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Proper PMSL ... Cornflakes through the nose level - some stuck in my sinus. Taking things a step further, how about a Corex copper with a speed gun, or a full size Corex image of Jennifer Aniston pushing a pram, or ... "Cheer up, it's nearly Friday"

Soooooooooooooo tempting that....

Have a look at the plan of our car park (the shaded area below). The road past our house is between the two red lines. STN 'A' is on our curtilage line. Between spot heights 27.82 above and 28.29 and the edge of the road The red line) , we will be placing some slightly raised setts or cobbles, or cubes - set in concrete about a meter back from the red line. (A rumble strip). But that alone won't discourage folk from using our car parking. It's there to remind people that they are off the road, and on our land. Therefore we need bollards. We need bollards. I've never researched bollards until to day. Who knew they could be so complex? ( OK @Pocster did) Thinking about it a bit, they need to be removable. If my research is accurate, removable bollards can also remove a fair wad of cash. Which leads me to ask - why not make some - how hard could it be? ( Come back @Construction Channel ) Four posts, simply lengths of 4 by 4, (but make 6 - 2 for replacements) painted black with reflectors built in. If I set them back one van width from the curtilage line ( the red one above - i.e. well inside our curtilage) then the spirit of what we want; safety - openness is achieved. Or how about a length of foul drainage pipe, suitably painted - hmmmm, it'd look sh!te wouldn't it? Liability for damage to eejits cars who smash their sump off on the bollard - ? Cyclists who wrap their bike on one - ?

Idea! above Not too far above, not too near , but justright said Goldilocks ...😏

Very interesting question @Jim K ... You might like to consider a wind break - or series of wind breaks up-wind - say a thick bush or something more formal - (of the top of my head - not knowing the context) say a car-port or a pergola, or a baffle of some sort, so long as it doesn't limit the 'suck' and 'blow' .... Photos?

I'm wun o' they mate : bizzy bodies ... I pick up litter with my 88 year old nearish neighbour every now and then. Ex-builder. Full of words for the wise. Looks at our left-over Durisol, shakes his head. He's got a point.

A handful of MegaJewls (sorry @SteamyTea - I always worry about spelling tech stuff when I worry about you reading my posts) per kilogram. In addition , there's a vast - and I mean vast - amount of digging that has to be done to extract it. The premiere mines prior to 1989 were so big that both the East and the West had to talk to one another about it because the East produced the lignite, but the West consumed it to make electricity. Those mines have now been filled with water ( or are in the course of being filled) Thats why new mines need to be dug. To me the pollutants were pink dusty spit, eyes full of stuff and filthy car windows, and hoarseness. Blowing one's nose into a white handkerchief back then (1980s) was shocking. Ughh.

It went down the wrong way dinn'it - your tea . Just like the Germans went down the wrong way cuddling up to Pootin too quickly. Embarrassment, that's what it is. Brown coal for God's sake Brown coal! Lignite ! Memories of the thickest smogs - driving through Leipzig in the 1980s, groping our way along the main roads from brazzier to brazier, with the VoPos (People's Police) directing traffic while standing on a small dias - just above another brazier. Turn off the road and impact was assured. In my case it was a cyclists elbow.

Jungs, das darf wohl nicht wahr sein? https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157364

Rare to see a thread where readers make the effort to summarise accurately.... Thanks very much. I made the error of thinking MVHR would have to be ON all year round. Here - as opposed to many other places - we won't need it to be ON for a few months a year. But we do need it. Next problems: Which unit? How much?

Why? Because I was told to. Why ? Keeps the tigers away. And it looks pretty (ier).

That'll be that then @Mr Punter. Thanks for the heads-up.

You couldn't make it up : two blokes from Lancashire Roads are outside right now : two shovels, a small 7.5 tonner. Just been out to talk to them - they made the point that the hole needs to be as clean as possible before any 'blacktop' gets put in. They're using a blower to clean the hole(s) out.

