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Agree with Temp, more likely diverter valve, although if you have HW and no heating boiler will run but might overheat so will need to press reset button. When was it all serviced last, looks a bit of a mess, lots of weeping/corrosion Typical problem, my husband is a plumber and we get lots of requests for services this time of year, when one delves deeper one finds the problem is the heating not working not just a service. Moral of the tale, get your boiler system checked mid/ late summer, not when it gets cold. It shouldn't cost much with an honest decent plumber/heating peep, around £60-80 a year, costs more when they are busy:, you are in a hurry and cold plus you'll have to join the queue. I don't turn my heating off (obviously on timer) but turn room stat down it then triggers for a short time on those odd cold summer days (1 or 2 this summer, came on for 15 mins each time) and keeps it all moving. Bleed rads, if the water after air coming out really black that might be a sludge issue (will need flushing and might have knackered pumps and more likely diverter), give the diverter valve a sharp knock with a piece of wood, not a hammer, if it then works you still need it serviced and looked at but you will be less cold and damp while you wait.

For what is worth I am converting an old milking parlour c.135m2 into a three bed holiday let. It is of varying ages varying from 100 to 20 years old. 200mm+ solid walls (some block on flat, she stone) built off an eight inch or so slab (no idea whether any reenforcement but no cracks in it). I am in the process of underpinning all round (~65m), 500mm deep, engineer spec. attached. I don't actually think it needs it as there is no sign of movement and no extra loads will be imposed (it has a slate roof, put on 20 years ago) but building control requirement. Not too onerous or prohibitively expensive to do. Might be worth another engineer opinion though. The trouble is, like me, you cannot pull down and rebuild as your right to conversion will be based on converting an existing agricultural building, I suspect. timber_structure_1.pdf

Was there not a search done when you bought the site? If not you can request a map from your local water company, usually costs around fifty quid mark.

Be a little careful, is it just a PROW (not a right to roam or permissive access, either end of scale), what designation? If classed as footpath/bridleway/boat you need to make it clear for access to various widths and standards (the parish council will have some responsibility too on some, if designated). I have several bridleways and a BOAT that have been removed from the definitive map around me, relatively recently, so depending on where you are it may be possible. Your council should have an online map that shows all of them, Cornwall has and I can't believe they are the leading lights in this. Have a search on your council site for interactive map(s). [I did just check and the Wiltshire one doesn't look very good but I dined't have a postcode]

Thank you Jeremy. I'm sure there is also a road like that on the 'top' somewhere. A long row and the curates house near the end. Is the Compasses still going, used to have good beer.

Jeremy, I'm trying to remember where that is, I 'm sure it's somewhere around Ebbersbourne Wake/Alverdiston. Remember it from when I used to live at Donhead.

Have you tried any of the agricultural concrete manufacturers, if you are in Devon someone like Croom Concrete is not very far (Sedgemoor), They make slurry channels etc.

I take it you mean sodium hypochlorite rather than hyperchorite. You can get it from any farm supply place (it is what is used for cleaning milk lines and parlours) if you want it at c.15%. It is another name for common garden bleach when it is at 5-6%, therefore available everywhere. Calcium hypochlorite (it is in solid form, tablets or granules) is what is normally used for swimming pools, also available from janitorial outlets.

Steamy, there is art and design on both campuses plus games design & programming, business & entrepreneurship, photography, music and drama at Tremough and architecture, journalism and writing at Falmouth. Falmouth University owns both sites and, effectively, leases space out to Exeter at Tremough, although it is a rather more complicated agreement. FU (they were aware of the connotation of the initials when they named it, unlike Coventry University of New Technology who decided to change the name when it was pointed out to them and after the ident and signs had been designed and made) senior management are luckily based at Tremough in the AIR building which suits those of us who are based in Falmouth.

Quite agree, I'm based on the Woodlane (Falmouth Campus), they also charge for mustard and sauce, but not butter. Have you seen the new Geography building at Tremough (I cannot bring myself to call it Penryn) campus, it's a very good imitation for a 1960s municipal car park when viewed from the entrance to the Exchange (library), complete with sludge green external staircase.

