ToughButterCup

Told ya. Descent into second childhood.

I'm struggling too. What benefit does a channel and diffuser bring?

Following on from @readiescards post here, and @PeterW's recommendation in the same thread, we're looking for aluminium profile to carry the LED strip. This supplier (recommended by Peter) sells alu profile. Is it me, or are there really some profiles 10 times the price of others? And are the more expensive profiles 10 times better? BTW, I found this nice little video comparing diffusers for LED strips Anyone got any SNOG MARRY or AVOIDS?

This post is not flippant or self-congratulatory. The best Value Engineering any self-builder can do is what appears to be waste time on Build Hub. Doing that is the opposite of wasting time. I haven't tracked the amount of time online against the money we have saved. But when your wife says " We couldn't have done this without the money saved by BH " - not a lot else needs to be said. So, ............. just read.

This isn't a flippant response. What's the end-in-mind? What does good use of mean? The answer to those questions can usually be written down in a simple problem statement of about 10 to 15 words. How well the questions are answered will be a key determinant of the quality of the site.

Yeah, you do. Grow roses and a wisteria over in and through them.

Easy and cheap.... buy your own razor and shave your head yourself

A trifle harsh. The HE system policy is 'set' (licensed) by its political masters. I think it's generally accepted that post-secondary education should show and encourage people how to think through, describe, analyse and argue a case clearly. And its been doing that since roughly 1096 (ish). Some argue a similar system was in situ many years earlier - funded by the church(es). Would that we'd had a properly funded, well-regarded apprenticeship system running in parallel since then.

OSB3 every time. Slippery as an eel - Hell, even water slips off it!

Come back to us when you use less than three sets..... Ours are: A step-up A short-arse set A single lift scaffolding ladder : short and long set (2) An every-day set to mess about with A 5 meter Zarges set. Perfection. Some ladders left behind by the steel erectors

Ahhhh, that'll be it: fill the thing with water and light it with purple LEDs. Stick a humongous heat sink in it (22mm copper pipe) . Keep tropical fish in it while yer at it. (Like one of my more zany students did) Top idea!

Welcome: I wish we'd met under happier circumstances. I haven't got good news for you - maybe a chink of light, but a very small one You can Appeal to the High Court. Thats not an easy thing to do. The appeal needs to show that an error was made by The Inspectorate. In other words, you can't argue merely that the decision-maker should have reached a different conclusion. Here's the tiny chink of light: the meaning of the word sustainability has changed over time. The issue is sharply illustrated by our planning application - which succeeded. The next door's application was rejected - at Appeal: reason? Unsustainable. The plots of land are 20 meters apart. In Planning terms, there is absolutely no difference whatsoever between our application and theirs. None. Ours was accepted, the neighbours rejected. On grounds of sustainability. The only difference in the two applications was time. Our neighbours applied one year later: the meaning of sustainability changed over what in planning timescales is a heartbeat. And it will continue to change. Follow this little bit of logic - if the UK has the odd financial bump and bang in the near future one of the quickest ways of keeping the country going is to keep white van man working. How do you do that? Relax planning legislation - so its not too far fetched to suppose that the meaning of the word sustainable will, over time change further. Gorgeous George (Osbourne) changed the planning legislation by changing the law such that permission should be granted in favour of sustainable development. Little wonder then that the LAs focus on the word sustainable to clamp down on permission permits. Your refusal is quite clearly the result of a political decision. And that means the policy can change. Not sure how likely, or when, but the worse the finances of the UK get, the likelier it is for the regs to be relaxed. Sorry, its not much hope but it is some hope.

The way this country treats its trades people is shameful. We don't even give them a proper training scheme - one that gives successful trainees parity of esteem with their university graduate colleagues. And you don't have to look far to see a country that does.

Available at our local BM. 'Noisy' commented an acquaintance who has it.

No sensible heat transfer : 280mm of in and under roof insulation. I'd have been well piddled off if there were any....

Ours just done. Not interested in FIT: main focus is self-consumption. Couple of years from now, battery power too.

Yes: that exactly what we did. The joist designer (or other competent person) will determine the spec of the timber wall plate / rim plate / pole plate. There is no need for you to be concerned at all. Joist designers feed the relevant parameters into a piece of software (like this ) and it churns out the specifications. You can have a look at the print outs - I did for ours - quite interesting in a nerdy way.

Apologies to @PeterStarck : I deleted his last post by accident. Sorry Pete... More evidence of my descent into a second childhood. Ian

Thank you.

I thought that. Our tame CSI disagrees. You expect people stupid enough to engage in crime to think logically? Insurers: Loss Adjusters are bastards. The one thing they cannot contradict is evidence: database (list) of all valuables and original receipts

I am in the process of making ours now. Its a series of vertical slats suspended between two RSJs, and faces the viewer in the image below. That corner of the house is outside the heated envelope - at one stage we were planning to glaze it - but its pointless, and expensive. Very expensive. The sexy term for what we are doing is called making a Breeze Corridor (Blame Kevin for that one). The architect calls it a design feature, Debbie calls it her Winter Garden, the retired feminist roofer calls it ' t patiau , I call it fun. I'm doing a bit on it each weekend. If needed , we'll make a scaled down version of that design in front of the two windows to the right of the ' patio' . PHPP points to a small theoretical risk of overheating. PHPP can't make adjustments for a crap first time, eight-fingered self- builder now can it?

Our son is a detective and his other half a CSI. Long chat about this two years ago: the stories his other half has to tell are guaranteed to gross you out within 2 minutes. Take all sensible precautions, but don't disappear up your own Botticelli. Photograph everything of value. Put all the images online and use them as a database for the insurance claim : if possible photograph the relevant invoice too. Cameras are sometimes useful, but no as much people (ie. his mum and dad) think. Get into good security habits: be aware , talk to those around you, watch one anothers' backs. Don't skimp on insurance: read the detail on the policy. If you see a robbery in progress, don't be a hero. Watch, photograph, attract attention if its safe to do so.

So, no ice bucket challenge then eh? Watch this.....

Been going long before the Jurassic son.......

..... it says not to be used at < 10 centigrade. Ambient or the glue itself? Is this a summer-time only glue? Just in case, I've left our tubes cooking gently on the window cill.... Here's the Product Details sheet which implies ambient temperature