Ferdinand

Good job. For cutting I have usually used a traditional wavy-edged bread knife. I do wonder if sheep shears would be good for the job. For fixing I usually just staple gun straight through a corner of the insulation ... to eg fair I have not used batts, just rolls. F

If you pressurise the heating system to the max recommended by the Boiler manufacture, that should (?) give you an indication of what the mains pressure is as a minimum. eg 1.5 atm plus whatever the drops across the boiler repressureisation gubbins are, As to whether that is a useful number... Ferdinand

Video from a security camera, or it didn't happen ?. Or a witness statement from the lady. One takes it that the attempt to recruit a mistress did not entirely succeed !

*Waves* Welcome to the pleasuredome. F

This is Generation Whatever-It-Is-Called, and Internal Consistency does not apply. See for example, all the Starbucks Coffee drunk by people who campaign against Starbucks. Or the "Fair Trade" organisations who destroy local businesses here by working from a deliberately tax avoiding "charity" base (looking at you, OXFAM). Or the "EAT Foundation" people telling us via the entire media last week that we are only allowed 14g a day of sausages and 29g of chicken, or the earth will fail and we are all going to dyeeeee. Turns out that the people behind it are hugely rich with a personal Business Jet in which they spend their time flying around the world running their hotel empire and hedonising. If they are living by their recommendations - fine; if not, they are a waste of space. To be fair they do seem a little spaced out; this was in the Antibes - a few years after 200+ guests were flown to Marrakesh from Norway for the wedding reception. Or any Green Celeb who spend their time flying around in Business Class. It is now an entire generation since video conferencing became a viable alternative, and if you are taking a stance there is no excuse. For me these days, the first test is whether someone demonstrably lives by their declared values. If they do not, I am not interested. Middle-Aged Grump of Nottinghamshire.

My system is: 27 panels facing East. 8 panels facing West. These 8 are split across 2 separate gables. They are split across 2 inverters, each of which has 2 inputs (thought dual inputs were normal) with the strings defined so that I can move some of the East Panels (iirc up to 14 or 16) onto a putative South facing veranda roof. Inverters are Solaredge, and I have a Solaredge thingamajig optimisation device on each panel. So I think that it should be possible to do what you need, probably with a single inverter if chosen to be a dual input, and if you talk carefully to your supplier about your requirements, or gird your loins for a brain teaser if self-installing. As people say above, there may be a few small compromises to live with. F

1 Interesting regs question. Probably yes if it was from here. OTherwise it will,be down to our admirably clear towing laws, which have been inherited from God Knows Where and homogenised then separated like a rotten soufflé. 2 A Silver Streak is about 1.3 tons naked, so it may be towable with an appropriate Tonka Tank. IF they set up as a carnival attraction could they get a Showmen's license and have another one on the back? 3 That is a good one. I believe they are more lenient in Scotland ?. AT least it is silver not fridge-white. * 4 Refit it? 5 Could not possibly comment. F (*) I am now going out for the rest of the morning.

I would be surprised if this condition passes muster under the six tests, as it imposes a method ... provide 10% renewables. It seems rather inept. The best form of saving under the R hierarchy is probably Remove, not Reduce or Renewable. So surely this would be met by eg adding in enough insulation to be 10% better than Building Regs basic? Then the 10% renewables are not required since the energy is not being used at all. Has one ever been appealed? F

Suspect the record will be more like 3k.

No point there.

New tile. OTOH if this bathroom was 20k, if you could gut it and start again for 10k, perhaps you could persuade yourself that you have saved money...

Not really my area, but don't you put a wedge of a known angle in to move it back onto the scale?

Yes. The top is open. Sorry ... thought I was clear on that. Will get a couple of pics. F

Look into suppliers for events faciities. eg https://www.esedirect.co.uk/p-3471-roll-out-trackway-rubber-matting.aspx I think there are likely to be places that would do a rental at reasonable cost. You could also perhaps use the tree protection grids if you need any of that. F

It is to divide off 1/3 of an 8x4m storeroom to create a usable space, and a smaller store. The plan is probably to board one side on ply, of which there is some available. I should have said that the floor is a concrete slab. I was planning concrete screws for attaching the wall plate. Do I need a 4m length for across the the top? Thanks F

As sketched, I think the join is clumsy ... especially that triangle at the top of the wall/ That may look different when built. F

I need to construct a partition 2.4m high across a 4m run, which is free at the top ... ie a high ceiling with a space above the partition. I have not built one of these before ... can anyone advise on any extra measures I need to take for extra rigidity or intermediate support? I am thinking 63x36 timber, normal spacing, and perthaps extra noggins. DO I eg need a joist across the top? Cheers Ferdinand

I would prefer the massing with the two roofs the same height.

Can you just turn the supply pressure down at the mains instead? Obvious question, but do they check that?

IMO really work at it and you can save enough on materials to cover quite a lot of specialist Labour. Obvs it depends what you compare it with, but I think that 25-35% is possible as an average. I tend to use Wickes retail prices as a benchmark. F

if this s the same as graphite vs normal EPS then the difference is marginal - of the order of 10-20% - so it is A relatively small benefit in heat terms, but the marginally thinner wall that results at the same overall insulation may be worth it. F

Can you not sell Walk-on Glazing to an obtuse person who runs a theatre?

Nah. Always leave 'em suspended...

Heh. Also bear in mind that there are some cost-saving threads around, so you can probably get up to a third more material for the price you first look up in Wickes, and that it is also useful to do a heat model on the famous @JSHarris spreadsheet, and that it is worth taking a few years .. say 10 ... heating bills into account for your lifecycle cost. eg You can get a routine 10-20% off at Wickes itself with a Trade Accoutn and a Reloadable Cash Card, for example. The thing about the fabric improvements is that you only get the chance to do them once, and only have to pay for them once, so some bullet-biting helps. it particularly helps when you are half under a floor at arms length with a staple gun. F

I assume splay means the dimensions of where the cone of light will ‘land’? Bit what do you want to know? Working that out should be mainly 1-2-root3 ie 30, 60, 90 degree right angled triangles if you are using lights with a 60 or 120 degree cone, and they are mounted pointed down. So the dimension you need as input is light source to incident surface vertical distance, and you can work out the horizontal distances and where the light falls from there using ratios. I am sure someone can link to a guide .. cannot draw on my iPAD. F