scottishjohn

doubt it would be cheaper than the poly tanks you can buy and it would still need burying --long term the ply would rot away

UV will be minimum-but might need some other treatment I know of one aboout 15 miles away near gatehouse that was showing small arsenic content -but a filter of some sort may it ok that will be next on list once i am happy with source and flow

still not on right road today --spent it all dumper driving moved about 300tons today -minimum but snapped a few of the moderate size ones on the road side thats my chainsaw helmet on them to give scale . your WEE diggers would not lift any of them

I know where its going- It was old water supply to my house -thenthe mian flow after the interception tank runs across the corut yard in a stone channel -under my road then cascades down the quarry side into the lake,then runsout of the bottom end under main road to the sea and yes i have considered hydro power by raising the level of the lake -dead easy to raise it 8m and get a 25m drop --but that is not my main concern at this time If and when quarry is sold it will not be mine what i want to know is where it comes from it enters my property through a stone dyke and there are 2 small disused quarrys up hill from me which never dry up and never seem to alter much in level I am told by old locals that they gave up quarrying them cos it was too hard to keep them dry --but that would be in the early 1800,s so they just dug somewhere else where water was not as much a problem so the idea is to add dye to one quarry at a time and see which it comes from I have found a plastic 32mm pipe on other side of quarry --on the glebe side which is laid on the surface and of course has split at a joiner,frost ? ,used for quarry things I suspect --It has been running for years as far as i can tell so if this is fed from same quarry --then I will have enough water for my supply something else thart is strange no one can ever remember the lake being frozen!!--maybe water coming out of rock very low down in the quarry walls -so relativly warm?--yet another thing to investigate still have not had a boat on it yet to plumb the depth -locals have lots of ideas varying from 20m to 40m in parts-

Hi looking for a non toxic water dye to trace where my stream is coming from --suspect its from an old quarry ruther up the hill but it willeventually run into my lake in the quarry and then to the sea the quarry lake is full of fish

wrong road today --maybe tomorrow

the only advantage a GSHP will have over anASHP is if we had winters where it was -20c for months ,like canada and some parts of europe - when the better COP ratio of using the heat in the soil . in worst winter here ASHP could be close to a cop 0f 1+ --but that will only be for a few days ,then add all the extra expense ---so unless you have a lake you can dump your slinky into very easily ,then I cannot see a good reason to go GSHP no need in uk to use anything but ASHP and if a very modern insulated hosue then you won,t need monster heating anyway do the numbers and you will see

should be down that road to morrow -will get a picture of my stones

If we are comparing stones --I know i,m gonna win .LOL things that the 14ton digger can only roll about --just can,t lift them and some it can hardly even move .

I,m confused -- but bottom to top? ypu mean from outide to inside? you got drawings I can see no reason why MGO board would invalidate warranties when used as fire protection -

can you check the gyproc "white book" and see if layers of staggered PB will give you the fire proof time you need we had to do this when i split my workshop into units 19mm plank ,then fireline board ,then another layer of fireline --all joints staggered. I canm,t see why MGO boards which if you check has an "A" rating won,t do -then cover in pb if not a hard plaster finish

cement board behindPB? or MGO board

some of your boulders at bottom to act as a temporary dam while you fill up above them + compact it ?

so this is a ditch to be filled with gravel as a sloping soak away or is there a pipe to go in it then back filled

a slap on the wrist and maybe a "letter of comfort " ,think mine was about £50 from council talk to them

in scotland --yes you need a building warrant

you lot are really cheering me up I got ivy everywhere on walls across the ground -all over I was hoping to use a very strong mix of glyphosphate .I know farmers reckon best way for bracken etc is to spray it in sptmember as it starts to take the juice back down into the root -so it takes the weed killer with it ,as ivy don,t really do that -that will not make much difference

s/h one here --just need to flush out with degreasr https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10000-LITRE-2200-GALLON-DIESEL-STORAGE-TANK-BAUSER-2590MM-DIAMETER-2444MM-HEIGHT/164186750431?hash=item263a4afddf:g:bWkAAOSwu6tesX8e or new ones at around £1200-£1300 you would need to bury these types of tanks really --so they don,t freeze

Ihave never heard of the need for a fire tank ? is this something new if you are off grid or remote from mains supply

yes I got that problem when I run power down to my pump station at bottom of hill and water pipe up --needs to be seperate trenchs ,but as its not DNO that is doing that i will use minimum sensible distance -maybe one wider trench ? 400 m --so will need to have some joins in both pipe and cable

when Iasked about a supply they would not let me lasy the cable -all i could do was dig the thrench and htye lay it and last 20m cthey laya conduit and then want owatch use back fill it with suitable pea gravel etc. So I would ask some more detailed questions ,but ilike @ProDave solution

It don,t work like that --you will be paying CGT on the 2 houses you can,t just build 2 houses and keep all the profit and use it to build the 3rd one -you will have tax to pay on them only way round that is to build one --live in it for some time --as your only home --sell it ,then no tax - then build another do same again -then build your final one my accountant tells me you need to have it as your residence for a year to be sure HMRC will not query it amd |i expect you would need to split the title into 3 units --take legal tax planning advice on this and of course you will need 3 seperate water + electric supplies and sewerage systems

ilooked ta the link you provided I see no simple or cdheap opton and no certainty if you sp[ent mega legal expenses you would get it anyway you say you NEED to cross cut -- why would widening the exsisting access not suffice? its not going to be cheap what ever you do .if indeed there is any other way could you buy one of the houses --alter the lane -then sell it again with reduced land? If you expect the local authority to just change its mind then its going to need a lot pressure from councillors to do that- bottom line is how much are you willing to spend to sort this problem -- maybe a they will grant you a temporary access ,if it was for doing building work -but a new permanent access --not a prayer unless you going ot give them a huge payment and have the councillors on your side --same as "tesco " do when they fail planning - by building asomething new for the local area

that I feel is your only real solution in the long term do any of the other properties use it ? who maintains it ? is there a deal with them to widen if you make it a proper road and they have no maintainence costs--

so thats another positive for woodcrete blocks --use anything on it you would use on a brick wall I did not realise that poly block need soemthing different