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I used 120mm concrete screws into our ICF (Durisol) - drilled to 135mm to allow for concrete dust that gets pushed ahead of the screws. I think part of the answer might be to do with the nature of the wall where you want to put the sink. I went to a lot of trouble to make sure that the brackets keyed into the concrete cores of the Durisol - and avoided the woodcrete type 'cladding' to the concrete lattice. You might want to consider mounting a really thick piece of wood as a shelf to carry the sink perhaps? My mum's house had an arrangement like that - gave you somewhere to put bits and bobs (like dirty boots)

If it does - if - then the effect will be minimal I would have thought.

The answer depends on the quality of the wood and from which part of the tree the wood is cut. The closer to the centre of the tree, the lower the risk of cupping , warping, bending and twisting. Quarter Sawn is the phrase you need to look for. Lay flat Sticker at even spacings - using clean evenly cut wood (paint, for example, transfers to the sticker to wood very easily) Place the stickers at even intervals vertically Cover with a sheet of OSB or similar to keep some direct sunlight off Weight the sheet of OSB evenly Try and ensure a steady airflow over the wood A little damp makes no difference Wait ; year or so easy..... And watch some of it bend, warp or twist anyway. But if you follow the above, then there will be a good deal more straight stuff worth using. I had over £1000 worth of Siberian Larch waiting outside for a year, or more. Covered and stickered properly. Little bits have warped here and there, one or two bananas. Whizzed through a thicknesser, it's come up beautiful. Bent grain has made the last meter of 4 meter boards deviate by 20mm in a few planks. The same treatment for scaffolding planks repays the effort.

Yeah, : it's in your email IN box already. All part of the service. By the way - You can't park there sir! Welcome to the semi mad house. The nutters are in charge here. Good luck. Ian

Weight - for us anyway - not an issue. Chickens are though. They seem to use it as a form of Alka-Seltzer. Now, the EPS is covered with a lead-replacement membrane If it were as problematic an idea as your post suggests, the idea of an EPS insulated raft would have died long ago.

Yer a star @Roundtuit ................... Divorce avoided. Phhhhheeeewwww. My fault wuzunit.... ? Buildhub strikes again. Thanks everyone

The latter..... aaargggghhhhh I think I need to dig the bubbling delaminating bit, strip it back a bit, Stixall and aluminium tape. All to be done while I'm upside down. Suppose I could use a mirror.... Ughhhh.

The drying cycle of our dishwasher includes a phase where the dishwasher door opens automatically. I think it does so to help the dishes dry off without using any electricity. Today I find that the bottom of the worktop in line with the dishwasher door is starting to delaminate. Not all the way along , but about 100mm or so is delaminating quite bady. This feels like a put-the-toothpaste-back-in-the-tube-moment. Is there any way I can glue the laminate back into place?

Welcome first of all. I'm only half Jock , so wait til the full-on ones come along. They'll all know. Irrespective of the answers you get from anyone, in each and every case, you must always do your Due Diligence. The term 'professional' is somewhat loose. Anyway, here's chapter and verse.

OK, hands up: it was a bit of an irritated piddle-take. Someone as intelligent as you asking that question, I thought? Really? Where safety is concerned a flying instructor told me an excellent maxim; If at any part of the flight, you wonder -however idly- whether something is safe; the answer is - its dangerous. Step back - reassess. Same here, I think. As to the YooChube videos, they merely indicate the number of people who either don't know, couldn't care less or both.

Naaaah, lick your hands after to clean them eh? ? Have you ever ever ever seen a lead worker working without gloves? Cos if you did, his missus has a fekkin excellent life insurance policy on him

and I agree, everyone is being asked to do more with less. My argument is - well in that case don't tell everyone you're going to deliver exactly the same service with less resource. Silence is one of the most powerful weapons in any contest for resources.The mantra becomes Just keep yer head down and the problem will go away, or morph into something else. Our LPA must be coining it at the moment. The Planning Application fees are pouring in : four large development areas round the A6. Everyone and his dog with a spare postage stamp of land thats within sniffing distance of the A6 is planning a new village. Rollo's dad (remember him - large land owner and major player in the local property market ) is '...trying hard not to buy myself a Bentley... there's so much work on at the moment Ian ' Asked if he has an issue talking to Planners - ' I meet them two or three times a week - always do. ' Whats the problem with us plebs then eh?

Thank you. I hadn't thought of that

OK, I read the replies above as; there's no easy answer . I'll follow the standard rule then. Voice or Exit. Exit it is.

