scottishjohn

only way that would work is if you lived in a country with lots of sun in the winter --then solar thermal could charge up your humungus insulated water tank all summer and winter like the alps where alot of the time there is bright sunlight even when its cold outside Iwas very keen at one stage to do this --but the costs for the and insulation made it non viable Idid see a chalet in the alps that had such a tank --as it was off grid and not very big --so it worked but UK heat pump is the way due to weeks of no sunshine inwinter when you need the heat

recomendations for a grp walk on balcony area no of layers?

if any help iwill tell you how my builders have tanked my old stone building which is 260 years old they built a 4" blokc wall next to stone wall --stuck on tanking membrane then gap and naother 4" wall and filled the gap with concrete If you can get wall dry enough to stick m,embrane then a gap and one " wall and fill gap with sloppy concrete that will work - concrete makes sure no amount of water pressure from other side will lift the mebrane you maybe cannot afford to loose 6" --but that will be a forever solution then dot and dab plaster board on to block wall ?

easy solution is too squirt wasp powder in holes anything that walks through it is dead cannot comment on the legality -but it will stop your problem

I know that if house was built before 1947 then you have an absolute right to double the footprint after that it is by agreement

must be me surely iif beams are weakend then you should sorting that out not trying to save a bit of weight in slates and yes tqpco are not cheap

all news channels and interviewers hypeeverything to the limit and beyond not just bbc -but all of them need alot of bullshit to fill the news slots we now have in all the different media channels so they just pad it out and keep repeating same things its called brain washing

you may be be rught -but from what friends have told me they seem to few and far between not looked myself for a long time

good ,maybe i can get a good deal when I get that far

my nortgage rate in the 80,s was 18%-- it was the big fall in rates that alowed house price to rocket punished those with savings , to the point where normal repayment mortages have dissappeared . and its almost impossible to fet one where you cab pay off lumps when you want. we need to head back to theses -but mortgage companies don,t want you to pay it off --just keep taking the interest on fixeddeals + then stuff you when it runs out even the few banks that used to do a conbined currebnt account=mortgage have gone -which gave you the option to heep paying off nits as you go banks want you in debt forever , which helped me to be able to buy my mega plot at a good price --cos I had real money

my architect wanted me to have vaulted cielings Iasked her if she was going to ocme round and clean and de spider web them never mind all that extra volume of air to heat and the 50% extra insulation it would need + arsholing around fitting between exposed beams etc not my bag

If i could use a 4.5 ton inside my old house -then should not be a problem and if he is going to riase it up -- leave internal founds and lay another over it as load will all be taken on new founds around outside of house also means you can connect to all services in old found ,. if its built like most houses a big hammer to knock walls don to inside will soon sort it - and maybe get away with a 2 ton digger to load the dumper piccie of my clearing of inside and that had 3ft deep in old walls and plaster etc etc and we dug down to 300 below new floor level icould not use old drains as they were nearly non exsistant

which is why isuggested builng around your hous first if doing it yourself could save months of rental costs ue ONLY WHEN THAT IS DONE DEMOLISH OLD ONE INSIDE

where are you going to live while this is going on? that could be alot of money -with inevitable hold ups -that will happen have you thought about digging a new found around exsitiing house and do you ICFwalls while house is still livable -then demolish it inside --could save you lots in money and you can do it at your own pace then ?

providing you have an adhesion promoter -somethign to stickthe convdrete dust down concrete surface dust will be the problem ,so it must besealed --then any modern adhesive wil work you painting the gatrage floor? if so do not skrimp and use 2 pack system --you will never do it again and it wil seal floor very wel

not strictly true for some of them saab was bought out by general motors and rolls royce cars not aviation was also bought out -niether of those caused customer problems and neither did woolworths -- just the suppliers the banks are again not a good example of going broke as they were engineered by other banks whcih had shares in and was down to global derivative tradings -not normal banking we are talking about a simple straightforward company who make or supply goods and have ripped off the customers

anyone know the real reason these companies went belly -up was it the price of wood ? otherwise i cannot see why a long running company like durisol went down . isotex maybe -- not been in the market in UK that long so ongoing costs to chase sales could be the reason - taking too long to convert prospects into buyers or was the margin really that tight

if needing a larger ASHP,due to size of house -- is there any savings in costs going for a 3phase unit over a single phase unit as iwill have 3 phase supply

especially if you have a panel saw --egwith the track bar

I talked with builder about that --but he says you would then need to use foam backed palster board to get the value not disputing your view on how good it would be --but it will be BC that make the judgment

would it be cheaper to go for spray foam to the 140mm thickness required rather than them cutting sheets to infill studding last time I looked at this I was told that if doing insulation yourself --then cheaper to go pir boards -- but if allowing builder to do it --then the price would be similar or cheaper to go for spray in foam after first fix your comments please.

I suppose it may be worth offering to pay credit card charges -which could be 2%-3% to get security of a repayment if they went down ?

that only seems to apply to non residential properties that are eventually used for a house reading thec notice you attached

I suspect i,m only going to be able to claim anything above 5% back

and claim all the vat back at the end?