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Anyone have experience of composite granite sinks? Looking at some made by Reginox which seem good value. Comes with a 10 year guarantee which is shorter than the lifetime guarantee given on stainless steel sinks. Should I read much into this, or will the composite granite sink still be long lasting?

Is it just an AONb and a Conservation Area, or odd it also subject to a trust? There is a suburb near to where I live where all houses are subject to the rules of a trust, which was formed to protect the historical character of the neighbourhood. You basically cannot do ANY works, internal or external, without their permission.

It’s exactly the same rule for any assets, if the formalities of registration are complied with. So for land, the conveyancer would need to do the necessary checks and comply with land registration requirements. For a car, there would be some papers to file with the DVLA such as the V5C document and you should also take care of the logbook, as that also evidences ownership (I think!). But if the fraudster has the logbook and forges the V5C, then the same rule would apply.

Not sure why you are taking it out on me; I was just trying to explain the law and show the other side of the coin, which is that IF the purchaser purchased without notice of the fraud, in good faith and did so for value, then he has good title to the property. As unfair as that may be, that is the law and has been for centuries, which is precisely how the ownership laws in this country work. You may be aware of the expression "the law is an ass". This is a good example. That doesn't however change the position. Absent parliament legislating to change the law, it is what it is and has been for centuries. Here's the definition of bona fide purchaser for value without notice:

Ah, I see. Google has updated me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662 I think the confusion here is that the spat between the new owner of that house and the original owner is indeed, very much a civil matter and that is likely to fail. You can't expect the police to turf out the purchaser if he is a bona fide purchaser for value without notice of the fraud. How would you feel if you had purchased a house in good faith and then the police turned up and told you, well because you purchased it from a fraudster, your purchase is invalid even though you were none the wiser, so you have to leave, even though you've paid £132k for the house to the fraudster. Of course, there is fraud here and the fraudster should be investigated, but as long as the purchaser is innocent in it all, there is no remedy that can be taken against him/her.

Who is stealing whose house here?

I would be more concerned with the fact that failure to comply with an enforcement notice is a criminal offence.

I’m afraid i have little sympathy for this. I made life much more complicated for myself so that I could comply with PD, including waiting 18 weeks for the supply of roof tiles, and building things in an illogical order. If I were you I would order the tiles and fix the breach when they eventually arrive.

Foundations are already in place, and bricks are on site. Brickie would needs to mix and supply mortar. How much should it cost to do that and build the following walls (excluding pointing): 1) one single leaf brick wall in a straight line, 4m long and 3 courses high; 2) one single leaf brick wall in a straight line, 5m long and 2 courses high; and 3) one 9m wall, only one course, laid as a soldier course though bricks lying down as opposed to upright, has two 45 degree bends and one 90 degree bend (photo of a couple of bends attached so you get my meaning).

Well hopefully the consensus here that it’sa good product justifies the crazy price I paid for it. 90m of the 150mm width tape worked out at £225. It costs almost half as much on the continent, but I was in a rush to get it and so didn’t have time to order it from baunativ.de as that required an intermediary within the EU accepting it on my behalf, and then forwarding it onto me, as baunativ no longer ship to the UK. When I add the cost of the primer, this is very expensive. I hope the £20k or so that I’ve spent on insulation, airtightness and MVHR will save me money in the long run.

Given “peace” and “literature” are not sciences, and a Nobel prizes exists for those, this observation is irrelevant to the debate. And as for consensus, I note that Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine awards all of its maths graduates with an Associateship of the Royal College of Science (which is the college in which the Mathematics department sits). Whilst not the ultimate authority on the debate in question, Imperial is one of the most advanced centres for scientific study in the UK.

I think this takes a very narrow view of mathematics. If you attend a few university maths courses, you'll find that whilst language/terminology/nomenclature is very important, it is only equipping you with the basic fundamentals of mathematics. Take a Laplace transform for example. As seen from an engineering perspective, this is merely a tool to solve differential equations. In that sense, it is linguistic operator in the sense that it takes a complex differential equation that is hard/impossible to solve and translates it into a different presentation where it becomes solvable. But a mathematician will explore this tool from a purely algebraic viewpoint to understand WHY it works and PROVE that it works. In other words, if it wasn't for all the scientific discoveries that mathematicians have made over the centuries, most of engineering discoveries and physics discoveries could not have happened.

looks very nice. Unfortunately not sure they do wardrobes.

I will try fittingly. If you happen to remember the name of the Swedish company, please let me know.

