ProDave

Thank you survey now completed. I am happy to complete a survey but could not be bothered to be a detective first to find the damned thing.

Please provide a proper URL so I can do the survey on a proper computer. Only providing a QR code means you can only do it on a phone and I hate pretending a phone is a proper computer. I wonder how many others won't do the survey because there is no URL to enable them do complete it on a real computer?

Definitely go back to your solicitor. 2 possibilities. You do have a legal right over the the track for access and the neighbour is just being cheeky as he would prefer you to have your own access. Or the solicitor slipped up and did not realise or did not point out to you that you do not have a legal right of access and you should cut your own track. Then the conversation gets awkward......

Some while ago I bought a large rotovator from a farm auction. There were 3 of them on auction and pre auction I had a look at them. All 3 refused to start. It became clear there was another bidder wanted them all, he got the first 2 but I won the third. When I got it home I found the mixture screw was missing from the carb. I found a replacement and then it worked. I strongly suspect the other bidder removed the mixture screw from all 3 before the auction so if anybody tried them, they would not start.

Have you ever showered in an 8kW instant electric shower? Many regard that as adequate but compared to the shower I get from our UVC with at least twice the flow rate, I regard them as pathetic. You won't get much better than that from an instant heater.

A simple macerator would be a lot cheaper and simpler, typically they sit behind the WC pan. Whatever you choose I would regard this shed loo as being for No 1's only. Take a walk to the house if you need a No 2. Trust me you don't want to be fishing a failed pump out of a raw sewage pumping station that has been used for "all functions" In all cases the output pipe is a smaller bore and it goes uphill under pressure from the pump. It would typically discharge into an inspection chamber in your case close to the road so the final bit can drain by gravity to the sewer.

I remember fly ash from coal power stations being used to make "insulated" lightweight blocks in the 80's often used as the inner leaf as my first house was. Horrible things to fix anything to they were so soft even when new. I wonder how they are bearing up?

I am not happy with the draconian socialist ambitions of the Scottish government and will be doing my part at every chance to vote for an alternative.

Because we live in a free country where you can buy and sell a house in any condition. Would you rather more rules on what we can and can not do? Make your appropriate choice on 4th July.

Great shame you never came on this forum earlier. My advice would be DO NOT remove the slate DPC, it is about the best you can get. We had similar issues in a previous 1930's house, there the issue was nothing to do with the DPC but failed rendering low down that was bridging the DPC. Removing the lower render and re doing the bottom with it finishing just above the DPC cured all the problems. The render should have a proper bell cast drip bead at the bottom which should be sturdy, it should not just be resting on plastic DPC.

It seems a shame after all the work and money spent so far to abandon the extension just because you have fallen out with the builder. I would look for another builder first and carry on.

Surely only an issue of you eat some of it? We are allowed to sell houses containing asbestos.

I thought the issue with Mundic was questions over structural integrity. In what way are they poisonous? We will see more of this with houses containing RAAC being the next un mortgagable sold cheap to cash buyers sub standard housing.

Re the carbon capture. What form does the 36,000 tons of removed carbon take? Solid blocks of graphite? Or a CO2 gas that has to be pumped somewhere like a disused gas well to store it? How much energy does such a capture system use and how much new CO2 is released in providing that energy?

There are a couple of flywheel generators going begging at Culham that they are looking into repurposing to add mass to the grid https://www.newpower.info/2023/09/jet-fusion-site-systems-could-be-repurposed-to-offer-grid-inertia-services/ https://www.facebook.com/UKAEAofficial/photos/a.10150149200649320/10158383444144320/?type=3

I did several new builds with a German gang (in the UK) and to be a Joiner there you need a proper apprenticeship and they are proud of their uniform and they all wore it on the builds we did. Actually I think they were Austrian not German that I worked with. At least one of them is still working here, on his own now and I met him again on a job last year, still wearing his uniform. And he is one of only 2 joiners I would use for a job that needs a bit of thought and a good finish.

I always thought as long as there was a pending application to regularise a situation, they would not take enforcement action until that application has concluded. So worst case, stop until you have your LDC application lodged.

I would stick to the same name. I did wonder in your other post where the tin shed fitted in. Put a signature at the bottom of your posts (in your profile settings) saying "now working on my daughters shed conversion"

A standard meter box screwed to a post is probably the easiest thing. Buy an electricity meter from ebay. Probably the cheapest way to get a standard electricity meter. Often described as a generation meter.

Largely an advertisement for a company that wants to licence a manufacturing process. Nothing new apart from that. Timber framed buildings built in a factory and assembled on site is nothing new. Yet a large amount of mass market UK builders still build in brick and block and seldom even use anything like posi joists to make the build easier because they cost a bit more.

The report focuses on price as though it is a bad thing. The real question is how much fossil fuel generation shut down during the mid day solar peak? and a technical question, how did the grid cope with a lot less "spinning mass" in the generation? If it happened regularly, people would get the idea of load shifting to mid day where possible which would reduce the need for fossil fuel generation at other times.

This won't help you but may help others avoid a similar situation. When I started ours, I informed the planners that I had "started" and received a confirmation by return acknowledging they were aware the development had started. Planning and building control rarely talk to each other.

And the steel will make it almost impossible to pass cables and pipes through the joists. (not an issue with posi joists)

Our 5M span is done with 300mm deep Posi Joists.

My top tip. Do NOT fit an accessible fan isolator in a rental. I have known tenants turn them off because they are noisy then complain about the condensation. I do not believe they are legally necessary (I have asked several times for someone to point me to the reg that says you must fit one and nobody has) but if you really feel you need to fit one, put it up in the loft close to that loft hatch. Check how air will get into the room to replace what is extracted, you may need to plane a bit off the bottom of the door for instance.