Ferdinand

Sweet Home 3d (free) has some lighting design features, and is good at displaying internal layouts, but it may not be sophisticated (or complicated ) enough for @puntloos. I have 3 zoned dimmers in my kitchen, but have not used the dimmer bit since I switched wholesale to Ikea LED bulbs 5 years ago. Ferdinand

Diluted slime - just what I want to talk about with my breakfast after my shower ?. Ew. I always feel that soft water is slightly "soapy". Just had a look in my 5 month old cistern - no slime line yet. I suspect that there is something in @Onoff's temperature theory. Also, is there a version of one of those edge-hung cleansers that turns the water pink or blue that your granny used to use, that might go in the cistern rather than the bowl? F

> Secondly, within my research I have created a definition of a self builder which is as follows; 1. they have acquired the land. 2. the risk ultimately lies with the owner. 3. the self-builder is going to live in the property. That seems to be a very good general purpose definition to me. F

Welcome. If you buy without PPIP, then you need to know where you are on the accepting risk vs saving money balance, and in particular to know more than your vendor.

I would say that Sonos One is probably better value than Sonos Ikea, given the superior performance and not-that-different price. F

One further note wrt to requested solar panel brochures etc. If concerned you could include "illustrative" to describe the brochures, somewhere.

Welcome. Best of luck.

Welcome. You will have a well nourished future garden. You can be bricking it later. As @Temp says .. you still have thinking times. Make like Columbo and poke your head back around the door ... just a moment, what about ... Ferdinand

Cheers. f

@Nickfromwales What is your rough estimate of the overhead of a preheat tank on bills? I have always run mine in Eco mode with that off (big Worcester Bosch Combi), and my longest pipe run is I guess around 12-14m. Ferdinand

Thanks. At this point I have nothing and an Amazon Prime subscription. The Sonos Ikea stuff looks interesting, once I had recovered from the idea of £300 for 2 speakers as the low-cost end of the range. My requirement is 1 - just to play music in 2-4 downstairs rooms, and probably have some variability. When I started the thread, the idea was to have music where parts could be excluded if different people had different tastes. 2 - The ability to play 2 or more channels would be nice. 3 - Extendibility in future would be a nice-to-have. Ferdinand

Cat flap debacle? *Us*? Here I can get Amazon to deliver to my local Morrisons, but Morrisons do not offer click-and-collect yet for their own goods. ?

Is this not back and offered by eg Hermes locations?

A supplementary question. How does one integrate Sonos with say Alexa? Can an Alexa stream different things to different rooms? Hopefully it is just plug and play, without the plug? (This is an area of profound ignorance for me; have always been a speech radio World Service man. But now is a time to ring some changes.))

In a similar situation I used rockwool attached with a staple gun, taking care not to go below the joist level. Saves a lot of time compared to PIR. I then put a membrane and 25mm of PIR on top then a floating floor. Ferdinand

That would pierce the insulated envelope. Hard work to avoid a cold bridge. My impression is that something like that would make the room feel much colder, as in you will feel a chill in the hall. Suggest rather something in your accessible porch, or outside. One nice way to do it is to have a thing in your porch for resting bags or boxes on whilst you unlock the door, and for that to have a lock-as-it-closed door of some sort. F

So in short, Salisbury (or perhaps not Salisbury) Cathedral Spire and a blunderbuss might be easier. Or perhaps a helicopter, which would presumably blow it all away.

To me that sounds like a semi-cold loft. But can you educate me about the thickness and u-value of the Space Blanket layer. I think a key qu is what you intend to do with your loft in the future - will it be used for anything eg bedrooms, Scalextric, model railway layout of the entire London Underground? Though if you have 350 sqm then arguably that should be enough for anyone this side of Imelda's shoe cupboard. Cheers Ferdinand

Would this not be an insurance thing 90% of the time, so the cost-benefit might not stack up.

Are your showers all planned to be gas? The other challenge you have here will be water flow and pressure, and there are I think showers which have their own tank and are electric, which would make it more resilient overall. When I looked at an 8 bed HMO I was planning to use cubicles of the sort that come complete with shower and whb, and potentially loo, which you carry in and just connect to the pipes and the power. Might be worth a look into how eg Travelodge do this. F

Is this The Englishman, who used to be known as such in the blogging community? He built a long barrow on his farm as a columbarium, near Salisbury, I think. Ferdinand

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CIL is (I would say) far less capricious / random than Section 106, and is calculated on a far more transparent formula. Not perfect, but probably an improvement.

How did you smuggle that bathroom out of Pompeii? Is it the one with the murals?

I think that is what sentries have under a busby. Would be a good viral vid ... Queen's Guard takes off hat and .... beehive yourself.