ProDave

Probably Balblair. That's a small one that seems to sell it at a reasonable price on site. Certainly not Glenmorangie, that has over inflated tourist prices in it's visitor centre. I recall being horrified when on Islay to find the Bowmore whisky cheaper in the Coop that it was at the distilery.

Ha Ha I will have been past your house then, that was our first trip on a hired narrowboat, about 25 years ago.

Type of joist? Our ground floor has JJI joists and I cut sheets of OSB to lay in the bottom to support the insulation.

I needed some more 22mm by 19mm pipe insulation to cover the last of the pipes before the ceiling goes up. Screwfix stopped listing it except in bulk packs of 50 metres. Toolstation list it but out of stock. Went into Jewson while in town, out of stock. eventually found some in Travis Perkins, twice the price I would have paid if screweys or TS had it.

So that might make mooring a boat interesting if you were too close to the outflow, but the left hand end of your garden in the other picture looks calm, and with the piling in place probably good to moor a boat. It would be high in my list of "must haves" Which canal?

I would not have been so patient. I would have served notice to quit under the existing voluntary agreement. They might have been more willing to enter a sensible dialogue.

MVHR stays on all the time. I have a boost switch (on a timer) for showering or cooking. Some have humidistats for automatic control. UFH just like any other heating system I control from standard boiler time clock and room thermostats, so automatic. Same for heating DHW (all comes from and ASHP) PV you would have an automatic diverter that sends any excess generated PV to the sun amp. It is all pretty much automatic once set up, and not really "centralised" each bit looks after itself. Don't make it more complicated than it has to be.

Contactors are getting clumsy. I thought the dual rate meter idea was so elegant, and would be if I could find one.

Don't want anything that needs an app to read it.

No Garage / workshop space?

I am needing a dual rate electricity meter for my own use. I want to monitor the electricity consumption of my Air Source Heat Pump and want to monitor how much it is using for heating, and separately how much is us using for hot water. So I thought I can use an ordinary dual rate electricity meter. I have a 240V switched output that is only on when it's heating hot water so can use that (with a relay if needed ) to change rate on the meter. So I started looking on ebay for cheap dual rate electricity meters. This is the only one I have found so far https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electricity-Meter-Landis-Gyr-Single-Phase-2-Rate-Meter-100A-OFGEM/202431887856?epid=1627086932&hash=item2f21e179f0:g:7iQAAOSw0F9blVX0 But that is no good, that one has an inbuilt radio teleswitch so the rate switching is done at fixed times. I need the old school type where the rate switching is done by an external input. Any ideas where I might get one?

I only have one question. With a canal / riverside site like that, Where is your boat?

Just updating with some photo's Here is my bargain basement roller door in place And this was what it was all about, getting the garage / workshop organised.

Unless I missed a bit, you can't start the blame game until you find out was that valve wired wrong, or has it just failied? All we know at the moment it it is not working, but I thought it was working last year?

Wind peaked at just over 40mph with gusts to 60 just before 5PM A few tree branches down, might go firewood collecting tomorrow if I am not too late.

Just a heads up, a new series of Grand Designs starts on channel 4 at 9PM tonight.

Is the pump running? there is a pump on each manifold, can you hear them running? There is also another pump in the pland room is that running? There are 2 motorised valves in the plant room. Try manually opening them with the little lever that sticks out.

Very sad but totally avoidable. If I had seen the forecast I would have hitched up and moved somewhere sheltered, not stayed on the edge of a cliff. I did the same in Scotland once, we spend 2 nights not on the normal part of the caravan site, but in the shelter of a stone barn with the 'van lashed down.

Eerie here. Not a breath of wind, been the same all day, and raining. Wind at Inverness airport (only 20 miles away) has been just up to 40 mph earlier.

If it has one. Many attached garages like that are just open to the roof.

Only issue is getting the pipe from the house to the garage without compromising the fire integrity of that wall.

You can get individual insulation / continuity, loop, and rcd testers pretty cheap on ebay. For a one off DIY job I would not get too hung up about the lack of calibration certificate. It is unlikely they will be than inaccurate.

I think it's all down to what the manufacturer says.

Except up here they show no interest in inspecting soakaways or any element of the drainage after the treatment plant, so as long as it's right on the drawings........

Cut along the edge, or better just a bit away from it with a multi tool. Also use that to cut along the joint to cut the tongue where you want to lift them. I have an old slide hammer nail; puller that helps to take boards up relatively clean. Fix a batten behind the cut to support the free cut end. Watch out for pipes and cables touching the underside of the board. Most of us in the trade will have had "the fountain" at least once.