Ferdinand

Thanks for the comment. I tend to agree. But this is for my green vegetables ?, such as watercress and dill weed. 4000k would be for flowers, and I can't eat so many of those.

I don't think that is correct: "

I think that's the two chimneys from the top of number 73, and is why your plot at 75 has a big hump on it and is twice as wide as it should be.

Just a note that that was me quoting @jamieled, not me saying.

I am looking for some inexpensive LED striplights with a colour temperature of about 6000k-6500k. That is roughly "daylight". They will need to be linkable, and plug into the mains - so 240V or maybe a transformer. The product area may be shop display lights or under counterd lights. My application is as growlights for microveg, as I continue to experiment. I picked up the idea from an American site who recommend these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F2WMCP2/ I need slightly shorter ones 30-70cm long, as I am. I already have some designed-as-growlights LED grid things, but I want to try these too. Any ideas? Thanks Ferdinand

That's interesting. I can see a green fluff happening about that eventually.

If you thought about this for 5 minutes with a coffee you would get it - it is an experiment we all did at school: Find the volume of an irregular solid by seeing how much it raises the level in a container of water. In this case we only need an answer to about +/- quite a lot, so personally I would guestimate a third for any reasonably sized sort of gravel, but obvs it takes up more of the volume if it smaller. But the tolerance means we don't need a big sample. If i really wanted to know I'd do it a la probable Jeremy: 1 - Get a big measuring cylinder or a bucket or anything of which you know the volume. Find out where say the 5l line is (put in 5l of water and make a mark or measure the depth). 2 - Empty water and fill up to your mark or depth with gravel. Do the hokey-cokey and shake it all about to max the amount of gravel. 3 - Refill with water and see how much it takes to the same line. Steal a measuring jug from the boss. 4 - The difference as a fraction or % allows you to calculate the allowance you need to make. This method even allows for any voids inside your pieces of gravel. Personally I would add 25% to the whole thing afterwards just to allow for uneven rain to give me a buffer. Ferdinand

I haven't really followed this thread. However I would expect the number to be the volume of space for water, which would be minus the volume of solid gravel. Unless it has voids in the gravel, in which case the thread needs to continue ?.

In practice a lot of people with MVHR find that their washing dries so well inside that washing lines outside are redundant. Control condensation *THAT* well for many.

If you are well ventilated that should help control your risk of condensation, which is water vapour condensing from a wet atmosphere on a cold surface.

Have you got a local cavity wall insulation contractor? Can you do your design to use them?

I'd say there is a 25-35% difference round here, depending on segment.

Brick acid? If necessary combined with one of those wire patio scrubbers. (Done on a small inconspicuous area first.)

Do you mind if I go a touch lyrical on you? Quite often on here we talk about the "self build journey". I think your potential journey is one of the most interesting we have seen, and you will find all kinds of interesting people on the way - new skills, new experiences, and new friends. You will find yourself being late for meetings because you stopped to talk a dry stone waller on the way as a wall looks nearly but not quite like one of yours and you just have to know about the difference. If you are not already eccentric in quite that way. If you want an analogy, for a church conversion of that age The Pilgrim's Progress (pub. 1678) seems quite apt. Especially as John Bunyan came from Elstow in the immediate areas and started writing it in Bedfordshire County Prison. You will go through the Hill of Difficulty, and the House Beautiful, and perhaps the Slough of Despond, and Gaius' Inn and Vanity Fair, and on your journey - with good fortune - to the Celestial City you will meet a host of short or long term fellow travellers who will be alongside you for a time. Some will stay friends. Some will not. But it will be interesting. Given that you are on the edge of Cromwell Country, there may even be a contemporary musket ball or two in your beams. Or read the thumbnail sketches of Bilbo Baggins at the beginning and end of "The Hobbit". It is perfectly possible you transform from a building version of the former to the latter. And get to have lots of fun as well :-). F

Good news.

Have you been sued yet? No ==> no barristers.

Thais is beginning to sound like Oak Island.

UI think you’re approach to get some quotes is the correct one ..make sure you are equipped with a good set of questions to ask in the conversation, which is important, and a good summary of requirements / priorities on a single sheet of paper. You can then dive back into round 2 of your thinking and review what you can modify or DIY and compare that to budget etc. My feel is that you will not get both for 70k unless you are doing all the work yourself. A builder might be able to do that to their own house. I would be guesstimating that the loft conversion ... subject to being doable and no hidden gotchas ... looks like a 40-45k ballpark for a third party to do, and the big rear extension more like 55k-70k ballpark, again for a reasonably priced third party. Though you could get lucky. Though there is always a tolerance of plus or minus at least 25% on such guestimates depending how you tackle it. Eg You could build bits of It yourself or decide that you are happy to live in an extension with painted breeze blocks rather than plaster, or decide that you and your partner will be happy making a lifestyle decision to sleep in one of the living areas perhaps divided off by bifold shutters. At about 2.45 in this six minute interview Peter Aldington talks about sleeping in their lounge for half a century. As proposed you will have a lot of living room area .. perhaps more than you need. Can you adjust how you use it to meet your needs? One potential possibility is to turn part of one of your through rooms into a “study” which could function as a 4th bedroom, depending on what it is for. Might work for eg guests or toddlers. You would still benefit from the extra 250sqft from the rear extension so get more living space. You could even do that with a single stud wall that you plan to remove in say 4-5 years. In any case I would recommend thinking about one of these projects at a time. Ferdinand

Another approach is to build a plywood box out into the insulation layer mounted on the wall, like a deep picture frame and mounting the windows in those. F

Info on a couple of aspects here:

Inhad a similar experience with my upstairs bathroom, where it was mainly candy floss insulation but with a few areas with nothing, so we could here pipe noises in the lounge below. We it the more dense acoustic stuff in from WIckes, and it has definitely blunted the noise, but not made it silent. For the small amount of money - up to a couple of hundred? - it is imo worth doing depending on how much extra the access would cost. Thread here: Ferdinand

IIRC there is a retained bell and oak bellframe, and a bat was observed flying out from behind the clock in 2015. Whether it is rigged for full circle ringing would be interesting. If it is one it would just go Dong, like Big Ben in the Not the Nine O Clock sketch. Though hopefully the bat was behind the clock not in the belfry. The 2015 garage design included bat facilities.

You are doing a good job asking questions about all the details. Keep on keeping on. Your window supplier should be able to talk about extended sills. The last one I did I fitted extended sills to windows and thresholds to doors just in case I want to do EWI later. Our local BCO take the view that they seek to encourage any improvement and have people talk to them rather than jumping on people for not doing the EXACT regs. Ferdinand

You must have a bell tower bedroom. And a sign saying "Up the stairs to Bedfordshire" over the tower door to embarrass your teenage children in front of their friends to the max.

The Worcester Park one mentioned is Timber Frame. https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/17898759.worcester-park-fire-review-timber-framing-install-sprinklers-expert-says/