Ferdinand

Try these guys, though it does not look quite as good as the local. £1.60 per m online incl VAT but delivery to be added for 94 x 16mm bullnose primed. That may do you. https://roncurrie.co.uk/94x16mm-4-bullnose-mdf-skirting-board-primed-various-lengths?search=skirting and various others. https://roncurrie.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=skirting They are my local and I did a bungalow with their skirting.

Nice to see continuing progress. You'll have some stories to tell.

Cheers. Hoepfully you'll get something that meets your needs.

Interesting, for me Bulb are nowhere - £7 a month more than British Gas, £12 more than the cheapest minnow. Ferdinand

Found the Trailer. "The thrill of wrapping your legs around a tornado of pounding pistons". I need to sit down.

Welcome. 1 - Depending what you intend to do, you should first be aware what sort and quality of soil you have, and what is in it (eg lots of rubble that needs removing or coping with). 2 - Do you have a plan for what is going where? eg sitting area etc. 3 - On the wall, there are lots of ways of doing retaining walls - and you need to think about retaining the soil round the outside - fences won't do that for long. (As am aside, we are in process of starting a Buildhub Gardening Blog which may - or may not - be useful for you. It will appear this bh weekend. I hope.). Ferdinand

That rings true - my Grandfather's family used to have a toolmaking company in Sheffield.

Tend to think that BG is the wise option here. Martin Lewis has been arguing for a few months that it is fairly unique to have such competitive offers from the big players.

I see that I can leave my current long term fixed rate deal from 12th April. My current annual bill is approx £1100 for both fuels on a long-term fix. Usage about 3200 kWh elec, 16000 kWh gas, for a 2000 sqft house. Should be falling as mum passed away last November. I am with Co-op Energy, who have just been taken over by Octopus. The best offer they have for me is about £970 excluding energy use reductions. 1 year fixes. Some with no exit fees. The best offers I am seeing are about £830 from the minnows (Orbit, Yorkshire Energy etc), and £890 from British Gas. 1 year fix. No exit fee. Does anyone have any hyperintelligent opinions about how to play this? (*) (I am probably inclined to go with British Gas, so I have a big player but cans still jump both ways depending on what happens as we come back on stream after the current restrictions.) Ferdinand * I would ask a Hoovooloo, but my sunglasses are filtering it out.

There is an excellent Flush Toilet article on Wiki, which covers a ludicrous amount of ground. And there also seems to be a thing called a "pressure assisted flush", which works at .. er .. higher pressure. F

These are normally amongst the trees I think.

At this point anyone will just be guessing - too many variables, and everything could change either way. If anyone gives you a number, there will be an error margin of half to double on it, at least. Ferdinand

I don't know the answer to that without researching it, I am afraid.

Does that mean that some cisterns have an internal adjustment or an alternative float? Or can the float be adjusted appropriately in some circumstances?

Commonsense says it would need to exceed it with an error margin ?. Even when blocked, I have yet to see a loo overflow from one flush, and there has usually been space for the extra water in a small bucket dispensed whilst standing on a stool for "maximum impulse", without too much of a tsunami. F

Isn't that just a traditional loo? Perhaps available from an architectural salvage firm. Another alternative for @Tennentslager may be an American Loo, which I think have larger flush volumes. I would probably suggest phoning up a loo manufacturing company and asking to be put to the technical support team. I did that when I was trying to identify loos with spare seats available (like M&S used to sell you an extra pair of trousers with your suit). I got good advice from Ideal iirc - at least I now have 2 Ideal loos, and 2 spare seats. Ferdinand

I think I would like to say a couple of things there. For long term considerations. 1 - I think your driveway width may be your most significant hard policy constraint. 2 - Is there a danger that the Council will just say "Backlands Development", and kick it out on its ear? That could be a policy question, but also depend on how tightly the particular Councils stick to that policy. Potentially a very important issue. Needs to be resolved, as you know. 3 - Even were I planning only to build one, I would form my plans to leave space such that another could be added later - either as an annexe or a separate dwelling (or an annexe that could be converted later). There are imo 2 reasons for doing that: a - Financial future. If your pension evaporates, as a chunk of mine did at one point, you have a possible remedy. Having something that can give you a boost of 10s of k could be a strong item of buried treasure should you need it. if someone needs somewhere to live, you have something which can be potentially utiliised. b - If it helps you get PP. If the Council write it off as backlands, then putting an extra property or two on there (which you don't necessarily have to build - though there may be other considerations for demonstaarting completion for VAT etc) may put it into a different category in Planning eyes, and help you (eg a minor development or cul-de-sac). In that case your entrance width will matter - but matter somewhat differently in every place. It is all a balance, but I thought that deserved a mention. Ferdinand

I think it needed doing physically. 1st time since install about 4 years ago. A veritable personal fatberg cum hairball. It's also another house arrest educational experience. Perhaps my first plumbing victory. Just been out for flour and niger seeds, and past three of our local Aldis to check busyness. They all seemed to have queues of about 6-10 waiting to enter, so clearly all operating limit on people inside. I have a fresh fruit n veg shopping list for later when really quiet or tomorrow. Just off for daily bike ride, and I will see if the horse-in-isolation is still there.

That was the first program that every architect I knew wrote on their BBC Micro ?.

Thanks Peter. Took the top of. Ew. The pipe is now in mild bleach. F

Can I just confirm how to clean out the plug on the left ... it is my shaving sink so has hair and bits in it. I have done the trap Ok. Do I just pull it off where the black ban’ is (o ring?) with a catching bowl below, or is there a trick to this? I am the world’s original plumbing hater. Ferdinand

This is what is normally thought of chalet-style. The one you posted would be a semi with a roof extension.

Concentration. Just emptied an entire packet of coffee into the cafetière not the caddy, as I was thinking about bird boxes. Birdbrains, more like. Pah.

Yes - do well with those, even though I are near the town centre,

I think that some BHers might want to consider swift boxes, which strike me as interesting and elegant. http://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/p/diy-swift-box-designs.html http://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/search?q=%23triangle You can also improve the response by wiring up a call generator.