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Welcome to the forum! That sounds like a lovely area for a self-build.

@vivienz , if you're in the Apple ecosystem (Music, etc.) then an AirPlay-2 compatible multi-zone amplifier could be a good solution for your needs. Let me know if that's of interest and I can advise more. https://www.apple.com/uk/airplay/

That's the model I'm thinking of using. Following with interest! Condensate-drain arrangement ready?

@CC45, thanks. Did you grab someone to show you around or were you self-guided?

I will visit the DIY Kitchens showroom up in Pontefract next Friday. I will be stopping off on my way from my current home (Hampshire) on my way to my holiday in Scotland. It will be first visit to their showroom and the first time seeing their full range of kitchens. Given it may be only visit before I specify my kitchen for my forthcoming build, and, given how far away the showroom is from where I live down South, it may possibly be my only visit to the showroom, does anyone have any advice on how best to use the visit to best effect?

@Adrian Walker recently pointed me towards these… Probably not suitable for your case @ProDave but ingenious I thought none-the-less.

I am very interested in circadian lighting. I haven't yet seen an easy solution to achieve it. With lamps that can change colour temperature I thought it would be easy. And I would have thought Philips Hue would do it but, as far as I have seen, their solutions are limited. I have a few of the Philips Hue bulbs.

Out of interest, why not one of these, and then straight in? (I will have the same problem with trees.) https://guttercentre.co.uk/Lindab-Self-Cleaning-Leaf-Trap-For-Downpipes-SLS

Welcome! I wonder, are you in a Cotswold conservation area? Will it be a traditional design or modern?

@AliG, in addition to what you are considering, I wonder if you have a loop of UFH in that room that you can somehow run independently. Could you use it (unheated) to redistribute heat from that room to other parts of the house? Just an idea.

I am having a green roof on my forthcoming build. Mine was effectively mandated by the planners to satisfy SUDS. But building on what others here have said, my green roof will be a sedum roof, wholly inadequate for growing anything other than plants that tolerate sparse nutrition and occasional desiccation. And my roof will weigh (at most and when fully laden with both water and a layer of snow) 120 kg per square meter. Such a minimalistic sedum roof is called an "intensive" green roof. What you propose is an "extensive" green roof, where the roof is suitable for growing much more. An extensive green roof is an undertaking that is an order of magnitude greater, requiring the structure of the dwelling to be much enhanced to support the considerable extra weight. And it would not surprise me if the cost of such a roof was 10x greater by comparison. Be cautious!

Welcome! Sounds like a lovely area. Doing much of the work yourself?

That video was memorising! It is fascinating to see the intricacy and precision of the mechanical design of such a seemingly mundane object, and the skill and knowledge of the fellow in the video. Impressive.

Run the cable down to the ground and then through a conduit buried in the ground? I assume you're thinking of PoE cameras so only a single cable involved for both data and power.

Oh, sorry Russell, I know nothing about the such legal matters. Perhaps there are others here who might. Notwithstanding, I would certainly contact them and see if you could be connected with FTTP to your new lake house. The price will probably be prohibative but you never know.

Oh wow, that is interesting. How has that worked out for them?

Personally I am intending to install a fibre-optic cable connection all the way to my new house (FTTP) and not just to the local cabinet (which then have copper wire (or worse aluminium wire) to connect from the cabinet to the house). I have the advantage of being in a central town location and in a town that has lots of FTTP already. Russell, in your splendid bucolic rural idle it is highly unlikely that any local company can provide FTTP to your location but worth the briefest of checks just in case. If you did have it you would be well future-proofed.

Brilliant! Good scientist that you are, I assume you worked methodically through your pantry cupboard until you hit upon peppermint. I can imagine the process… coffee powder, lemon, chilli powder, marmite… before the Eureka moment!

How on earth do spiders get in to your airtight house I wonder?

Sodium content aside, does the water tase different from hard water? It is palatable for someone used to drinking hard water?

https://www.themeshcompany.com Mentioned here: https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/6653-insect-mesh-help-please-stainless-steel-or-plastic-or/?do=findComment&comment=111488

That sounds ideal Russell. Is it the Mira Mode model? (By the way, I assume this is for when you are not simply taking a dip in your own lake (!))

Has anybody heard of, or, even better, have, an automatic bath which, on command, fills with water of the desired temperature and stops filling once full? Auto adding bubble bath is optional Home automation is often a gimmick but a bath that does this is one I would like!

Welcome @Home Farm!

Have a good break! I subscribed to your blog.