ProDave

I would just buy a BT NTE5 master socket and fit that. What did they fit on the other end of your Cat6 cable?

Hi and welcome. Lets start with Solid floor or timber floor?

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It's too flippin cold at the moment for the grass to be thinking about growing.

At least Scottish Mountain Bothies provide a shovel for "your convenience"

My only comment at the moment is you do NOT want the WC backing onto the bedroom wall. Your room partner will NOT thank you for the noise of flushing the loo in the night and the cistern refilling. The loo needs to be on the right hand wall, which rather messes up the twin basin idea. So my suggestion is shower and bath along left wall, basins where they are, and loo over in right hand corner next to the basins. Leaving the space under the window free. You can still lay in the bath and look out the window if there is a view to be had.

If you had a detached or semi detached house, would you just say yes to let your neighbour join onto it and devalue it?

We did 18 months in a 30ft static caravan. I paid £4K for it and I got one in tidy condition ready to move into. I did add a wood burning stove which helped keep it warm in the winter. Ours is still there and will remain for the foreseeable future. With the access difficulties, I would be looking at some form of building that can be used as temporary accommodation, and will then have another use as a garden building after the build so it can stay, so whatever perilous journey to get there is one way. It really really helped that we had the shell of the house up before we moved into the 'van and that enabled us to have the laundry and an office set up in the house shell.

i and welcome. I could recommend a solicitor in Inverness, but that may not be so convenient for you?

I had several like that on our plot. To remove them. I loosened around the base wit the digger, before then using the digger to pus the tree over and tear it out of the ground. They then all got cut, dried and used as firewood.

I have used that sort of mixer on a shower and I hate them. You do not always want full flow. I would think that would be even more irritating for hand washing having to have full flow all the time. Flow and temperature should be separate settings. I love our shower mixer. the temperature is set to a comfortable level and we rarely touch that, we just turn it on or off at any flow rate desired.

I bought a cheap energy meter, one that has a clip on current probe that connects wirelessly to the display. Absolutely USELESS for anyone with solar PV. It does not understand the concept of energy direction and seems to manage a strange feat of the energy it displays on the screen is the SUM of what is being used in the house plus what is being generated.

When they stop DRAX burning wood, I might, just might. take some notice of environmentalists.

And if it becomes harder / more expensive to buy wood, then more people will make their own arrangements. Beware of unintended consequences.

Where does it say you have to? This is just placing resrictions on what can be SOLD.

And the water will come squirting out when you break through. Call the DNO if in doubt, I called them to identify an unexpected cable, they were not in the least bit bothered when they found it was a redundant telecoms cable.

As regards ROI. It cost me a total of £1500 (by some very careful buying) to put together my 4Kw grid tie system and I am typically self using £250 worth of electricity each year giving a 6 year payback. Most of the self use is the big appliances in the daytime and other house loads, with about 1/4 of the generation going into the immersion heater. Rarely enough to heat all the water for the day but a big contribution on a sunny day.

If you connect the new system wit a normal grid tie inverter, you will need prior permission of your DNO as you can only automatically install up to 3.68kW. There may or may not be a network upgrade charge to allow that. The off grid idea might be simpler and put it all to the immersion heater, no need to tell the DNO anything,. As to how to use it? Well don't heat the hot water tank in the morning. Leave it for the solar PV to heat during the day and heat it as necessary wit the boiler in the evening. But that is tricky if your family want to shower in the morning.

You know those long water stopcock handles, for reaching down a hole and turning a tap. Have you tried one of those? It would not surprise me to find the gap between the 2 "coin slots" matched the spacing of the stopcock handle tools.

I would get a hose up there running on the roof carefully to soak just the roof not the wall and leave it running for a few hours. Position it to try and soak the edge of the roof where it joins the wall. This will rule out a roof problem, or identify a roof problem.

Almost out of desparation I called in to Jewson on Tuesday. And there they had a ligtweight galvanised 600 by 600 and tey only charged me £28 First time I have seen one that size.

Not so silly as it sounds. On my LG heat pump, there is no "input" to control the DHW functions, just it's inbuilt timer. I wanted to control it from an external timer. So I used a small changeover relay to switch the thermistor out and in it's place put a fixed resistor, making it think the tank was at 85 degrees and so turning off the DHW heating.

What is the internal finish? Plaster straight onto the old render or a battened cavity and plasterboard? How quick does the damp appear after it rains? minutes? hours? or days?

Damn I missed it. Recording the end of it now on More 4+1 Annoyingly it is not being repeated at a different time on 4 Seven or any other channel I can find.

A bit late to discover your plot has covenants?