MikeSharp01

You could have saved yourself a lot of the intermediate work by just saying the same thing earlier in the build by making shadow gaps instead of skirting and architraving. I spent all day on Wednesday fitting 1 piece of dry lining pboard around 2/3 of a door frame with its shadow gap beading in the Garden room. Lucky there are only three doors and two windows in there. The main house has 9 doors and 11 windows on the whole skirting and architraving feels like it would be less work.

Curious that cos if I had not known that you knew something like that would be coming I would not have written it. How predictable we all are.

Just remind me what was colour of that pot the kettle spoke of.

No because you have no way of knowing which half the needle is in with the haystack example. If you did the binary chop would be the fastest way to find it. Yes - provided there is enough flow it should work.

I think it probably comes down to horses for courses. If all software had to go through the same processes as new medicinal drugs we would probably still be where we were in 1983 - so its probably a cost / complexity / value / benefit issue. Formal methods are used rightly perhaps when safety, and these days security, is at the core and sometimes, even then when it really matters, you need three formal methods focused teams working independently from the same functional specification to develop a code solution which can then be used to saturate test the other two. If all the tools also have to be developed using the same approaches the costs run away into a land that nobody wishes to go. So you have the other approach, which is curiously more human, our wet logic is very buggy after all, so engineers and others surround us with protection that allows us to use our buggy wetware and survive. Air bags and auto saves are examples of these approaches in action which also allow the systems around us to fail - burst tyre causing a crash for instance where the air bags deploy to save lives, or the blue screen of death - is that still a thing, appears but your document appears again when you restart. It is true that in some circumstances, usually arising from changes since the software / system was first envisaged, it looks like the software was badly built but you cannot build in environmental changes at the point of design. So I am relatively confident that the software in the chopper evolved over time, new engines for instance, which implies that at some time it was not longer fit for purpose no matter how diligent the implementation was. On the flip side however the issue of letting the public be the test team is, I agree, very frustrating but the ability to automate bug feedback helps massively and makes the evolutionary path clearer as bugs in bits of the software nobody uses are not found while the really useful bits evolve very quickly and stabilise - while you pay only a few quid for the product rather than millions.

If you have already found the reducer 50-32 and it is not leaking then you can Binary chop from there - assuming the pipe is reversely crushable IE plastic. ! You just go halfway along the pipe, dig a small hole around it and crush the pipe if the leak stops you can be sure the leak is in the remaining half. So you go halfway along that length and do the same - going backwards halfway if the leak persists until you are within a few meters if you think about it its only 8 holes (200, 100, 50, 25, 12, 6, 3, 1.5) and you will be sure you are very close. You can use the same approach to find the reducer if you have not already as this is the most likely point of failure. You will need a device that can crush the pipe - a fine thread G clamp of robust construction and a long Tommy bar has done it in the past for me but not on 50mm pipe!

Its a type of earthing where you have your own earth rod banged into the ground close to the incoming Live and Neutral wires and between the those two and your own earth you have all you need. In other patterns you could have the Earth supplied by the electric company. The tests done using the electricians test equipment that proves your circuits are fit to be connected up. If you are having the TT earth they will provide a measurement of the rods impedance (sounds and looks like a resistance reading but isn't). This might be the same guy that did ours as he works for https://www.lowribeck.co.uk , services all the suppliers and lives in Whitstable - so not far away. All he wanted was to see the earth impedance(s) (we have both a rod the supplements - don't worry about this Ian, a PME supply from UKPN) and he checked the Garden Room wiring with a test plug. Does this mean that the move in date will be pre XMAS @PeterStarck?

Me to - I am just a typical teacher type who knows exactly how to make it sound like they know what they are doing / saying. A lifetime of convincing students to believe me, and in me, I suppose. Yesterday I decided to take up Jackie's suggestion that we put a further lamp fitting into the ceiling of the garden room bedroom. I worked out that I could feed a support batten in from the side uner the plasterboard and then fiddle the cable through. So I got my 25mm hole saw and drilled though the PB and existing batten. When I pulled it back I realised my error - the cutter was full of frame therm and I had drilled / torn a hole in the VCL. Took me all day to take the whole sheet of PB down, patch the VCL and put it back. 10 minutes turned into 4 hours - that's how much I know.

We only ever learn from our mistakes the trick, I suspect, is to learn to make them without killing or naming yourself. Everyday is a school day.

Yes one with Bob the builder on but with slightly altered catch phrase. "Can we build it - only with the help of our friends on buildhub.'

Ok have some more info and the news is not good - so it probably is too good to be true. I can find no regulation details on the we site so either they are not regulated or have still to update their site. They do say that they do their best to rent back to the property owners but cannot guarantee this - and perhaps here lies the rub because - if they do rent it back to you then the whole transaction becomes a 'sale and rent back' agreement (my understanding) and so becomes regulated (see the link). So if you call them and say you would like to become a sale and rent back customer and they don't immediately send you the money advice service factsheet then perhaps best to walk away. If they don't rent it back to you then it is not regulated and of course you need to find somewhere else to live! Citizens advice have said a few things and you can find the details HERE while the old FSA now partly the FCA had some consumer advice HERE. Sorry but I think this particular firm might be sailing close to the proverbial wind so Cave(at) Venditor.

