Gone West

You want to enjoy it as much as possible. Getting stressed when building the house is no fun. IMHO do what you can afford and are happiest doing.

@K78 Looking at your pictures I can understand your concern about possible breakout with ICF and how you could install bracing to counter that. I like your idea of using the lego blocks and hope that you are able to complete your build using them. It's nice to see different construction techniques being used rather than the same old methods. Good luck with the project.

We bought a Speedy Access aluminium tower when we started our build. It has been invaluable for all the jobs we have used it for and when we bought it, it was £750. It looks like they have increased in price quite a bit. https://www.laddersandaccess.co.uk/product/speedy-80-access-tower-working-height-5-50m/

I installed Mint 16 many years ago from a download. I did it from the downloaded file not USB or DVD, I think (hope) it was as described here. https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-replace-windows-xp-linux-free.htm

I haven't seen any mention of this but have you considered creating a new partition and downloading and installing a version of Linux on that and dual booting.

@pepelepeu Hi and welcome to the forum. Sounds like a very interesting conversion much like one that was on Grand Designs recently. I guess you've seen it before. https://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/grand-designs-houses/486-grand-designs-tv-house-2019-episode-4-hull Good luck with the project.

I guess so judging by this:- "Paul Tomlin, owner and operator of Green Driving School in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, was one of the first to make the switch and has been using an electric Nissan Leaf to teach automatic learners since 2011."

@Toppers I fitted a corner toilet in our wetroom with the soil pipe stub in the corner like yours. Pan connector and 90 degree bend and it fitted fine. We bought it on Ebay and it is similar to this one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WC-Ceramic-Toilet-Bathroom-Corner-Toilet-White/283456730805

I paid a fixed price for the floor tiling I had done, a few years ago, which was based on £32/m2 and the length of time he thought it would take. It took longer than he estimated so he lost a bit.

They call it a retro design.

I find their advertising confusing.

So in a single pedal EV with cruise control working, in an emergency you would have to blip the pedal to cancel cruise control and then do nothing and hope it stops in time. I hope they'll come up with something better than that!!!

We heated our kitchen from 23C to 25C yesterday when we cleaned the oven using pyrolysis. The weather was dull so it didn't seem too hot.

I think the new Honda EV coming out this year has only one pedal, so that will be interesting. I also wondered how easy it would be to get used to braking without a brake pedal to hit in an emergency.

When do the brake lights indicate slowing down in that situation?

Stunning!!!

One of our local garden centres has a very nice bistro, mostly the reason we go there.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Are you building, renovating or just getting ideas?

150l/day is for all water, not just hot water.

Welcome to the forum, and well done on your self build. We built a timber frame, cedar clad house and had no problem getting buildings and contents cover from Aviva Insurance.

It was taped up while we were fitting it so it didn't get scratched.

Our sinks are Schock black granite composite. Wendy likes cooking, but we're not slaves to the kitchen and the dishwasher does the washing up.

Is that another window outside the window with the blackout blind? Is that an inside area? I'm puzzled so I'll go and have another Southern Comfort.

I used Rockwool RW6 as EWI on my house for it's acoustic and thermal insulation qualities. It's a rigid board though and won't behave like the 'orange stuff'. https://www.rockwool.co.uk/product-overview/slab-products/rw6-en-gb/?selectedCat=downloads

We submitted a lot of B&Q till receipts with our VAT reclaim and they were all accepted. B&Q asked me if I would like to open a trade account so I doubt you would have any problems setting one up. I always called myself 'SelfBuild' and it was accepted.