MikeSharp01

How are you logging into that and how is the rest of your network protected?

I would use 'Full-Wrap' hinges, on the swing out portions so you are fixing into the rear face of the door depending on size / weight you may need 3 or 4 of them. The center hinge much more challenging as you need get then on the inside and close the leafs. Here is an example - loads of style available all over. https://www.kitchenfittingsonline.co.uk/product/amerock-half-wrap-hinge-copy/

That's a pain! Can't help really, every time I look at Hue I get more confused by it complexities, but just to be clear you can still see the rest of your network remotely EG doorbell and the remote reset is actually working.

Intello plus membrane, 50mm service void finally fire rated plasterboard (dry lined).

Our architect gave us the idea of a composite insulation scheme so as to get the great decrement delay of blown Cellulose and the effective insulation properties of PIR as well. So we went stick (using engineered 300mm I-Beams) with an outer sheathing of OSB. Outside the OSB we have a layer of PIR (varies between 40 and 75mm thick) and between the I-beams we have blown cellulose. So we now have the best of both worlds thinner walls than would have been needed to achieve our U value using just the blown cellulose and still great U value of (generally) 0.099 W/(m²K)

Killing the Bees that are there wont stop them coming you need to encourage them to go elsewhere. Either make life a bit easier for them IE get a Bee brick ( or even a wall) or much tougher, IE see what the effect of washing the wall with waterproofing solution is or a weak mixture of peppermint oil and water - works for spiders.

Absolutely - anything from stick / brick to factory prefab can be done well, or indeed poorly, and all of the methods have their pros & cons. Stick/brick is time consuming and somewhat skilled but you get to make choices as you go along while factory prefab means making all the decisions up front and so is far less evolutionary (should you wish to evolve your build - we didn't, we wanted to follow the architects ideas as closely as we could.) Then its down to the range of technologies chosen and how they work together to create the home (house).

But, by the looks of it you are still driving the same van!

It is Pro Clima Extroseal 100-20

I got my rope from Screwfix on a 500m drum, super strong, very, very long and not expensive! (https://www.screwfix.com/p/polypropylene-rope-blue-6mm-x-500m/76432) If you need the full 450Kg SWL then you have something very wrong in your duct (Oh and While I remember - I capped all the ducts off to stop rodents taking up residence! - or worse eating through the pull rope!!!!!)

Their concern will be the tightest radius and I would have thought that standard twin wall ducting would be fine provided you have a draw rope in it. I only have 35m runs of the stuff but its dead easy to use. I did ensure I had a 80m draw rope so I could pull it either way without needing a join in the rope I just taped the end of the cables to the mid point of the rope and hauled, and for the big power cable pushed, the cables through. Openreach just want an easy life and the people who arrive to do the job are very pragmatic in my experience.

I've got some which is coated in 3mm acrylic and about 100 wide. I will have a look and see what it is, its GBS. Sticks to anything / everything.

Hi and welcome to THE forum for people like you & us.

Once you get FTTP you begin to wonder why you would need a wireless terrestrial connection at all.

You must have had the motivation to leave and move north and a bit east - to become one of the forest dwellers.

Hopefully you have not had as many similar moments as our recent prime minister but one may have had!

PS - I was told by a roofer that acid rain sorts it all out, the efflorescence anyway, in the end!

We are cladding our build with the same slates as the roof, which was completed 18months ago - we kept the slates in dry storage, did a corner on Friday and my other half went ballistic, at a distance 2m+ they look great but close up you can see the efflorescence stains and small scratches, only very slight. So now I need to go through 2000 slates and choose the best ones for the front of the house and relegate the stained / scratched ones to high up on the sides (where nobody can see them). I have in the past managed to clean the efflorescence off with a weak vinegar solution. I will get a better picture tomorrow as this one does not really show the issues.

Not sure this is exactly a perfect market as highlighted above some of that fall might be down to Gas costs!

You are right but PowerPoint, that I used to add those trends, only really does straight lined. I hated thermodynamics at Uni - I only did one course and decided my future did not lay in that direction so steered well clear. Even though now it might have been useful I wouldn't have wanted to clutter my brain with it for 40 years only to find it useful now! Respect to those that get it though🤩

That's interesting data. I am curious about the steps at about 09:15 - 09:25 the trends carry on but are stepped lower, does the machine decide it is approaching setpoint and back off (Modulate down)? It does slow It does look like it could get the Flow even higher, for a lower CoP. Have added a few, very crude, lines to help me get it all in my head. I appreciate that the two trends (Power in / Power Out) won't ever meet but I thought is was interesting to see where they are going!

@Alan Ambrose Nope, all very straight forward the Electric (UKPN in our case) people and Openreach all said how much a doddle it was hooking it up. We arranged them so the Gas (Not connected - just a blanked off meter in there) and the electric Meter where on the front on the block accessible to the suppliers and the Electric distribution box and the comms box are behind them (Actually will end up being inside the cycle / bin / ASHP - if we have one, shed so secure. Just to be clear on the Gas situation, we have installed a track pipe from the utilities block into the plant room / utility just in case we, or future owners, want to have gas appliances but for us its a no-no. Once we can get onto the right tariff with octopus we will ask them to remove the meter. If anybody in the future wants to have gas they will have to get it replaced but all the pipework will be there for them ready.

Now all we need is to be able to print them full size - oooops we already can!

If you have superfoil you can get water flowing a long way from the leak... So that may need thinking through as well.

Then, if borrowing to do this work, you need to factor in interest on the loan as part of the cost - which simply, as in easy to understand, pushes the payback time out. People generally don't do a full cost accounting job on such purchases so Net Present Value (NPV) and Rate of Return (RoR) calcs are not performed.