ProDave

Hi and welcome to the forum Sounds an interesting project and hope we can help you.

Do you have a multimeter? If the element has gone, then to be honest I would get a new tank, it will not cost a lot more, will be better insulated, and will have standard cheaper elements for next time.

Ours is rendered using the Baumit.com render system. I will warn you their website is next to useless to find anything. We used the MC55W base coat which is a lime based render mixed from a powder, and their Silicon Top top coat that is available in a range of colours and textures, that comes ready mixed in a tub. A fibrerglass mesh is applied from a roll into the base coat for extra strength.

I assume it's a tracking system, hence the unusual shape? Not that the website wants to tell me any useful information like that. It just wants to show me a silly video of how you can plug in a light in the daytime to use your solar power. I gave up after about 2 minutes realising that website would not tell me anything useful.

Thanks, that would be most appreciated.

Well I thought it was going too well. This morning I had a text message saying the "delay management" team would phone me in a few minuted. I waited and no call. When I got home, SWMBO said she had a call that she ignored because she wasn't expecting so she ignored it (so they texted my phone to say they were going to call, then made the call to a different number. This is a communications establishment.) They then sent a message to her phone saying there was a delay until WB 27th March. I sent an email with the reference they provided to the email they provided delay.management@bt.com asking what was the issue. That bounced back immediately "this email is no longer in use" I then spent the best part of an hour to find out what was going on. Half of that was trying to get to speak to the right person, including I am sure many people from foreign places. Eventually I got through to a lady in Aberdeen who finally I could understand and tried very hard to help me. Even then she could not give me the full story. After putting me on hold to find the right person, that person would not talk to me. So the best I have is on 27th March someone from "network solutions" will visit to see what needs to be one. Then after they have solved the network there is then some routing work then finally the collection. Nobody seems able to tell me the whole story. At the moment my best guess is they have suddenly realised there are no more spare pairs in the existing cable to our road, so they have to do some network upgrading? but that is pure speculation. All highly annoying a I now have no idea how long it is all going to take.

Another plus point

Wow that's a good price. I'm stuck on the sign up as I need my meter serial number and I can't be bothered to walk up to the plot in the rain with my head torch to find it. It will wait until the morning.

Electricty only, no gas here. We are looking to move our plot away from ebico's no standing charge rate to a more "normal" electricity supply deal. Now that the big 6 have all put up their prices it seems a good tome to look around. Best I have found yet is Flow Energy. 28.8p per day standing charge, 14.67p per unit, fixed until April 2018 This is for North Scotland where we are hit with a higher distribution charge than other parts of the UK. Anyone know a better rate?

Yes. You need a KMF

Shall i find you an electrician?

Now doesn't @Onoff have a whole body air dryer waiting go go into his epic project bathroom somewhere?

I generally use that perforated galvanised strapping that comes on a roll, and I would have screwed the two ends down into the top of the trusses. But many ways to achieve the same thing and none are complicated.

Exact boundaries only become a "problem" when there is a dispute. As many others when I bought my plot, the hand drawn plan in the deeds was very poor and not definitive, so my solicitor went through a process of obtaining a "P16 report" where the land registry try to match the parcel of land with something on their maps, and came up with a pretty close match, so we then agreed to buy it on the basis we were buying what was enclosed by the current fences. But our is not build close the the boundaries so if there was ever a boundary dispute and we lost a small bit of garden it would not be a big issue.

A land registry map will rarely show enough detail to determine the boundary without some reference. That reference is usually the fences. If the fence is NOT on the boundary, then it will usually be shown on the plan as inside not at the edge, of your land.

In that case my "wet" towel will be pretty light.

I can see a forum wet towel competition coming soon. I am not sure I want to see that (might turn into a wish I could unsee that moment)

British Waterways morphed into the Canal & River Trust. What is their interest? Plumber and digger driver should not have issues. If I can install my own unit myself the professionals should not have a problem. But we do look forward to pictures with diggers and big holes in the ground (we are easily pleased) As long as it's approved to the relevant BS number I am sure building control will accept it.

That is very similar to the discussion I had about my static caravan and they backed down and removed the clause requiring it's removal on completion of the house.

Yes but a much more serious question. Has anyone found a way to make freshly washed towels fluffy, without the use of a tumble dryer? Getting them DRY is no issue but "sandpaper" is a description I get told of any towel that has not wasted spent time in the tumble dryer. EDIT: Jeremy beat my by 2 minutes.

Just to say I stopped the test after 2 days which confirmed it's clocking up 2KWh per day on the meter.

yours for the cost of postage if you want something "rare"

Yes. No hole for the water to get out. Screwy's have posted a replacement.....

Check your components before assembly.I didn't So I have done some basic plumbing to get some water on in the house. Except when I turned it on, no water came out, not a gurgle, not a drip. I start worrying my incoming pipe has a major problem. What I have connected is so simple it can't possibly not work. Can it? So I crack the nut on the input to the stopcock, yes there's water there. I crack the nut on the output of the stopcock, not a drop. Take the stopcock out for inspection. Spot the problem...

The issue is not how long can your tails be, but the DNO will only allow THEIR fuse to protect tails up to 3 metres long. So if you want longer, do as already suggested and fit a KMF with an 80A fuse in it.