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You have us all puzzled. What motivates you to separate 125 mm of insulation in such a way that it would be likely to both cause condensation problems and reduce the effectiveness of the insulation ?

Grow some moss on the roof?

What grounds did they give for preventing you enter? And, if their answer was reasonable - under their T+Cs - isn't the answer: jump in your car, wait a bit, and drop your stuff in the container?

Having just built some temporary stairs - one tread of which creaked - I venture to suggest that you are going to have to expose the hidden under-stair area. Then the answer is likely to be contained in one or more of these videos

Thats a but too far I'm afraid. Why? Piles, sand, rock, slope, hidden services to name but several. Globally, £1350 ish per square meter for a complete build should be a very rough guide. Not true in Sandbanks, or Westminster and a little steep for the far North East .

I was going to cobble something together based on an amalgam of the simplest ideas here .... The issue isn't so much the grease trap: it's how to reduce the amount of grease 'thrown away' what do you do with the fat ball once you've got it how on earth do you get the damn thing out of the trap? I'll sit back and watch you struggle with it first though.... ?

Eh up lad, you're a pair of grafters aren't you? It's not as if you don't both work at demanding jobs as well. You may have a Sarsaparilla on me at your local tonight..... Preston - home of Temperance and all that eh?

By chance I know a little bit about that particular build. Looking that GD episode up, and paying special attention to the issue of the cantilever will repay the effort many times over. The lesson I took away from viewing that episode and talking to some of the people directly involved in the build is - get an SE who knows both the material involved in the build and has substantial experience with cantilevers.

Simple, cheap, effective, easily regulated. One tilt window downstairs upwind: one velux upstairs downwind

?That's the one.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/insight/an-inspector-falls-what-the-building-control-insurance-crisis-means-for-the-housing-sector-62279

@Triassic Lindab : normal for Germany ? When I look at all the hard work Ed ( @Construction Channel) puts into his channel, and his build, I can't help but admire his energy. The man fizzes with the stuff. If I sit down at tea time, it's not long before I'm dozing. @dpmiller, now that's elegant. Elegant. Yer a genius

200mm: Just over 6 inches - 7, sorry. In the big scheme of things such a small amount just doesn't matter: you'll have more to stress about than that. Let them have their way and get on with it. Get it back some other - hidden - way. You'll think of something

I'd get murdered - or worse if I nicked our long spoons from the kitchen. ?

I'll pop down to my mate and have him run a set of mandrills (right term?) up John. Thanks

That would mean the the seam faces forward ?First thing I thought of... To make it fit the space available, I had to cut 390mm off ; which leaves the dent in exactly the wrong place. Yeah, that's the one! ? Mate of mine was a panel beater. Watching him work was a real treat. He worked on the production side of the Concord wing. Very gifted bloke. I'm 50,000 hours short of experience though. I think that's the only thing left to do. PS Lindab stuff 'feels' very nice to work with. Very simple. Gonna need some touch up paint though ? Thanks for the advice

My guttering arrived with a moderate dent in one of the down-spouts. This was replaced, and drainage superstore kindly did not pick up the damaged pipe. How can I repair the dent in the original tube? The dent is about a meter from the end. I've tried using a hand cramp to squeeze it - useless, just puts extra 'flats' into the tube using a Spanish windlass to throttle it into shape - useless, I'm not strong enough trying to pop the dent back out from inside with a bit of wood - useless praying - useless swearing - useless but satisfying posting on Build Hub - it's up to you dear reader: useless, or just the ticket? TIA, Ian

Here's what to do. Either Catch another shrew. Pop it in a little cage and stick the cage where t' other one disappeared. The original shrew may well come out fighting.... mad as Hell. Or Put your cat up to it: put the cat's proven down near where the shrew disappeared. Or both.

Cant see any other way @daiking ....

Does anyone think I need to update the CDM 2015 and the Domestic Client thread? For example @joth (above) links to a useful resource .....

Can't wait to see the work togs. WorkZone regularly have offers on work trousers - and hoodies......

@Pete, Tek 'naw notice ' of that RusselGriffith' mert.... Slip bits an' bobs inter ' normal recyclin' - an' gi' 't lads a tenna now'n agin' laaaak. Works a treat here.

... except in the new scenario, there will be different problems to solve. Problems unique to that new build. Where I (for one) won't know what I'm looking at. But I will know some of what I'm looking at: more than I did a few years ago. Research points out that expert status occurs at around 50,000 hours' experience on top of formal qualifications / training. Be dead by then I agree. There's a huge push to get it done quickly. And that means errors. I'll have the rest of my life to look at those. It's a marathon this job, not a sprint.

Interesting thread. I haven't installed any MVHR yet. The majority of windows are openers - and since I'm working inside all of them are open : plaster drying off everywhere. Its a relief to be working indoors in a bit of a breeze. And whether or not it's actually cooler (I suspect the air temperature is exactly the same inside as out) , it feels cooler. And maybe that's the main thing in the summer months.

That message has been confirmed locally. Resources are just too stretched.