Roger440

The frogs and toads are certainly doing the domination bit! Its nuts. Been hoping some fish might appear, but alas, not to be it seems. I think the previous owner did indeed do just that, let it sort itself out. On the plant side, all we got was rushes and willows. Which is pretty much what any pond locally gets if left to its own devices. Right or wrong, we are adding some other plants progressively especially round the margins. No plastic liner so nature can do what it will do. Still dont know what to do with the island as that seems to be a thistle and hogweed development zone. And rushes.

Thanks. One thing i dont have is fish. Before we owned this place, there were fish, but then the otters moved in. There are however thousands of frogs and toads!

No idea. Be good to know. But if they do, germans being german will always follow the rules. Midly amusing story. Went to see one of our distributors in germany. He took us out to dinner in hamburg. Then to a pub. Anyway, he drove a big dodge ram and styled himself as a bit of a renegade/cowboy, against the german system etc. We walked back to the hotel, about 1am. No one about. Got to a cross roads and i crossed the road. He shouted to me to stop. I said "why". Because the pedestrian signal is Red he says. He simply couldnt understand or accept that i would cross the road, using my own judgement to do so when there was a light. There were NO moving cars in sight. anywhere. I found it an enlightening insight to german thinking. Albeit an isolated one. Needless to say, he took some ribbing from that point on.

You just said it. And my point is that you cant be wrong. Ever. There is no point discussing anything, because there is a risk my view wont align with yours. (high risk id suggest) And you are always right. I humbly apologise for daring to question or comment your narrative. Or is it a broadcast.

Jesus, give it a rest. But proving my point nonetheless.

I appreciate you are looking at this from an engineering view point, but it just isnt going to happen. Ie, notifications. Even if the law said you must. Its called the real world. If you can get this from the supermarket, or online, and plug it in, people will. No one cares or understands G98 out side of electricians and enthusiastic ametuers. The tech arguments are irrelavant, because the above is what will happen in real life.

Sadly not. Its on the to do list. Theres power there, but the winch motor is seized, and the cable was down to just a couple of strands. Need to buy a new winch and swap it out. But need to get the scaff tower over there. So a summer job when ground is hard(ish) Ie last year

Not having much success with lillies

Says the bloke who is displaying cult style behaviour in attempting to paint peoples postions (that are not as stated) and denigrate them, because there is only one possible viewpoint, yours. I get it, i MUST accept your position on everything. Because only you can be right. And if i dont agree, you will simply post more. And more. I guess a reflection of politics today.

So, theres a suggestion that we dont blow up a power station, because it might be useful in the event of a severe energy crisis. And thats managed to turn in to the threads gone mad, theres people advocating coal, steam engines and kids up chimnies. I think you were right, ban social media, because its clear some cant use it.

How did you get your water lilys to grow that fast!

You do talk absolute bollocks dont you. We were still mining coal up to 2024. Thats manifestly NOT 40 years ago. If someone said, we need to mine some coal, some companies will mine the coal. Most of the railway infrastructure is still there. Fortunately the railway isnt quite so keen to bin of useful infrastructure, because, you know, might come in handy at some point. Edited to add, the last coal mine actually had to be forced to close by government. The company was quite happy to carry on. As a viable business.

And still most people wont do it. Come back to the real world please.

If we can move to a 30 hour day, that would help progress!

If you have springs, why can you not just use those? Way cheaper than a bore hole. I know a couple of people with spring fed water systems. No issues, even last summer.

You seem determined to miss the point, so ill leave it there.

Thats good to know as ill be self installing too. I did ask before, but no one seemed clear on that. Ie someone with no electrical qualifications. Well i did qualify under the 16th edition, but i dont think that means alot now. I still say this will be exempted from G98. There will likely be millions of these things. Which would mean millins of G98 forms. Just not going to happen. Not in the real world.

I know its a "modern" thing to believe that because something is old its no good. Not a line of thinking i use, or understand. In my world, one does maintenance at appropiate intervals to keep equipment working. Which wont be that much if its mothballed. Certainly wont wear out quickly. My point was only ever to keep it as back up. Mothball it in some state of suitable readiness. Rather than blowing it up. Which is utterly dumb.

What are you "filtering out"?

I didnt build this. Fed off barn roof. Clay lined. 4m deep. Sadly, was entirely surrounded by rushes. Slowly eliminating and replacing with other stuff. But its big, so years of work

You "can" do checks. Indeed ive pointed this out already up there ^^^^ Sadly however, we wont do any checks. This is the UK. Nothing works anymore. Paperwork checks are pointless anyway, as said certificates will just be forged. Only a proper physical check will achieve anything.

Well, yes, you notify them, but they can reject it/question it should they choose to do so. But the G98 form is completely inappropiate for this. Ie, it asks for the qualifications of the installer. Clearly this is nonsense for a plug in panel. Im confident that it wont apply in this case if this idea comes to fruition.

I did, but only just read it moments before arriving at this post. Im a bit mystified, however, about the intello layer idea. Im no builder, but ive been in a lot of roofs, and none had anything like this.

Of course, to avoid all this complication, dont tell building control. Problem fixed.