MikeSharp01

A but just remember what it must have been like for the man, was a man probably, who had been using a wheel brace when he was introduced to a pistol drill. Wonder if he thought ... That mealy replaces my elbow grease with electricity which is expensive and not that reliable. Tempus fugite ?

This Parrot is not dead mearly sleeping.... however the saw that cut up the wood for the coffin is also now that small fraction nearer falling of its perch. Roll on brushless technology

Great news, now the positive & creative work really begins and you can start to enjoy it.

There could be any number of reasons for the difference but its most likely to be down, obviously in a way, to the glass & its coatings (did they put them in the right way round - inside out?) and the interstitial gas Argon (approx two thirds the conductivity of air) / Krypton (approx one third the conductivity of air) / air. Things might also be worse than you think because measuring the surface temperature of glass with IR can be upset by reflections from within the room. Ah and there is also the fact that the old units might have degraded a bit, in terms of gas fill since 2003.

No its part of the freeview scheme.

There is another twist here I had not spotted but once you move from householder applications all the fees go up so every change / condition acceptance or review costs a lot more. In our case a householder getting a condition agreed £28 non householder £96 as soon as you use an agent architect or whatever you cannot be a householder unless you handle all the communications.

They are 150mm apart user the slab and they then go into standard layering through the garden down to the utilities center in the front garden. I chose 25mm for phase 1. It's only a garden room with a loo and shower so does not need 32mm. Will use 32mm to phase 2 the main house.

I dimly remember that. In my day, my first mobile phone was still several years away and I was one of the first 1500 people in the UK to own one, engagement was like getting a bike for Easter and not being able to ride it until Christmas. There were highlights though - Saturdays spent in Heals choosing furniture (most of which we still have), dropping into Peter Jones to choose a 'dinner service' - some of which we still have, commissioning the rings - both of which we still have, evenings dancing at the Ritz, the sanctity of ones club - Malden and District Society of model engineers, booking the venue - Woolwich town hall - not so trendy then, making the bed - I mean carpentry, 'weekends maintaining our independence', 'weekends being Mr and Mrs smith'. Through all of it however I cannot recall any discussions about towel rails or the definition of a radiator. I don't know, the youth of today...

What! Did I miss something? I thought all your @recoveringacademic permissions were in place - what of the wombat survey, the pissed as newts, the old gold mine on which you intend to build. (Sorry if my brain is a bit be-fuddled I have been through a whole bottle of Red this evening to ensure I just don't care who wins the US election until 'a whole new world' - tomorrow at least.)

Got it all done today, despite being very cold to start with but the sun came out and warmed up the water duct, pushed all 50M of 25mm pipe through the duct, no draw string needed just a good dolop of silicone grease, took about 20 mins of concentrated effort to get it through (protected the end with duck tape). Then I just laid the three ducts ( water, electricity & comms) in and started to cover with type 1, will finish Thursday and start with the polystyrene insulation and former for the slab.

If they claim it is powder coated and it isn't then they should take it away and power coat it given they will need to clean if back to the bare metal for this, there will be considerable expense along with transport for it from you to them and back. Is there a drawing somewhere, if there is and the measurements are not close again they should rectify. By the time you have finished it will be cheaper for them to get @Rattyjohn, or a mate of his, to make them a new one and powder coat it. Don't be bullied, you have the evidence already in the form of the photos so I would knock it back directly, before you have even got it if thats an option.

Yes I did. It's going to be interesting because I will have to thread the pipe and then roll it up for the most part as the ditch for the services cannot be dug until the existing house is finally cleared which I cannot do until the phase 1 slab is done. Let you know how I get on.

Would need to seal it for air tightness purposes. Anyway pipe and duct coming tomorrow.

Yes it is. I think I will get some duct as it's going through wacked base in places and will allow a new pipe to be fitted if ever needed. Ducting does have a risk in that of the pipe does burst the water will fill the duct and probably the house! Anyway thanks all, know exactly the way to go.

