Ferdinand

May have saved last night. Roasted the pheasant at suppertime.

Double sided tape on the bottom. Then you won't slip ! (Hope you have a single-point kitchen design.) My other brilliant idea is .... velcro.

I have now made about £2.50, but have missed all but 3 of the sessions.

That's Nessie.

As for sourcing Ebay and Amazon are perhaps the best if you are happy you can judge the sources - things like shower screens and enclosures should be from £100. Quite a few known brands for shower type things (eg MX) have outlets on Ebay. F

I'd go for a larger shower tray - say 1.2-1.4m long, the panel on the side as suggested. And then just not have a door. I hate shower doors - always get gunged up and need scooping out like a sheep with a gangrenous butt. Yuk. You could put the shower at the back or on the long side if you were concerned about spray, to control that. One option is to have a slightly shorter panel on both sides and go in at the corner. F

A further question. Does this look like a Roland entrance hole, in the soffit. It is just about 1 inch across. It is neatly gnawed by the look of it. May need to remove gutter to get at it properly. No noises at present. How do I block this, and prevent another one being chewed? The photo us at approx the right angle. It is behind a gutter which had hedgehog in it (currently removed for a clean), so I wonder if the brush gave a bit of shelter. Ferdinand

Check which version of regs you are working with. I don't know what the Scottish ones say, but the English ones have changed last summer - so may have happened in Scotland too.

Oooh. My old post has matured like an English Sparkling Wine from Nyetimber. I make it 10 and a bit planks in that piccie, so at 225mm each for a 9" board I make it just on a 2.4m ceiling height. F

How will you get at the pipes?

You will also need a letter of acknowledgement of having received the MCS Certificate from your DNO, iirc. I had a thread about it somewhere, titled something around Octopus Otgoing Agile.

For anyone going for this, remember that setting up an export from Octopus puts quite heavy documentation requirements on your solar setup, and can take 4-8 weeks or more. Plus any time for a Smart Meter. So this may be in for spring not winter. F

They have been in student houses for 8-9 months with no problems reported.

@PeterW might know someone.

It says "House for an Art Lover" (Wohnhaus Eines Kunst Freundes) in the OP !

Treating the question seriously (though you may be winding us up), that design (or a version of it) - CR's House for an Art Lover - was actually built in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow South Side in 1988-1996. Design is contemporaneous to Lutyens - was done in 1901. So you may have seen it. Vid: Piccies: Probably full of fantastic ideas and detailing, but with slightly austere "strong bones"; I've always enjoyed visiting CRM buildings. But I don't think I could live with one ... I'd take a Goldfinger. We did have someone on BH building something that was recognisably CRM inspired. Ferdinand

Have you had an inheritance? Charles Rennie Mackintosh over Frank Lloyd Wright any day (except the high-back chairs which I suspect go flub at the back-of-seat joint). Charles Rennie Mackintoshes don't auto-collapse a few years after the architect popped his clogs.

I think the name is cool.

They probably feel a little .. er .. blue. You will never know the harvest you could have had, since they won't talk to you now.

Some things like blueberries insist on that or rainwater aiui.

That's one way to avoid the licensing fee ! One comparison of interest will be with the target for the English regs for 2025, which on the numbers seems quite demanding. Another is whether they will be able to implement a proper inspection regime (assuming the current one is sample based with informal advanced knowledge for the developer as to which ones will be checked). F

That's the usual warning to people using studded tyres on bicycles. Take care when getting off 'cos teh bike has better grip. Mine's staying it its stall this week until we get above 5C.. In this vid from Cheltenham I love the chap on the bike:

Interesting - just been putting the bin out and nearly came a cropper through wet ice. This morning it was -2C here, currently it is 3C, and it had rained, then stopped, then started again. It has been noticeably slow over the last days for e car windshields to unfrost - I have been needing to preheat windows even in mid-afternoon. I went across 4 surfaces: 1 - Council slabs. Grippy for my pumps. 2 - Gravel. Grippy for my pumps. 3 - Tarmac in the lane. Grippy for my pumps. 3 - Ribbed concrete on the drive. Nearly went over. I'm assuming that was puddles from early on that had not thawed and now had a film of rain. Anybody else? Ferdinand

Yes. One layer is brittle to point loads, three layers plus all the other stuff on top spreads out the loads.

TBF - smoothing out usage reduces the need for backup infra.