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As a tradesman, you would know more about that 🙂 ! The Gordon Brown stealth-shaft special tax rate of 60%+ still exists between approx 100k and 120k of income, iirc.

The first time I met foil baking was in Delia's One is Fun for white fish. The pizza oven has a circular grill element in the top, and a pizza stone beneath, so for me the technique is to preheat the stone, then let ir run on the thermostat whilst the stone cooks something through (eg frozen cornish pasty) with occasional interventions from teh element to keep it up to temp, then to have 60-90s at the end from the element to crisp it. It does oven chips beautifully. F

Not having an Air Fryer yet, I might foil bake it in the pizza oven (*) and open up for the last 10 minutes or crisp the top under the grill. Or even microwave then grill-crisp. F * One of these: https://pizzaunited.co.uk/products/optima-pizza-express-napoli-pizza-oven

A really useful thread. Thanks all.

I have drunk the first bottle with a friend, and a smoked fish platter with an avocado and black pudding salad. It is excellent, and I will be buying a few more whilst the offer is on. Not in *huge* numbers, however.

Quashing it is not enough. Truss needs to deliver a rational analysis, and a rational, reasonable solution. If that is not her habit her party will be wiped off the map at the next election. We are beyond slopey-shoulders stage. She, and Krazy Kwarteng in particular, do not have that luxury. (Writing as somewhere between a conservatiev Lib Dem - Orange Booker, and a liberal Conservative.)

That's a stilt village, not a balcony.

Consider making it a first floor veranda with a roof of whatever sort, which will give you a double bubble in keeping sunshine out if is a modern houses. It will also give you an excuse. See how they do it in the American South.

Catching up. Episode One the Kent prefab - quite inspirational but looked rather expensive. Not really convinced that the techniques are new, and disappointed that the prefab company is not making hundreds a year. Presumably neighbour is slightly less of a friend. McCloud's over egging the pension drawdown was a bit of a jar. Looks like a very nice place, and I am glad that they are happy in their community. Episode Two the 'hidden house' seemed strange in some respects, such as the cladding in the below ground courtyards to make it look "embedded" when no one can see it, and the dam-worthy amounts of concrete involved. Are they all in Kent?

You need to read @AliG's swimming pool thread. He talks abotu his house attached pool, but discusses lots of numbers and how to save energy etc.

You might enjoy the online vids I'm subscribed to by a channel called "Black Forest Family" - who are an American couple living in Germany, who have self-built there - and do a lot of observations about culture etc from a fairly neutral viewpoint. Here:https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackForestFamily/featured Would I be correct to think that in NY dealing with variable climate is one of your key challenges ? (I recall listening to an historic Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, where he discussed what changed in NY with the widespread introduction of air conditioning.) F

Your autocorrect is on the blink again 🙃. F

Welcome. This sounds .. er .. interesting 🙂.

*innocent face*

Best place to put them is the basement then.. Assuming you are not in the basement yourself.

Nyetimber is a champagne house (amongst other things, and not allowed to call it champagne) that has been winning awards internationally for a number of years. eg https://nyetimber.com/nyetimber-is-awarded-gold-at-the-champagne-and-sparkling-wine-world-championships-2020/ https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/nyetimber-beats-bollinger-roederer-in-sparkling-competition-60854/ They have 2/3 of a square mile of vineyard, so one of the largest ones in the country. Usual price for this one at Morrisons is £27 per bottle. My bottles arrive tomorrow evening, so I'll be trying some with fish over the weekend.

I am told that this 2010 Vintage English Sparkling wine on 25% offer in Morrisons is a Nyetimber 2010. For which £20 a bottle is a bargain. I have ordered some to try. https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-the-best-english-sparkling-brut-vintage-2010-480635011

if all the circumstances line up as a worst case including too much vindaloo it needs to be resilient to an aerosol of high speed, liquidised, flying poo. (Warning: football song incoming)

At least one person on BH made access to the installer facility an express term of contract. Too late no for you, I'm afraid - but I add this for info.

Hmmm. I see the Beeboids reporting that business energy bills for the next 6 months are expected to be capped at half of what they would have been. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62969427

The *could* be a tunnel through. Sorry to hear that - an you clarify for me and @AliG where the RoW runs, as per the two previous posts, and what alternative access the neighbour (to see if extinguishing the RoW is possible)? I have no idea what caselaw is about filming a ROW through your neighbour's back yard, but that is what the nuisance and community safety teams at your Council are for. They *should* send an official letter and investigate if that is what you want - can have a bit of a chilling affect on neighbour behaviour. (BTW if you ask, we can consider hiding this whole thread, or parts of it, to make it non-public). F

Putting minimal kitchen facilities in the utility is a good call. When I did one a few years ago, the independent heater was an extra radiator and an isolation valve in the water pipe. May not meet current requirements - no idea.

I think you've both got the wrong end of this stick. 0.022w/m2k is the *material* U-value of PIR, so I think they are telling you about the material not the actual panel value, and being quite misleading in their blurb. So if it is 100mm PIR (which would be very generous for a panel system), that will be a u-value of 0.22 for the wall (ignoring the other elements), which is good for an insulated conservatory, but will not give comfortable year round temperatures unless shading, heating, cooling and ventilation are right. F

The previous thread, as I read it, suggest that they do, assuming that the "ROW" runs through the patio. SO there is the ROW past the table where the photog is standing, and the "right turn" across the end of the patio from the door along what I think is a path between the door and the iron gate. (OP has never supplied a map, so we are all guessing to some extent.) If the ROW actually just goes across the end then a simple short piece of fence may do it, or a solid gate could help. But it is now up to OP.

The only realistic options I can see are: 1 - Tolerate and ignore as you say. 2 - Get the LR to revisit their 'pass and repass unlimited' definition, since that is clearly more widely defined than 'carry a bag of coal'. That needs research. 3 - Stuff their mouth with loadsamoney and get it extinguished. 4 - Close off the 5ft-7ft wide section of the patio lengthways with a fence, and learn to live in a smaller garden. F F