Ferdinand

Do you have the hole in the ground with the provable gap in the water supply ? , and the piece of pipe in your hand? “Until I put *this* in there, lady ...”

Looks quite firmly screwed up...

Welcome to the forum.

Does anyone have a recommendation for film for sticking on the inside to make windows opaque? It is a temporary measure to prevent anyone seeing in too easily whilst a small shop is empty. It might be nice t ave other than a single colour. I know that Vistaprint do a product, but that is not well reviewed. Cheers Ferdinand

Probably our different viewpoints. I see it as a way of compensating for, and building on, the possible inexperience of the client.

Interesting complementary points. My argument was for a brief brief plus some more inchaote ideas as an anchor for such a follow-up conversation, with some work in advance so that the client has formed their strategic idea, but not the tactical design ideas. As a slight bulwark to going-offtrack-itis.

Noooo .... going off topic.

I have had BT pull their wires through my pre-installed ducting before now. But talk to them.

Another way to get away from overthinking / overimagining, is to get some data by keeping a lifestyle diary and "area of house use" diary for a week or two. Sarah Beeny has a delightful technique where she identifies unnecessary .underused areas of house by fitting people with a tracker and building up a breadcrumb trail / heat map.Room use diary would be similar.

All those have a place. If you think they do. Some may be best to help you reflect then summarise. You need something you can send to an A before a meeting, that they can understand your needs from immediately, and that you can then usefully discuss in your 45 minutes with them. It needs to reflect *you*, but the A needs a 3 minute brief, as well as some detail. This technique may help with working out / communicating your essentials. 1 - Boil it down to 1 page, of which the first 30 word para is an elevator summary. 2 - Give it to a competent friend / acquaintance for 5 minutes, on their own, with whom you have not previously talked in any detail. Work acquaintance would be ideal. Someone who has an activity or job which involves dealing with different things. 3 - Take it back. 4 - Ask them to give you a summary of your key requirements in 60 seconds in their own words. Cut them off at 60. 5 - If ithey can do so accurately, bingo. If not, your doc is not yet sharp enough. Rinse and repeat with somebody else. 6 - Use that as either the entirety, or with a 1-2 page supporting appendix. Once the A has got to grips with your essentials (and you need that to make sure that your details are hung on a balanced core requirements spec), then the A can ask you about your more general ideas and you can do your Blue Peter act.. At first you need to present the architect with a balanced-overall thing, otherwise it may skew the view around the sub-bits of the overall that you already know about. Do not forget your budget requirements, and potential flexibililty (or not). And do not forget to have some cash in your back pocket that you keep completely secret from everyone. Clearly there is more than this to choosing an A, but a clear understanding is a good place to start. Ferdinand

I used multiple soffit vents in the bottom half of a cabin type sun lounge, half glazed half panelled. F

In my similar I used soffit vents.

The CTA Gives Irish workers th3 right to work in UK and vice versa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/08/british-irish-deal-guarantee-rights-citizens-after-brexit

I would slot by trimming alternate ends to give a more thorough continuous air path, and make sure there was access bottom and top to give better coverage and some natural draught. Particularly in the side panels. F

I'm more inclined to ask: 1 - What is the integrity of those doing the study? 2 - Is the process standardised in a wider community? 3 - Is it independently supervised or reviewed? F

Slightly old from the Construction Products Association https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/media/264067/cpa-brexit-issues-for-construction-march-2017.pdf But they should have more if you register free https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/ F

I'm going respectfully to disagree with that, but there are all sorts of measurement effects and adjustments involved. Back in late 2015, bodies such as the IMF were arguing that the pound was 5-15 % overvalued. And by 5-20% in 2016. So I am not worrying about that as a generic effect. Such an adjustment leaves us not far off where we are now. https://fullfact.org/economy/exchange-rates-and-imf/ FT 2014: https://www.ft.com/content/ec6bef86-1653-11e4-8210-00144feabdc0 Telegraph, 26 Dec 2015: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/12065157/Pound-is-most-overvalued-currency-in-the-world-analysts-claim.html IMF, June 2016: Also, I question the idea that exports have not increased. From Trading Economics / ONS: Total exports measured in GBP by month. As said above, revisions and measurement effects abound, yet it a jump from the point of the vote. As far as I can tell, adjustments by the ONS seem recently to be improvements. F

Just think of all that extra time you are getting to enjoy our company. Do you not feel ... er ... personally enriched? As for the winter, my posts make excellent firelighters. ??? ?

Welcome to the site, @derobe. Discussing land prices. where’s my emoji? Aha: .

That brings back memories of an Arthur C Clarke story called Let There Be Light, where a murder was committed by switching on a searchlight targeted at a car as it came round a sharp bend on the moors. Tricky. Statutory Nuisance is impossible as you do not have Quiet Enjoyment of a moving vehicle. The only things I can see would be if there is a neighbour (may not want to complain) or a Civil Injunction under the successor to the ASBO Laws If you have witnesses to being alarmed or distressed. Personally I detest this whole swathe of laws as claims of offence have turned the police into an outsourced harassment service for fake victims. But it is there and there are options not limiting it to a place of residence. Would need the Police, an LA or Env Health to do the injunction. THen it is down to creatives such as having a Traffic Officer drive through at an appropriate time, get dazzled, and visit the doorstep to offer words of advice. It doesn’t happen to be on a pole requiring PP for the pole? F

That’s a remarkable run, and reminds me of the Astroglide at Rhyl Ocean Beach from some years ago. Can’t locate a pic, but do you have to have some sort of way of making sure that the radii are tightening (so to speak), or it might go Wheee! Wheee! Wheee! all the way down. I think that unless you have overhangs flowing liquids will adhere to the edges, and solids slide. Will look for pic of the astroglide. /tasteless I get pipe noise, but I think it s inadequate ceiling insulation and soil pipes that run through the toblerone spaces around my rooms in the roof. Ferdinand

I created a hard path on a drain by laying BFO 900x600mm slabs on loose gravel. Also a way of managing a moving surface or tree roots if that is a problem. F

I have one of those for the tap, too. But i also have 3 water butts which are for limited purposes eg 2 trees, 2 pots and a birdbath from one, seasonal fruit plumping up from another, and probably do not - I hope - need all the gubbins. F

May be relevant whether it has ever flooded or had standing water In it, in any form. Also needs to be designed to make it possible or impossible to use as a drunken-bicyclist wall of death facility. Ferdinand

A further one. Are there any comments on reducing from a 19mm garden hose (hozelock or similar) to the 6mm of the Claber hose? The requirement is simply that I can put a hose straight onto the tiered diameter outlet of the water butt, which can then be connected to Claber at the other end. It really does not need all the gubbins associated with a tap connection. I think I want something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hose-pipe-connector-to-link-a-garden-hose-to-a-4-6mm-micro-irrigation-system-/222514385377 The seem to be no direct inline connector, presumably for mechanical reasons. £6.99 seems pricey, but ... Cheers for any comments. F