saveasteading

Because I've been looking at garage doors, I've come across several external rollers for windows. They are not as expensive as I had assumed considering they are oitdoors and motorised. I can vouch for how effective these are in Mediterranean weather, keeping sun out in summer and heat in, in winter.

Exactly so. Hence fines and points for traffic offences.

Yes. With an absence of work, the trades will charge less.. perhaps a lot less. This usually takes a year though for realisation, expectations and pride to change, and perhaps some nagging to reduce the day rate and get earning. Land prices can also drop, but big landowners are less likely to need the money. Bigger contractors may also reduce margins in the short term, but this is only a few %.

And the paper ones don't break down fof a year or 2. I guess they are woven like J cloths, so are no softer than cotton... and will still clog drains and treatment tanks. Out with the nappy has to be correct. For trade use, eg mastic wiping, have a bag to hand? Toilet paper is made of loose fibres collected on a mesh so are not woven or even tangled, so come apart again.. I've been to the factory... (the glamour of my career) cardboard boxes to loo rolls.

If you search that article and link to a small film , you will see some surprise flushed items. And it says the ban is 18 months away! The caring shops could stop stocking them now.

So long plastic wet wipes - but should we be flushing the new ones I'm amazed they were still being sold. But even paper ones take years to break down so they shouldn't be flushed away to sewers, and especially not to a digester.... perhaps this is why some need to be pumped out annually. It's ne of those things though.... how much of the popuation care? So it needs legislation. BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjr4gk7v38o

I think occupants will want to hear the cooling. It's a luxury and the sound will remind everyone that 'something is being done'.

Be aware that the house will be moving a lot seasonally. So going too deep would make the new foundation too much stronger than the existing. Your SE should tell you exactly how to do this. Width, depth, length, and how to ensure that the new concrete is jammed tight under the existing. Presumably the new extension will go before the bco. Your SE will need formal calculations for all this. What will the new foundations be?

No and no. You don't need us here to tell you all these basic things. The Internet will tell you the cement to ballast mix, or look at rhe cement bag, or ask at the merchants when buying 8 bags for starters. Report back on completion please. You didn't say why you couldn't dig a hole for a post. What will the gate be an opening in? Fence/ between buildings?

I look at the weather forecast time- related charts for your area with interest, and so often see the rain stopping after the eastward moving weather front passes the Cairngorms. But on a newspaper simplified forecast it will show rain. Don't tell anyone how good the climate is though or there will be thousands more white box estates. Bracing tomorrow though as Norway sends its unwanted weather south? The light blue produces the peaty water to go with the barley from the yellow. Mmmm.

This appeared in my Facebook stuff today. An ad for maps. Perhaps you will find it as interesting as I did. Eg the vast area of blue which is mostly uninhabited. Of course we all look at our location. What struck me was how tiny and precise some shaded areas are, especially where the brown which is showing as a long strip but very narrow. I haven't yet looked to see if there is any geographical feature coincident. Ahhh the quality has diminished in copying. But eg see Morayshire where I'd guess the brown band is 30 miles by 3 miles. Is black best for solar panels... sunny and regularly washed.

I prefer to catch leaves here.

It appears to be a requirement in owning an outdated but legal treatment system, that you explain it in basically a house maintenance manual. It makes sense to do the same for any quirky design decision like this one. This chapter is then displayed in a fuse cupboard so that it doesn't go missing. So @ProDave could do this re the tank and rest easy for any future owner or contractor being fully aware.

I don't like the idea of a massive concrete surround for a tank. Cost of corse and that it is not usually necessary. Beautiful work in the pic above btw. Tying it down to a slab will need reference to the tank chosen but should be easy and controllable. This is key. There is no reason why you can't put a notice up on your tank explaining this. And another one under the extract cover. If it's tied down anyway, this shouldn't matter, but better to be safe. In reality a good tank doesn't often need emptying so wait for a dry summer.

2 x half gates will be more stable Quick sum. All approximate. 45 gallons, 200 litres. Concrete is 2200kg/m3. so 440kg. A big bag of ballast is 800kg. So with cement and water one bag will do 2 barrels, approx. If not quite, then chuck in some rubble. Presumably you will cut the tops off the drums.