Roger440

But largely useless to me. Plus unaffordable. My wife might get one if it ever makes economic sense. Me, no. I enjoy driving. But not in an EV.

Or another car 🤪

For clarity i was talking about electricity specifically.

Id like to think the energy sector is doing well. Its like christmas day, every day! I wasnt just thinking about industry, but everybody. The more you spend on energy, the less there is to spend on everything else, and that impacts all industries.

Agree that some form of breathable insulation is better. Depends how much space you have. I fitted 50mm PIR to the slopey bit, but i only have 3 inch rafters. If they were 6 inch i may have done different. I then installed rockwool in between/over the joists. So only a small part is PIR. These were sealed up around the outside with the illbruck 330. I did quite a good job, but not as good as id have liked to do, but with the roof off, time is limited. My last house had the same, but the PIR was "loose" in most cases. I lifted some up and it was completely dry underneath. There was just plasterboard underneath to the room. No VCL/membrane etc. So yes, its a "risk", but not sure its a big one. Nail a VCL to the ceiling inside if you are worried.

Energy independance is a (mostly) seperate debate from the cost of that energy. We still have some of the most expensive electricity in the world. That has a significant (negative) economic impact. And thats, to a significant extent, driven by the market structure of the UK. Thats what needs fixing. And if those who say renewables are cheaper, great, when can we benefit?

At last. However, this statement seems rather at odds with many of your previous ramblings. So which is it?

Its still BS. The only effective maintenance one can, once its clogged with silt, is to take it up and relay it including the base material. Which, quite obviously isnt going to happen. Even basic cleaning, almost no one is going to do Just because someone produced a pretty graph, doesnt change reality out in the real world. I just look at what really happens, not what some desk jockey, paid by those pushing a product produces. The principle of SUDS is sound, the application is mostly lip service, with products that clearly wont work long term. Proper solutions are expensive. Permeable paving is essentially "delayed" hard surfacing.

Im no civils engineer, but 6n backfill has fines it it, which will migrate to the bottom, ie the pea shingle and eventually block it up. Its not what i would do. Mind you, a structure like this behind my house would scare me. Though not as much as the ones ive seen not far from here that use the interlocking wood system. In his case over 4m high with the houses at the top. The timber will be rotted away inside 10 years and the whole lot will fall down.

You can. Not much fun trying to fit them though. Id also say, not ideal as its in the wrong place. You dont want the backfill to get clogged with fines, which the socks do nothing to prevent.

And this is another great example of tick box BS. Permeable paving is utter bollocks. For exactly the reasons you state. A few years down the line and its no better than regular block paving. Big Asda ( i think) near warwick. Whole car park done a few years ago. Now its just awash with huge puddles when it rains, and the rest just runs off onto the road, the fields, wherever it finds a route. So flooding will continue to increase. And no one, literally no one, in any useful position of authority cares. They all know its BS, anyone with 2 braincells can see its BS, but everyone is ticking the boxes and nodding it through.

You sure about the pea gravel? That gets blocked up pretty quickly. I always use 40mm stone round my drains.Which is what im led to believe is the right way. In my experience the perforated 100mm drainage products are all much of a muchness.

The building game is awash with such things. And everyone telling you you must do X or the world will end. Dream up a product/service, get an "industry body" to say its essential, then push it hard. Like OFTEC for oil boilers. The building regs and the BS standard say what you have to do. OFTEC have, shall we say, embellished the requirements. No doubt for their own/members bottom line. But everyone just refers to OFTEC regs. But they are not the actual regs!!

Ive never used one on any of my tiling jobs. I had my garage (11x6m) at my first house tiled throughout. By a proper tiler. Adhesie straight onto concrete. Though maybe its different when you are putting high point loads on them?

Extends well beyond markets too. They appear to be wilfully blind/stupid/corrupt (delete as appropiate) to "consequences" of decisions they make. Which everyone else can see right at the start. 70 million people to choose from, and we end up with 600 odd morons/crooks. (delete as appropiate)

There must have been a fair bit of dishonesty going on for it to result in all that! Although it was pretty clear it was going on.

Agree with Johnmo. Why have gas? A decent electrical connection will do everything you could need. If its there in an existing house, sure. But pay for it?

It might be highly regulated now, but there still no recourse against building control as you have observed and precedent set in law. Not sure id call it a gimmick, but its largely a pointless excercise. They can, and do, sign off any old crap, and there nothing you can do about it. Other than report it to the regulator. Who may or may not take action. But no recourse is available to you as the homeowner.

Post ocober 23, they are very restricted in terms of what they can say. Guidance is a definite no no. Of course, old habits die hard and im sure plenty still do.

If they are holiday lets, this^^^^

I recall my first foray into doing something requiring building regs, a timber frame, timber clad outbuilding. Council bloke said 3 meter trench foundations. I might have been a bit green back then, but that sounded like nonsense to me. On questioning, he said it was because of the trees alongside. (mostly Ash). I said, if i dig a massive trench ill be cutting through all the roots which will destabilise the trees. "Not my problem" was the answer. 3 meters or you dont build it was the message. Needless to say, binned him off and went private. Sensible discussion about what was and wasnt acceptable followed. As far as i can see, asking for deeper trenches is to absolve them of thinking, and reducing their liability, entirely at your expense. If i was doing it now, as you say, full plans route. Fortunately the previous owner built a massive shed thus neatly removing that problem.

In England i would say that 95% of houses are "not compliant" in some way or other. If every job that should have building regs actually did, the whole system would collapse in short order. Different when talking about new houses though.

Indeed. The OP says it was done in March, which is rather early in the year to be doing lime id have thought. And painted straight after, so you might well be right.

Hmmm. Interesting to say the least, but not in a ggod way i guess. Done some limework, but cant suggest anything. Might be worth posting on the period property forum, though some are hardcore limeists, who will insist only limewash will do. Though in fairness, it wouldnt have done this.

Absolutely this.^^^^ Council BC are not immune either, but the incentives applied in a different way.