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  1. MikeSharp01
    Because your worth it!
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    Welcome to THE forum - looks like you knew that already?
  3. MikeSharp01
    Capital HIM and capital HER
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    Is this the very definition of asymmetric fantasy. You dream of UFH ozing warmth while she dreams of bathrooms with tight / pert little taps, and that oh so heavenly toilet paper holder in chrome.
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    HIS and HERs
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    On our build we have had THESE from strong tie specified. I think they use pins rather than bolts but single row all the same.
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    Not by HSE you won't - they will throw exactly the same book at you as anybody else (I would have thought as ignorance is no defence), but your charter organisation might, just might, take a dim view if something goes wrong particularly if you are using your professional insurance to cover aspects of your work on it.
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    PS think I might want to 'speak' to the person who ran that weld down the plate joint, probably the apprentice on a Friday!
  9. MikeSharp01
    If you want a toy that makes this easy have a look at this: http://www.powertool-supplies.co.uk/festool-sword-saw-ssu-200-eb-plus-gb-240v.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-rKK3tGK2gIVbgDTCh2Q1gDzEAQYAyABEgKFtPD_BwE other vendors are available.
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    I have the dewalt electric pair. Framing and 2nd fix. They are pretty amazing I chose not to go for the paslodes as they were even more expensive and seemed to have poor reviews when working in the cold.
  11. MikeSharp01
    Hang on I do the washing in our house and I ain't no lady, furthermore given the posters on this topic the gender balance is about even - this post might skew it!
  12. MikeSharp01
    The bit from 9 mins got me. The camera operator is up there with him and he has no harness while he drops the corner boards in. I think I need a lay down after watching that!
  13. MikeSharp01
    Ok so that seems somewhat incontrovertible then.
  14. MikeSharp01
    Its amazing what you can get humans to squeeze into these days.
  15. MikeSharp01
    You don't necessarily need piles of money for piles @recoveringacademic can give you a feel as his place is built on piles. ( @Onoff will probably want to talk about other sorts of piles) The obvious trick is not to try and build a solid reinforced concrete edifice on the piles, something made of balsa wood will reduces the costings. Give what the survey says if you have 10 x 170Kn piles you can pop a 170 Ton (approx) house on there and that is probably quite a big timber framed job. I recall @JSHarris telling us here how much his place weighed - ex foundation, was it 70T or some such Jeremy?
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    I find mine using my friendly Bosch wall radar system. (https://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-gms120-digital-wall-scanner/76455?tc=AT5&ds_kid=92700022888077067&ds_rl=1249796&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1249484&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv7ThnM6A2gIVr7_tCh08aQBpEAQYASABEgL5z_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CObfsJ_OgNoCFUkw0wod4rMAng) Of course you can get it from many other suppliers! It won;t be long though before your battery drill will be able to see what it is drilling into and will just beep at you if you pull the trigger while hovering over something it thinks might bite back!
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    Lucky bugger.
  18. MikeSharp01
    You should get that picture with an IR camera, that will give your neighbours something to think about! Several of us here, following a recommendation from @JSHarris, have this one Although I do not remember paying the sort of prices I see they are today. Also FLir now have a similar one.
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    Naturaly it is, to reinforce my point I was wondering why, if they are as common as muck, are they protected. There could be a myriad reasons perhaps these hoards are the very last on the planet having migrated to your living room ftom the four corners of the earth.
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    Has not seen this problem as I thought the joist hangers would be fixed to timber wall plates which are themselves fixed to the block work with chemical anchors or some such. Nailing direct into blocks sounds like the recipe for future problems exactly as you describe.
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    For me the question has always been why was anybody minded to make this a political football, how did it get onto the list of things you (one) needs to build around?
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    Do BCO have any say in muck away, that is your responsibility, I would perhaps have thought that all you have to do is prove to the carrier, of the muck away, what they are conveying.
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    On the garden room of our build I have tried a couple of approaches in readiness for the house. In the end I found the best seal was to seal the airtight membrane to the floor, I used THIS tape, double sided bitumen. So I brought the airtight membrane down the walls and folded it out into the room by 30mm having first cut back the sole-plate DPM to the edge of the sole-plate (on this inside only) I put the TAPE in under the fold and then nailed a batten to the sole plate, compressed down onto the membrane using jack cramps. The floor is power floated so quite flat but the tape can take up small wrinkles and the batten forces it all closed. No leaks that I can find. ONE WORD OF WARNING this building is not the house or subject to the same strictures as the house but I will use this method on the house as I am very happy with it
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    Yes but who is watching the IOT and weaponising all this data with highly trained deep learning algorithms so as to target you with offers to A: buy more home automation. B: use their sevices to 'tune' your use or even more concerning C: work out a way that ensures your system is remote serviced, only by them, and this making all warranties void if you fiddle your self. ( If you don't believe me talk to alost any US farmer about their big green tractor and how its maintenance is geared to only the seller and the tractor stops till they get there.)
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    No reason why not but you will need to protect and insulate it. The BCO may have a problem with a soil pipe outside the building and where it eventually enters the ground. Can you not take it though the building and drop it down into the slab nearer the main sewer so as to keep the pipe inside and under the slab?
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