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@paul evenden have a look at this thread:

If the bricks come out clean stack them and advertise on Freegle or similar. Lose the mortar in the over site. Why not keen on using recycled stuff? It's eco friendly for a start. If you forget the diesel for the crusher, the lorry taking it away etc ?

It's a big "thing" on here. Absolutely magic. Forget any pretenders. The rubber or whatever they're made off will take wet silicone of a tile cleanly. I've got this basic kit. Picked at random: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cramer-Grouting-Silicone-Profiling-Applicator/dp/B07H8K5W8D/ref=asc_df_B07H8K5W8D/?

Fugi Cramer tool for me. Makes glass cleaner unnecessary.

Edit: Double post, I'm not well.

The pc term I believe is porg now. (Tom Sharpe rip).

Imho... Tiles should come down to the bath. Even if it meant bringing the wall where there's a gap out, with an extra layer of Aqua Panel etc. Before that last tile, bath gets half filled with water to simulate a person in it. Clear CT1 around the bath wall joint. Let it set...like 36hrs. Drain the water. Tiles come down to the bath with a 1mm gap. Pull out the 1mm shims and more CT1 in the gap. Wipe off the excess with baby wipes. Let it set. Then a silicone of your choice that's relatively easily removed and renewed in the future. Good luck when the bath trim goes yellow and manky. The trim adds another (unnecessary) component. Tbh though not many "professionals" will want to spend that much time on the job.

That's too much a black and white view. It may be wise to spend the £1000s now and be done with it. The £10s you're saving will only increase with time. You're insulating against more than heat loss, but energy price increases, shortages etc.

I came across details of this masonary heater in Finland that gets built into the core of the house. Comes in kit form, special stone. The heat seems to take a convoluted path to warm the big stone mass. Might interest @scottishjohn. Wonder if you could make one from granite, that'd be cool (no pun intended). A couple of pictures taken from the link: There's a whole load on the history of them the guy has put up on the link below: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/a-look-at-my-masonry-heater.117942/#post-1973086

When I was playing with my solar thermal heater from soda cans I burnt my hand on the output. That works I thought. ? see ? do here.

Cast your own? I've actually a bunch of plastic moulds here if any shapes take your fancy. Not sure if any are pitched like the one I cast though:

That's my ever waking dream. It'll never happen as it takes two to want to do it.

I've the weirdest DIY floor build up (more like cock up) in my lounge; concrete slab of unknown depth, a 4x2 sole plate, 4x2 floor joists on that then 5/8" chipboard flooring. Vented via external air bricks it's super cold. Picture of a repair in progress when I went through the floor one time. This is adjacent to the dining room that has a traditional suspended timber floor. That will need building up as there's such a void underneath. The lounge slab will be dug up It will all go and be replaced by a solid, insulated floor. Best bit is they knocked through after they'd done the lounge slab and floor so there's a height difference of about 100mm and a ramp between rooms!

Cerakote goes up to about 2000degC.....

The one commercial one I know of in central London is vertical. Makes sense given space constraints and if you're piling anyway. A few places are planning retrofit heat pumps, afaic to tick a green box as the buildings in question are neither well insulated nor airtight.

As you have elevation...and a digger... Rather than a GSHP loop, is a pipe / single loop in a long trench a feasible option? Thinking if you had to trench from the road up to the property anyway.

Sorry, meant water source.

Pity you can't use the quarry lake for ground source.

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'Tis the season of giving and receiving after all? ?

I'm just disappointed @pocster didn't ask which Chrustas with his query. Trouble finishing off as usual.

Can't see the problem, looks like he used the old stone from the wall for his new gable... ?

Yes it does, p18, diagram 4.

Nope, it's an after Christmas job.

I won't take anything out then in that case, build the platform round the diagonals but not touching.