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    Quickest fix, least cost?
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    One about to go on order too here at Great Crested Newt Towers.
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    Blimey! I didn't realise it was that sensitive.
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    Ha! Locally the Open Signal mast locations are correct to within a few meters. Trouble is that a few meters can matter. Salamander Cottage gets 4G (our build location) Our house (domicile) 20 meters away gets 3G or worse.
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    Here you are. I suspect there's an Apple version Ian
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    Hmmm, @JSHarris, I wish you'd been with me when we were talking to the kitchen rep. Passiv has a long way to go before it sinks into the consciousness of many in the building sector. In terms of recirculation, is there anything we should look for in terms of cooker hood design? What are the design differences which assure filtration as opposed to expulsion? Any particular spec of filter? Or grill size? Or flow rate? BTW, thanks @CC45 for tagging accurately. Ian
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    I am looking forward to getting rid of my project Land Rover - and the digger- it'll mean that we're nearly finished
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    My sympathy is entirely with you: I have had exactly the same experience, and it's not funny. People and systems show themselves for what they are when things go wrong- usually as a result of a contest for resources of some sort. So, your neighbours weren't any different before this episode: they were always like that. Their true nature was simply hidden. Here, have a laugh on us: read this Oh, and before I forget, welcome! Ian
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    Do I detect a little iddy biddy bit of something akin to guilt in the back of your mind? Partners can be all too good at detecting the surreptitious (not to say gratuitous, or even highly revealing) insertion of the word 'need' into a sentence. Teenagers are past masters at it.
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    Keep the brats clean
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    Oi! Brats end up choosing our Old Folks Homes. Be nice to them (in public anyway)
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    Stop being so damn reasonable man !
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    As usual, elegantly written: captures my mood well.
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    @Nickfromwales, you've changed my mind. 9kW Electric shower. Now then: which one? Any ideas?
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    2 feet, ergo 20Kg.... No? Similarly 15Kg with your head : 10 with your forehead, 5 with your nose
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    Yes, and I remember one lad carrying one under each arm: off a suitable height lorry bed. Offloading in the rain, I tried, and failed spectacularly. I had wet trousers and wet boots on. That's when I learned about how cement burns.
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    In the spirit within which the post was intended, I hope, I had a careful look at the document to which your refer. Quite a few of us will, by now, be carrying niggles in various bits of our body. Guidance is always welcome. Reminders, useful. Useful because it points to what it is reasonable to expect. Here, in the context of self-building, it is a pointer to what we might reasonably expect of ourselves. I venture to suggest that our job is so challenging that if we were to worry about ourselves all that much, the job wouldn't even start, let alone get done. @ProDave, I think the issue is how much we lift in relation to where on our body: thus 25kg seems to be the most we are advised to lift: say a bag of cement tucked on our hip..... , well we have two of those and most of us I bet would tuck one under each arm - 50kg. That's a fair bit.
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    @MikeSharp01, we're using a pre-warmed supply for our Stiebel. Stiebel provide data sheets explaining how much they can raise the temperature of incoming water - can't find the datasheet now but when I do I'll post it here ( or link to it) . Ian
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    With just 8 of them left (equally distributed over their 2 containers) I have 2 in 10 fewer chances of digitectomy than almost anyone else. Now I must stir my stumps and get back to work.
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    Nail, head, bang on.
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    You mean Thermal Mass don'tcha?
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    Common issue here. If you can live in No 2 house, sell No 1 first, build, then sell No 2 If you can't live in No 2, caravan, sell No 1 FIRST , then build. Or, like many here, make it up as you go along because of national and local level policy changes during the course of the build. Ian
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    Which is exactly what has happened in our build; but by accident. We had an old piggery that would have fallen down during the piling process. So we would have had a minor disaster on our hands had we not taken it down (with permission). We are rebuilding it but 'cold'. 10 square meters that are proving to be very valuable indeed. The short walk out to the larder will be worth the trouble.
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    They do, and we know who they are.
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    Your middle name Churchill by any chance?
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