Wondering what the merits of putting water pipe (MDPE) in ducting is? Unless you lay the ducting reasonable straight getting 32mm MDPE through a 50mm duct would be difficult, so bigger needed, then there is the fact that MDPE is fine directly in the ground, and away from harmfull UV there as well. Got to lay the water to the phase one this week and am wondering if I should get some ducting or not? PS assuming that I should not put any connections under ground anyway.

I have Jewson self build account, in many ways its great they set me up quickly, gave us a high credit limit and a dedicated self build manager. BUT... I cannot see prices on line, I have an on-line account connected to my self build account but this is not good enough apparently as I get a message saying call branch for pricing. So have to get quotes from them every time I want something big ish or even small ish. Given that I have now found a local civils supplier who has very competitive pricing (prices are on-line), a local sand / gravel / type 1 supplier who is also competitive plus many others I am not sure what I need Jewson for other than those emergency / small stuff like peashingle and bags of cement. BUT.. they are part of Saint-Gobain so, in theroy, have access to all of their buying power and a lot of other building materials so you would think they would be competitive for this stuff, not sure they are yet only time will tell. Although for one thing, JJI-Joists their price was the best, by 10%, I could get. For everything else, see above and insulation, timber, Rebar, bricks, fastenings and more they are not competitive which given their size is a concern. One can only assume that they have grown a bit 'fat' and could do with being a little more lean and mean. I think the moral of the story is to seek out the smaller merchants and try to strike deals with them if you are happy to spend time saving money, if you are happy to spend money saving time then a bigger firm is probably the way to go. PS the insulation supplier has warned me that there might be shortages of PU products in the next few months, anybody else heard this, should I buy now or is it a roose!

Or wait for next frist and look for line of melt after they have all showered in the morning?

If I am imagining this correctly, drawing might help, the tiles will be overhanging the first 50mm (2 3rds of 75mm) of the gutter width which is maybe what the slater is trying to tell you. That does not feel right normally you want the tiles to overhang the first third maximum. This ensures that fast run off hits the gutter and does not overtop it as might happen with your scheme, if I have it clear in my mind.

Ah, very interesting, I was about right then and still think its a lot to pack into a paint stirrer, BUT, if I recall my history of Technology professor when I was at Uni (long time ago) correctly he looked at the definitions of HP across EU and globe and came to the conclusion that the range was bigger than Wikipedia give credit for. He was a unit nut and his favorite quip was to ask if you had ever wondered why 1 inch was equal to 25.4mm (no more / no less) his view was that it was a conspiracy, by what he described as a cabal of foreigners, to fix the two to 1dp at some point. I secretly think he knew what the answer was but us poor students had to go off and find out without the benefit of the internet. Ever wondered why / how - it ain't luck I promise.

Here is a thought - 1600W is around 2 horsepower (depending on where you come from), so try to imagine two horses winding the paddle round - packs quite a punch (no pun intended!)

Got mine from http://www.meterboxesdirect.co.uk/ (Tricel) £30.50 for gas, £35.35 for Electric and £8.50 P&P

Air on a G string! You can play the wire I am using but I will get a guitar string tomorrow - my son plays bass but they all look a bit thick to me!

Great day in the toyshop! (well Gumtree) set an alert for a wacker yesterday, braved the M25, and a corner of Essex, this afternoon and came home with a real Waker for under the £100. Runs well needs a bit of attention here and there. Maybe I will give the roller a miss... The other (better half) muttered something about this build being just an opportunity to buy toys. On another note I built a hot wire cutter this morning for cutting up the EPS foe the garden room insulation. Works like a dream 20V at 700mA across 450mm of wire, not as fast as I wanted to get to on cutting speed so will have to look at heavier gauge wire and a bit more umph.

In my view a bath somewhere is important but a loo upstairs is the most important so you avoid having to navigate the stairs in the night. Don't know about others but here we, other half not me, use the bath 3 times a week for a soaking. We, me included, shower every day and use loo every few minutes. Your two markets will be happy without a bath I suspect. If children are involved a bath becomes more of a requirement. Our daughter, still with us at 25 says she has not had a bath in 10 years!

Just checking but did you need the F10 it only applies if the project will have more than 22 people at any one time or exceed 500 people working days if I recall?