Ferdinand

Welome to the madhouse. If there is anything that several contradictory opinions will help you explore, please do ask - there is no such thing as a stupid question. One nice thing about long houses is that you can have arguments by megaphone or telegraph then keep out of people's way ? . If there are 3 of you it needs a plan like the factory rooftops in The Italian Job (real version), then you can still achieve distance and arguments, but you need boomerangs to throw at each other. ? Ferdinand

What is your soil? Does it drain? One risk is they are filled with water and it stays. Dad's client once had that happen to a huge outdoor lake before they got the liner in ? .

This may also help, depending on circs. Or not. I now fry with a lid on the pan, which also somewhat speeds up cooking - especially good for eggs where the top seems to get half steamed rather than needing to set up a spoon-fat-watermill operation to cook the top. My frying pans come from Procook and they do a couple of lid designs with rings like a fresnel lens that fit a couple of sizes of pan.

Ooops. Granny. Eggs. Sucking. Sorry. Must have been the tray of eggs I am hoarding. I could allege that it wasn't clear from your original post and I still claim my 15% since I still did the work, and answered the other question too - this is construction? ??

The fee is per submission not per discharge AIUI, and you can put them all on one submission. https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/apply-to-discharge-a-planning-condition That has saved you 8 x 114 = £904 and I claim my 15%. The NMA thing looks ambitious, but someone on BH may have done it, and you now have a budget of £904 - 15% available ?. F

thanks. Tiles ! ? I will see if I can check for you .. but they are from Tiletown and the choice was iirc for being matt-ish but not too hard to clean, and a varied but attractive and not loud background texture.

Been hoarding it since last summer ? . Or are you pointing out that your “log roll bog roll” dispenser hides the hoard?

Tell me next week, when I have been locked down with all the others... Anyhoo, judging by the dates on this thread, my stirry craziness is genetic. Anhyoo, behave or I will tell them about the Famous Five Fanfic that shocked you ... you are supposed to be an unshockable zombie from Thanet, not a snowflake. F Who may be in isolation with all the others from the w/e.

There is a thing called an earthquake (from Diffords Guide): https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/4807/tremblement-de-terre-earthquake

I think someone built recently on Brownsea Island? Though not a hotel.

Wasn't that Amundsen?

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Good idea.

One thing I'll probably be doing is setting up a group for our lane (or for a number of houses each way), perhaps on the system that Joan Bakewell uses. Does anyone know which one it is? Also the lady who had dad build that C shaped bungalow in 1970 is turning 100 this month, so I'll give her a phone call. Plus I have to think about helping tenants, and which ones are genuinely vulnerable with not a lot of reserves - a small number are in high end furniture manufacturing which is dependent on retail, and at least a couple have sproglets less than 6 months old. And today is car insurance day, so I need to do it before forgetting and driving out. 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