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    Yeah right, so great for Christmas lunch for all the extended family, as long as you start at Harvest Festival. These things really should be banned.
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    Or Oscar Pistorius
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    Don't tell Ian about cutting rods, he will have the lid off in no time.
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    What Berkshire, it is 250 miles away, unless she is on holiday and a dressed as a Pirate to help keep up the Cornish tradition of failure.
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    Don't beat about the bush, say what you really think Ed
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    It was the £600 for a vinyl floor and £9k for a shower that got me. Anyone fancy emailing him and pointing out that his 'interior design company' is really just his ideas of how to decorate others homes.
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    So they knew nothing about DIY and got fleeced. http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/how-ikea-hacks-youtube-and-mdf-helped-this-couple-overhaul-their-north-london-flat-on-a-shoestring-a113116.html
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    Chipboard covered in rubber. Or plywood covered in GRP.
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    Strange Welsh Cockney there
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    One of my dares is to eat one sober, at lunch, with a knife and fork, and in public. I get strange looks. Think I will try some 'Doomsday' on the next one (see youtube for this years chilli challenge).
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    So does welsh lamb in a kebab
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    A much more useful skill set to have in my opinion.
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    Is it worth trying out some aluminiumised mylar first, seem to remember that it is pretty cheap online. If you remember my old solar tile experiment over at the other place (several years ago now, April 2010), the old aluminiumised crisp packets worked well. http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=5643&page=3&Focus=80703
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    Or not heard it. MikeL, over at the other place has a GSHP that makes more noise, still not intrusive as it is positioned in a utility room. If you can get your heating load down to circa 1 or 2 kW, then you are hard pressed to need anything other than a resistance heater. My place has a heat load of less than 1 kW and I just use a fan heater.
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    "Never answer the question that is asked you. Answer that question that you wish had be asked of you" Robert McNamara
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    Re designing before a plot. One of the beauties of CAD is that you can rotate, flip, invert, scale and mirror easily, so not a waste of time at all. I doubt if you would buy a plot that was unsuitable for the design of house you envisage, so keep designing. Also you learn useful skills along the way and start to get a 'feel' for what is involved. So keep sketching and thinking up things to save work and expense. My Mother has been in her house for 30 years, it was only in the last year that she removed the trellis that was dividing up her garden. As she said, "until I actually did it, I could imagine anything".
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    I notice that down here, coastal places generally use aluminium frames, usually dark grey in colour.
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    I think to be fair to borehole GSHP systems, they are not really suitable for relatively small, low energy housing, thy don't downscale well. They are more for large US/Canadian style housing, possibly with a swimming pool too.
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    Remind us Ian, why did you decide on Durisol ?
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    I have just emailed that ladders and scaffold towers site and asked them if they would like to comment. I did mention that they should not try and sell us anything, just technical advice. Maybe something will come of it, who knows.
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    "Friends all over the world, none around here" https://www.youtube.com/embed/5CaEb2bD1yY
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    I look forward to the replies.
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    I have never understood the terminology of scaffolding. a quick look at that ladders and scaffold towers site just left me more confused If you take the 5m diy tower, it has a height of 4m, a maximum platform height of 3m and a maximum working height of 5m. I just want to paint my windows and fascia on a bog standard house.
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    Is the caravan under the heap of dirt now. I shall have to sneak a look next time I am passing. Bet you are relived to have got so far.
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