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Sure . Also electric , concrete , tiling - I can do it all
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Cough , cough 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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How does your garden grow?
Pocster replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
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But think how many slugs you can terminate in 8 billion years !
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Don’t have a pension so that’s an issue . Will check my diodes later .
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What do I do for the next 8 billion years waiting ?
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According to Google the sun will expire in around 8 billion years . Just wondering if you’ll get this done in time ?
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Vision On hasn’t improved much
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I missed this thread somehow . I think the biblical bathroom saga took my Will to live away . As I have now found this thread I’ll just post a pointless comment to help keep it moving for another few years .
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The roofs, the windows and the solar PV array
Pocster commented on Thorfun's blog entry in West Sussex Forever Home
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Suds for dummies
Pocster replied to Danny68's topic in Energy Efficient & Sustainable Design Concepts
SUDs can be bollocks also . The BCO wanted the soakaway to be 10metres from any boundary or building ( including our build ! ) . That made it impossible. So they took my cash for this but ‘agreed ‘ I hadn’t meet the SUDs obligation. So that aspect would never be signed off - yet I carry on anyway 🤣 Reality is if I sold a solicitor would pick on this and you just take out insurance to cover this ‘ situation ‘ . So it depends how hard you kick your BCO - I kick mine with a metal boot . -
Yes it’s my paddling pool
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I think one says ‘gym ‘ - it’s too small mate ! Make the gym bigger ! Also where does the arcade cabinet go ? , hot tub ? , sauna ? and games room ?
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Go as big as you can underground because neighbor objections mean feck all to ‘size’ of dwelling they can’t see . Avoid having it that you must park on it - that’s a bit tricky 🙄
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Yo Jimbo I'll chuck my pennies worth in. When you install a floor / bottom in a basement, do you still need a load of insulation. If a basement is underground on 3 1/2 sides. Just a lightwell exposed. If that floor is say 4mt underground is the temperature not stable, and quite warm at that point ? I installed EPS insulation under my basement slab. I also needed to make it a 'raft' form. 2. I believe that to comply with building regs you have to have Two methods of keeping water out ? Any idea what is normally done ? I was thinking about a french drain around the base to a sump with a pump which would take that water to a suitable soakaway ? I'm not sure what other methods might be used ? My twat council said 3 forms to keep water out. I have french drain type affair at the base outside the basement ( this is expected to fail ). I had plastic sheeting lapped over all the external basement walls ( this is expected to fail ). The internal perimeter drain with floor and wall membrane is IMHO the only thing you need as this shouldn't ( can't? ) fail. So basically (expletive deleted) about doing the other 2 but don't spend too much time/money on them as they will fail. 3. I know that sometimes basements are constructed using formwork, and waterproof concrete. Any ideas as to what other methods might be suitable ? I used interlocking concrete blocks ( can find the brand name if you wish ). All dry fit. Nice and easy but lots of labour. I then tied thousands of steel rebar through the lot because I'm as 'ard as nails. 4. If a bathroom was to be fitted in a basement, i take it that a macerator pump would be required to take the waste up to ground level where it could be discharged into a normal 100mm soil pipe ? Yep. But it all depends on where your soil pipe will be. I can't do this so I will need underground WC to macerate to a pumping station outside. 5. Any directions to web sites, or you tubes, that might give me a better idea of methods available ? Yes. Just ask me. Because I'm (expletive deleted)ing brilliant. 6. Anything else you think i might need to consider ? How much cash you got?
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Nah . Just to cover concrete blocks - so no function other than visual
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Have some excess wall tiles I wish to stick to concrete block wall outside. Do I just use normal water proof tile adhesive , grab stuff , ct1 ? ta
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12 inches of jam
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I was considering a qooker . Not a cheap item ; wondered if it was really worth it compared to a kettle . Regarding electric consumption- does it really matter for the minute or two it’s on ? ( kettle or hot tap ) .
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That your SWMBO or mine ?
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Yes . My tool functions fine ; but is equally difficult to get an accurate measure of …
