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  1. MikeSharp01
    The OP has been edited all quiet on the western front!
  2. MikeSharp01
    I would make a pattern from a piece of thin ply, say 6mm. Mark out the distances, drill a tiny hole and put a screw through the ply do it sticks out the other side a little. Then measure for the other screw, drill & fit another screw. Check the bookcase fits on the plywood then drill a very small hole in the wall. Lodge one of the sticking out screws in that hole and scribe a small arc, 5mm each way on the horizontal. with the other screw. Use a spirt level to get the horizontal from the small hole over to the arc, then drill the second small hole.
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    That's a tough ask as the one controls the other. You know what our build up is and the resulting U value (a combination of PU and blown cellulose) and that comes out at 470 mm (ish). Maybe worth looking at making the internal dimensions slightly smaller and playing with internal features; vaulted ceilings, through views, clever decorations etc to make it feel bigger.
  4. MikeSharp01
    Sounds like a great project - keep us updated and welcome THE forum for people like us.
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    Perhaps a little harsh, we are, after all, trying to learn from one another - nobody is an expert at everything, evolve ideas where can and help others make choices in their projects. You are correct decision support software is just that it helps people make choices and designs need execution during which process yet more choices are made. There are, after all, choices everywhere in self building. All that is somewhat over simplistic because, for instance, during his time here @Jeremy Harris added vastly to the communities knowledge while also proliferating a myriad of choice points. Also, in the end, its good to talk.
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    Interesting - will need to clear out my dusty rules of thumb draw or maybe I mixed up the pressure generated by a wind rather than the wind velocity generated by a pressure difference meteorologicaly.
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    Not sure 50Pa will result in gale force wind, it is only 0.5 millibar pressure difference after all. I dimly recall that 4mb pressure difference gives 10mph wind, so 0.5mb = 1.25mph, although I could be very wrong on that as fluid dynamics not a strong point with me. To be fair I did our first suck out air test the other day and took the house down to 25 pa and I was hard pressed to open the outward opening front door. Will go down to 50 pa this week and see how the extract rate is.
  8. MikeSharp01
    You could make it so by double nutting or Castle nutting it. Alternatively, assuming the nuts are not under load would be to use half nuts and then leave the 2 thread clearance. You could probably get down to bolt head thickness that way.
  9. MikeSharp01
    Can we know more about what this comprises - bikes, scooters, rodeo simulators......
  10. MikeSharp01
    Visited this place today - Little Morton Hall! Still up 500 years (ish) later. Spoke to the surveyor who says the tower moves a few mm (13) in a cycle over the year and depending weather, but its not sagging any more than it already had when they started measuring, which they do 3 x a year, 9 years back!
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    We used AFT - they worked very well with us, they did the structural work with our SE, supplied the Kit, and supported us all the way. We prepared the ground, set out the kit, did the rebar work, attached the UFH to the mesh and poured the concrete ourselves.
  12. MikeSharp01
    Looks like the URL has been added to the Original Post as well.
  13. MikeSharp01
    Yep me done to - via my phone which takes great pictures of QR codes.
  14. MikeSharp01
    Welcome to THE forum for people like us.
  15. MikeSharp01
    The structure above it needs assessing against then wash out. IE is the loading too great. Either way I would guess you, or the landlord depending on the contracts, need to put a stop to any more washout and look to back fill / underpin it.
  16. MikeSharp01
    £300 for our as designed SAP in Kent!
  17. MikeSharp01
    Any chance of a picture?
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    They just do sometimes - is it a normal breaker or one with earth leakage (Residual Current Breaker with Overload protection - RCBO) detection- if the latter then it is even more likely to trip, our oven regularly trips the RBCO when we use excessive steam!
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    That is an interesting link - we live right on the boarder of London, 120m to London from here, and the overhead line that feeds us comes from London, yet we pay 16p a day more than our neighbors who do live in London and they pay slightly more per unit than we do. All a little bit mad. I must try and find out how this is calculated.
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    If they are RECC members then they must also be MCS certified as the latter enables the former. So you may have two codes to leverage your claim but they may both give you the run around. Have you looked at their, RECC's, FAQs if things go wrong - https://www.recc.org.uk/consumers/if-things-go-wrong might help.
  21. MikeSharp01
    Is it terrazzo surface you are going for? If so then a big chunk of the cost will be tooling for 157m2 you will get through a vast quantity of industrial diamonds and the associated pads.
  22. MikeSharp01
    It must not be a private organisation it needs to be publicly accountable and with enough power to get things done. In my view getting all the leading bodies under this on wing would make sense. So include EG MCS / FENSA / GASSAFE etc should also be accountable.
  23. MikeSharp01
    I found that the 75mm fits neatly into the 90mm and the seals work as well. So I have just used tescon tape around the joint to be sure it won't come apart.
  24. MikeSharp01
    Sans Zombies one presumes!
  25. MikeSharp01
    Yes if feels right to feed a Zombie - it just keeps shuffling along with with its limp hands on the ends of outstretched arms emitting a constant moaning noise. I wonder if Simon Pegg is on the forum, he would know what to do.
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