Hmmm - Never heard of this in the form here - I will ask my 'local' mortgage market expert and get back to you.

Straight from your Tinder profile eh Steamy.

Welcome and a couple of observations: (Downer) Your toddlers won't be toddlers for long and they will soon be teenagers and then off to Uni or apprenticeship and won't need the new space you created for them 10 years back, you will have created your own millstone manor and have rooms you don't go in but you still have to pay for. Basically if you don't do it now the reason for doing it will go away to Uni! (Upper) Toddlers are remarkably resilient and if you keep them involved they will be OK with some hardship and provided you do it when they have the capacity to remember the build they will feel part of it. (Clincher) If you want / need a job doing just find a busy man & women who are organised, committed, capable and resilient themselves - sound like anybody you know. Our example(s): When we extended Millstone manor here in Kent I did it over three years by tackling a bit at a time while keeping the rest of the house largely intact and always wind and watertight. We built over the kitchen, without missing a meal, added a utility room - moved the downstairs toilet, added a downstairs wetroom built a double garage with and ensuite bedroom over and a front extension above the porch one section at a time. Our children were 9 and 11 when we started and they were somewhat involved but I wish I started sooner. Taking our time also meant we could do a lot out of revenue although we did also have a capital budget. When I was a boy (13) may parents extended their home, I as the eldest, along with my mum (who by this time had 5 children - hence the increase in house size) were chief hod carriers, concrete layers and general hired hands. (Dad was out at work but the brickie did the bulk of the work.) Dad fitted out the extension and then knocked through so my three sisters (I ended up with 5) had a room each until my other two sisters came along. My brother and I were already sharing - shame on the parenting standards of the 1960 and 70s. Both of which prove you can do it alongside a family you just need to think it through!

That is quite some post Terry! I started responding before heading off this morning and kept returning to it in then end here is my penny worth. A few things / questions spring to mind. 1. Is there a schematic of it all somewhere that might make it more accessible to mortals. 2. How much data is being pushed onto the HDD and as you mention headroom how much do you anticipate on a minute by minute basis when it is running flat out. 3. Although you say there is no routing path you seem to have devices that are connected on both networks are these not a potential weakness? 4. The rock looks interesting but I cannot help feeling that you are going to end up with such a wide array of technologies that should anything happening to you, heaven forbid, would render the house control system somewhat impenetrable. 5. Have you looked at the HIVE protocols to see if compatibility might be possible I wonder or one of the commercial, albeit often proprietary, BMS protocols? I need to think this through as I will have the same basic issue but I was going to have all nodes as Web servers with some sort of domain majordomo bringing it altogether as another Web site. Speed I think is not a problem, we won't need Ghz sampling rates. Although I also played with the idea of a distributed intelligence mesh with heuristic / genetic opportunities to devolve processing once a pattern emerges. I almost had this in another life with a bitbus network where each node could see every other and track variables as proxy settings or readings but getting the intelligence to migrate was never a success although the system worked without it. I have better ideas on how to make it work now, with today's technology, by providing a set of high level commands that can be built as programmes on the nodes by themselves to replicate the control regime in the pattern. At the very least I would want them to tune. The other thread on the DS temp sensors is also of interest alongside the challenges of solar gain. I came up with a sensing plan, see attached so I could monitor the slab temp near the pipe and near the surface thus giving me the chance to see Solar gain getting ahead of the UFH and the gradient when heating and or cooling. I would put these on a 1m grid in the front three quarters of the main space (9m x 9m) as the rear portion gets almost no direct solar.

Hi and welcome, sounds interesting - look forward to hearing more.

If you are having the PIR on the inside then I think the VCL should cover the PIR then batten's then plasterboard. The VCL essentially stops water vapour moving through it so you don't want water building up in the PIR although it should dry to the inside. Getting the VCL in the right place seems like a bit of an art. There should be others along shortly who are more knowledgeable than me. I will be interested in the outcome.

Hi. Image is a bit out of focus so struggle to read the item number text to review build up. Ahhh - it works on a large screen can just read it on my 32" monitor but not on tablet. You are right the block that the frame sits on is the cold bridge along with the cavity tray which transfers the heat to the block from the outside.

If you can, wait until Friday as you should find better deals on Black Friday it's not even a week away.

The hardest wear on our thresholds is people traffic not water. I have to sand and re-varnish every 3 years and I use a floor varnish.

TV Aerial for the gas powered TV one presumes. They also have plastic front door and windows!

Just seen this in the online edition of the local rag. Scope for some energy updating and just down the road.

Well lets hope that you are good with a surf board and want to travel downhill.

I tried that by moving the stat dial on the splines about 10 years ago but my son - the blighter, calibrated the stat with the kitchen thermometer and told me it was 4 deg out and that he had drawn an arrow on the dial where 21 was supposed to be.

You are right here. Last week we were running out of GAS (LPG switch over) so I dropped the stat down to 18 from 21 here in millstone manor. The other occupants went crazy but after a day or two they got used to it - we had a delivery today, the stat has gone up to 21 again and I feel sweltering!