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    Building on the comments from this thread, the good weather forecast, and the current low level of the water table , we're planning to 'sink' our poo tank this coming weekend. Using dry mix concrete. (Thanks J for the advice, we'll do exactly what you did) In recent weeks I've been reading a lot about concrete - and more specifically dry mix concrete. @Bitpipe talks about using up spare cement and and sand: this search provided some very interesting reading. It seems a very versatile mixture, which until recently, i would not have given it any thought. The search above points to all sorts of uses. But without water - how does it go off? Does it just take the water out of the atmosphere? And so that means you can't guarantee when and how fast it sets? Is there a rule of thumb about when to use dry mix instead of wet mix?
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    Of far more concern is the removal of the urinal for your garden gnomes. I thought that was a very socially aware touch in your build Gary. Very accessibility agenda. Full Marks, fella. I mean what are the poor gnomes going to do now?
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    Olly, I had forgotten the layers of trauma associated with this roof. Entirely due to carelessness on the part of the architect's specification sheet . Or rather the person who drafted it. A dweeb in the office - a dweeb with no eye, or care for detail , and wielding that most dangerous computer tool (cut and paste) didn't bother to change Min to MAX. That was the cause of confusion in the thread referred to above. Kingspan deliberately give you more than you need. Hence the need for just a little bit of saw work. Nothing to worry about. I dealt with a super guy at Kingspan. His name is Chris Perfect. I kid you not. Their back office staff were excellent too. Yep, its expensive, but ......
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    https://www.robinsonquarry.co.uk/tonnage-calculator.php?product=150-200mm Gabion Stone
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    Which is why I have to do both roles: PM and low-level skill stuff. But most of all I have to teach myself and learn fast - really fast . Thats the real delight in self building : the discomfort involved in (all) learning.
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    Our boards were designed by Kingspan, arrived neatly packaged. We had to 'build' the roof on the floor first. Once done it was easy to lay: took a morning.
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    ? Got some, thanks: needed it for the house connection
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    Because the user can simply take the plug out of the socket: a DIY job. If its hard wired, its a sparky job innit?
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    One of those wall plate things, Pete? Bit like for an oven?
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    The manufacturers of our digester has specified an IP66 rated RCD protected socket for the supply for the poo tank bubbler. The dedicated circuit planned for that supply (SWA 2.5, T+E, buried - 10 meters or so) is already RCBO protected. Do I also need RCD protection on the twin socket , or can I simply fit an IP66 socket in the knowledge that the circuit is already protected by the RCBO? I'd like to bury the SWA cable in the same trench that I dig for the poo tank pipe. Bet that's verboten innit?? Thanks in advance @ProDave or @JSHarris or @Onoff or anyone clever enough to know the answer ☺️
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    https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
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    Ahhhh, now I see. The concrete hasn't been removed. Only the PIR. The wooden form work will merely hold the replacement PIR. A bit of concreting will be needed to make up the wall at the bottom of the window. But not much.
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    I was too mean to Makita, despite heavy pressure to do so. I bought ..... yep.
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    PMSL.... @daiking, and because my tea is now all down my front and in the keyboard, as penance I looked up the following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_lighting#Norms_and_requirements_for_surgical_light Lux: The central illuminance should be between 160,000 and 40,000 lux.
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    True for some. But, frankly, thank God I don't have enough money for a cruise.
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    If ever there was something to get angry about, really really angry.....
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    You sayin' we ain't wurf it?
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    He's a very nice man @lizzie, a very very nice man. Ugly, though.
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    I'm flattered and surprised you ask here. This discussion board is a little nest of building nerds: nerds, some by qualification but more by experience some of which bitter. Your challenge strikes me as analogous to those here who need (say) a Structural Engineer. Many will accept work in which they have a peripheral understanding and will do a -for them- competent job. But their customer is given an unnecessarily complex - for which read expensive - specification. I think you might well benefit from a thorough networking exercise - among lawyers. You need a tax nerd - one without an over inflated sense of self-worth. Then, when yer all sorted, come 'n arxk us 'ow ter mix a bit 'o mortar like.
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    Pheeeeew, only just made it. ?
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    In all probability it won't be. But there'll always be a niggle until it's signed off. We had a similar issue, but 10 meters from the road.... and our roof build up is the same as J's. Are you tall enough to worry about the internal soffit height? I am, so - for us - it's become another of those compromises that everyone makes when self-building. We've rearranged the room furniture to make the necessary allowance.
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    I think so. Gaulhofer's terms are the same (I'm almost sure). Watch the fitting cost payment terms, though. Ecowin offer a 50% retention - and they've been back a couple of times without question .....
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    Yes. Durisol is easily shaped and trimmed with any woodworking tool. But, cut faces shatter easily. A simple sheet of Durisol is quite weak. Durisol gets its strength from the block form. All of the boarding will be covered with render, followed by Clober Permoforte and then wood cladding. I'm thinking cement board covering the framework (under the felt and cladding) would do, maybe mounted on an undersheet of OSB?
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    Yes. Almost. The timber is a framework for the the boarding that will be the outer skin. Inside the boarding I'll put some PIR.
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