MikeSharp01

Is there a link somewhere.

I guess the trick is to show that times move on and that they accep things today they would not have accepted 20 years ago- although I can only speculate what that is. Seeing it another way it may be that such measures might be made mandatory so they form part of building control.

Has anybody thought to offer a technology led solution to this, and similar problems. Round here we have dozens of mirrors on trees opposite driveways which is a low tech solution but video could be used with screens and a very wide angle lenses or lidar and the like. On one of our cars the cameras have wide angle lenses that allow me to see both ways down the lane with bumper only a few mm out of the drive. I appreciate the challenges of making this sort of thing possible in all circs but I cannot see that it woukd not be able to help in many places.

Yes the camera takes up one pixel of the screen, so you don't notice it but it could be mega pixel itself although the basic tec is indeed single. Have a look here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm%3Furi%3Doe-27-3-3731%26seq%3D0&ved=2ahUKEwiBwrK0lt3lAhXJUBUIHVFuBR0QFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1SgP7BXGnZWSlzlJAFifX8 It means you can look directly at the screen rather than a camera of to one side or above. I dimmly recal they are now working on multi single pixel which would make things even better.

Looks like fun what is needed is the 1 pixel camera in the middle of the monitor to make a great digital mirror.

Welcome to THE forum. Just in case there is any confusion / concern you dont need to lay the bricks upside down just because you are on the otherside of the world?. (We are mostly NOT flat earthers here.)

Is it about extrapolation or some such? Cos you know that correlation does not mean .....

Sorry what was the question again?

As long as your services are in ducts, IE you can replace the cables and water / gas pipes without digging the whole lot up I cannot see a problem. You dont want to have to dig up your drains to get at the water pipe below or even dig up the water pipe to get to the drains, although I assume the drains will be above the ducts, do you!

No drainage is in other trenches.

We used a 300 wide trench and all our services are in duct. I did bury the water on the left, then back filled with 100mm soil and then laid the other three on the other side of the trench gas, comms, electric (left to right). The separation thing feels a bit daft as at each end they all get brought together in the building.

You have almost all the guidance you need on the heating system above, just the Sunamp or similar (not much) option to look at, but the Architect is another matter. We provacated a lot about our long list of architects. We wanted a passive house standard of build - loads of insulation, 3G Windows, very good air tightness etc. The problem we had was that all the PH experianced architects seemed to be designibg with a limited pallet and we wanted a modest home that makes a statement. l felt I could handle the energy calcs, I went on a PHPP training course, and that allowed us to engage an architect who had not done a PH before but who was prepared to let me be the PH consultant as it were. We are nowhere near finished but I am confident we have a great standout design that will meet the PH standard.

Can you cut it or cut out a portion, use a joiner as the bracket or fit a clip and use two joiners to put the cut out bit back (might not look perfect but might get the job done)? Also you might find self adhesive gutter liner a help.

I have had some success with mole grips. You squeeze tight on the head and twist them out. I have a small pair for just such jobs.

Probably not but I thought it might be fun to see if there are any other bonkers building pics out there. This house has been up for sale for a long time perhaps because it has a built in power / telegraph pole, which I suppose is not suitable for dancing.

Simple terms anything frpm £1700 - £3000 per square meter.

Call your local installer and get them to tell you where they would need you to put the wires (siting of the sensors is the critical art) and tell you the wire spec, and then install the cables and either fit the sensors, control unit, bell boxes etc yourself or have them do it. Of course if you have wireless then no wiring needed other than between the control unit and the bell boxes. (We have three bell boxes at millstone manor which wink and so no matter what direction you approach it is obvious we have an alarm.) At your place I would have one facing each way down the lane and one out the back.

This is onr of those probkems you can either go through - find a way to locate your remote or go around and stop watching TV or get a butler like the rest of us.

'Their' maybe. Agree that realistic budgeting helps. Someone here, at millstone manor - not me, thinks that Architects should take a course in costing their ideas as part of their charter, the course can be simple as 'think of a number and double it twice', an old friend, who when he retired had spent over £300m on buildings in his career, tells me architects don't do money. You have a guide though - just work on £3K per m2 and the chances are that 80% of the time you will come in under budget!

I suppose if you choose to live in Wales, cos you like it there or for whatever reason, you might expect things done in Welsh! I am not sure I could live in Wales, nothing against it - love the singing, but I worry it would drive me up the wall and it appears that the ability to climb walls is required if your stairs are anything to go by

Divorce into the bargain...

Gob smacking £3m cost and nowhere near complete.

Sad news - were you in the cottage?

We are using both and glue. I glue and screw the timber to the sheathing and the sole plate to locate it and the go round with the nail gun. The gun is a god send and wont cost you as much as you think because you can sell it once you are finished and it will be cheaper tham screws as they are 3 or 4 times as expensive than nails application for application.

Yes - BT seem to be getting back on the Ball. Yesterday I spotted two chaps in the lane staring at poles and arguing about where the underground runs were between them. I was able to point out that the grey looking duct running from one of the poles on our land was in fact just a bit of old down pipe I dropped there in the summer and had now become somewhat over grown, 'Oh that explains it' one of them said. When I asked what they were about they said they were doing the survey for the Fiber runs they will be fitting shortly - whoopee, we have about 13Mbps (13316) as I look at the meter but fibre should make a big diff. We are inside the M25 but are classed as a rural community.