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They both discolour. The best for UV protection should be acrylic, but as they add so much fillers into it, I suspect it is no better than any other. I am not sure what difference colour will make, reds where always terrible for aging. Black went grey, white went grey, clear went grey, blue went grey, as did yellow and green. Maybe grey is the best colour.

So no better than a timber frame place for limiting temperature then.

I had one as a runaround company car 20 years ago. They are better now. I have to say that as I have a C-Max. Ford stands for Fix or Repair Daily.

It has never occurred to me to leave messages. I might just start, on my neighbour's house.

What size is this new house.

What is the house made from?

All this to end up with a Ford Focus MK 1?

And he was a pipe fitter.

Looks like something Colin Furse would make.

When I was young we lived in France and were looking for a house, some of them had bidets in the bathrooms. I asked my older sister what they were for. "Washing the babies in" she said. To which the French Estate Agent relied, in perfect English. 'No, they are for washing the babies out'

I think I have cracked it.

And the size of the plot. I may be a brownfield infill, or a 1000 acre farm.

Would that be to store the regalia or to get more people in. Thankfully webcams are very small now and no need to carefully store, out of harms way, VHS tapes.

Like skirting boards. Some things should just be banished, forever. Makes it easy to work out the cost as you know how much you get, what hours there are in a year, how many you spent working on the house each year (probably about 10,000 out of every 8760), to get 90% finished.

@JSHarris Taking just your wiring, as an example of a quirk of costing. You helped a newly qualified electrician, did you cost in your labour, or write that off. As a general observation, would it be possible to find out how many metre squared the big house builders have done and work out the price from that. And how does that compare to the price of other things. Say cars, boats, caravans, graves, offices. I really think that this sort of calculation is valueless and totally pointless. But fun all the same. What may be more useful is breaking it down into component parts, then compare the quotes to the actual price paid. Could then make a game from it.

Buyer's Regret is a well studied psychological condition. I take great pleasure when I see a small child cry, say when their ice cream or chips are taken by a seagull. Even funnier when it happens to grown ups.

Part of the question was My view is that building is just that. Foundation and services, walls, roofs, windows, doors, heating, wiring. Basically a finished shell. The rest is decoration. Some people could spend the price of my house on a kitchen, bathroom and garage.

Is footprint, in metres squared, really the best gauge the building industry can come up with. Would £/total wall length be better. Then exclude kitchen and bathrooms and plot. Then adjust for number of levels.

On the roof, would make the difference between 6 PV modules and 8 PV modules.

In the UK, a totally unqualified person, if often called an 'engineer' by their employers. It used to drive me mad, as an engineer, that my boss would send the storeman (he was a good bloke and a very good storeman) out on a service call as an engineer. Mind you, the one other real engineer we had, sawed though some roof trusts to fit a sauna, on a listed building. He got thrown off site. Is Tesco still about 100 times the size of Sainsbury, or was that just the profit they made a few years back. Re: Investing in UK manufacturing. Why would you invest in high capital cost, low profit industry?

Is it really about teabags and horse meat though. Most of our trade is finacial and other services. Many people think that these are not real goods, but they generate income, so are. We do, as a nation, fixiated with making things, eventhough we don't manufacture that much in the UK. Last year, Germany made 6.3 million cars, we made 1.52 million. About a quarter. We like to think that we are world leaders in pharmaceutricals, well in 2017 the UK employed 73,000 people, Germany, in 2015 employed 114,000. Even France employed more people at 92,000 The EU employed 723,000 in total. Finacial services in the UK employs 1.2 million people. It is in a totally different league.

Since 1985 the EU and China have had a deal. EU-China Trade and Cooperation Agreement. This has been upgraded to the European Union Association Agreement and since 2007 is still being worked on as things change. Who knows how, or where, the UK will fit into this if we have a no deal exit (I don't think we will).

I don't know why, but I have this image of your place in my mind.

Don't we, as the public, have to trust journalists to know their subject, regardless of personnel views. Maybe a few should be taken to court for misrepresentation.

Does that 18 kWh/km include stopping and starting, every 15 minutes after Exeter. That is the part of the journey that takes all the time.