Big Jimbo

Just make sure to turn the electrics off first buddy.

Zoot the hoot. Just get a book and a beer, and head down to your cabin by the water. Just be smelly but happy.

But only if you run a coax up to the loft.

I shall keep my eye on this as i dont have a scooby about network stuff.

Just had a look and read of the guys site. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. It would be nice to see some external images to see what difference it made to the wall outside.

I have done the following in the past, but i'm not saying it is ok. I am qualified 16th edition, and part p. Both completed in 2007. I have never used them on any sort of commercial basis. What i wanted, and the reason that i sat the exams etc, is that i wanted to be able to second fix, on the kitchens, that i was supplying and installing at the time. I basically wanted to give the sparky confidence that i knew what i was doing. Move on to doing a full refurb on a property for my daughter. Before any electrical work was done, i spoke face to face with the LA building inspector. I explained that i had Part P, and various other Domestic electrical installation certificates, But that i was not a trade member of any of the trade association and could not issue a cert. He was happy for me to do the work, and simply get an anual electricty safety cert once i finished from a sparky. Prob the sort of cert that a landlord might have to get. He said that the LA had instances of work being completed where people were unable to get a cert for lots of reasons, such as company gone bust, self trader died etc. As he said nobody could be expected to rip the house apart and have the work done again. I have done this 3 times with LA's since. Have a word with your building control, and your sparky.

Mine came the same night as the committee meeting at about 10pm

Can you remember any of the local councillors that were on the committee when your application was approved. Perhaps you could try emailing them and asking them to chase it up. Makes you wonder why we pay council tax. Bloody waste of desk space. Try and get online and see if you can find the minutes of that meeting. Your planning app decicion will be recorded. Print it off. Once you have it atleast you are safe. Send a copy of that to the head of planning, and ask them for your approval notice by return.

I spotted it straight away. I know feck all about glass but that looks pants. Big plant pot in front of it with bamboo or something. That and a good discount ?

I'm sure its just me, but i was recently on a site with a £70k window install from a company named quite often on here. The windows were fitted and then a guy came a couple of days later with a van full of what looked like self adhesive draft excluder. He gave me a bit and i had a good squeze etc. Once it was fitted, which was basically done with a flat filling blade, i thought it looked shite. The windows were in a light green, the brickwork red. The 10mm + wide tape looked shocking. A week later it still hadn't expanded to meet the wobbly hand made bricks down either side of the windows. IMO how is that an effective air seal. I will be doing my usual. Sealing all around the front with a 10mm deep frame sealer. Covering that with a 3mm thick glued on plastic strip, matching the window. Filled from behind with foam. Foam cut back, and another bead of silicon around the inside. This is covered on the inside by the plasterboard, and skim. I know it's not the "right way", but works for me. I have got great airtest results with this method. Air sealing tape, and that expanding draft excluder cost 1/2 as much as the bloody windows. Chances are that cheap (not that anything is cheap these day) UPVC windows will leak anyway. This post is @pocster 's chance to call me a bodger. It will make a change from me having a go at him.

What a pain. I feel for you. A rat catching friend of mine told me. You have to find the source of where they are getting in. If you don't either poison, or traps will need to be repeated again, and again every couple of months. You are going to need to either have a good explore around, or a good pest controler to try and find the source. What you don't want is a pest controller who just baits of traps. You need to find that entry point.

Once you hace had a track saw, i doubt you will be able to live without one.

You will have to have a gap between the bottom door, and the drop down desk. Ask them to move the drop down desk up, and the bottom door up. See what you think of the result. if you are not happy, it will be a full 5 piece new front re-make.

Bottom left hand corner of the picture.

`Thank you @alfaTom. I understand it now. Cheers fella.

I don't know. I just know that that is the size used by the labs.

The 425 because that is what i believe is the size used to filter the material before the plasticity test is done.

Say that the 1/2 kilo was all clay, but the other material was say sand with gravel. That means that the 7/8 of the material is not taken into account ?

@alfaTom So if you had say 4kilo of material. Dried and filtered. Say 1/2 a kilo of material goes through the 425micron filter. Is the other 3.5kilo just discarded ?

I know that when a soil test for plasticity is done, a sample is taken, dried, and put through a 425micron filter. The material that passes through is then tested for plasticity. Would anybody know what is involved in a Modified plasticity test ? Is it something to do with adding back in the material that does not pass through the filter ? I can't seem to find the relevant info online.

As you are next to the canal, i think you should have a 1/3rd size canal boat built around it. A 3ft moat all around the outside of the boat, with a plank for the chickens to access the shelter of the tree. Then you could have a couple of ducks in the moat to keep the chickens company. If you think i am being silly, it's because. I like your house. I would like chickens, (and ducks), and i've had loads of canal boat holidays, and love the canals. So basically, i'm jealous. What about a pirate ship, half sunken. Designed in such a way as to be a nightime house for the chickens.

Try and keep it friendly. They tend to get the hump if you get arsey. You need to lose the front gable for sure.

Perhaps he is looking to boost to more than 1.5 bar ?

I can't remember wher i used to get them, but how about the tiny little PIR sensors. I used to use them on kitchen cupboards.

I fitted One at my daughters. It didn't have a vessel. It increased her water pressure to 1.5 bar. There was a single main that supplies her and her next door neighbour. Without it her water pressure was dreadful. She is single so just has the kitchen, and One bathroom, so serves her well.