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  1. Ferdinand
    Where's North, your best view, and any closeby neighbour houses? Am I correct the kitchen is the RHS of the diagram?
  2. Ferdinand
    I think you also need to list your requirements, and how you will use it. What is it for? What are your priorities? Really this is a subquestion of "how shall we live?". I would suggest start with a plan if you have a defined space already and a half page Statement of Needs, including a list of stuff that needs to be in there. Just on the size, there is space for almost anything normal, probably including a breakfast bar plus perhaps a dining table. In normal house terms, that is a medium large sized reception room.
  3. Ferdinand
    Aha. Southern Flatlanders ? . TBF I should have got that far with the location under my own steam. But I'm just thick.
  4. Ferdinand
    Welcome. Were are you (ish) in the EM?
  5. Ferdinand
    If you are going to be the villain filled with devious cunning, you could write them a "is it this or that" letter. Personally I would do it in 2 halves.
  6. Ferdinand
    I would put a an access to the paddock in first from the road, if they may insist it is some sort of separate unit. Then obvs you need one from the house curtilege to access the horse.
  7. Ferdinand
    You've borrowed the pointing hand from @Onoff ... Looks good.
  8. Ferdinand
    What sort of pipes are you needing? Concrete or plastic? Don't buy this at all often, but when I buy heavy things my best local place in Buildbase Civils and Lintels.
  9. Ferdinand
    Swimming hole or small natural lake? (Depends on the water of course) Gets you boasting rights over mere wildlife meadows.
  10. Ferdinand
    Sorry - this published too soon. More content is required. And now I can't edit it due to the Lockdown.
  11. Ferdinand
    I would JFDI unless there is a good reason not to. I think there is also the principle that people with a right of way can improve the surface, and that it is less than 30cm high, which excludes that reason for needing PP. I think the @Temp comment nails it.
  12. Ferdinand
    For PC Get irfanview from here. https://www.irfanview.com/ Get a window grab of the view from Streetview (using Ctrl-Printscreen for current window or Printscreen for whole screen). Or use a photo. Trim it using the cursor and CTRL-Y (crop selection) Do an Edge Detect from Image > Effects >Edge Detect menu. That gives you the edges in white on black. Invert the image (CRTL-SHIFT-N) to get black on white. Print out. And play. (Most photo packages will have a similar) Ferdinand
  13. Ferdinand
    I would say that boiler was put on the boundary; I would say that the fence has been put on wheels.
  14. Ferdinand
    You are the local eccentric distinctiveness to be preserved. ?
  15. Ferdinand
    Absolutely ? I've put a question mark on the title, just for you.
  16. Ferdinand
    ... may have been well summarised in a quote on the Radio 4 programme "You and Yours" this lunchtime by a gentleman from the Swimming Pools Association about the current boom in swimming pools. "What about Hot Tubs?" "Hot tubs are the devil's own swimming pool." This was known, in almost all its features, to Hieronymous Bosch the artist - 500 years ago. This is "Tondal's Vision". (No, I don't like hot tubs very much.)
  17. Ferdinand
    I thought loft insulation was still available free and installed in most places. Phone up the Energy Saving Trust and ask - to be sure.
  18. Ferdinand
    Our hero has a strategy for that. He's going to do the Colditz "how to hide an escape hatch in a ceiling" trick, and draw a whole network of hairline cracks on with a pencil, so you won't notice the real one. aka Trompe l'oeil Bristol-style. It's like you don't notice weeds in my garden, as there are so many people think it *is* the garden.
  19. Ferdinand
    It was discussed in the thread you read. Go back and read it properly ?. If you put a balloon in front of it people may think it's bigger than is actually the case. (Update: you backroll to make the surface less perfect, otherwise your brush strokes or roller texture later when eg touching up will show up against the perfect spray surface. The idea is to do it at a time that will give a very slight texture. Worth doing.)
  20. Ferdinand
    Aha - so not official.
  21. Ferdinand
    Thanks for the reply. Can I emphasise that the most valuable thing is not the particular ideas, but that you take an active approach to find and learn *your* ideas that give you the closest version of your ideal within what you can afford. A huge amount of it is about taking the time to find the best specifics for you. Really, one aspect of what all the comments coming back should do is be stepping stones to your own unique solution, using the things identified, but also all other things you are now going to go out and find.
  22. Ferdinand
    Can you identify the source of that? It seems quite narrow and focused if it is supposed to be a general standard - almost as if one particular specialist charity have nobbled the regulator with the specific requirements of their user group. But it is also very generic on other things, for example in things suitable for people who have a visual disability. eg a Class 3 mobility scooter can be up to 850mm wide, which won't work well if a 750mm wide front door or porch door can be advertised as "accessible" with no qualification. TBF Class 3 scooters are rather chunky. But similar things might apply to flimsy or shiny grab rails and 100+kg people.
  23. Ferdinand
    Gent spraying a house with my Wagner machine - which is perhaps more semi-pro than yours (new cost approx £700). Courtesy @Hecateh. This is running on very low power - it will generate a fan of paint as big as me, and goes up to 200 atmospheres iirc. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/uploads/monthly_2018_09/DSCF1416_x264.mp4.fa93da2a2638879a4d3aa8b7e948aa0c.mp4
  24. Ferdinand
    If you can it may be better to just drop the gubbins into the newly opened paint tin after you have stirred it for 20 minutes or however long. Opinions differ on that,
  25. Ferdinand
    Beware water...
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