What's the difference - and the point of two types of tarmac?

Debbie's idea. ,🥴 she's always correct, right, perfect, spot on . Jaffa cakes all round @Pocster

Hmmm, interesting, thanks. Our boundary is the where the MoT1 (see above) meets the road What makes things more interesting is in our case the fiber will run under our bellmouth (car-park), so I need to be quite careful to get the design correct. Your job looks really neat - may I ask - what are those three indentations just inside your driveway, @Blooda ? I suspect they might be either lights or perhaps for security posts ... you can see why I am interested because of the design below ( the shaded area) with green lines in it ..... and as someone above says, people will use (and already do) use our forecourt as a parking area ...... Maybe i should consider fixing something like this security post .... What do you think?

Do you know what, I had that thought. I wondered whether there was some kind of guidance from the local planning authority. I'll have a look through their documentation and see if our suspicion is correct.

Might tarmac be a partial answer? I say partial because it will inevitably be broken up by some of the really heavy tractors that go past and and sometimes tankers. And where on earth do I get tarmac from? Where is one of those gangs of dodgy looking blokes offering to resurface your driveway when you need one?

Our officially adopted roadway is not very well maintained. Have a look at this. Here is an image of the edge of the road next to our drive. How do I make a 'good' joint between the drive and the road? Here's what's planned I'm not really sure where our curtilage starts - or stops. The plan is to make some sort of concrete nosing to secure the sets which we want to put in. The main aim there is to prevent them from 'moving' towards the road. I'd like to put the sets in to show the edge of a cartilage. But finding out where that is will probably be a long process and I just want to get on with it. So maybe we just put the sets 500 mm back from the edge of the road and then just fill in the gap with the MOT1 and compact that. Messy.

It looks like you've used gravel to fill the grid. What sort of gravel did you use? It looks really nice and I'm quite impressed

So that's what magic mushrooms look like....

Maybe that explains things.....

Well @flanagaj Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Briefly: Here Be Dragons. When the soft and Smelly hits the rotating blade it gets everywhere. Not so Briefly 4 Lancastrian 'chocolate box cottages ' all in a row, everyone pooping down the same septic hole, sun shining, blackbirds singing: everything was lovely. One lovely old lady on her own, one young family of three, one codger and his floozy, and us four. All was sweetness, and light. Lovely old lady dies. Son moves in. Throws his weight around, brings his nasty terriers in - 24 hour barkers (working dogs you see ). Also brings his rifle in and starts shooting. (6 months later the Police rescind his license) We apply for PP, and within a week, the neighbour comes and nails our back gate shut. We have access rights across his garden. Why? He didn't like the fact that we suggested we would discharge to a local stream and avoid adding to the septic tank....... He thought he could object to our build most effectively by saying the septic tank couldn't take any more 'volume' 8 years later he struggles to say a civil word to me. So the answer to your question is: it depends on people: there neither is nor can be one clear-cut answer. People change, move away, die, have opinions and are generally inconvenient. Best o' Luck fella. Best o' Luck.

I'm not sure . Our house falls only just within the one grid square on the edge of a bigger area on the Radon map I think that puts us in the 1 - 3% risk area. We have a barrier in place The risk appears to me to be minimal., therefore. Quite why we were required to have a sump in there as well, I really don't know.. I took the cap off the sump pipe yesterday. Full of water. So that means the sump is also full of water. That means pumping it - constantly. At least there's unlikely to be rats down there Stuff it. That's OFFICIAL

Thanks @Carrerahill. Current thinking is dig out to 300 below FL > Mot 3 compacted > underlay -300- SWA to gate area - 3 - 4(?) core > underlay -310- 17mm duct for Fiber BB> embed junction box for BB (B4RN) EcoDeck 500> topsoil , rough grass mix> two rows of cobbles to curtilage set back 750mm > concrete nosing to road deck. > Blacktop to road edge . Tea, medals.