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Fake news it's actually a great job. They're all having it done like that now!

Jeremy you do seem to be an extraordinarily helpful bloke though and also passionate about low energy builds!

Shuttering trenches never seems to work very well. Depends how neat machine driver has been. 6mm ply is laughable but feel free to try use this then backfill. You will soon give up! iv found pallets either side wedged with everything pulled out good solution. Pull out props and pallets as Conc rises to be most effective cheap method as usually have loads of pallets. Ive filled lost corners with conc before but think textbook founds should have nice vertical sides so not ideal

The industry is booming. Perhaps in the dark years they'd of tried harder to win your business but their order book might be full regardless

Is there not done confusion here where you are just fixing horizontal battens to your frame and others are assuming you fixing 2 layers of battens?

Seems odd. How many have you tried? Perhaps previous client don't want every potential new customer traipsing thru their door. Understandable I suppose

Recently bought a makita planer and it was no good. Returned under warranty after 4 months and refund taken. Went back to Bosch. I'm not loyal to any manufacturer but didn't give me a good impression

was hoping to get away with vine eyes and staples! Im thinking if i pull taught before knocking the staples home on the posts all should be good?

So thread thru vine eye one end. Twist back on itself to secure. Run to other end, through vine eye again, then how do those nifty pliers pull the wire taught?

Whats the way to fix garden wire to wooden posts to grow a climber up? Posts are every 6ft with a run of around 11m. I want horizontal wires at around 150mm centres I thought vine eyes at each end and staples on the 6 or so intermediate posts. How do i tension the wire or keep it taught while putting it up? Any tips so I don't make a mess of it...

As in out the side underground re your drains? I take it your groundwork people are doing this?

Yes I would of thought 100mm just where the doors are is no major. With regards to cutting a channel into eps is this done with hand saw. Also where is the shuttering added and what does it achieve in @TerryE solution? Any sketches? edit. Think I understand the shuttering lowers the frame Cill below ffl to help with part m

There you go a custom calc well done

My understanding is double eps =pir so rough and ready you'll have 360mm eps. Work your figures on online calc based on that. Sure someone will give you a more precise answer though!

I think the point of permeable paving is that unless it's heavy rain the paving shouldn't be directing the run off anywhere. Therefore the rain should fall where it has always fallen and shouldn't pose any extra risk to your foundations. Obviously it makes sense to put a channel in for surge capacity though.

Boarders are rough. They're too used to being on a price and having to throw them up. Did any of you have to buy a special waster adapter with those frames. The last one I bought didn't come with some kind of adapter I needed as waste was something like 80mm. Ended up ordering one of gerberit from Germany or somewhere on continent.

Look like they're enjoying the inset valley boards! Bit of a pain that job.

That's crap if your loo isn't going to cover that hole. Cut PB off as high as tiling allows (hopefully to the nogs) and replace with ply or backer board with better sized holes. Ply prob be better in this scenario.

Typo. It's amazingly -158°C. The entropy of a crystalline structure is a lot lower than the liquid phase which is why converting from one to t'other soaks so much heat. And this is also why the specific heat of ice is a pretty much half that of water. This effect is also why steam is so dangerous. If it condenses into water on your skin it chucks a lot of heat and causes serious scalding. still don't get it completely! anyway so once your out of power your out of hot water? Do you have any form of backup? How long do these take to charge and can you use them at any amount of charge?

How much work are you doing on your house? Is bco involved upto now? Put the 33" door on wc if you have/want to but you don't have to swap all the doors leading to

God I can't even grasp all that water phase malarkey even when dumbed down. They do sound good thought. What happens when you run out of the 10 kw and want a shower? Can the sunamp heat on demand? i know you pointed out gas as being dear but my last connection was below 200. It's subsidised

Down to around 1200 for labour. Not overly cheap but who wants cheap. If he's done work there before and is neat give him the job.

I use tent pegs for the clayboard. Just watch it as conny rises up past the bottom. Sometimes use a bit of timber to keep it tight against trench wall until the conny is holding it back. Depends how rough or good machine driver has been

Just be frank. Say you may not be able to give him the whole project after planning and you would want to own the copyright. Not quite sure how it works might be a grey area but as long as you've discussed it.

Done before myself. Horses for courses remember. Some are good at putting schemes together and getting planning. Others are more technical. Make sure no copyright issues.