Ferdinand

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

Rent a telescope first ? ?

That is perhaps a relevant point. Different profiles and flexibilities of foot, and the amount of feeling available, will both affect balance. Rather like the hiking boots vs climbing shoes thing. There are also things available like rubber socks that can be removed to wash the feet on the shower seat, having successfully not slipped whilst washing the rest. Or even flip flops. F

The nicest LVL tiles I have seen are probably Quick Step. Having had a couple of samples of different makes, there are differences in flexibility and softness of surface, as well as the texture. My feeling is "softer / more yielding" would be better, but I have no proof. I used a Uniclic Laminate instead, which has a somewhat matt texture.

@Mark Welcome to the forum. F

@Benjseb Welcome to the forum. I think we need context on how well insulated your house is etc, before we can comment on whether that amount of solar gain would make much difference. My suspicion is that potentially the extra problems in weather like the present may not be an overall benefit. F

Just to check - fold and slide are where they are on a track, but each door is separate? So the action of closing them all is like dealing cards from a shoe in a casino, rather than say like opening a concertina-folded set of 10 postcards of Skegness? F

Need some help here... I only know one scooba washy. How do vinyl tiles perform when wet?

Fake grass for showers? Might work in the Wintergarden of Human Delights as a Lancashire version for an outdoor shower. I think the neighbours would see it as wussy - not being properly outside and in the teeth of the howling gale. More seriously, I even speculated about using nobbly professional (20mm thick) gym matting over the swimming-pool-surround mesh as a way of really fixing oldsters slipping and falling in my accessible shower, whilst draining OK. Even have samples of the latter. F

Agree on hips. (Though hips reminds me of ships which reminds me of something my niece said when she was little. "We are having an arbour for the garden" "With ships?" This being Nottinghamshire, where 'aitches 'ardly 'ever 'appen.) Top Tip 1: Get a sample big enough to stand on and test them with water and with soap. No disrespect to the appliance of science, but a stand-on-the-real-thing test may better for your own shower, unless you have a precalibration of your comfort vs the standard pendulum. Top Tip 2: The more textured, the tougher they will be to clean. Test with your chosen cleaning method - you will be wearing out your hip cleaning them. I have matt finish tiles called Karachi Ivory from Realonda Ceramica via Tile Town, which are quite non-slip. There is also a thing called a "matching mosaic"; presumably that is something for designer types. Best cleaning method is a steam floor cleaner (so I am told by my cleaner), though a traditional cleaning-lady mop (dab not scrub) or floor sponge seems OK. My supplier Tiletown currently have a 20% online discount. Currently about £26.40 per sqm all in, and they send up to 3 free samples in the post. And no delivery charges for >£150 order (in England and Wales - cough). Or £26.40 on the spot with the printed voucher. Normal price £35. Good price - not much more than their normal trade. Ferdinand

Plenty here have unfixed islands held down by deadweight. So if you need more after the window chat, then that could be your option.

I think you need advice from a more local forum on this one. Over in the UK it would depend on what it is, and how it is sorted. The easy way would be a general purpose skip, and load it in apart from anything banned. Cost for a 6 cubic m skip would be around USD $250-300, of which about 40% is green taxes. F

You would have to start with you generally not owning the view. BUT 1 His PP. What does it say? If in breach you may complain. And a nice letter from the PO may work. If it is a dev then they might have done a Visual Impact Assessment, which could be leveraged. 2. Council nuisance. I think light pollution may be addressable that way. 3. Dark skies is a sexy thing these days. Especially in a Nat Park, or if you have local enthusiasts. May help. "They will all go and visit Kielder instead." 4. You could approach them directly. Surprisingly effective sometimes. Perhaps they are nice people who will agree to a change. Most people are reasonable if approached reasonably with a genuine concern. It may be cheap, but they may ask you to pay eg for cowels. Problem here is that ‘will change the bulb type next time’ now means up to 5-10 years if LEDs. 5. Local astronomy group maybe willing to do something. 6. You accept that you now have a permanent conversation starter over your supper time cocoa and shortbread. Imagine 2055. “Remember, Shona, when those buggers installed that lighting back then .. nice people but I sure miss following the mountain rescue team on Ben McSavage by their lights”. Whichever way, leave it 1-2 years and your chances of change may be 80% less. Imo act now to mitigate, or grin and bear it forever. Your call ?. It may seem strange to mention contributing, however that can be useful if asked .. I find that going halves on fences or materials or shared chimneys (done all 3 in last decade) even when not technically necessary means that I get an input and a decent job. Ferdinand

Or there are narrow submersible pumps. But this may already be Plan B. Or Plan C. Plan B may be @epsilonGreedy junior and a hose pipe.

Thought you just topped up the exit pipe with a jug of water from the top, or similar mechanism. In this case do you not just need a side connection where you can connect a hose to initially fill the tube from the top, and an air valve at the very top to let the air out? How precise it all needs to be will depend on how tolerant the whole thing is. F