MikeSharp01

Is it a scale thing - how does it sit in the street scene, its repose? I think that is what Architects call it.

Dare we ask what caused it? I expect it was the colour of your eyes.

Looks like poor workpersonship to me.

No - they were not the best on price / service.

We recently ordered our FACRO quad glazed rooflights, made to order, and they arrived in about a month.

Great food for though here how might we all get out total energy consumption (including supply chains) per head down to that of India while also removing coal, gas and oil from the mix I wonder.

Great chart - if you look at it though it gives you some idea just what is developed world and what is not EG energy use in homes must largely be charged against the developed world and could be controlled there. Also the road transport aspect needs a bit more detail as we need to understand it.

Warming up nicely - pardon the pun! It seems we have so many different views, very few of which are socially or economically acceptable as things stand so no cohesive leadership on the problem. India has already said it will do nothing about the amount of coal it burns, the clean energy growth will just about keep up with economic growth. The Chinese have broadly said the same thing. However @Carrerahilltake a look at your Bosch kettle and see where it was made - perhaps it is this one: https://www.productfrom.com/product/669843-bosch-twk6004n-electric-kettle but to save looking it up it is Hong Kong! We searched high and low for a UK made kettle last year and did not find one then a European one and failed again, there are a few made in the USA and very many designed in the UK! Perhaps we have to live, for now, with being good at design and awful at manufacturing shipping a few digits in the form of drawings does have an environmental impact but nothing like as much as bringing the putative kettle back from the other side of the world in a big ship burning very nasty oil - nobody is thinking full cost. Either way we miss the point it is all about waste in the end - we needed a new kettle cos the old one failed - irreparable. @Marvin you are correct its all about human factors and the way we choose is all about how we are led, whatever the tinge of the regime. Root cause - poor leadership perhaps.

Welcome to THE forum for people like us! Once you have the answer perhaps you could tell HMG. PS Will members who submit quotes get credited, if they wish to be, in the book.

Today has been a depressing day and so I thought I would express my frustration and see how we feel. The 'CODE RED' report from the IPCC (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf) is not the reason for my depression but rather it brings into sharp (no pun intended) focus the challenges we just are not facing up to and our principal politicians (not leaders because leaders are able to make, explain and garner a following around difficult decisions) seem incapable of facing the facts , developing the options, choosing the path, getting us all aboard and making the changes we clearly need before we incinerate ourselves. Even if you subscribe to the ideas circulated by Nick Bostrum (and many others before and since) that we are living in a simulation - created by a super intelligence to simulate the actions of their forbears, perhaps prior to a subsequent extinction event as one could see it - IE there is nothing watching this simulation any more, it seems that we have found a way of breaking the simulator! Also hoping the super intelligence will offer a simple reboot is perhaps far fetched given that we are just expendable avatars of their forbears and they are watching how the simulation plays out or they are just not watching any more and the simulation just keeps on running in the supercomputer they invented - although a few seconds later they invented a better / faster computer but are / were using it for more important things. So we need to get this fixed or perhaps we don't - discuss!

Might be worth factoring in aspects of 'the grid' that you feel you will need as this might modify the available sites. IE do you want broadband, electricity, gas, water, sewage connection.

Basically leaving a gap would perhaps be daft but on the other hand the party wall stuff might cost a bit - you will also need to join the roof and looks like the chimney as well as the wall and if you do join to the existing one you are probably stuck with the same basic profile - IE same size.

Surface mount, simpler to Install and you don"t need to wreck the cabinets to fit them. I used metal surface boxes with the cables coming in the back via a grommet at millstone manor.

Not sure we will be allowed by the powers that be to re-write the laws of physics - besides which they would have to change everywhere and the effects would be interesting to say the least?.

Yes but speaks not of the full cost, iron is more plentiful than lithium, in 2019 we only harvested 97000T of lithium (BGS 2021) while in pig iron alone we managed 1.3 billion T.

Is this timber a rainscreen, IE there is a surface below that actually does the work of stopping water penetration?

Perhaps you could put the UFH in the liquid screed so avoid the voids and get the UFH in as well, unless building control where you are insists on it the insulation it will do very little thermally, might have an acoustic effect, so might usefully be dropped. If you try and fill back up to the same level with screed however the extra 50mm of concrete might be too great a load so that would be worth checking if going that route.

Early days - but promising results.

I guess you don't want those fingers in the way as 800Kg of slider comes towards the close either.

What is going on here, did they manage a close air tight fit without the expanding foam and / or compriband, or is this a tongue in cheek dig at FENSA?

Looks good - have you had a recent air test to see if the whole place is still as you built it 10 years back?

can you squeeze a photo of the neighbours gable with your current layout.

I guess its about working the numbers - the money spent on an extension can go into the move and paying the uprated mortgage for a period while your income and inflation nibble away at it. If you are thinking of putting the extension costs onto the mortgage than that may change things but again its about working the numbers. Don't forget to factor in the difficulty of finding a builder and materials to build with at the moment!

You will be throwing away two out of three lots of work and you might find yourself in the difficult position of wanting ideas from each in the final design and asking one of them to take ideas from others forward as part of the final package which may be a difficult fit. We tackled it slightly differently, we asked our chosen architect to work up three schemes for the project and when we combined aspects of them we had no problems - we loved the tower concept from one, the room layout from another. We chose our architect by giving each of the shortlisted ones a pack of our expectations including RED lines, a mood board, our budget, our expectations of self building - IE we wanted to be able to do as much of the work as we could, eco desires, our requirements on drawing formats / availability / usage rights and process outline based on the RIBA phases (where we mentioned the 3 schemes thinking) with go / no go points along the way. We then met each 'down the pub' and after receiving fee proposals we tidied up loose ends with each and made our choice. It worked out well I think as every time I stand in the structure, which is now up and going through cladding before we start work on the inside for real, I get a happy feeling about the way it works. PS in our case the Structural Engineer was also part of the package as our chosen architect wanted us to use someone they had worked with elsewhere.

You will need to think hard about separation distances and work the combinations especially the 3ph which will need a notification tape above it as should the gas.