Onoff

I pay BG ~£40 a month on each of two rental properties for their full service package. Gas boiler servicing and appliance checking comes in with that. Covers pipes, electrics, drains etc.

Was it here? http://www.cncroutersource.com/cnc-router-plans.html

Did you make your own machine or just have access to one?

You need to be proper careful wandering around the neighbourhood at night pointing cameras through people's windows. You'll get a reputation!

Do SIPs esque panels in your log cabin maybe?

I'm tempted for a laugh to test my bathroom when it's done!

Get tarps to cover it when laid to limit evaporation I'm thinking. Cleverer people will be along shortly.

I grew mine on my bedroom window sill. Panicked that someone would see it and dumped the plant, still in the pot in a field...where it wilted and died. Recovered some leaves and gave them away.

You need a licence to grow hemp in the UK.

Crap pic. Catnip looks a bit like stinging nettle leaves... Get your own back. Nip over to their side and plant a couple of neat rows of hemp seeds from the fishing shop. Quite word to the local old bill...

Where the OSB boards abutted one another did that interface get any sealant etc?

The icynene method surely had a big bearing in your case?

The self builder doing their "forever" house sees the longer term, bigger picture and CARES about why they're doing it. It might be easy to apply airtight tape but it's expensive and time consuming to pay attention to detail. Savings to be made there for the mass builder! Even if they do use tape the person applying it is more likely to be in a rush to get home than thinking he'll be living there and paying the bills. I bet we never see an out for profit, mass builder coming in here because he's short of 500mm of tape!

You've hit the nail there on what I was getting at. Madness that the overseeing tester/body allows these temporary measures. An absolute mockery of the system and what it is supposed to achieve. I think it was @PeterStarck's tester remarked it was the lowest they had ever seen? Proving it's all about the attention to detail leading up to the test which I would say only a self builder is interested in achieving properly.

So the test gets done pre boarding?

And does that tape stay there permanently?

I've read about air testing on here, marvelled (enviously ) at some people's results and thought I understood the concept. The phrase "taping windows and doors" keeps coming up. What does this mean exactly? If you need to tape to test then in real world use that tape isn't there and the results are pointless. The window / door design should surely be such that the rubber seals are in effect airtight without taping. I can half understand taping over key holes as those mechanisms might be inherently leaky but then not really. They should be the known (minor) loss points and everything else should be designed out.

He does say something in the vid about it getting sharp thru use though I imagine as you say it's the edges thinning over time. I cleaned the big st/st trowel and small 14" plain steel one with 80 grit and imo they spread fine just doing the joints. Just realised it's a pre worn trowel the other bloke works on with the 80 grit:

Man flu pretty much gone, just a tickly throat left! Watching a video of plastering linked above and "Brad" seems to suggest the edges of the trowel be razor/knife sharp as in if you're not careful they'll cut your fingers off and I felt he was being serious. Yet I watched another guy showing how to wear in a trowel with 80 grit paper and he ran the paper square along the edge then took the burrs off. I followed his advice and the trowel felt right in use albeit just doing the joints. Any pointers?

Quite common too to see slate or pitch damp courses bridged by later render.

I'd biscuit joint the boards square but at the join put a reinforcing strip underneath D4 glued and screwed.

This freed up the Ford VV carb on my old Capri recently. Engine hadn't started in about 20 years. Mind it would have been proper old 4 star not this modern sticky crap! Tbh I can't fault the Tectane products from TS. I use loads of their Contact Spray at work along with the Penetrating Oil. https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Automotive/d60/Lubricants+%26+Sprays/sd2795/Carburettor+Cleaner/p30713 (The Pro-Coat Cold Galv Spray is excellent too).

Is it less than 2.2m left to right in your first post's picture?

Just realised our old breakfast bar was 500mm wide, cut from a random bit of someone's cast off 600mm one. 250mm radiused one end so straight sides. The top was I think covered in Fablon and I edged it in white pvc trunking lid! Found an old pic when making the current bar leg and foot rest. You can see the jig cut, pocketed and biscuit jointed end:

I just bought a 1.8m beach effect worktop from there, £60, for my elderly parents. Quite impressed tbh. I'm putting in a freestanding 1000mm base unit and just needed a cheap top that near matches the existing.