Gone West

It answers your question, "I wish there was a published schedule of when / if BT/OR are going to provide a fibre service here." You have fibre at the cabinet you are connected to, but it won't be connected to your property in the forseeable future. Much like my situation.

Don't know if you've seen this before but I used the broadbandchecker site and I was told no fibre in near future. https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL

At our last place we used a private company supplying a WiMAX service as we didn't want crappy BT. The speed was around 20mbps compared to the BT 3mbps. We didn't have any problems during the three plus years we used it.

This one is even cheaper. https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-hose-connector-40mm/48625?kpid=48625

I fitted a Solar iBoost a few months ago and it was £300. I think they have gone up in price since then. I was exporting most of what we were producing, and using oil to heat the water, but now a lot goes to heat the DHW tank.

Bloody SSE don't pay my FiT payments until the very last day anyway.

I did the same on our build, even put a small one in the kitchen ceiling so I could access the ensuite shower tray trap. That was the most visible one, but had others behind mirrors and wardrobes. Wendy wasn't as anti as your wife though. Bitter experience from previous houses with water leaks.

Christ that was a long time ago. I'd forgotten about that, I can't even remember what model it was. Bad news, they don't like being unused for a long length of time. Living here, with naturally soft water, saves us around £70 a year on salt.

It took us eight years to build our house and we had building materials in our front garden for most of that time. Ask the council in writing to supply a copy of the ruling that they are working to. Point out it wasn't in the list of conditions of the planning permission, assuming it wasn't of course.

Does your front garden already have a large enough paved area to park your car or do you intend to create a paved area. If you pave the front garden your LPA might have questions about runoff and drainage if someone dobs you in.

We used the Isoquick system which is preformed and slots together with vertical sides. The specific design is dependant on the site and your structural engineer should have provided drawings for your groundworkers.

We were several hundred pounds in credit with SSE and they still kept increasing the monthly direct debit. I got fed up with trying to sort it out so cancelled the direct debit, got a refund of the credit and set up a quarterly direct debit which just pays off the bill.

We used a compact unit which was a Genvex Combi 185LS. It's a combined MVHR, hot water cylinder and EASHP. IIRC, we've since moved house, I set the fan levels at around 30% and we never changed that. We never used boost and we didn't have any condensation in the kitchen or bathrooms.

This is the table I calculated back in 2010 for my PH build. I can't remember much about how I did it but I commissioned the setup myself using a Testo 405i and the BCO wasn't interested in any aspect of the system.

Now you're asking. I'll have to try to remember how I did it. IIRC I worked out the area of the duct, which in my case was quite small, so I didn't want to restrict the flow at all. I then made a square cover, as in the original thread, which was larger than the duct, which when multiplied by the open area of the mesh gave at least as much area as the duct.

Where are your vents fitted? I fitted ours in a position where it was easy to brush them off two or three times a year. The insect screens worked well but the important thing is that the mesh open area is sufficient for the vent size and duct cross sectional area so there isn't any reduction in flow rate.

We were a couple of miles inland. Hidden pins.

We had a late Victorian cottage years ago and that had cavity walls.

Our Canadian WRC ended up grey and no staining from the fixings as they were stainless steel. We were in East Kent at the time though so low rainfall amounts.

I'm not hung up on where the report came from but more interested in the fact that the Ofgem are considering scrapping standing charges which will help those who have spent money and effort in reducing their energy usage.

Plenty of other ways to tax those owners without hitting everyone else.

What a good idea! Ofgem considering it. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-11031939/Scrap-energy-standing-charges-prevent-fuel-poverty-says-charity.html

It's wrong not to pay someone you have employed to do a job. If you don't like the quality of the work ask them to redo it. It's your fault for employing them. I employed a carpenter, who was recommended to me, on my build and his work was very poor. I had taken time to explain exactly what I wanted done and why and supplied all the materials. I paid him for the day and told him not to come back and why I didn't want him back. I think that is fair.

"Start with inflation. Barring some unspeakable catastrophe in Ukraine, inflation will be falling rapidly from this winter onwards. Pantheon Economics, an independent British consultancy with a good track record, has done some number-crunching. It concludes that while there will indeed be a peak of around 11 per cent in the consumer price index in the autumn, next year inflation will fall right back. By the end of 2023 it will be below 2 per cent – so below the Bank of England’s target level." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/inflation-to-fall-right-back-down-and-other-good-news-about-the-economy-yes-really/ar-AAZ0z5A?ocid=mailsignout&cvid=c306b256e82d42e6be8deb924d9926b9

They are blackfly and the ants eat the secretions from the blackfly. The ants will carry the blackfly to other parts of the plant and effectively farm the blackfly. The best way to get rid of them is to encourage blue tits which will eat the blackfly and ants and also blackbirds which will the ants. https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/blackfly