Ferdinand

In theory the difference would be how much the seller has spent plus something for their losses for waiting plus something for the time saved and convenience gained in theory by the buyer plus X. Minus Y. ? F

You have a lock in agreement which gives exclusivity for a period of time, and have some mechanism for compensating the buyer .. an option agreement with an option fee attached. And some penalty should the seller welch on the deal. And some agreed way of dividing the uplift in value. F

You can set whatever conditions you like. The issue is to make sure the seller is willing to work with them. You need a suitable agreement to make sure the increased value plot is not sold to a n other, and somehow to compensate 5he seller for the extra aggro you are causing them.

Building regs are 0.18 min. for extension floor. Can you take a bit off the ceiling height? You could perhaps consider a floating floor makeup with ufh overlay, and say LVL tiles, which would give you a bit more l.. but needs detailed comments from others. Or go around the skirt with insulation. I have less than 100mm pir and ufh. And it works. But it is now 10+ years old and I wish I had more. Run the numbers and see if you are acceptably happy. It will be a OK, but there will be a hopefully modest cost. My conservatory has 100mm PIR in floor but that has electric ufh really as a tick box for future buyers and is hardly ever used. The installers were planning 50mm and gave me another 50mm in all the walls and floor when asked. Ferdinand

I have set up the first part of my watering system. Easy to do and quite adjustable. Works fine from a water butt. I also have my lower tech device to warn me when it s probably time to have it on for a bit, before the soil dries out much.

Luminous, semaphore version of Bernie the Bolt. And a shattaf for fun.

Thinking laterally like Dr de Bono from the other end. So no problem then. You will have already left the house and will not be disturb by the swearing. 40 pairs of earplugs for 4.86. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laser-Lite-Ear-Plugs-Honeywell/dp/B018RIA44S/ref=asc_df_B018RIA44S (So you have something to use even if you are still in the house.)

Found some more Zoot Music. You got a cat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAuLONmIof0

One thing to watch for is to find the mixing amount with which your mixer is comfortable. Ideally it is also the amount that relates to a whole number of wheelbarrows-full, so that you use a comfortable but towards the top of your capability load each time. It is also worth reminding yourself that if you are eg coutning shovelfuls to measure your quantity put in the mixer, that as you get more tired your perceptions of how heavy it is will change - so get used to doing a visual check on your amounts as you shovel it in. If you have bags of ingredients, it may be that you can do no of bags in the proportions to give you your mix and make an amount that is comfortable. But in any case you will get some sense of what you need after the first dozen loads, and a better sense as you do more. F

I waiting for the news story that a canoe has run into Zoot's Jetty and sunk with all hands.

This is the definition of the various terms from the document linked: So, based on the conversation above, the reduction of C02 Emissions Factor for Electricity, the SAP Rating should not change, and the EIR Rating should reduce proportional to electricity usgae, and C02 Emission Rate should reduce similarly. By contrast, in 2018 the SAP algo was adjusted when they found that solid walled and uninsulated walled properties were relatively better in CO2 emissions terms than had been thought previously. https://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/SAP/2016/CONSP-16---Wall-U-values-for-existing-dwellings---V1_0.pdf The assumption had been U-value of 2,1m which was updated to I think 1.69. (The background is that the previously assumed value was derived from that used for sizing heating, so naturally assumed it was worse to help make sure that systems were comfortably big enough.) F

No. I have not checked whether the update has been made.

Depends whetehr "better" means quality of build or ease of understanding. The Gravenhill one is about 5% of the size of the Building Regs, for example, and for the layperson probably does not seem to be written in Chinese.

How did the two different numbers compare, Jeremy, if you have those. I think that your current SAP is a 107? What is the new impact rating? (Will try and comment on the other excellent points from everyone later.] F

I would think that a normal plug would be too high risk for coming out by mistake or leaking with a corrosive like that.

Layer of cement in the bottom?

I’ll clarify. Thanks for the response. It is in relation to the changes in the algorithm which have reduced the effective C02 production of electricity relative to gas, as mentioned on another thread. I am trying to get a feel for what difference that will make to the actual number on an EPC. So will the EPC number of a house with ufh / combi boiler (say) go up or down. Ditto a house with say storage heaters or ASHP. I would expect, given that the dataset is not normalised to a curve over the 1-100 number range, for an electrically heated house to get a better value, and a gas heated house to stay about the same with perhaps a small increase in number due to the small impact of he electricity used for other than heating. So this is in relation to understanding how the numbers will change. That will feed into landlord requirements and tenant experience, given that regulation is on the numbers on the EPC, but Inwas trying to understand the algorithm changes with this thread. What I am hoping is that there are few people who have repeated the calculation in Stroma under both definitions, and we can get some data. F

Ideally this is one for a tame EPC Assessor! Do we have any idea how EPCs will adjust under the new values? Has anyone rerun their numbers? Cheer Ferdinand

Just checked, and my water butt direct connection to hose (about 3m) then a connection into 20m of Cleber 6mm pipe is in fact sufficient to get flow to the other end. That is with perhaps 1.3m of head, which would be about 0.13 bar. Encouraging. Ferdinand

Probably best asked here. @JSHarris My hose splitter has arrived. Do you have any clever way of stopping it leaking where it screws to the tap? Do I need to soften the seal, or apply grease, or just tighten it up really tight? Cheers Ferdinand

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Drink less, winebibber, and stop dreaming of Jilly Goolden. Found out today that there is a vineyard in Hathersage at 900ft. Not sure what is happening; they already have Little John and a gorgeous lido. F

Afraid not. I mean the little round 70mm ones. I repurposed a ‘plastic panel bottom half’ conservatory as a sun lounge to avoid having to build any dwarf walls or foundations, and insulated all the surfaces, incl. the floor. Did the lower half of the walls by glueing on treated cls battens on the inside, then 50mm of taped joint Celotex, then finishing with plastic shiplap, with a windowsill above. Done such that each side across several panels was a single cavity. Then I ventilated the void behind the Celotex to the outside with I think a soffit vent on each panel. This was 5+ years ago. If the cavity have been say 2m high I would have done two of them at say 225 and 1825 to get some natural flow; that is what I sometimes on similar cavities when insulating a half brick wall. The theory was that should anything leak a little in my renovated 2nd hand conservatory, there would be a route out for the moisture from there and a degree of resilience built in. Did vaguely similar things for other aspects. The only pooch in the pumpkin is that one of T’s dogs pulls them out and chews them, so I supplied a bag of ten spares which cost £2.99 and it has been quiet since. I did not glue them so that I would have access with a hoover just in case. F

I don’t believe that; I think that an elasticated waist, a belt and suspenders is a good thing. Or perhaps they did the study the Scottish season when having it ventilated to outside will make it even wetter rather than drying it ?.

Very very very unlikely to work now.