ProDave

^^^ Oh GOOD. In just 5 years, we are going to stop building ANY more wind farms. We just have to fight off the proposals until then. By which time the amount of renewables generated will flatten out. Planning to get roughly 1/4 of your electricity from "imports" in the long term seems a bad plan for energy security.

I have just submitted my objection to yet more wind farms close to here. My objection is on the basis we have enough already and there is no need for more power here. The planning system is disfunctional in that it only considers individual parts like "a wind farm" That planning application does not even consider HOW the power will get from the hill to the nearest substation. Let alone the high voltage grid additions or upgrades needed to transport the power hundreds of miles because they are building the damned things too far away from where the power is needed.

I know it is after the event, but when they announced they were replacing it, I would have been having the conversation asking them to move it further left as seen in that picture, and offering to remove that fence panel to facilitate that, and replace the fence panel afterwards as appropriate.

I think that door is one if the internal walls dividing the previous garage, so those will come down to make it back to one open space again. It is the door from the garage into the house that must be a fire door. It almost certainly was but we don't have a picture of that one. If not a fire door will need to be put back.

Dumb question but surely these are copper pipes of a standard size, so can they not be joined with standard solder pipe fittings? Or does the pressure go too high when running?

All our planning drawings were done with heights referenced to a temporary bench mark which was a row of nails driven into a fence post on the highest corner of the site. That is still there. Surely a ridge height is only important when it does not want to exceed that of neighbours. Nobody ever checked any of our heights.

Blame Mrs T. It was under her watch we closed down the UKAEA and with that development of our home grown reactors which we used to build a lot quicker than that.

It is the shape of the gravel that is important. You will regret getting round pebbles, whatever size, they don't interlock and will constantly move around when driving on them. Instead you want crushed or otherwise irregular shaped gravel that interlocks together better and so does not move around much as you drive over it.

Insert an extra strong back, or equivalent through the web close to the bath to help ensure the load is spread

As I keep saying. Scotland has enough wind generation for now. It is further south that needs more so time for them to have most of their hills covered in wind farms.

Try SIG, Sheffield Insulation Group, there is probably a branch near you, they were way cheaper than anyone else and I got all my Frametherm from them.

It is not normally that deep. There must be an extended neck for it to be that deep.

As above, a basement under an existing building is NOT in any way a DIY job.

If the level in the STP has got that high then there is something seriously wrong (blocked outlet) and the original VERY low inlet pipe would be completely swamped and blocked long before that. If that original low level pipe has never given trouble, then the new higher one is not in danger.

Looking at gridwatch right now, Wind is supplying 9% of demand and solar 24% Clearly solar will drop to 0% when the sun goes down. Just where do they think we are going to get to 100% carbon neutral without many multiples of the wind farms we already have? And just what will we do when the wind does not blow (not uncommon)? Battery storage won't cover a week of winter anti cyclone. The "plan" is at best based on hope, not a proper plan.