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    Yes. But only for four years, (so I have heard.... That'll need checking)
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    Pizza on the menu tonight. Deb's job for today: gap-filling with foam. Decided to make us both a cup of coffee, came into the kitchen to find this working away quietly in preparation for tonight's pizza base. Took me a second or two to believe it was yeast and not Soudal. She's a bit of a practical joker..... Ian
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    I'll undercut you....
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    Great minds think alike. Ditto, for us but in our case it was screws. (Taken out of the shuttering) The answer to the problem is, in part , solved by using a magnet: a faff, but it took me 10 minutes to rescue a box-full of screws (£7:00)
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    Brand name? Teleskop Leiter perhaps?
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    An important issue to address. I notice that you are a newish member. Which is excellent: we need new members. While we are fundamentally an online community, we are physically distributed all over the country(ies). I can't speak for everyone, but there are a good few of us who have visited one another's sites. Some live fairly close to each other. Others live within easy reach. Can I suggest you edit your profile to give a general indication of where you live in the UK? That might be the nudge that someone needs to make contact with you. And that might be the start of beginning to solve the the problem cited above. There's nothing to stop you PMing someone in the area of interest for you. I have been helped by at least four members - I'd like to return that generosity sometime. You'll find many generous people on this board. Give it a go. Click your logo> Personal Information> Location> edit it. Ian
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    Wot with my delicate forearms? I'm simply exhausted by a morning's rendering, exhausted. And all that mixing and mess going everywhere : even over the car. She'll never forgive me.
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    Yo! Sushi! Ahhhhm ahnn it maun! Mmmmm Hmmmm! SPONS has the price at £4.00 / sq m cost (inc materials). I have 240 m sq to cover . 'S a no brainer.
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    @Onoff, tell me its easy make something like this ....
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    @oranjeboom, shhhhhhhhhhh.
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    Right Men! This is what I want, and I want it now.
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    Trip to B+Q or Screwfix coming up then: 240 square meters to do on the main house. Thanks for the nudge @Declan52.
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    Well, here's the first go at rendering Durisol for airtightness. I used a 4 :1: 1 (or more) mix and applied it with the only brush that was lying around on the site stillage - an old house broom; There's a degree of sloppiness in the mix that's just right It's a very therapeutic process. Until I noticed I was rendering our car at the same time as the wall. She's going to kill me. (If you are reading this Deb, sorry love. I've got some flowers from the petrol station for ya!)
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    I have, Mike, you are right. And listening to the stories the roofing rep (he was very diplomatic; no names, no pack drill) told today, every last ounce of my cynicism is more than justified. Being both optimistic and cynical is useful. For me, cynicism informs but need not temper optimism.
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    Compare the risk of doing it early next year with those related to doing it now. In terms of frost-free days, the consequences of getting the timing wrong are....
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    Naturlich Junge! Deutsche Firmen sind immer zuverlassig! (Reine Quatsch)
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    Welcome. I am sure your perspective will be a valuable addition to many of the discussions here. PHPP eats time: perhaps it might be more cost efficient to get someone to do it for you.....? I bet you knew that.
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    How steep is the slope @Dee J I have a gentle slope... no need for any adaptation, @JSHarris blog details how he dug into his hillside, @Bitpipe took things a step further. There's a thread which details a really steep slope (search > funicular or railway) @jamiehamy has this...... Ian
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    So, it's back to the 1950s / 60s is it? Mac, bless him (reminded me of a puffin for some reason) got on with the job like the gritty leader he was There are some lessons in this for the modern day. Macmillan showed that the ruthless application of political will, along with businessmen employed as fixers, could achieve a surprising amount. He had no qualms about arranging for the building of vast numbers of council houses: Labour was to some extent beaten with its own weapons. (Conservative Home accessed 04/10/2017) Ah well, that's the end of Building Control then. Remember how long it took to rip those dreadfully built houses down? Not long. If you are a BCO, you might as well get another job.
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    That type of worry was precisely what made me delay sacking our builder - and now I have to grit my teeth every time I look at our front wall. The errors will, over time, be moderated by other trades compensating for the poor workmanship, and then forgotten by everyone else other than me. Debbie winces every time I told her about delays earlier in the build. Now we'd rather pay for mistakes we make rather than pay for the labour to make mistakes for us. Tell it it like it is @lizzie The in-built owner's desire to push on to completion is one of the dynamics that fuel acceptance of poor workmanship. We'd now rather live in a caravan than accept any more poor workmanship.
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    I had a visit yesterday from a member and his wife who, in fairness to them both, must remain nameless. He took a huge weight off my shoulders by explaining how to mark out for the wall plate properly. And when he had explained it, he showed me how. Since he does this job commercially, I am not left wondering whether competence was an issue. I feel like I have had a bag of cement taken off my back. I thought that to ascertain wall plate level, all I needed to do was to measure from the existing level (DPC) to the bottom of the wall plate (rim joist). I had the odd niggling naggling doubt though. What would happen if the subfloor was not level? (It isn't) Ya just can't know what ya don't know. And that's why I spend hours 'wasting time' reading round the subject, hoping to hit a gold mine of information. But 'Tinternet is full of shared ignorance, misinformation and waffle. So, I'll stop waffling for now and post pics and method a bit later today. A big thank you to the big lad from Preston and his wife and his HILTI laser.
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    Ditto. To mitigate that little annoyance, I have taken to spraying half the tool with yellow marker paint. Now I have to remember to put it down yellow side up; and to respray when the yellow wears off. I don't like Stanley Fat Max tools (for no good reason: they are OK) but I buy some of them because they are yellow.
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    There was a relevant experiment in Lancaster: it may still be ongoing. Small trees in planters were placed on the pavement such that a screen was formed between the houses and the (reasonably) heavy traffic going south out of Lancaster. Initial unconfirmed reports have been good: there is some suppression of pollutants. But I am not sure whether there is a causal link between the pollution reduction and the tree screen. There trees are no longer there, which is a pity because the Silver birch trees were a very welcome screen for people walking north towards Lancaster Infirmary.
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    Scanned the thread quickly this afternoon. Strikes me that a little bit of creative thinking and co-operation might easily mitigate the problems: baffles, diffuser, of some sort perhaps? But it looks as if this has gone too far for much to change.
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    With a southerly, we get precisely that acrid stench from our 'neighbour'
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