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Someone said to me, "Why don't you just raise the air brick?". Which seems the obvious thing to do. secondly does the base of a cavity wall need ventilating? Richard Head builder left space for an air brick under a door frame. It doesn't lead anywhere near the original house suspended floor. Just into the non insulated bottom bit of the cavity wall. finished level will be approximately half way up the lowest brown brick, not the red engineering bricks.

That would make a pleasant surprise, I normally come home to find something broken. The joke is on her his time though as I fixed the ironing board with previously unseen levels of impetus so she’s all ready to go again tomorrow.

I’m tempted just to increase our joint life cover and let my wife get on with it.

Good luck in your quest nod, I am in year 4 of my tv signal goes wonky in the summer.

I took half the sockets and light switches off a bedroom wall 2 weeks ago in preparation for wallpapering... Progress nil. This weekend, Saturday, looked after kids, had to go shopping, earned some money, Sunday, we had a family day out Monday, chores then going round to friends later. It pisses me off but I don’t want to be held prisoner by it.

No.

Clearly, you should continue making justifiable improvements to the fabric of the building but leave the rest of it alone.

I used to post somewhere where the stock answer to any domestic related issue (eg my neighbours are noisy or my washing machine has broken etc) was ‘Move house’. I suspect it should be the same here.

This flange (against the tiles) goes all round the frame, not just the bottom. previously the question has been raised about exactly how often people open their bi fold doors full anyway. Well, all of May is a good answer this year and we don’t even have a patio yet. sliders/French doors wouldn’t be the same.

To keep our structural elements simple, we were more or less restricted to a 3m opening which is quite small. At that size I don’t see how even treble sliders can get anywhere near the effect of a bifold door. They are on the sheltered side of the house but do not seem to unduly allow draughty through the seal. They are DG so you can feel an airflow down the glass when it is cold more than through the seals.

I imagine the revenue comes from large organisations who pay a fortune to subscribe to that info. Thus they cannot give it away free to anyone.

Yes please

Not sure but I know at work we’re buying a small one, stripping it back to chassis and hydraulics and then running it remotely in a 5m deep pond

I can date my long term indigestion problem back to 2008 and the birth of my first child... brining this vaguely back on track, becoming immersed in your ‘build’, devoting every spare hour to it will mess up your diet and whilst the amount of physical activity may mask your bad diet for a while, you can’t, won’t out run it. Not that I can blame anyone but I am addicted to sugar. It is incredibly hard to come off it. Most days I would kill for a bucket of shreddies and half a gallon of milk. That shit is lethal.

Crikey. Remind self to buy dishwasher cleaner and descaler...

I actually found a good one last night, it was a mittenwalder jäger dunkel.

I wish I was.

Bugger, I forgot someone bought me a nice bourbon so it’s 8 all told...

They're not unwanted, I just need to build up some dutch courage. Its the 7 bottles (ffs) of Scotch I'm struggling with...

Know the feeling, I bought a couple of cheap cases of random mixed beers off an Internet supplier. I’ve drink all the decent ones and I’m left with half a dozen Russian/Double imperial stouts type beers that are all 7-8%

I’m not sure how witnessing the destruction of a country by an EU superstate is in any way de-stressing?

This has been covered before about how reflective surfaces can fool IR thermometers. Someone like @JSHarris Or @SteamyTea can explain something like this

A reminder to everyone: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/15/mother-of-four-killed-digger-helped-renovate-garden-in-laws/ stay safe

Please update when you’re working full time, the build is going wrong and you’ve run out of money. at the mo, you are 1) on holiday & 2) haven’t started

What a ducking palaver. Ordered some “heavy duty” brackets but the ducking numpties packed the metal brackets in a wrapped up plastic bag which arrived sans one of the bracket. Told them but despite being told more were being sent, none ever arrived. So duck this, I spent about 6 hours today getting stuff out and putting it back to spend 20 mins blitzing a piece of 18mm mdf to create 2 big wedges type brackets. Should have been wallpapering the wall instead, mind. But anything to avoid a second attempt at wallpapering. In answer to the premise of the thread, just rawlplugs in the end ?