Gone West

This might help. Pipe Sizes and Dimensions Chart.doc

Exactly right. I had quotes for a staircase that varied between £3000 and 30000.

I've never heard of either of those. We have an outside post box and no letterbox in the door. The only letterbox related building regs change I know of is the proposal to ban low level letter boxes to save posties back. I think he's spinning you a yarn.

Some of the beaches around here are dog free from 1/5 to 30/9 others aren't so we choose the dog free beaches. Why some people think it's ok for their dogs to crap on the beach God only knows. Even when there are clear signs banning dogs owners still allow them to run off the lead.

When my partners parents had a water meter retro fitted, Thames Water fitted a 'smart' water meter inside the house. Maybe that is what you have at your current house. Do you have a meter reader come to read your water meter? You could ask Severn Trent whether they fit smart meters if that is what you want.

I got that email as well. I've had my Sonos for over ten years and I've never updated the software and it still works ok. I've no intention of "Trading Up" and I don't want their support so I'll just carry on as before.

The whole of our ground floor is tiled with porcelain tiles. We haven't noticed any problems. We have a large rug in the sitting room, which is the largest room, and has a half vaulted ceiling.

Around here any pipework under agricultural land has to be 1m below the surface to prevent damage to the pipework by any future deep ploughing. I can't see the activity of any cows affecting pipework 1m down.

The reed bed system we bought came with common reed (Phragmites australis) plants. These grow vigorously to around 8m high and unless there is sufficient space need cutting down to an acceptable height throughout the year. I found out later that other types of water plant are suitable as long as they have a rhizome root system so we replaced the reeds with irises which only grow 0.75m high. Apparently the bacteria that continue to breakdown the effluent live on the rhizome root system. The beds have to be cleared out every 3 to 4 years depending on plant growth which entails removing the plants and silt. The plants have to be split up and then replanted and the excess plants disposed of. If the ground conditions are suitable you may not need a very deep borehole. Ours is 110mm diameter but unfortunately even after drilling 47m down to the chalk only found water bearing geology.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Very remote in our case.

I did a similar thing at my last house in the 90s. I made the mould out of melamine board and just to be sure I coated it in vegetable oil. I fixed a semi circular bead on the bottom of the mould near the front as a drip channel. It all worked as expected fortunately.

Slight overkill . If you like pheasant to eat an air rifle would would soon stop it's unsociable behaviour.

We had a similar problem with a crow attacking one of our windows to the extent that there were blood spatters all over the window sill. Maybe a temporary silhouette of a cat or fox on the inside of the glass would deter it.

If I was going to fit a replacement for ours it would probably be a Viltra's Oxtec which appears to have tertiary treatment in the one tank. https://www.viltra.co.uk/products/sewage-treatment/oxtec

If at all possible I would prefer to have a deep bore soakaway. When we installed our treatment plant, ten years ago, discharge permission wasn't required if your property is not over a certain type of aquifer. I can't remember the details now. The reed bed system we have is high maintenance and there are safety issues when maintaining it but at the time it was all BC would accept. More recently the BCO allowed our neighbours to have the outlet from their sewage treatment plant flow into another tank which was filled with plastic filter media and from there it flows into an ordinary soakaway. There are also trickle filter systems which can be used for tertiary treatment before flowing into an ordinary soakaway.

It may improve airtightness and noise quite a bit if the extractor was replaced with an efficient recirculating type.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Does the extractor hood extract to the outside or recirculate. If it recirculates have the carbon filters been changed? MVHR is certainly worth it if you can reach reasonable airtightness.

I haven't increased the DHW temperature above 45C in the, nearly, two years we've lived here. The flow rates seem fine but we do have aerating showers and taps so I don't know whether the aerating effect masks anything.

I paid a fiver each for four port Speedfit manifolds many moons ago from Screwfix. They were in a sale though.

The traditional material used with stone is burnt sand mastic. https://www.womersleys.co.uk/shop/stone_repair_grouts_and_mastic/burnt_sand_mastic_10_litres

Unless I misunderstand you it seems as though spacers are 6.5mm high for most widths. https://www.thermosealgroup.com/products/spacer-bars/b7681

The EASHP in my Genvex Combi 185LS is rated at 585W input and has a 1kW immersion, so total input is very similar to the CE-ES300. We have never had a problem with running out of DHW and we have never used the immersion even though it is only 185l. When it's not heating water it's available to heat the air from the MVHR. As mine is an EASHP, unlike the CE-ES300, the CoP is good but I like the details of the CE-ES300 and would certainly consider it.

The minimum could be 3mm XPS as linked to by @jfb . You would have to initially fit the 50mm Celotex as required by the BCO and then remove it after sign off and replace it with the XPS which could be 3mm, 6mm or 10mm. The XPS won't be insulating to the same degree as the Celotex but would create a little more comfort underfoot than with no insulation at all and the thicker the XPS is the more comfortable the floor would feel. Thin XPS is a lot cheaper than thicker Celotex.

The Grundfos pump in our pump station is rated at 235W and only runs for between 5 and 10 minutes a day in total, so is a matter of pence/day to run. It has a maximum head of 5m but only has to lift about 2.5m.

We had granite fines specified for under our insulated slab.