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  1. MikeSharp01
    Depends where your pub is to some extent - conservation areas might be a problem, but otherwise it should be no problem, on this road there are two that have been converted, on knocked down and rebuilt. Just speak to planning department and see what route they prefer as I think you can go for planning and change of use combined or just change of use without planning if you just plan a simple conversion to a dwelling.
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    Yes £450 + VAT for a concrete pump per day here in Kent, so worth a call, if they expect further work on the build you might hope they are accommodating. Just out of interest how much concrete did they pump on the first pour into the form blocks, the volume looks quite small once you take out the interstitial insulation?
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    Cripes Ian - just seen this, how awful for you both.
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    Yes provided you don't bash them about. A friend of mine has a business making them for the big contractors and his order book is full to the end of the year for housing estates, new hospitals and, as you mentioned them, new hotels. Unless you are a carpenter of experience you won't do a diy job anything like as good but it will be cheaper and perhaps more satisfying for you.
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    "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
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    Looking at the wall / slab intersection construction it does have some cold bridges. Perhaps take a look at some standard details and see if you can rid yourself of them if at all possible. Main one is up through the inner leaf off the foundation and into the slab above the insulation. I am sure, but I cannot find, a detail that includes a thin ring of upstand insulation around the slab between the inner leaf and the slab.
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    You can put your stopcock anywhere you like and split it anyway you like provided it is after the water meter as I understamd it. Just ensure it is not anywhere it could freeze if not somewhere in the warm envelope.
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    In the big picture you probably ought not to be building together if you have not mastered the arts of getting enough of your own way each. In micro perhaps draw lines around the key features of the project and assign a lead and budget to each. As each of you, one assumes, wants what is best for each other each will consult on the other on their lead portion. In our build interior design bathrooms, kitchen's, lighting etc are the other half's. The external aesthetic is the architects and they have to mediate. So I ask her where she wants the light fittings and switches she tells me and if I cannot see a problem I get on and do it. If I can see a problem I tell her the problem and she comes up with alternatives until we agree. On the other hand if I want a total station... that's in my scope we already aportioned the 'Tools" budget and I get on and buy one - it arrived Thursday, because she wants (needs) the kitchen to be dead square after all so a protractor, a response heard during questions about how much such a toy - sorry tool, costs just won't do.
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    Technically yes they can (WTO stuff but essentially article 28 of TRIPS HERE). Naturally if you kept it quiet (not sure @Onoff is naturally inclined this way) you would probably get away with it as nobody would know would they but the fact that you looked up the patent would be traceable and, if they were a big pharma with lots to loose they would be keeping a beedy eye on you even as far away as Swansea and North Kent West is much closer!
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    @Onoff Have a look through the Sunamp patents and see how they initiate it then try and work out another way that does not infringe their patent, I guess they will have done a good job on their patents (HERE ARE A FEW) so you will be able to spend many happy hours playing with ideas while relaxing in the bath JUST AS SOON AS YOU HAVE FINISHED IT as Peter says
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    Better yet, give up toast - cut down on the carbs, the carcinogens in the blackened portions, the fat in the butter and just live a miserable life
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    This is awful! Do you own the land on which the perpetrators car is parked? If so why not put one of those mines underneath it or get one of those hydraulic bollards that comes out of the ground, when they trip the garden alarm the bollard comes up under the car or just in front of it preventing a get away.
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    Here is a pic of our garden room with counter battens in place - if it helps, soon putting on the main battens at 90 deg to these. The roof build up is I-joists on 600mm centres, 11mm sarking (OSB), membrane, counter battens (25 x 50), tile battens 25 x 50 and then the tiles.
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    Right now the interest rate is at the best it is going to be and so getting into a new product now would be sensible. You might even find that it pays to pay for the work to finalise BC, 0.25% over, say 10 years on, say, £200K is several £K in additional interest. BC is a must as @ragg987 says.
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    No one like this, that was a stylophone IIRC, and we won't even say what the bloke in the image was: Image ref : https://musicrhapsody.com/product/12-key-handcrafted-xylophone/
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    You are effectively wanting to build a set of chime bars or perhas a xylophone might be better to mechanically amplify a tiny amount of movement as you step on the stair to drive a small hammer that hits the tuned bar. And don't forget the tuned resonant cavity below it will you.
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    Its OK Ian, we were, have been, here listening just nothing witty or helpful to say.
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    Looks like at last they have decided to test the system instead of the core of just one part of it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40520596 not sure why it took them so long, there must have been a motive I am just at a loss to see what it might have been unless they wanted everything to fail.
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    Sounds daft on their part to me Peter did they say why this was the case?
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    Thanks all. I agree Ali is hard to weld and although I took a course is was 35 years ago! Thanks @Onoff for your offer I will PM you for the people in Hoo as I have go past every day. I need the frames to allow me to repurpose the windows of the old house in the garden room. They are only double glazed but are of goof quality they just don't open so the frame is to allow me to add a hinge etc and provide strength. I think that I may look at mechanical fixing, thanks @JSHarris for the insights there. In the end, when I get back to locomotive building, I will need a new welder but perhaps I should put it off until then.
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    No old Welder is fine, still going strong but only stick welds possible and current control awful but I like your thinking.
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    Well in a way yes, but I have been hankering after a new welder for a long time and this looked like the excuse to buy one - not so sure now.
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    Yes I can get my brother to do it but I thought I could buy the kit and have it for other work around the place. How about this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sherman-TIG-201-AC-DC-200Amp-Welder-Aluminium-Inverter-MMA-for-Garages-Workshops-/222087632380?_trksid=p2349526.m2548.l4275
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    Hi all. I need to create two frames from 2"x3" 10SWG hollow section aluminium (6082 T6). Am thinking I should weld them so I need to buy the kit to do it - need to update my 45 year old arc welder as well. I know the @Onoffspeaks well of this model which with associated TIG kit sounds like a working solution for under £300. Any other recommendations or thoughts?
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    Thanks all, yes Ferdinand I think I will make it out of the OSB and line it with cement board, that makes perfect sense.
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