Steamy, remember this? https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/first-look-inside-shipping-container-404407

There used to be a launderette in Falmouth (top of Trelawney Road) that was also an off license as well as one in Penryn that shared a frontage with a fish and chip shop, not a good mix that one. From memory there was also one in St Day that was half butcher's shop half launderette. The best mix of premises I have ever seen was in Mallow, Ireland, double fronted premises, one half a bar, the other a funeral parlour, saves moving the body for the wake.

Very successful. They were wise enough to get Exeter University involved early on so the area was properly monitored for a couple of years beforehand so they had data to compare to. https://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/our-conservation-work/on-land/cornwall-beaver-project https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=cornwall beaver project&epa=SEARCH_BOX You might have seen them on Countryfile as well.

All depends how many herbs and spices one has and uses regularly, I have 2 60cm drawers full plus the unground spices in sealed plastic containers in a dark cupboard. We use a lot of herbs and spices, they need to be in the dark and then they will keep for a couple of months ground or longer whole, they go off quickly with light.I buy unground once or twice a year when I can get to Brick lane and raid the Asian supermarket, most of the herbs I use fresh in summer (in the poly tunnel, they go from April to November, parsley, chives, sage, thyme go all year and dry the others for winter use.

I just have them in a couple of drawers and until recently laid flat like Jack, the new(ish) Sainsburys jars are shallow enough to sit upright, you can get many more in (I write what it is on lid) and reuse them to fill with my home ground spices so gradually converting to those.

Home Farm. I feel for you and am not surprised the local RSPB were unhelpful. You will need to lobby at a higher level. If they are wishing to remove hedges you might have some leverage there. You need to raise specific objections. Objecting to fertiliser spreading will not get you anywhere, access for lorries delivering/taking away stock, delivering feed might. You might want to contact George Eustice (back as farm minister). He has quite strong views on sustainable farming. This link https://www.cornwall-aonb.gov.uk/blog/2018/5/1/the-future-of-the-farmed-environment-in-cornwall contains a talk he gave over a year ago on his vision for the future of farming and CAP payments AB, worth watching, it also explains how the present system works. Tom Tolputt's presentation also worth a look at. It is possible to farm without antibiotics. My son has a pasture fed organic dairy herd and doesn't use antibiotics (except in very rare circumstances poss 1 or 2 cows a year, they are not milked if he has to), his cows are outside, they don't get mastitis, they are milked once a day only, they will milk for many years not the usual two lactations of many commercial herds. He uses breeds that are hardy (largely jersey crosses) and that don't need to be fed grain/soya. His farm is a carbon sink, they have also introduced beavers to control local flooding downstream. He does not use any synthetic fertilisers and because he mob grazes he fertilises as he goes rather than creating a slurry pool. I have never used antibiotics here, I breed poultry (all sorts) for meat and eggs, beef, lamb and pork (admittedly I am very small scale), my cows and sheep have only ever been fed grass. The biggest issue around food production today is food is just too cheap, there are also too many in the chain between farmer and consumer, all taking their cut, the result is some producers looking at the best way to maximise their profits, large scale IPUs are one way of doing this, if you are only going to make a few pence (it really is pence) profit on a chicken you need to produce an awful lot of them. If you live in the country then buy all your food direct, it's easy, and eat seasonally, do you really need fresh tomatoes or strawberries in January or apples in June?

