Nickfromwales

Why not use cementitious self-levelling screed and have zero of the above? @nod what say you?

Punishable by a full 5 mins on the naughty step 👉 No probs, I'll cancel the cavalry

Are you intending to stand the first saleable property away from the existing connection for the farm and solar array? Is the plan / assumption to only be tethering the house you build for yourselves to that? I'd assume that connection has plenty of headroom for the second dwelling too. The DNO will need to be approached for this, as we can only procrastinate tbh, but I'd have thought there would be no issue with them digging down and splicing the new feed cable from the HV transformer to create the additional connection and supply cable for the immediate needs.

Anti-syphon devices are not for preventing back flow. A non return valve does that. Can you post some pics of the waste pipe plumbing and trap under the bath, and where you have accessed it to rod it through please? Baths also don't usually have P-traps.......odd that you say you have one? Again, a pic please

I'm curious as to how the higher profile deals with meeting the timber at the apex... Plus the fact this individual couldn't just go buy some black cement colouring.... 3/10 for effort, if I'm being generous, but as said above it prob keeps the rain out.

Somebody reported a post by accident here?

Agree to only use 16mm pipes here, but also accept that the different floor coverings will yield different performance / comfort characteristics, eg one will emit more w/m2 and the other less, so heat up times will differ from the set time to be at x temp at x time etc. This can be combatted by using smart self-learning stats per room / space, as these will decide how long a zone took to get to temp and then adjust (called setback) accordingly. I'd also recommend just clipping to the existing slab, and then screeding over with as little (suitable) product as you can get away with. There are self levelling cementitious screeds that can be laid at an inch thick or thereabouts quite reliably, but these (iirc) require a particular primer to provide the requisite 'purchase', so they don't part ways with the slab after being installed. If you use clip rails and fix straight down as I did here, then you will also have additional points of mechanical purchase via the clip rails. These I nailed down with a Spit Pulsa gas powered nail gun, firing 22mm masonry nails directly into solid concrete. £500 gun that paid for itself twice over on this one project, but you can hire also. These pipes were at 100mm oc, so that provokes the snail pattern, so the pipes only have to turn 90o vs serpentine where the pipe turns 180o at the end of every run; you need to not exceed the minimum bending radius of the pipe or it will kink! Prepare to have to install a 50L buffer tank (aka volumizer) for a bit of buffering for the boiler, as a lot of combis of that era won't want to modulate down to where you'd want them to be, if driving UFH directly.

Yup. The last one we quoted for a big project was £60k pa for the site agent, so we had the boxes ticked. Sent that to my QS who said, not going to be anywhere close enough, think again..... Ended up at £80k with all the trimmings. 2.5 years of that is hard for anyone to swallow, but for a proper managed and compliant site, these things cannot be avoided. We managed to value-engineer it a bit by appointing the role to a qualified chippy with other skills and qualities, so then the idea was to offset any 'thumb twiddling' time with programmed work that we had valuations in for. Just down to the level of GAF of the person you choose to employ I guess!

Yes, a WRAS approved motorised "ball valve" will suffice. I said motorised zone valve as I was up to me eyeballs again! I have seen them on the Telford thermal store (Tristor?) for cold mains top up of the F&E cistern, so assumed therefore that they must be ok? Just more of the principal of KISS etc

If you just want to be able to turn the cold mains off, in the event you left home and remembered it when arriving at the boarding lounge, then a WiFi fused spur connected to a normally open 2-port motorised valve will tick that box ✅.

Hi. The condensate CANNOT be run in copper as the discharge is acidic. All components / connections / pipe etc need to be plastic / PVC. You also need to make sure the condensate doesn’t discharge into a cast iron soil stack too. Condensate is cool / cold btw, no need for any heat consideration. 👌

Yup. Problem with white CT1 is a) it goes off-white (yellows) noticeably over time, and b) good luck trying to tool or finish that cosmetically! Sticks even to a wet finger 😣

Are we really looking at a cavity insulation layer of 240mm and then your air gap, or is that the actual depth of the cavity which means you cannot fully fill it? I’d pump this full of blown, bonded EPS beads, as with that product you can fully fill the entire cavity without issues of cold / damp / moisture bridging. Quick and simple to do in a day, depending on the qty / area obviously.