I take all the points above. I accept that in the grand scheme of things, my issue is minor. Yes there's a pandemic. Yes processes have changed and will change still further. But the broad openly debated issue here is that in this area, the opportunity has been taken to evade public accountability. A handful of large developers do manage to have their agendas discussed in public (hence the description of the local scene above). If you are Joe Public, you stand no chance at all of a reply to a normal question. But simple silence engenders suspicion: hiding behind COVID ? Maybe. Maybe not entirely. A good lie depends on a hint of truth. Our local A+E can publish average waiting times updated hourly - outside the front door. Why can't a Planning Department openly publish currently expected service levels. In this case, silence has been used as a weapon. In exactly the same way as an argument with a close family member who uses silence as such. My enforcement issue is very minor indeed. The bigger picture is much more worrying.

No. It's about a generalised lack of communication. Everyone I talk to who attempts to communicate with the planning department tells the same story. If you need the Planning department to talk to you, they simply don't. 'We' (at Parish level) called in our Planning Councillor. At a public meeting he explained that the department no longer had the capacity to talk to members of the public. I am involved in an ongoing issue with enforcement. But that, in the normal course of events would be discussed , a resolution agreed and action taken. Nothing has happened for years now. Nothing. Now in addition the planners simply refuse to communicate. They have not told us that they regard the matter as closed. In common with every other person with whom I discuss planning matters in general I find that none of us gets a reply to any questions we ask. It's a simple generalised wall of silence . It's very disconcerting. I am out of ideas - short of going to the local press - of what to do next. Hence this post.

Never mind just forget it.

So, you haven't got an answer either .......

To keep this post on a professional level, I'm not going to name the Planning authority in this post, but it isn't hard to work out for yourself. I write about this problem here with great reluctance because I've exhausted all the normal ways of trying to communicate with officials. And it's not a phenomenon which affects only me. I've asked as many local people as I can and broadly, they all say the same thing. My question is what do I do now to try and break the logjam? In the building sector, the locality is booming. There's not white-van man without work. There's not a street or avenue without scaffolding. In the mornings, scaffolders jossle with each other in the Butty Bars and Spa breakfast bars. Some, still coked to the eyeballs, josh and snarl. Chippies swop horror stories in the carpark outside Spa. 'Tother morning, - at the bus stop : you couldn't make it up - I heard two chippies going hammer and tongs at one another about what level a dado rail should be fitted. Scaffolding is put up months before any work takes place. And finished work on one part of building means that scaffolding is whipped down there pronto. A local development area has been defined: its official name is The A [road number deleted ] Corridor. Geotechnical crews have their rigs up in the fields locally. Cores are being taken. A new development village - schools, shops and all - has been planned. Work starts next year. The local BM boss cycles past my place regularly, and stops to pass the time of day. ."Ian, know of anyone who wants a driving job: I need at least five Class 1s and any number of old blokes like you with a Grandad licence? " "Soon as get my hips done, I'm yer man - you just need to get the suggestion past the wife. Coffee's on .... no? Oh, shame" That was close. I've got a Class 1 licence - just keeping it quiet. You get the picture: the place is fizzing. We've got more than our aliquot of Nimbies. To a man (stuff political correctness: sorry girls) they're the ones who objected to our house. Now, not so much rictus-grinners, as developer partners. Every Man Jack and Jackie one of them has - if they have it- sold that itzy bitzy postage stamp of a veg garden and put up a few bijou hizzez. Including the (then) local Kynsella whose objection to our des-res was: It (our house) would spoil my Sunday morning walk along that chocolate box lane. As a saint would say Fer Fek's Sake man. Now, we have a little local difficulty. Doesn't matter what it is. If you've read my stuff. you know what it is. I cannot get anyone offical to talk to me about it. All the offical local channels - silence No Reply. Despite automatically generated emails lying to you that someone will be along in a minnit And every councillor at County and local levels say the same. Our Planner says the same. The LPA are just not talking to anyone. Our architect agrees. Forget yer MP: just a message handling service. I'm all out of ideas. Over to you Commentariat. What would you do?

Cream popularised the lament, but the words are from much earlier - a quick google finds this (Briefly, 1920s America - tear-jerker of a story)

... And why I have to design and build our wardrobes and cabinets....

In a sentence, the reason for (us) to fit a SunAmp.

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Saw the title, saw it was you. Didn't read anything else. Yes .

It's da romance ova fyaaa innit .... Friday night, few beers with the mates, a giggle with the girls, home, cook her a lovely meal, nice bottle of vino collapso, and fall asleep on the .... - erm.... can't remember where. It the intention that counts innit?