dpmiller

Makes sense. Only (slight) problem is the stack. I've nowhere at the back for a straight vertical run that's compliant as the dormer for the bathroom gets in the way, I was considering teeing off the horizontal from the bathroom for an internal stack up through the roof, but there's also the option of making the other stack (at the side of the house for the ensuite) external and open. Alternative is Durgos, and venting at the treatment plant. Anybody fancy having a look at the drawings please? dorm093-350-Miller-R2-pdf.pdf

OK so we've got three sets of outlets at the back of the house- 1. kitchen sink and DW, 2. the utility sink and WM and the drains from the downstairs shower and basin, and 3. the downstairs WC as well as all the upstairs bathroom. There's 650mm from the top of the footings to the top of the subfloor, and another 225mm or so to FFL. What looks handiest- 1. 40mm out through the wall, drop into gullytrap. 2. 50mm horizontally through the floor insulation and out through wall to rear entry gully 3. 110m out through wall to a vertical soil coming out of a rest bend but I could drop all three down through the subfloor in 110mm and put 1&2 into rear entry gullies? What about 3 then, the soil rising up for the upstairs bathroom needs to be just where the downstairs loo is...

oil boiler stats are often doubles- is the a small screw cap beside the knob? could be a reset in behind it if so.

Well we've got a ban in force here, and the reasoning apparently isn't pure water conservation. NI Water are seeing unprecedented volume flow and the issue is the ability (or lack of) the pumping equipment to keep the mains up to pressure at this time. Fine for most users, but folks up a long line atop a hill could find their supply disappearing as it can't get the whole way up there...

why?

ta. The shadow makes them look thicker...

What slates are those?

excellent!

Actually, I've been told that the stone that broke out might well be marketable as it's splitting so nicely... Anyways. BCO arrived late yesterday and was happy with the trenches, Terry the blockman set levels (three courses of block to the subfloor), and Paul dropped in the mesh and carried out the pour today. Four loads later and it's done. Disappeared the last of the poorly Ash trees along the fenceline too. So blocks are arriving Tuesday and Terry can get up to ground level.

Yup, I'm just glad someone else put the pipe in.

you did say the "big long lane" tho, that'll be me then. Just under 1100m of 32mm...

200m is nothing...

well Balloo supplied the digger and the hammer so that's their problem. Infact the stone was pretty soft and split quite nicely.

And a few days of toil later, we have trenches. Yesterday morning started with us marking out, and then Paul decided which corner to start from. First time the bucket hit the ground, it found rock. The hammer (that has been booked for a fortnight) wasn't yet available- brand new digger, brand new hammer for it hadn't arrived. So he tentatively tried a different area with more luck and got a fair bit done; the hammer arrived thismorning. So now: Thankfully, that's all the spoil we have so far, a mix of a hardish grey basalt and a brown/blue mudstone shale. A lot has backfilled the back drain- and gained a tidy area in the process. Trenches just to tidy in the morning, BCO to inspect, then lay mesh and pour.

Last time I saw crap like that, it was caramelised Coke in the bottom of an autoclave...

according to...?

why not bring the DC cables through the felt and have the microinverters in the attic?

Since when did beer go off?

Ask me again later in the week.

Base drawings are in (finally!) so marking out and digging begins on Monday. In the meantime, here's the view from the top of the world (ok, topsoil bing...).

If it's currently in mown grass, is there not topsoil worth banking and retaining?

why does a pressurised system "need" a certified plumber?

Hey.

ordered three of those pumps for later use. Arrived yesterday... they're TINY! So used to the size and weight of old-style AC pumps, when the package arrived I wondered whether they'd only sent one, it was so light.

on the couple of quotes that we got showing erection as a separate sum, it was between 8-11k for our 270sqm 1.5-storey.