SteamyTea

Why both? How many?

Probably, I hate it all the same, and now it is in my head again. But just had Christmas lunch with my neighbour, so going to sleep it all off to the Archers.

Not the only thing missing. When I read the title, I started to hear Bruce Springsteen's "Driving home for Christmas". Thanks a lot, going to have to listen to The River now, just for the last track.

Or They know they can't. Almost the definition of agricultural engineering.

Welcome Last but one trip up country the M25 was blocked, so had to take the old route from Heathrow to Watford. It was painful. The M25 is so much better. I am 100 miles or so from the nearest motorway, oh how I miss them.

Cast them out of resin, or get some vacuum formed. 3D printing maybe.

Yes, but you knew what you wanted to achieve. If there is mineral wool insulation, air can easily travel though it. Not so bad with sheets of properly fitted and sealed PU.

Isn't the problem all the parts that are not plastered, like between the floors, 2 inches above a floor, around windows and doors, ceiling corners, all of the loft, under stairs, behind kitchen cupboards... And you really want the airtight layer on the outside or you have just made a tent.

It only becomes commercial if the forum starts to take money, which I personally do not have a problem with. Did anyone actually seriously speak to any companies?

How come. I have often seen an easy job made difficult. There are companies that do this for a living, I had a gift card that I could spend in many ladies clothes shops, and TopShop. was by 4all or something like that. https://www.one4all.com/

I think it is a case of talk to the suppliers. Pointing out that we have 3000 member (or whatever it is) may help. Shopping clubs are nothing out of the ordinary snd I am sure the VAT issue can be sorted out at each branch.

It gets cheaper in the new year maybe? It is what we were promised if we reacted properly to the dog whistle.

Do it for all those useless BMs as well. I have lots more, not all are illegal, immoral or painful.

Why don't BuildHub set up a trade account, then anyone can use it. As long as it is cash only.

I had no problem setting up one. Just made a bit of headed paper up. Screwfix accepted my Part P certificate as proof. I have found in the past, B&Q are not bad for price. But the art of buying has changed now, bit of organisation and you buy online. All this nonsense about 'needing' something at short notice is just lack of planning. If a restaurant was run like a building site, you would be waiting 3 hours to get a burger as the 'lad' has popped down to Morrisons to get a lettuce.

Isn't that when the MVHR, air flow meter comes in handy. On the rig @joe90's the guy blocked off holes, of known area, to settle the fan speed. Measuring the airflow through the holes would give the volume. A few hours testing and for any given fan speed and pressure difference, a chart could be made up.

Probably around £250. I think that is what the guy that did @joe90 said he charged. Or make your own test rig.

I do a few shows each year, so took out insurance. This covers us in any location and does the normal £5mill cover. It costs £75 last year. Now considering 50 of that goes to the broker, and there are not that many people doing our dirt if shows compared to say car drivers or companies, it shows that the risk us so low as to not really worth bothering about. My car insurance has reduced this year.

That will be 1/2 mill in Roman Catholic. 40 years after starting my apprenticeship (toolmaking), I was wandering around the craft centre at my local college and some poor boy was hand filing a block of steel. I think the reason they make/made us do this is because there are better ways of getting things done. Can you imagine what it would cost to just get door hinges made by hand, let alone a car body panel. When I see the words 'Artisan', I always think that I prefer training, skill, expertise and professionalism, especially if food is involved.

Probably because women, small children and animals may be upset. Really, all that is needed, is one rule. No Dickheads

But we kill very few construction workers these days. My 'bad landlord' neighbour had scaffolding up for 3 weeks, no tag. He left the old roof tiles and other shit in the neighbour's garden, it is still there after 6 weeks. So I am all for a bit of HSE. (I am the mug that deals with it at work. Not really that hard it time consuming, though I do have a well educated and intelligent workforce)

Amazing just how much we knew we needed to do, not that 30 years ago was that long. Shame that the truth is that we now have more gadgets and don't really bother to understand the simple and very basic systems we have.

Tried to open the link and hot told that it is an insecure and unsupported protocol or something.

I am not sure I understand the rational of that. Maybe if you look at losses, as a percentage, then it may look like it is pointless. But if you look at absolute losses from each component, then you get a different story, especially if you assign a cash price to them. So say you loose £1000/year via air losses, but £8000/year via fabric losses, then it may seem that reducing air losses to £100 is pretty pointless. But it is still £900/year. Over, at the other place, there is a chap called PaulfromMontreal. He has a relatively high fabric losses, but very good airtighness. This has drastically reduced his energy usage.