Ferdinand

That would be my pressure controlled outlet ,,, ?. And pipe diameter was how they regulated the continuous water supply to individual properties in Ancient Rome.

A serious question. How is the flow attenuated down in this setting? I know how it is done on a balancing pond, ‘cos I had to have one designed ... they use an electronically controlled outlet with a flow regulator. But if it is just a big water tank with an in and and out, how is that done? is there some kind of pressure controlled outlet that gives the max allowed flow when the tank is full, or is there some other clever mechanical or electronic gubbins? @JSHarris does not have that challenge, as his SUDS is a soakaway-with-storage iirc. Ferdinand

2 no 90cm x 60cm 50mm pressed council slabs sat on whatever is underneath. About £6 each. Permanent installation? Set in minimal mortar, or glue. PS I think the roof numbers are higher due to water velocity running into gutters, and that roofs do not divide roof area uniformly across drainage routes, so it is a increased to reflect possible disproportionate maximum intensity for a single drainage route. F

That’s a £27 donation to BH, based on 2% of the saving ?.

Oooooer! This has lots of angles and issues, and the potential outcome could be almost anything. A Serious Question. Before this gets tangent-ed with lots of useful, but not precisely relevant, information, could you answer the following questions. 1 - Have you bought the plot yet ie exchanged or completed? This affects your negotiating leverage. 2 - Who told you it ‘would all be fine’, and what record do you have? Written and signed? Or verbal only? Witnesses? The underlying question there is how much of a warranty have you been given, and how well can you get redress if it turns out not to be fine at all. 3 - I am assuming that you have the cost of the Physical work well understood, and that we do not need to address that at this point. Though it sounds like a substantial sum to do, and there will also be the cost of disruption to the owner of the final field, insurance for others’ pipes etc. Make that a separate thread if needed. Keep this one focussed on the Easement. 4 - Classically, this is one to find out the cost first, and then deduct off the value of the offer. The risk around getting supplies needs to be managed before purchase, or you could potentially meet dragons at the breakfast table. 5 - Really all that can be said firmly about the potential costs without more info is that: a) - the minimum will be the expenses of the other guy if he decides to donate you access, b) - the maximum he can possibly charge is set by the net cost of you doing it another way. Eg If your Plan B is to dig a borehole at a cost of 40k (including rolled up maintenance costs for x years), then he can charge you 39k minus the implementation costs for the rest of Plan A, which is your ultimate point of adopting Plan B. In utilitarian terms a best outcome for him is to get you to point B. Other factors above affect these 2 numbers, and who gets to pay it. I am sure that people can quote anecdata, however, and that the numbers will be nearly nothing to the *headdesk* inducing uncomfortable. 6 Do you have a viable Plan B? You will need to know the cost of that to inform your negotiation and walk away from Plan A. If you guess at the cost of Plan B then you will be playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, without having seen the donkey first. 7 Is there anything non-pecuniary that the Final Owner wants, that you can supply? You may be better offering expenses plus an in kind lollipop. I really hope that a lot of these issues are already scoped out, and that the final owner is reasonable / fair. Ferdinand

The 15% mentioned is for existing buildings, and from a 2015 base .. for clarity. That is on top of the -15% app. achieved between 1990 and 2015. Having said that, I agree that it is quite timid target, and is not on track for -80% from 1990-2050. Reducing the consumption carbon footprint of a typical house by 50% .. say from a D/E to a B, roughly saves as much as the entire carbon footprint of a new build. SpAnd there are millions and millions of these as opposed to 200-250k new units every year. F

No problem there ... the in house CPU discussed elsewhere used to be programmed in Octal. Hexadecimal is for wimps...

This piece in H&R acknowledges the concept of in-slab ufh, but does not give a howto, which may be what you really want. https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/underfloor-heating-guide/ There are various pages from Installers eg https://www.buildingservicesindex.co.uk/entry/44100/Warmafloor/Underfloor-heating-for-structural-concrete-floors/ F

Try this, and assume some replies from people who are feeling less frisky than I am this morning. F (runs and hides)

I guess it also depends on what whether it is a max, a min, or an average in that department. This is from prospects.ac.uk: Starting salaries for graduate or assistant planners are typically in the range of £18,000 to £25,000. With experience, in roles such as principal planner and team leader, salaries can reach £30,000 to £45,000. Chief planning officers, heads of departments and directors can earn salaries of more than £55,000. So I make that roughly 28k after 2 years, 30-37 after 3-10, and some more with Team Leader or Extensive Experience. I would call Senior Planner as an experienced individual who is not running a team, with 5-10 years experience. F