Same here. Haven’t screwed a WC down for prob 20+ years. CT1 nowadays; bed of clear under and sit the pan down into position. A load of baby wipes to clean the displaced goop until you have a nice ‘crevice’ and the CT1 is no longer visible. 48 hrs to cure, then whip around with a cosmetic bead of white silicone. When that gets grubby you peel it out and refresh. 👊

Yup, the sales patter and videos done by paid actors makes you drool for this..... I reckon you'd be regretting it in the first 2 hours or so. I just used to slash cut PIR so it had a wedge shape to it, then it would fit tight in between the timbers and leave a gap towards the front face. I'd just then foam between the timber and the cut edge of the PIR, let it cure, and trim back. Then just foil tape from PIR to timber back to PIR so zero infiltration can occur. As good as it's getting afaic.

Tell Knobby it’s game on 🥳✔️

Yup. Defo simplify the bejesus out of this job, and prob drop the cost a lot to go cut roof.

Scaff mounted hoist may help out considerably, but you’ll need to go another lift higher or make a scaffold jib for the hoist and do it like the Egyptians did 👌

You will need the mother of all scaffold to be able to man-handle those up there (without damaging the neighbours properties etc).

Room in roof would have to be done that way? Wouldn’t pass regs otherwise.

Hi. Why brick and block and not something far better? Especially if it’s a simple build like a bungalow. I really like the Stiebel kit, very good controls etc, excellent build quality etc. Solar Edge had one of the longest inverter warranties on the market so are considered very good for quality and reliability. Solarwatt are who I use for all my clients builds, German manufacture originally but now outsourced under tight supervision. Warranties are underwritten by BMW, as it’s the owners of BMW who started Solarwatt. The paints just dried on their new range of batteries / inverters / EV chargers / controllers etc, but most importantly for you they now have knocked boots with Stiebel and the kit all communicates with one another. Their Vision panels have a performance guarantee, 30 years at 90% or above, and the new batteries are 12 years at 80% DOD. Batteries are 2.6kWh packs which you just click together multiples of to increase your storage incrementally. It’s just very good stuff tbh, and I do favour them. 13kWp of solar would be a very decent chunk, and would contribute towards heating during the winter I suppose, but you may be better off with a bit less solar and a bit bigger battery; if you’re watching where each of the pennies go.

Quote from above link. “In addition, robbery, offences involving knives or sharp instruments and offences involving firearms have also increased over the last year” Only the ones that got reported that is! I get worried when my boys say they’re going out to town for a night out. When I took the lads out for a few beers and a night out, to get into a club in Essex we pretty much had to remove half our clothes / shoes etc and got frisked in a way that made airport security style checks inconsequential. I moaned as I’d had a few beers, and the woman bouncer just said “you rather be searched or stabbed mate?”. Joy.

The police I think have become understandably demoralised from the hard work and risk to themselves of catching criminals on the coal face, only to then see a snowflake judiciary system slap them on the wrist and send them back out the door after simply promising to not do it again. Yes, most would say that’s the case for “petty stuff”, but the definition of petty is now severely out of whack; if you speak to the victim or the tax payer covering the cost of all this (who as above, sadly and annoyingly got broken into).

Not getting steered away from my original point here, sorry, but the level of criminality in the UK is out of control and worsening. Something robust needs doing asap, just sadly what used to be Great Britain is now a dustbin for a lot of the world’s shite to flock to. Lay with dogs catch fleas. Pointless adding to this tbh as it’s just too late to open the parachute for the UK as we just don’t have one big enough. Country is steered by the elite, corrupt, and self serving select, and they command the wet wipes that are in control of it all. Just sad to watch this country disappearing in wasted 4 year long gulps of greed and incompetence.

Surely the only people who needed to worry there were the lawless member’s of any drug dealing fraternity profiteering from organised crime, which impacted decent citizens horrendously? Good fecking riddance!!