At the outset of our project we thought we would treat ourselves to bespoke wardrobes, as well as a few other bespoke pieces of furniture and cladding. With our architect's advice, we set aside £25k for all joinery items, including bespoke kitchen doors, but excluding door sets for actual rooms. This was more than a year ago. We've now started to get quotes back and I'm simply astonished at how far out we were. It's all a bit bonkers as we're not using any fancy woods, it's all vinyl wrapped MDF, oak veneer MDF or the occasional sheet of solid full stave oak panel. One joinery has told us that sheet material has gone up in price in the last 12 months by 150%; I know inflation is high, particularly in timber products, but that seems excessive. We are considering using joineries abroad (currently considering one in Portugal and one in Romania) but not sure how we would transport it back here. The obvious way to reduce costs is to cut down on the number of bespoke items and see if there are any off the shelf products we could use. I'm familiar with the IKEA range of wardrobes, and wondered whether anyone had used their carcasses, but got some nicer sliding doors from a third party manufacturer. (We need sliding as don't have room for hinged doors). Ikea's range of sliding door wardrobes is not going to work with our scheme, as although our scheme is contemporary, we want natural materials on show, and the ikea range uses vinyl wrapped mdf for almost all their doors. (We only had vinyl wrapped MDF for the internals.

Just spoke to my electrician and he reassured me it will be futureproofed because he will wire hob in 10mm and oven in 6mm.

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My electrician has asked me to confirm what loads my oven and hob will be. (He is starting work but the appliances won't arrive for a while.) I thought this would be an easy job with google, but after 40 minutes of searching apart from my induction hob (which this tells me has a load of 7.2kW), I am none the wiser. My combination oven is a Zanussi ZVENM7K1. The supplier's page states: Total Connected Load (kW) tbc Fuse Rating (A) 16 This product must be hard wired (cable not supplied) I downloaded the manual, but that didn't assist. My Oven is a Zanussi ZOPNA7K1. The supplier's page states the following. Surely the 3490kW is a mistake! Total Connected Load (kW) 3490 Fuse Rating (A) As supply varies depending on usage please consult a qualified electrician for fuse rating.

Found out recently that the company has been dissolved. So now it will depend on how good their insurance was.

I disagree. It is the purest of sciences. The science of mathematics is to seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. Mathematicians conduct experiments all the time, whose purpose is to study and better understand quality, structure, space, and change. Sometimes these qualities, structures, spaces and changes arise in the abstract world, sometimes they arise in the real world. There is debate over whether mathematical objects such as numbers and points exist naturally or are human creations. Benjamin Peirce called mathematics "the science that draws necessary conclusions". Albert Einstein, on the other hand, stated that "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Many areas of physics could be thought of as an areas of applied and pure mathematics. Much of computing is an application of numerical analysis, linear algebra and number theory, and yet you wouldn't tell a computer scientist that he wasn't a scientist.

So are you suggesting that the secondary loop should ideally go to every hot water outlet, rather than just near to it? I have the UVC in a pump room on the second floor (loft conversion). One bathroom is directly next to that pump room. The other two bathrooms are on the first floor, directly underneath the pump room and the first bathroom i mentioned. The laundry/utility room is then under one of those bathrooms. So all of those outlets are effectively in the same area of the house, all vertically aligned, keeping distances from the UVC to a minimum. The only outlets that are a bit further out are: the kitchen sink which is about 5.5m or 7m from the utility room in one direction; and the WC sink which is about 6m from the utility room in the other direction. Nervous that my spec simply states "secondary loop with pump on a timer to provide near instantaneous hot water to all outlets", which I now realise is really vague. I don't really have space for an accumulator, but am paying Thames Water a fortune to upgrade my connection.

Please don't put the tv above the fireplace.

But doesn't this assume that the hot water circulation loop goes very close to each outlet? I think his plan is to just take the hot water loop to the nearest point in each room where hot water is needed, and from there run a separate pipe for each outlet. It's this pipe that he suggested could be done with 10mm or 16mm buteline (so that's an internal diameter of 6.9 or 12.1). Working out the internal area, tells me that the 16mm buteline will hold slightly more than 3 x the volume of water than the 10mm buteline. So it will probably take 3x longer to clear the deadleg (ignoring any variation in flow rate that might come from broader pipes). Is there any downside of using 10mm buteline for a basin? Is a 6.9mm internal diameter sufficient for the supply of water to all basins (whether it's the kitchen sink or the WC)?

I am getting my terminology mixed up. We were originally going to do a soakaway but the BCO didn't like this because our soil is clay. So he made us pump it to the sewer. So we have an underground tank that the water from the patio runs to. Once the tank reaches a certain level the pump comes on and pumps it to the sewer. So this is not a soakaway.

No, but an A-Level in maths does: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/alevel-in-maths-is-key-to-high-pay-1071914.html