daiking
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A weekend topic for the ladies... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/washing-machines-energy-consumption-laundry-uk-households-renewable-electricity-a8270561.html#commentsDiv Christ on a bike, the wife would put everything on a boil wash if she could. My kneejerk reaction is this is just advertorial bolleaux to sell expensive detergent and more energy could be saved elsewhere in the laundry cycle. Our fabrics need the 40 and 60 washes, so does the machine to keep clean and the 30 wash prog on the machine is too gentle. What’s the consensus from the resident energy-hadists?
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I don’t have any knotweed but I could move some Himalayan balsam from the other side of the garden when that starts sprouting again.
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I’m looking for something cheap that wont take much room but will cover the gap later this summer (not asking much, lol). Maintenance wise not bothered, I’ll hack them back when needed. It’s just that when everything else springs to life in the next week or so it will be the only part that is left open. Until last year the brambles did a great job but I cut them back to the ground and now some of the houses on that side will look down onto our patio. if I can plant a 3ft leylandi now and it be a 6ft tree by the autumn I would be happy.
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Not worth another thread. What would be the cheapest/quickest way to cover a 2 fence panel gap? Shown here. Would only be needed for a couple of years.
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Boots, shoes, trainers: steel, composite, which?
daiking replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Tools & Equipment
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya? IANAE but I’d be happy with that as an amateur with no accountability.- 26 replies
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Boots, shoes, trainers: steel, composite, which?
daiking replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Tools & Equipment
It’s a minefield out there. Not all shoes are made equal although I don’t think safety shoes are effective against mines anyway. https://www.shponline.co.uk/safety-boots-footwear-a-buyers-guide/ other suppliers of elf and safety advice are available. -
Had to cancel my plans for this weekend so I will be around for a good old spring tidy up in preparation of works. Few hundred salvaged bricks etc. I will probably run a water supply duct down the garden a bit (with a leccy one) but no waste as it stands.
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Boots, shoes, trainers: steel, composite, which?
daiking replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Tools & Equipment
Those are only basic safety shoes and don’t seem to offer any mid sole protection. I have come a cropper with this before, requiring S3 shoes for access to industrial construction sites when my decrepit safety shoes are only S1. -
I don’t think it’s worth it. Shed will probably be a bit smaller than hope anyway so unlikely to have room.
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Will be bounded by permitted development rules, lol. Not much to play with height wise.
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It’s not the pipe that’s the issue, it’s the 10m long, 1m+ deep trench to hit the IC. Next week the wall will be built and the paving done a few weeks later. No one needs a big in the shed. the grey bin is stood on top of the IC and the wall will be built along the string line heading up to the neighbours garage. Ok it’s maybe not 7m but the spot I nominated was 14m from the IC
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I don’t think I can do this anyway. It’s looking like being an extra £600 on top of the current price and really we’ve got to the point where we can’t spend anymore. ‘‘Tis a shame.
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20mm? At last, something I already wasted my money on in the past so I don’t need to buy more stuff. I’m hoping that 1.5mm swa cable is ok as it’s lighting.
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Sorry, it’s back under it’s lid and 3 paving slabs. it looked like a conventional 5 inlet base. I suspect only 2 are used but the remaining inlets don’t point to where i want to go. I was told you should dig the trench all the way from the chamber to the lawn and pipe it all in before blocking it off. What sort of fall do you need for just liquid waste and what for solids? The point I picked was 14m from the IC I’m told with a 415mm delta. Nothing is planned yet so the 14m distance could be reduced a bit and that delta is based on the grass level. A building floor level would be higher than that to give more height and the input sink or toilet would be higher still. is solids realistic? Or a stupid idea. i also need to know how to deal with a cold water supply to this position. This can only possibly came through the house wall at above ground level.
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Of some mud and rubble?
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Well I am looking for prompts/recommendations on lights. Those saxbys are £30-40 min. Thought you liked really cheap? If these new lights come of the existing wall lights switch that would be great, led so power consumption is minimal. whats the Knightsbridge stuff from TLC like? “The mark of quality”, lol, is not normally a good sign. these? https://www.edwardes.co.uk/en/products/ced-ledbrick39-white-led-240v-ip68-satinchrome-bricklight-fitting
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So as not to be rude, I am in S Mcr but not a self builder. Sorry, I don’t recall many local posters.
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So how many cables would that need? 2 to each location? From wherever I’m starting out? would you tap into an existing indoor light circuit or power circuit? or should I think about wiring it to the outdoor circuit in the future that doesn’t exist yet?
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Thanks but I don’t think solar would be very good here, low down on a north facing wall.
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No point doing that as the patio will be built over the top in a couple of weeks. Really need to sort where the pipe is likely to go and drop it in with the founds. the Routes on the bottom of the IC don’t point where I want the pipe to go so that end also needs working out to get it going the right way.
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Apologies to the people I took this photo from but like this except the patio will be at the top and the lights will illuminate the near curtilage of lawn and something so you don’t fall down the steps in the dark...
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The wall is 4m from the house so proximity to exisitng is moot. haven’t picked any lights yet, also looking for anyone’s experience. Suppose some thing surface mount is easier but built in might look the part. Btw these lights will be in the wall facing the grass below the patio , absolutely no use for lighting the patio. Exisitng lights for that. exactly issues with cable. Wall will have in fill, a load of MOT and slabs laid in full mortar bed. Will need to drill in to top for handrail thing. As it’s lights then hoping a small swa cable would do and placate any location concerns below the slabs. Running cable between proposed light positions and back to a supply.
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Looking for some advice, I’m having a small wall built with a patio on the side of the hiuse. Without getting an electrician in now is it possible to get some cables put into the ground/walls for an electrician to sort later? If I’m choosing brick type lights, brick or wants one up front so he can work out how to accommodate. Existing supply options are: 1) existing light circuit - high level external wall with internal switch (lights seen either side of bi folds) 2) existing power circuit, low level external socket that comes off internal supply (grey box to right of bi folds) 3) my fabled unicorn summer house power supply that is currently terminated on the external wall of the house ( hidden behind black wheelie bin near back boor) see photo in this Post
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So it seems like the IC invert is approx 400mm lower than the grass over a distance over 14m where I am interested. Also I could reduce that distance a little and any waste would be higher than grass level so this idea could be a goer. Unfortunately we are spending all our money getting other stuff done and I am not sure I can afford to get a pipe buried before a wall is built across where this pipe would lie in a weeks time. It’s now or never but now is a bit awkward.
