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If your boat is of steel construction and not traditional build the extra heat you generate within your nearly air tight pod will feed through to the hull and head immediately to the coldest area's ie. the uninsulated area of the boat. The stern where your engine bay and fuel tanks are. You will always get moisture inside metal fuel tanks, hence why new builds use polymer tanks. If the boat is of traditional timber construction this allows your hull to breath, and the build up of heat dissipates differently.

Slightly concerned about the amount of insulation you've put into every void inside the cabin space to lift the temperature when your diesel tanks are below or just on the waterline getting chilled with the outside temperature. This will cause excess condensation to your tank's and even more water in your fuel. I know or hope you've got a water separator in-line, but it won't help with the rapid increase in contamination of your fuel in your tank's. So by curing one issue you could be creating another for your self. Please don't install a hybrid unit over the top of your gearbox / final drive as it causes a major strip down just to change a control cable.!!! Back ground. Factory marine technician and a few year's working for river canal rescue when I got bored after taking early retirement.

Under "foundation" sub section conduits and services

Looks better now. Re-grout next year and it will be as good as new. I use Algon patio cleaner every spring and it restores the natural sandstone colours.

Download an owners manual for it. The change over gate on mine is for auxiliary hydraulic lines on the dipper arm for powering up a pecker or flail head etc.

I see 9 members of Leeds planning department have been bailed with an ongoing investigation into bribery. Oh what a surprise.... not.

The black bricks the builder is using below ground level. Are they frost resistant?

If you've got a mini digger and you need to use forks occasionally this £55 set off ebay could help. Just need to put your ditching bucket on in reverse and clip them on.

With black friday fast approaching there will be good some good deals about from : Blackwood Outdoors Thomas Jack's Optics Warehouse I use Pulsar thermal for pest control that cost 000's and I've purchased from the above 3 companies in the past.

We used our legal cover insurance against the NHBC

I'm going against the grain here. With the list of job's you have above I would buy a 240v Makita HR2631F, 3 mode sds plus drill. The extra action of (mini kango) chiselling out for conduit and back boxes and taking up floor tiles this will do it using an angled chisel. Haven't looked to see if any of the manufacturers do a cordless 3 mode sds plus unit, if they do it will be twice the price of a mains power job and will burn through batteries.

20% of what ever your budget is could dissappear into thin air if you don't have a legally binding contract with the builder. If has has done renovation job's for you in the past and your happy with his terms, go ahead. If you found him on faceache or check a trade then I wouldn't be handing any one 20% of my budget as an upfront payment. Of all the trades I've used and all the customers I've done work for over the year's. I have never given or asked for an upfront payment.

Grout staying in place after a few months with dot and dab should be fun especially near a shower head. The tiller is obviously trying to work round the situation, just because he's been in the trade for 40 year's doesn't mean he's any good. Best way to remove tiles and adhesive is with a wall paper steamer.

Contact a grab loader company that also supplies crushed concrete and get them to collect it providing it is not contaminated with soil or wood you'll get it moved for a cheap price. They took mine away for £120 a load and will supply me with clean crushed at £160 a load. So you can't warrant hiring a crusher that you need to feed. Wood / timber put it on Facebook foc, and someone will collect the wood providing its suitable to be processed into logs. Whatever is left put a match too it when the wind is in the right direction.

All my clean rubble went via a grab loader lorry 2000m away to another build in the village. It was loaded to the sky !!!! Clean hard-core for crushing is gold dust