Ferdinand, I agree with you that it is guidance and not a ban in this case but still consider it good practice. Also, I believe that 'intentional' is a term that is legally dubious in this context as the offence would be the 'disturbance of nesting birds' and as there is guidance on timings one could well argue that by virtue of ignoring the guidance, if birds were indeed disturbed, it would be intentional by default. There are a lot of these guidances/laws currently being ignored by people moving to the country, largely through ignorance, the main ones being controlling certain weeds (esp. ragwort), controlling rabbits (that one is a law not guidance), creating a garden from fields without planning... As for Mr Packham, he came rather unstuck recently when he caused the general license vis a vis shooting corvids/pigeons etc. to be suspended. The RSPB came down on him like a ton of bricks (pointing out that one of the major causes of the decimation of song birds was corvids) and the general license was reinstated fast. M

I have now watched through and, admittedly, they don't look like steels. My comments are based around safety: if using an electric hedge trimmer (personally I always use a petrol one, also stihl, because of reach, safety and reliability) you should have the wire coming from behind you over your shoulder, the way you were doing it could so easily result in cutting the cable. You should also, ideally have your arms covered and be wearing face (certainly eye) protection. Secondly, while it is laudable that you made this video, you should not be cutting a hedge in the countryside (in fact the RSPB would argue any hedge) between 1 March and 1 September. This is advisory in your case (DEFRA) but if you one is registered as a farm (ie over 5 hectares and CAP payment), it is mandatory. The exceptions are to trim back for safety (ie roads/visibility; footpaths/access). As you are promoting sustainability it would be wise, I feel, to respect this guidance. https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/hedgecutting-ban-one-rule-for-farmers-one-for-councils. Good luck with your venture.

They might have been steel toe caped and soled wellies. Agree that they should be worn, steel capped wellies (or boots etc.) are also cheaper (no VAT).

There is no minimum ceiling height except on stairs in building regs (they were recinded in mid 1970s), however for comfort one would probably need 2.2ish. Bear in mind many old cottages are much lower (c1.90 or even less). My barn conversion, which is a very large room will only have c 2, no way around it if I insulate floor to required levels, judicious decoration can help.

We haven't had a count of bats here this year but they seem more numerous. MSc students from Exeter Uni come most years, last year they got 120 passes in six minutes in one place alone, recorded six different bats including one species unseen since 1920 (they think). We are surrounded by woods with old mine shafts and engine houses, small fields with natural hedges, so ideal. Why the council (planning) wants me to put up owl and bat boxes God only knows, paper exercise...Lots of flies this year but few crane flies (leatherjackets), I think our two badger colonies wiped them out a couple of years ago, unfortunately, together with most of the hedgehogs (they skin them and leave the skin with prickles) and low nesting birds. As for fly prevention in the house, hanging a bunch of lavender or rosemary in/ by the window opening helps, really, and if they get in I agree with Jeremy the tennis bat zappers are most satisfying, sustains the hunter/?gatherer instinct, one develops techniques, especially this year when they have been bad.

This is not change of use. Change of use is from one class to another eg shop to flat or single dwelling house to flats or barn to house to name a few. You appear to have planning anyway, The query relates to building regs, they do not grant a change of use anyway, they oversee building (in theory). Advertise it as 2 bed. You are using it as such, why do you think there is always a rider/disclaimer on Estate Agents particulars? They do not constitute a legal document. If you check on your local council website planning website you will be able to see the planning application. As it has planning that will come up as ok in any search. If you do not draw attention to the building regs aspect I doubt anyone will ever query it.

I can see no reason why you cannot advertise it as two bed. Building regs sign offs (or non sign offs) for extensions/loft conversions built before 1985 are common. The worst that could happen is that you will have to take out an indemnity policy (couple of hundred quid at most) upon sale.

It's moved about 700m. The postcode is TR16 5HZ, if you Google it and move South East from where it is now you can see where we are and where it was. Marked as Wheal Clifford Farm.

I'm still deliberating on names, nobody can find us anyway, especially since Google has suddenly moved the centre of the postcode (which was over our house and had been forever) to the middle of a field a mile away. We are hard by Cakes and Ales mine, so Cakes and Ales cottage seemed a good idea. As it is for holiday lets a copy of the book ales and cakes on the shelf? Out of interest one of the most popular house names in the 30s to 50s is Dunroamin (various spellings) which means exactly what it sounds like.