ToughButterCup

Oooowww. At a similar age I did a similar thing. To this day, I remember where I was at the time, what I did, and how I did it. Staying injury free is very hard because we are so outcome-focused. If you take Cocodamol, drink lots of water. @Hecateh will be along soon to explain why.

SPONS cost for a labourer per hour is £11.18. Times 16 = £185.60 . Two days And no sore back. A minidigger per day £55, delivery £30, Red diesel £10. Start at 9, finished by 3 And no sore back. When was the last time you dug anything by hand?

You Ferdi? Never.

I had one, .......... once...... paid him slightly over the going rate, got on well. And then he was gone Poooof! Gone.

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You cracked the security on a pw - protected pdf? PM me, would ya please? I need it.

Windows - make file read only, thus Right click the file icon> Properties>Attributes>Read-only>check the box>OK But pdf 'ing something is better in terms of security......

Lock the file. Password protect it.

Ughhh. Self-building isn't for the faint hearted is it?

It depends. Locally, (West Lancs) yes. There is no simple common standard to which builders and architects work. Our architect mutters darkly about builders doing what they want to anyway no matter how much detail is given, and builders mutter darkly about not enough detail in the Construction Drawings. Its another fine mess that they all got themselves into by not caring about communication. I cope with it by collating in great detail all the relevant information into one document. And provide a one page summary and a contents list. A slog, but it works. Eventually.

The same second hand little Honda generator has been running on the site next to mine for about 12 hours a day for the last three years. Very reliable. Annoyingly reliable.

Thinking long term....... what happens when you sell? how do you identify yours from theirs in 10 years? maintenance laying at the same time...... how on earth can that be organised - four contracts, possibly several providers It makes too much sense to do it this way. I mean if wimmin rooled the world it would be done the sensible way, but they don't. Yet.

In relation to the roof; I took a tile (given to me by the roofing company) to the Planner's office. The documentation - if you can call it that - was scratched onto the sample tile with a blunt chisel - the addressee, his department, together with my details and handed it in to the receptionist at the LPA head office. I had a nice time wondering how he might file the slate in his filing system. In relation to the windows, I submitted a brochure with the relevant page marked with a Post It. All very high tech.

Ok, I'll bite. Why?

She is absolutely right. I lost the will to live trying to understand it. ' ... overthinking it again, I suppose ... '

Thanks Nick. I was scratching my head a bit about our foul drain connection. My trouble is (among many other things) that I don't know what I don't know.

My experience exactly. Boring.

The delay in reduction..... It's opposite is increment delay; the delay in increase.

I think advice on flashing might well be specific to the produce being 'flashed' as it were. The best I can do for you is to point to this site and suggest you follow some of the links.

Only on Build Hub, folks, only Build Hub.....

Soon as that eh? My my.

You'll be aware of our little hiccup with a system that, ostensibly, didn't need bracing. And maybe Durisol doesn't - but it sure as Hell does if one of the people installing it has a criminal lack of care. Got the video. So, we had to make our own shuttering. Like this.... The photo shows the boarding on left ready for the second pour and the exposed wall just before being boarded (blue writing). We used 3 by 3 timbers and sheets of 22mm supported by through bolts - M12 , nuts, washers and bolts. Any scaffold planks we could scrounge were also pressed into service. Part of the issue to be considered will be the amount poured in any one session. We didn't pour more than 4 meters in one go. That is two sheets of OSB stacked vertically. In terms of cost, I have re-used almost all of the timber and sheeting, but not the threaded bar. Given lemons, we appear to have made some lemonade. By accident, not design

Yeah, but you're not experienced.....? ' Experienced ' is code for @Onoff or @JSHarris

Bump. Can I just check something, please? Would any of our more experienced members use only Quinetic light switches in a new build? Would it be sensible to have (say) one or two key lights switched by a more traditional light switch?

How the *king Hell do they manage to get away with that all the goddam time..... Debbie has stopped bothering to shuuuuush me when I shout at the TV