Gone West

Excellent, like the style.

Phew, at least I haven't missed out on that one then .

Never owned one so never tried, but are rimless toilets easier to keep clean?

I didn't put anything up unless I had deep holes in the front and then I hung rope around it with a laminated piece of A4 as the sign.

I couldn't remember what the spacing is so just went out and measured it at 300mm and they're in a straight line. You can just about see the plants behind the wire mesh. I prefer hedges to fences and I just put a rabbit proof fence in front of the hawthorns and blackthorns. In the past I have found holly to be very slow growing and we grow Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) up our posts and trellis. It is covered in flowers in the summer and smells gorgeous.

In that case I wouldn't change anything and if there are no problems leave well alone.

Around here it would be time, cost and aggravation.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Yes I have a Genvex combined unit, but they only work in a very well insulated house. Why not leave your MVHR as it is and add an air to air heat pump to the house if that is the route you want to take. What is your existing heating?

Around here the leaves can stay on until the end of the year, almost as long as the alders. Just depends on the weather.

Yes there are sloes on there every year but not in huge quantities. There are enough for the blackbirds though. For a large crop it needs to grow 2m to 3m tall and untrimmed.

We have a mixed blackthorn and hawthorn hedge at the front of the property which I keep at around 1m high. All went in as two year old bare rooted whips and was completely filled in after four years and is around 0.8m thick. The sparrows love it, and when the sparrowhawk visits and sits on the top of the hedge the sparrows make so much noise that we go outside and scare the predator away.

Don't like to disappoint .

Could always fit a water softener if you had one lying around .

Amazing!!

Thanks, yes your figure looks more accurate. That is a table I've had for some time and I'd never noticed, I'll have to correct it.

I asked Building Control what they wanted and they said a notice to demolish form completed. So I sent that in and then proceeded to take the bungalow apart.

The Openreach engineer that removed my line just cut it with a pair of side cutters and coiled it up on the side of the pole. With our system we use VoIP for our landline telephone.

We had Openreach disconnect and remove their cable from our house. It was FREE. They said it was their only free service. We never had it replaced and use WiiMax which is both a lot faster and cheaper in this area.

Yes I agree, but I'm afraid I'll have to add to it and say I think you are lucky to have found a very good roofer and I like the look of your roof.

I should have said before that Compriband is great but the only problem is that it expands very quickly when the weather is warm. When trying to squeeze the tape in between a window opening and window frame it can be tricky. Also if the gap is larger than the tape is meant for, it may not be weathertight. There is a range of tape sizes for different gaps. If 3 to 7mm isn't thick enough there is 5 to 10mm or 7 to 12mm.

Don't say that, just don't. I'm at that age when it's not a joke anymore.

My windows were fitted, by the suppliers, with a strip of Compriband around the centre of the frame. I then fitted another strip of Compriband around the outside edge and I foamed the inside edge with Soudal Low Expansion Flexifoam. I didn't use any airtightness tapes or membranes and achieved 0.47ACH.

I have an air blown sewage treatment plant with a Secoh EL-100 air pump that had been installed for ten years. The air pump stopped working the other day and when I opened it up the inside was covered in metal dust. The magnet had obviously stopped running centrally and had been rubbing against the metal surrounding the coils. I don't know why it did that but I've replaced it with a Secoh JDK-100 and hopefully it will last at least ten years as well. It has run continuously for all that time so not too bad. The new one uses a lot less electricity so one bonus.

I did have one but I removed it about a year ago because of the risks with maintenance.

Our arris rails are 2.4m and came from Wickes many years ago. They haven't broken but a couple have warped.