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The old favourite for two way switching!

You can lead a horse etc ?

Lots of how tos on YouTube: I searched: "fitting undermount sink to granite worktops" Like the idea of fitting a bit of timber secured through the plug hole.

Less dusting with MVHR! What are your ventilation plans out of interest?

Welcome. It's good here, honest! To add my twopence worth. I dont live in a passive spec house & don't have MVHR. I WOULD though in a heartbeat. I've only visited one build here that's super airtight but that was pre the MVHR being commissioned from memory. The ducting was in place so there was some throughput of fresh air. This at the same time as being super insulated/warm and super quiet. It just felt right. Come back to this: "You only pay for insulation once, you pay for "fuel" forever". To not set out to achieve the best air tightness possible on a new self build is utter madness. All those little holes add up in terms of heat loss aside from comfort issues. Maybe visit a build or two locally with the MVHR up and running. I wish SWMBO here understood the "fabric first" concept. Just put together £500 worth of IKEA wardrobes and a new carpet. The failing flat roof above is crying out for attention. She wasn't overly impressed when I said we should have spent the money on roofing felt.

Look at the picture on the fedge link, immediately under where it says Why A Willow Hedge? You'll see they've formed terraces retained by fedges. The willow saplings of the fedge are woven/criss crossed and are obviously rooted. A super strong, natural retaining wall. A real art by the look of it but not a solution if you want "instant" gratification! As for the sleepers...dig a hole, drop in sleeper. Maybe ram with pea shingle around the sides and bottom rather than concrete. I'd STILL be digging a test hole to assess the ground.

There's geeks and there's geeks! ? Does the computer still work and boot up in Windows?

Of course if you show your missus it's your own fault!

Love it. Never heard of "fedge". https://insteading.com/blog/living-willow-hedges/

Sleepers again. if you got a line of these in you could terrace behind them: I really would urge you to try a hand dig a test hole to gauge how hard going it is. One, two a day would soon see it done.

Well I got somewhere, in some sense further than I thought I might in cloning the 6GB hdd to the 8GB compact flash card. Macrium Reflect didn't work - errors. EaseUS appeared as though it might until I found out I'd have to pay! I then used the free HDD Raw Copy Tool. First go failed so from the command prompt I ran chkdsk with /f on the source hdd. Didn't appear to fix anything but the second attempt completed albeit with a read error: I plced the CF card in the laptops hdd tray and switched on. Failed to boot with the following screen. So I deleted the contents from the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder on the CF card then copied them direct from the source disk. Back into the laptop and after auto detecting / fixing some errors it boots up to the clone of the original desktop, what I was aiming for all along. It all seems dare I say though, a bit clunky/laggy compared to when a proper hdd is fitted. I wonder if a faster CF card would be better? The mouse pad on the laptop doesnt appear to work (did it before I'm wondering???) so I have to use an external PS2 mouse. The one program I was wanting working, the whole purpose of this really, crashes! I'll persevere and probably try and reload from CD. Quite impressed.

No, Manning! ?

Where is this walkway going exactly, down next to the stream and following its course? Will there be a stepped section down to a boardwalk?

It being a nature reserve wouldn't have ruled out them using a 2-stroke petrol post hole borer at all. Reckon you're overthinking it. You now have my crown! ? You're also not bothering to read people's replies. At least two of us have already said it's pretty certain a digger driver wouldn't want to try and get down that slope. Hand job / muscle: https://www.screwfix.com/p/spear-jackson-post-hole-auger/3911k Hire a petrol one: https://www.hirestation.co.uk/tool-hire/Landscaping/Post-Hole-Borer-Hire/140050/ Maybe your mate with the digger would give you a hand for a drink in wielding the petrol one. Always good to have two people with something like this.

Interesting. My FiL worked at one of the big paper mills locally where they fed back into the grid. The turbines were coal fired and the flue sections packed with asbestos "powder". One day they dropped one from some height off a crane and it apparently split & permeated through the whole plant. He had annual X-rays covered by his old firm up until aged about 80.

Ta. 6GB HDD, 8GB CF.

Hopefully I'll have a wobbly table by then!

Easy Fill first! ? Then Leyland Super Leytex followed by Dulux Trade Diamond Matt.

Glad I bought that Mirka sander.

Mac...why would I? Big Linux fan. I run Zorin OS on my own laptop quite happily. Used a live disc only the other night to rescue pics off a rellies dead Windows 8 system. Just cracked 4 laptops for work using chntpw under Ubuntu.

Sheep.

Following @dpmiller's lead I got the CF card and ide adapter. Good news in that the bios recognises the card as the primary hdd: Now I guess to format the CF card and somehow clone the old clunker hdd.

How about using railway sleepers? Plenty of surplus around your neck of the woods. Two in the ground as posts etc. http://www.railwaysleepers.com/railway-sleepers

Or you leave the posts over length and cut off later to the same height using a laser at dusk etc to mark them all. I'd be digging a test hole this weekend on that slope, by hand, to see what the ground conditions are like.