I make that about 32k now, taking into account pay caps etc, which is 10-15% above the national Average salary for full time employees. Not unreasonable, depending on the definition of Senior. Ferdinand

But if there is no loo in the shower room, whether en-suite or downstairs, some people pee in the shower. That is one that I personally find offensive, but I am not sure that I am in a minority or majority. I am also not sure whether it is a generational thing ... perhaps conditioned by experience for some living in tiny flats or rooms I shared houses in cities. Or even by experiences of some when in the armed or uniformed services. Ferdinand

I'm following the lead of a few others, and starting a blog on my own platform. It is called "This New House", and will let me reuse some content from the 10,000+ posts I have on various forum sites from the last 10-12 years, and also let me comment on questions beyond the scope of Buildhub. This is the blurb: The new website is here, at This New House.

This is the recommendations graphic from the report. It seems to be motherhood and apple pie. 20190219-Committee-for-climate-change-Homes-of-the-future-are-needed-today-Infographic-A4-ban-gas-cookers.pdf And the report itself: https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UK-housing-Fit-for-the-future-CCC-2019.pdf Ferdinand

Looks good. Well done. The effort is always worth it, as the next one will take half the time. And you now know where some elephant traps are located.

This is a toughie. How about a Post It note, sticking out at the side? Or anything pushed up against the end and overlapping. F

I have no idea ...

14 x 280 = 3.92.

Um. Colour me sceptical. So far. I would say this is a ‘look at me’ proposal. I cannot find the gascookers thing mentioned in either of those links, nor can I find find out who made the recommendation, and whether they are actually a real government adviser. Presumably they have have a more greenhouse gas friendly alternative which is practical and cost-effective for all circumstances in which gas cookers are currently used. And they can show that this is better than simply improving Building Standards or renovating some old housing stock properly. And given that that the Minister Claire Perry MP is (in imo) an attention-seeker cum bansturbator given to fairly random public kneejerks / self-indulgent comments / bandwagon jumping and displays a lack of gravity anyway, I would need to see some more information before climbing on board this charabanc. Which hopefully someone has to hand ?. Ferdinand

I think one thing at issue is whether your ‘slight’ is enough to justify individual panel optimisation ie solaredge or micro inverters, or not. This kit does not seem to include such. And I think that needs more information to assess. It will be 10-20 per panel or so ... or that is what it was for me. Ferdinand

Do you have any spare cupboard doors? They are always good for a test.Alternatively, the back. Currently experimenting with a cheap-as-chips idea for painting cupboards grey. Wilko Spray paints from their Craft Range. £3.00-4.00 a spray can, which do several sqm of coverage each depending on the surface. When dad was doing it, he used to use car paints. Use the grey primer underneath, and a lacquer straight on top. B-i-L says it is good, and I have a T who wishes to overhaul a black wood-faced kitchen which has been in situ since 1993, and is still in good condition. It owes me nothing, so I will allow it. Being Ferdinand and therefore deranged, I have nearly a complete kitchen of spare doors even 25 years later, so I have something to play with. Dad had picked up a warehouse of kitchens from a company called Kalmar who pulled out of UK in about 1980, and I had all the remained Black Exclusive ones. Will report back. Ferdinand

I followed this advice and bought a collated driver / drill pair off Ebay for a £120 in 2017. They have done several thousand screws since, quite happily, over a series of floors and walls, across several projects. Piccies here: (I also bought one of those double-sided magnetic plasterboard cutting doodahs, which is brilliant if you keep your fingers in check).

Unknown unknowns ?. The OP can't post all the stuff that they do not know yet ?. Therefore it is incumbent upon us to go off topic to explore such ?. F

As light relief, my favourite asbestos moron story was the St Pauls’ Occupidiots from a few years ago (remember them?). After they were ejected from the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral they occupied various other places, with consequences such as delaying social housing schemes by their presence, and then broke into and occupied an office building that was halfway through having its asbestos removed. Give them an advanced Darwin Award. They pulled the usual squatter ‘we did not break in’ arguments (no, we had a non-present friend who did it for us), but being sawdust-brained they had published a set of accounts “for transparency” which included one item itemised as “bolt cutters”. I love these people. Ferdinand

The numbers on here seem about right. If he wants the house, and not to get into the fandango of changing offers and going round the block again, he could just choose to race the garage as is for a few years and deal with it later when funds are available. it’s been there for decades, and sounds like one of the more benign types. If worried, which is probably not necessary, he could just fence it off. F