows how to calculate it, and has some material numbers at the bottom.

I have been looking for some number to back this up (I know someone else did a while back). I seem to remember that there was little difference between a cement or a lime render. There are two units used: kg.s-1.m-2.d-1 and m3.s-1.m-2.d-1 Sometimes this is modified to take pressure into account, this this is not really relevant to building houses, more for testing purposes. I have not managed to find any decent data.

I got a couple of little used angle grinders I don't want.

May smell a bit for a few summers.

Blackout curtains and very dark sunglasses, and pull the lighting circuit fuse. Or ask Steve Wonder.

Worse job I ever had to do was cleaning out the spa bath filter from the Sheffield YMC. I have no idea what those young men got up to in it. @pocster

Is that what you are calling your spare bedroom.

Well that is part of the idea, the treasury gets more revenue. Thing is, many of the items we current purchase as individuals, are not, and cannot realistically, be made in the UK. Now we may be able to produce some, but relaxing employment, environmental and trading standards, but that is hardly progress, and we currently have some rules to stop that happening. Going to be interesting to see if the WTO changes criteria, it is probably been waiting to see the outcome of any trade deals that we manage to see what they can change. Ideally the WTO would agree with all its members that the kind of deal the EU has between member states is a good thing for the world i.e. unhindered free trade and movement of goods, services and people. I would quite like to retire to where I lived as a teenager.

Well like us, more. So we are all winners.

won't they be WTO rules?

That's interesting. I just heard that the government is going to invest money into carbon capture and storage. But two weeks ago they said that, within a decade, all housing will be powered by off shore wind turbines. So two policies, one that captures something the other does not produce.

Energy in > Energy out All you need to know really.

This is the reason @joe90 turned down a drink.

Once you go past a certain point of insulation, heat losses via ventilation start to dominate, MVHR recovers much of those losses, and gives you fresh air. And in the summer you can turn it off, and in the shoulder months it can be set up to draw in colder air from outside, without any preheating if wanted.

Why do you like to open windows? And a new build should be as airtight as possible, regardless.

What did I say?

It is the Regent's Canal, so probably not. But other places have slums. My sister runs a canal boat business, she hates all the other users, and the people that manage her arm of the waterway, and the local marina, and walkers. I suspect she is the nightmare one.

Yes. We know what happens when too many people live without proper infrastructure. We called it The Great Stink. Many of the environmental problems that we suffer today are because places have expanded without regard to infrastructure. It would be an interesting exercise to work out exactly what a small town would need to be 'off grid', a lot of land for energy and food, an underground aquifer for drinking water, then treatment plant, a river for waste water, and a treatment plant, some way to distribute goods and services, and building materials, glass may be difficult as it would need an industrial processes. As a starting point it may be worth finding out how all the components of a house are made, and where they come from. Not many will be local.

I had some doors like yours. Were great till I put some glass in. Then walked into them. Had to put a big crosses with tape on them to remind me to open them.

So would I. BSI has all the standards and criteria, they are not cheap to buy.

To right, the basis of the policy was wrong from the start and should only be compared to coal burning, not gas or oil.