Declan52

Be handy to have. Worth it if you holiday in Europe with a shorter queue time at the airport and access to the e111 health insurance if anything happens.

You can use a concrete flue gather to start it off. Build the two sides with a block on it's flat up to what ever height you want it to be. The concrete flue gather sits on the first 4 inches of each side. From then on you can take it up to the ceiling and once you get there step it in so it's only a block square right round. Flues are built in as you go and filled with vermiculite when it's harden. As it's block the complete way up it will be suitable for a timber frame build. Remember to put a 2 bends on the flue to help draw smoke. It will either draw smoke or tears and you want it to be smoke. https://fpmccann.co.uk/chimney-caps-flue-gatherers

A plank or a handrail will easily prise it out.

All the care and attention that you put into your build doesn't really count for much when the blinds on my patio doors get left open all day and you come home to a real toasty room sitting at 29 degrees.

Looks like something you would wear if you where kicking doors in Baghdad or Kabul.

The fault codes are below so by swapping the wires the fault has moved to the other string. Is that not what was supposed to happen.

Same guys done mine looks wired up like that.

Think Ian might need some of them magnets glued in along his back teeth.

How are you going to tie both skins together?? What kind of insulation is going in between?? Any particular reason for using block as @ProDave said on your other post why not do it in timber.

https://www.diy.com/departments/universal-square-glazed-metal-silver-effect-plant-pot-h-410mm-l-370mm/1283515_BQ.prd What goes in it is up to you.

I buried all my pipework under the floor so the back of the house only has the vent stack from the toilet. 1. A 110mm pipe coming up through the floor to connect the sink and dw to. 2. Same for the utility room with one pipe serving the sink and wm. 1 pipe for your sink and shower waste. Depending on how close these are to each other you might be better off with a pipe each. 3. The downstairs toliet can go down through the floor and connect into the stack. If it's possible to connect the toliet upstairs in to the stack as it rises then happy days. The sink and bath shower can connect into the stack as well. It's more how you want it to look on the outside. Having a maze of pipework at the back isn't that nice to look at when you have the chance to hide it. Most of your manholes will have 6/8 different connections so as long as you use the middle flow for the toilet nothing else is going to get stuck.

I heard they emptied most of the reservoirs to dredge them out expecting our usual wet summer and where caught out when that big yellow thing decided to stay for a while. It's either that or all the Belfast Millie's had to get baths to remove all their fake tan caked on from last October. That would lower our water stores by quite a bit.

Dig a hole in the trench deep enough to put a builders bucket in. Bale the water out and take a photo of the trench with the pipe sitting in nice clean gravel. Fill the trench back in and leave both ends accessible for them to do their work. If they ask why you backfilled it tell them it was collapsing in so was a H&S risk. Doubt they will really ask but you will still have the photo just incase.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FORTFCH5560-TechFast-Roofing-Screw-Timber/dp/B00Q1MKNWG 3 different depths to choose from.

What about 2 wheelbarrow wheels on one side and 2 slots on the opp side where you can put in 2 bars/timber and move it Iike you would a normal wheelbarrow.

That makes it worse!! You are paying £100 a sqm to set the patio table on and a BBQ.

You could hire one of these out and buy a few blades and still be quids in. https://www.hss.com/hire/p/tile-saw-bench-plunge-cut-110v

Think I was about 3 secs quicker!!!

Welcome. Are you not shooting yourself in the foot going for 3 different build methods. Surely if you pick a preferred method and get a price from a company to do shell/complete build of the 3 houses your bargaining power is much better. Nice gif never seen that before

You have kwikstage and a chainsaw. Take it down yourself bit by bit.

Bull float https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/BULL-FLOAT-NEW-1200-x-120mm-steel-with-fresno-brush-ct239-/163117567223

They are just used to rolling it out and putting a few staples/nails in to hold it in place and start putting the battens on. Doubt you would ever see any house builder using as good a quality membrane for a start and taping the overlaps. If the lead time for the recommended tape is to long how about this one. https://www.screwfix.com/p/radbar-double-sided-membrane-tape-4000ga-50-x-10m/23552

Is it just a microwave or does it need a grill??

Whoever owns the nice new digger won't like putting the rock hammer on. They ain't good for a digger. They shake the absolute shat out of them. That spoil will be perfect for the base of a road.

Realistically how many times will you use the combi microwave?? I have a cheap one in the utility room and it's maybe used twice a week for beans or soup. Could you work it this way and put the money saved towards a better hob,oven, coffee machine.