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For studding it’s fine, the tear out does not affect the structural intergrety, if it was a French polished coffee table that would be different ?. Being OCD is ok in the right place, as long as the finished product is fit for purpose (studding = strong and straight). P.s. I would only cut studding with a “fixed” saw to make sure it was square.

We get deer in our field regularly and it’s lovely to see them.

It is a great way of dealing with waste tho, and producing lecky as well ?

As I am now in OAP territory I feel the cold more than I used to and in this recent mild spell the heating has not come on at all and the house is a comfortable 21’ and bedrooms about 19’. Er indoors is cold but that’s normal for her!!,!

Or https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FY7WVZH/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B07FY7WVZH&pd_rd_w=4K4UE&pf_rd_p=e2bfafb5-111e-4906-b089-5d691a51d45f&pd_rd_wg=ztx2y&pf_rd_r=BDHCX0C29F84NAM6VR3P&pd_rd_r=202aa433-51fa-11e9-a261-d16e70736dca

Oh dear, you got me thinking I want one on my workshop ?https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ferguson-TE20-Tractor-Weathervane-Handmade-Very-High-Quality/112008260007?hash=item1a143669a7:g:5PsAAMXQQJBQ8Xtp

I used to plasterboard ceilings on my own (decades ago ?) then I started using 6x3 sheets instead of 8x4. All done with two timber “T” shapes wedged to the floor. Fir this build I let the builder do it. (What coronation?).

May be best to build the berms out of the clay that you have loads of and dress it with topsoil, we had tons of thick solid sticky yellow clay and dammned near impossible to do anything with it, I still have about 80 tons to find a home!

I can also add that imprinted concrete looks great, a neighbour of ours at a previous house had it and it looked fab, looked like cobbles and NO weeds.

We went for tarmac and and plan fancy brick edging to match the house, gravel areas for pots and block paving for paths around the house.

I agree that there are some issues with badly installed ASHP,s but I installed my own with basic plumbing skills and lots of helpful knowledge from this forum, it’s not rocket science but needs doing properly. I have plenty of ground for an GSHP but it didn’t stack up for us at all.

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You need to temper your OCD ( I have had to do this), yes you know it’s there but as long as it’s solid, as in fixed properly, there is nothing wrong with it., to make yourself feel better you could fill it with D4 glue and let it foam in the gap, (spray a little water in the gap to make it foam more) then trim it off flush with the flooring.

There is a brick matching company in Bristol (don’t know where you are tho) you may have something similar in your part of the world.

You are not a mechanic using it every day, it’s what I would call a “just in case tool”. Be interested to hear how you get on with it, I would consider keeping one of these in the car “in case”. I also do my own mechanics and have a full tool box fir that.

@JSHarris has nothing to feel guilty about, yes he was enthusiastic about the original sunamp because it worked very well, it’s just a shame that the newer model did not and Jeremy has been at the forefront of finding a solution for himself, other forum members and sunamp themselves.

If sunamp had any sense they would listen to our Jeremy.

With my temporary supply I hung a cavity box on two round fence posts within a metre of the garage wall it was going to be put in, when the garage was built I moved the whole meter box into the hole left in the garage wall and got my electrician to connect it up ?, I also did all the digging on site, they just left me a roll of hazard tape to put above the cable when I back filled the trench .

I second lots of glue on egger board and joists at 400 centres, we have no squeaks whatsoever, I do wish however that I had double boarded the ceilings downstairs or used resilience bars as voice can be heard between floors more than I would have liked and we do have 100mm sound insulation in the void.

So @JSHarris can you recommend a good source of these things that suppress properly (and meet regs!).

Very well done, you must be so chuffed ?

I have had cancer, twice, during our build and lost my late wife to cancer when our kids were teenagers, life is shit sometimes but I have to say having this build has been my therapy in some ways, I struggle at times but get soooo much satisfaction out what I can do. Life is short and it’s not a rehearsal.

Its nice to hear about a B.I.that uses common sense.

Yet another example of B Inspectorsnot being consistent.

I was involved in ISDN2 when it was first rolled out and yes some customers were “lucky” to be within limits and others not. I was involved then in finding out why some theoretical people were within limits but ISDN would not work?. We found out that there had been a world wide copper shortage in the past and BT experiemented with aluminium cables but because of corrosion problems they had to have copper tails at each end so identifying these cables were all but impossible (no records kept?). We proved that the limits using aluminium cables were quite different from copper. So luck of the draw.