SteamyTea

Easiest people to sell to.

Better than selling someone else's glazing, which you seem to have done successfully.

I only (expletive deleted) my friends, not the whole country. So normal.

If only you had 2 way audio, could have sold them some walk on glazing.

I went to a minor public school that was surrounded by a haha. Just come out in a cold sweat remembering the debaggings, dunkings and floggings. I could have been prime minister. Luckily I turned out normal.

It is probably waterproof, and will stay that way, do don't get stressed about it. Main thing is that it is cosmetic, and fixable.

I would get the angle grinder out, sand off all the problem areas, then re-GRP those areas. The external corners are always going to be a problem, would probably use a glass tape on them.

The main laying up of the GRP does not look to bad, just the edges and corners that look rough. Basically what they did was use the cut edge of the roll on the trim. They should have used the torn edge. It is hard to tell if the trim was properly prepared before they started as they seem to have tried to cover up mistakes with extra flowcoat. Not a hard job to put right to be honest, just a bit time consuming and messy.

There is Cornwall. And then there is Cornwall. Are you only after a bungalow? Quick look on the Land Registry shows 2 detached properties below 180k that have sold recently, one in Illogen Downs and the other in St. Day. Probably more about but picked places by the A30.

Can you make it 2.2m by 2.2m, then line it with 100mm of Celotex?

How much insulation are you putting under the UFH pipework? If there is not much, heat will just leak out to the ground. Have you done any detailed heat loss calculations? The biggest problem with combining heating and hot water is that they are different things. You may find that you are better off heating your water with a simple E7 system, then using oil, or a heat pump, to heat the house. Regarding 'woeful' night storage heaters, sounds like they are sized incorrectly. Taking the simple example of one 21 kWh storage heater, this is charged with a 3 kW supply. It can deliver, on average, 875 W. Now to the best of my knowledge, no one makes a gas or oil boiler that small. So it is not fair to compare a 1 kW heater to a 12 kW heat source. Sizing is everything.

The benefit of making the external surfaces airtight is that you don't replace warm air that is trapped in the insulation with cold air. The disadvantage is moisture retention.

I have a cheap tile cutter. The sort that has a diamond disc in it and water for cooling/lubrication. Works a treat on slate. This one is much better than my plastic one. https://www.diy.com/departments/performance-power-450w-230-240v-tile-cutter-ptc450e/3663602798019_BQ.prd

Yes, but there are ways around it, as I have posted up many times.

Have you done a search on the forum, the subject has been covered many times. It basically falls into two categories. People that can do a decent job with GRP, and those that cannot.

Yes, it is a rather specific, and unique set of circumstances. Why it generally a problem with old cooling systems, and not DHW. What I do when I have guests. 20 seconds with a small screwdriver.

I once got caught for speeding, the policeman had written down the wrong registration on his paperwork. When It went to court, where I pointed this out, along with other procedural mistakes, the magistrate said ' we will treat that as correct'.

I had my cylinder set at 50°C, but have recently lowered it to reduce losses. It needs to be as low as possible, but still needs to deliver enough hot water. In a way, only you can answer that. If you feel it is too hot, turn it down. I don't have a thermostatically controlled shower, it is just a basic valve that blends the hot and cold, worked well for the last 15 years.

I don't think it is actual 'extra' trade. Just clarifying the taxation position for when our government takes us out of the existing trade deal. There are benefits in having this deal, but they are not very great. We would need 20 or so similar sized deals to get back on an even keel. Trouble is that all but 5 (or more) of those deals will be with countries that have smaller economies than ours. I have not bothered to look at the details, but a news report said that over 90% of items traded with Japan will be tariff free. This says very little as it does not mention value.

Is that right. I think we do around £280bn worth of trade with the EU, and this deal, which is just a re-jigger version of what we already have, is worth around £16bn. To put that into perspective, it is about double the economy (GVA) of Cornwall, or about the same as the GVA of Buckinghamshire.

Fit a portable airconditioning unit, that can supply some heat (the power that the units draws from the mains) and reduce the humidity (greater the difference the faster the drying), both will help drying. And make sure it is a well insulated area, with well controlled ventilation, no point it affecting the rest of the building.

Or just move the existing one to a higher value area.

Does that mean you can drive a Range Rover, or have a bonfire every month.

Been arguing that very point for years, but it falls on deaf ears. Price up a generator and the associated running costs, that then gives you a base price to work to when it comes to pricing batteries.

About 3 years worth of basic fees at Eaton College (other Public schools are available, the one I went to is about half the cost).