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I should've known better...😏

Questions questions questions..... Well some are deep and some aren't. Most are the results of corners of objects hitting the wall at speed. Shallow . Sometimes me chasing out a line up to a light 10mm , others 360mm or so where I've drilled a hole for the s\s Juliet rods. There's about a 1mmor 0.5mm gap all the way round.

Grandchildren, toy cars, small tricycles, swords, shields, stolen granddad tools and walls don't go together too well. In conjunction with the holes I made when putting in the stairs and the juliet balconies, there's a wall-hole filling fest. At the moment, I'm reduced to sieving Pollyfilla and Toutpret before mixing it. Maybe I should use pre-mixed. I know. Lets ask the wall-hole expert @Pocster .... which do you use, son?

Here's a quiet evenings viewing by the fireside while you agonise .....

Lift. Inspect Clean Jet through. Reseal Wait Pray When your prayers are not answered , post on BH for the Drain God to reply. Meantime Pass Go, Collect £200 and send that to my account (PM sent 😜)

The golf club , or the Rotary Circle, squash club , Freemasons, or a friend of a friend .....

And there's your answer. Put that in place and you're off !

Well, let me give you all pile envy - 52 (over 146 sq m.)

Firstly , welcome! Nextly, photo of the Heat Pump please and - if possible, a link to the manufacturer's website and - maybe- download the manual ?

Our piling company drove our piles while using an instrument for vibration monitoring - and sent the readings back to the company head office. I can't remember the brand name of the meter but here's a link to the kind of thing I mean. Faced with your issue, I would go onto the site and explain your concern. ask the site supervisor if the vibration is monitored AND reported (to their head office) invite the site supervisor to come into your home and experience the vibration If you get no real answer, then talk to the piling company head office. They will (should) be concerned because of the possibility of you claiming against them. No joy there, then Environmental Health in your Local Authority is the next call Its important to note that you cannot stop the work. But you can and should be compensated for any material loss. That means gathering evidence. Cracks that weren't there before the work, plaster falling off the wall - stuff like that needs to be photographed. The key question is : how much longer will the vibration continue, and - if there is evidence of damage and you need to claim - could you have a copy of the vibration monitoring results?

I'll try that one on her @Adrian Walker, but I don't think it'll wash. She's got a way with her that's sometimes called 'quiet determination'. Brilliant when it works in your favour but .....

Usually MVHR ceiling vents are circular. But I am under direction from Mission Control (SWMBO) to find some rectangular ones. I've looked at ventilationmegastore, they don't do them I've asked BPC - they don't do them. The closest they do is a rectangular spigot (fixed) - but you can't 'tune' that (screw the valve in or out as needed) There are plenty of suppliers of fixed rectangular ceiling vents - but we need one with the normal screw -in-out- valve. Any know of a supplier who might be able to help?

Thats the point I think @joe90 .... Amble's not exactly the richest area in the UK ....

... just like a normal brick wall. For those of us who've not been there, it's in Amble on the East coast. From the opposite side of the road, it looks just like a normal wall.

A6 Corridor Development Area round by us is starting to wake back up again @nod. One busy-ness indicator is to try and get a B+B in the neighbourhood. When the sites are busy, you can't get a bed : and when its not so busy - fairly easy. With one exception - the B+B near us. Talk about posh...... I know where I'm going if SWMBO kicks me out.

Can I have some of whatever you're having please? Optimism cake.

Properly done, thats expensive - £1.5 to 2k . Ask to see other 'Perc' Test reports - here's why- enjoy it 2 men one machine 2 days, written report.

This is what we use: I don't know the market well enough to recommend or warn about anything else. But if you stick to the - fewest possible moving parts - rule you won't go far wrong. Please do your Due Diligence - many others here have different systems and find them excellent. Protect the pipe by putting a (couple of?) concrete window lintels (£20) over the pipe where the tractor is like to chug. But unless the pipe is very shallow at that point, I should think (guess) you won't need to worry. 900mm will do I think. The farmer will not want to over-compact the field.

Potentially, you've got £5000 + worth of expense: tank £3k, drainage field £2k, piping and laying (?+). That said, the report cited above isn't that bad. Essentially it says " Ask me to come back when you've cleared the blockage - and get me to suggest a drainage field, and - if someone had recently pooped in this system, I'd be able to tell you more. " Beware of charlatans in this sector. Tank: anything with as few moving parts as possible - an air-blower will do (and does for many of us). Loads of other posts about the issue on BH. Size: the tank size rules are based on what a house can accommodate, as opposed to what you actually need. The soak-away (drainage field) - might need moving to a different site. I'm sucking my teeth here hoping thats not necessary.

Milngarvie ? Bearsden?

In haste.... Read up on the General Binding Rules

We've got some electricians in at the moment and while they will move stuff for themselves, they also charge for moving furniture. I think you will end up paying more to have electricians to do work which isn't as technically demanding.

What do you mean? Silly? It's German what more you need...

A cool morning will do - when there's little sunlight - because that can 'get-in-the-way'.

Here's too much information An interesting thing to say.....