Ferdinand

Day seven and a half. And the seeds inherited from parent all seem to be just about working. Houston, we have a possibility. But I need some seeds, and a visit to the shop this week.

If we get widespread lockdown, lose pubs etc, Let's look on the bright side. A putative house, a hacksaw and a h'opportunity to work in peace. I suspect that a number of Building Projects will speed up...

Are you a bicyclist, btw, @gravelrash? Gravel Rash sounds familiar.

Cute strategy ?. An Appeal to Authority. "But I have the Ace of Trumps in my pocket", and here it is, sometimes wins the game of planning poker.

In that situation you could also have used a structural plinth (as they used to be done), which would spread the load, or even used an island with a flat bottom. Or made the legs shorter and just sat it on a sheet of 18mm or 22mm plywood with the plinths round the side hiding it. Ferdinand

Yes. But I also like air dryers.

Can I fit the padlock and chain? (Gets coat and leaves departs)

That's not enough imo. My downstairs has about 80mm PIR or so ( extensive extend and reno of a bungalow, done in 2008),and I would far prefer it to be 125 or 150mm, since the ufh struggles. Peter's idea is probably a good one. Ferdinand

I think that goes with the Right of Way, apart from certain circumstances. If the A75 route was established by invading English, then they probably have a RoW ? . Ferdinand (Love that Emoji - "Shocked face with exploding head")

Doesn't paperwork sequester carbon in the paper?

I'm trying to work out my COVID management-at-home approach. My thinking (which may be wishful thinking) is that one Ockham way to minimise transfers, assuming that some has managed to transfer past the front door, is simply to minimise hand contact with things. Towels being one possible transfer route, I was wondering about hand dryers. Use of kitchen roll on a dispenser achieves the same objective, however there are hand dryers down to under £200, and that is a lorra-lorra kitchen roll. Similarly I am wondering about minimising contact with door handles by keeping all doors open, which works with the heating in a well-insulated house. Alternatively one could open ajar doors with a shoulder and close them with a twerk. The magnetic catch-it-and-keep-it-open things I put in to stop them bouncing back on mums's wheelchair when pushed open facilitate that. Just thinking aloud. F

Has anyone installed one of these at home, and how did you find it compared to traditional towels etc. (Even more esoteric perhaps than some of the appliances we discuss.) Ferdinand

I agree, but our Itho Daalderop 3 in 1 boiling water tap wasn't massively expensive. We opted for the brushed stainless one and it cost a bit under £700 IIRC. A similar quality 2 way mixer kitchen tap would probably have cost a couple of hundred or so, so we probably paid around £400 more for the convenience of having boiling water on hand. Definitely a "nice to have" rather than an essential, but not that much more cost overall when compared with a decent kitchen tap and the cost of two or three kettles over a ten year period. You'd better watch it, or he'll post the recursive spreadsheet cost model and the C02 emission analysis ... and the database of kettle lifetimes and survey of Kettle MTBFs in a the village at a 95% confidence level to show that 2 or 3 per 10 years is accurate at the prevailing local profile of measured temperatures since 2013. ? I am a founder member of the Slow Poached Egg movement. The important thing is to be able to break an egg in one hand like Len Deighton.

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And the u-value of the (insulated) coffee-pot ? .

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How many pieces is this car dismantled into?

I planted up some Mixed Spicy Salad Leaves seeds on Monday evening. The packet said 7-21 days to seedlings, but this was half an hour ago. You could blow me down with a bicycle pump. Ferdinand

I did a shower last summer, and listed all the purchases here: There is no problem mixing, but you need to be sure they fit - or you have leeway to juggle. Ferdinand

I have run various service things (not gas pipe yet, though - more TV, internet and such) just by putting them into the loose gravel ballast below a path (or eg above a French Drain). Given that the gas pipe will be reinforced, I think that could work. Personally I do not particularly like the idea of having it in a slab. My gas is all plumbed in, however at the old family house we had it outside the kitchen window by the path to the front door, just hidden behind an evergreen bush on a paving slab. This was at the end of a long drive, however.

Yep - you need the garage to be above the ground, which means lowering the ground level immediately around the garage, or at least the part where the seep is occurring. TBH I would also be concerned about the two sides - though "lowering the level" may just be for say 20-30cm next to the wall, putting in some sort of channel, and maybe part filling with gravel. That is a variation on the French Drain option. Alternatively you tank it, which (put unkindly) is relying on a big waterproof plaster if done afterwards. Ferdinand

Yabadabadooooooo ..... Hoist by own hand ... Noooooooooooooooooooo !!

Did you just promise not to divorce and marry a basketball player?

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