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  1. Dreadnaught
    Welcome @Grian. Your build sounds like a marathon. Hope you find some help here: I suspect you will.
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    Here's a company commercialising paraffin-wax products for thermal buffering. They mention walls. https://www.microteklabs.com/nextek Who wants to be the first on BuildHub to try this out?
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    There has been some limited research into using particles of paraffin wax embedded in sand (even just plain old beach sand) as a latent heat store. Such particles could even be made to flow. Some referred to this being "nano technology". I find it an intriguing idea. Prompted by @JSHarris above, I skim read a few articles in the subject area. Are there any links to that house which had paraffin-wax panels in the walls?
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    Can of compressed air? Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't the dust usually be caught by the filters (which it clearly isn't otherwise you wouldn't have posted)? Or is it fine dust that passes through the filter?
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    If an ablate sphere is one that bulges in the middle like the Earth, what describes a rectilinear volume that does the same?
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    Yes, and the SunAmp unit is a lot smaller in volume so if space is at a premium then that's another reason why the extra cost might be worth it.
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    Prompted by these comments about using metal studs for partition walls internally, I learning about this. Wondering whether I should use metal studs for my project. Why aren't metal studs more widely used in residential projects? Is it just cost? What are the pros and cons of metal stud over traditional wooden ones?
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    A little money spent on a 3D Skethup model might have shown the difference between that which the imagination can conjure and the looming oppressive reality revealed in the photo. Having just designed my house with an architect, I sympathise somewhat. I found it all too easy for the vision in my mind to be mistaken. Seeing a 3D render swiftly disabused me. The mind (or mine at least) is not very good at 3D. Humbling. When I started, discovering that most architects still work in 2D amazed me. The adoption of 3D modelling seems to be behind-the-times in my experience.
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    Yes, quite right. I shouldn't play with words. Very true. That probably explains why my neighbour is as fierce as a fire-breathing dragon towards miscreants? (and sometimes me).
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    I spoke with the planner this morning about including the access road within the red-line-bound area of the area plan, which gives rise to my need to post an advert in a local newspaper. She pointed me to the planning portal guidelines, which read (my emphasis): "The application site must be edged clearly with a red line on the location plan. It should include all land necessary to carry out the proposed development (e.g. land required for access to the site from a public highway [ ) ]". As @Gav_P suggested earlier, it is that last part in parenthesis that catches me it seems: the access road forms part of the "application site". Ah well! I guess it is time for me to subsidise the local-newspaper sector.
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    Ah could be. I think I am going to ask and report back. Fortunately I think my situation is different. The road in question, the "nobody road", has every service under-the-sun already beneath it. And there are a range of boathouses and one other neighbouring private dwelling that all use the road for both vehicular and foot access and as the source of their subterranean services. Notwithstanding all of this, the road is unadopted and the owner is lost in the mists of time (or into @vivienz's black holes), all of the aforementioned neighbours confirm this.
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    Do you think the planners got it wrong? Why do you think the planners asked me to extend the red boundary to encompass the access road (it makes me plot look like a pan with a handle)? To be honest I do not understand that importance of the red-bound zone on the area plan. It seems to hold some higher significance. Yes, correct. During the conveyancing a deemed right-of-way was examined and found to be quite strong but, just in case, an insurance policy was recommended too and is being purchased for the princely sum of £175.
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    But then a Russian, who has been assiduously watching my online activity, will pop up and claim the "nobody road" and then where will I be?
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    Yes I did. But I am now going back to planning with a design that is similar but sufficiently different to require a whole new planning application. This whole dance about the "nobody road" was indeed done last time but frustratingly the law requires that the (pricey) local newspaper ad be at most 21 days before the date of submission of my new application.
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    Yes, I think the lawmakers understood quantum uncertainty and made provision in case, through the collapse of a wave function, an owner might wink into existence at an inconvenient moment. I may be at the start of my build journey but I am already sufficiently jaded that even that would not surprise me
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    I am neither a lawyer nor an expert just a mere clueless first-time builder. I am having to issue an "Ownership Certificate C" because the planners asked that the "nobody road" be included within the red delineated area of the area plan for my build (don't know why but I assume its because the red zone always needs to show a link to a public road). The next step in the logical thread is that I have to notify all the owners of any land within the red-delineated zone. And because nobody knows who owns the "nobody road", I have to advertise so that nobody can respond to say they own the "nobody road". Does that make sense? Is that Article 13, I think so?
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    Just out of interest, under which circumstances do you have advertise nationally (and trouser such a daunting bill)?
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    Absolutely right. Although strangely enough, I am already starting to get used to it. No, you are right. In my case, access from the public highway to my plot is along an unadopted road owned (as all the neighbours agree) by nobody. Hence I have to advertise so that nobody can come forward and say they own that road.
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    Thanks @PeterW and @Gav_P. Yes, @Gav_P, you are spot on. That's my situation. £13,500, wow! Did you have to setup the newspaper to run your ad? On word count, a google search seems to reveal two forms of ad. Most of them have the same longer wording. A few have a shorter form that skips a bit. Of course I am tempted to use the shorter version. But I suppose the risk is that if its wrong I may be asked to run it again, wasting money. Any thoughts?
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    I suspect you're right @the_r_sole. Sigh! Ah well, at least I have learnt something new about the local-newspaper sector and why is still exists (for now)!
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    Thanks @newhome. I had a look at the local papers in the town. There only seems to be one for the town and one for the county and both are owned by the same company. All the local papers are owned by national groups and just branded locally. Interestingly, when you click to buy a classified ad it takes you to a national ad-buying service. I have since also read that this is a bit of a "racket" to support local newspapers. Apparently legal notices are worth many millions to the sector and the government took a deliberate decision not to loosen the requirement to support them. Don't know what to think about that given that I will be paying this inflated cost for an ad which, I assume, nobody will actually read.
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    As part of my planning application I have to run an ad in local newspaper, a formal notice under Article 13 of Town and Country Planning Act 2015. Cost for the classified ad seems to be about £250-300. Seems rather pricey, not to mention it being an anachronism! Anyone done this? Any tips for saving money and doing it more cheaply?
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    Amazing isn't it! One spends about £2,000 + VAT plus to store about 80p's worth of electricity and the economics can make this worthwhile.
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    What a shame! Such a majestic tree.
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    That strikes me as an extremely good solution. Hadn't thought of the extra loop idea. More generally, as I have read, one of the risks relying on duct heating alone is the risk that true duct-heating systems require larger ducts for greater volumes of air. At the coldest extremes and with usual MVHR size ducting designed for slow air flows, forcing heated air around the house through those ducts at the volumes needed can lead to unpleasant noise and whistling in the ducting. It could work for the most highly insulated homes but would need to be carefully judged. Plus the extra cost and implication of insulating the ducting puts me off although others have said elsewhere that it may not always be needed. @jack's solution, on the other hand, is the best of both worlds. I favour it.
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