Gone West

I also used 12mm Hardie Backer board for our wetroom. It's heavy and a bugger to cut but I think it'll still be there for many years.

Yes, apparently mine were installed in 2011 and have a 25 year payment period.

Yup, a Cornish cream tea.

Yeah I made sure the picture was correct for Cornwall.

That's a Cornish cream tea, like a Welsh cream tea, only better .

That's looking good. If it's well concreted in 18" will be fine. We had the loop latch fitted to the larger gate.

There is a chap on GBF who heats his house with A2A, I think it's Owlman. We heated our last house, which was a PH, with EASHP warm air heating supplementing the electric towel rails which worked fine. It was a small house though and very well insulated.

You can buy screw on aerators which would fit any tap that had the correct size threaded nozzle. This one also has a flow restrictor built in. https://www.screwfix.com/p/strom-mini-flow-tap-flow-restrictor-aerator/6177r

When I did our front gates I drilled the holes first but obviously you can't so I would drill the top hole for the threaded fixing exactly the diameter of the fixing and you won't need much force to tap it through. The bottom hole doesn't go right through the post only deep enough to get the fixing far enough into the post. I think 13mm sounds a bit small and would try 16mm myself and try to get some support behind the post when you tap it in. Remember to make sure the pin remains vertical as you hit it.

Christ your work is neat. Wendy couldn't believe that you took the time to fix it and then painted it. Mind you she's used to me.

Well that'll make you feel knackered if the Covid doesn't.

Are you feeling better now, still banished to the garden?

I would go with option 'B' because I care more about functionality than aesthetics and if the sashes are opening then they should let in air. IMHO option 'A' makes me wonder why they are opening sashes and not fixed. Just the way I am.

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Do you know if you need BC involvement to remove an extension?

Yes I can recommend the Ego range. I've a 5Ah and a 2.5Ah battery and use the 5Ah in the lawn mower and strimmer and the 2.5Ah in the hedge cutter and multi-tool attachments. I find the 5Ah battery heavy if I use it in the hedge cutter, but then I'm getting on a bit.

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Do you mean that?

The Norway link connects this year but the Belgium link came online in 2019 through Sandwich when I still lived in Kent.

Wendy's comment was that they should at least have have the bins housed somehow and that at 70m it was a long way to go to the loo.

The house I recently moved into has a 4kWp PV system and a 1.4kWp ST system. I wouldn't remove the ST system because it works well and I may get an EV which would soak up excess generation. Adding PV may involve changing the inverter, losing FiT payments and going above the G83/G98 limit.

I have recently had thirteen trees cut down and several were large sycamore and ash and I drilled 22mm holes in the stumps and filled then with neat SBK. I will hammer 22mm copper pipe in when I get round to it as that is the old recognised method of killing stumps, slow but sure.

No consensus then and combis are out.

I have recently moved to an old stone walled cottage that was converted to a bungalow in the 70s. It has a 4kWp PV system and a 1.4kWp ST system with an oil fired boiler for CH and DHW. There is a 230l cold water tank in the loft and a 140l vented hot water tank. I shall continue to use the oil fired boiler and would like to have mains pressure hot water. The ST system is a Genersys 1200 with DC12 controller which was installed in 2009 and seems to be working well. I am trying to decide whether to keep the ST system and use a ~250l twin coil TS such as a Grant DuoWave TS or use a twin coil UVC. I looked at the Harlequin Heatstream Plus but it only has one heating coil so would mean using the PV to heat the water with the immersion. I had a UVC system in my last house which worked well but it would require annual maintenance. The alternative would be to remove the ST and use an external oil fired combi boiler. I have discounted Sunamps etc. Any ideas would be helpful.

I did that at our last new build and it wasn't a problem.