Ferdinand

Indeed they do, under "nuisance", and probably the EH Department. In the meantime a mirror carefully directed?

And make sure anything you hang will bounce...

Use TWO command.com strips....

they also do another version without the hook, where there are two halves for the wall and the pic, and the adhesion is like Velcro.

If someone is taking it away that is probably one time to insist on the correct Waste Trnsfer / Handling license. If it is fly tipped down a local drain, you would I think be responsible.

Years ago at the mini-manor we had a big hollow tree blow over and tickle the neighbours' roof a hundred feet away. Bloke came along, and agreed to cut it up and take it away for £x. His estimating skills were some way off, as it took many times more than the couple of days he estimated. It was one of the traditional broadleaves that goes like marble when it has been standing dead for a bit.

Why not also put a min/max temp and humidity in there? They cost very little. I just bought one of these for a tenner and it seems fine. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B017KNQNZA F

I would say it would s a big risk for the sake of a pre-owned half price mint dh off eBay.

And you can of course get refrigerated ones, which are well insulated already. Dad dad one that came on its own wheels (ie artic trailer) for its last journey - like a pint-sized HMS Belfast to the Pool of London. Saves all that buggering about with Hiabs.

Is there any reason why you cold not connect to a ventilation roof tile, as happens to flues?

I have posted a blog entry showing a sectional loft being installed with a crane that I happened to come across, with a lot of photos of the process. It is over there so that I can find it again more easily. Any questions or observations in the comments, please. The blog entry is here. Ferdinand

That's the one. Ta.

While I have you @ProDave - what is the word you use for "toft" up there? I couldn't remember it. A "toft" is a house + outbuildings, typically a farmstead.

This week I came across a team installing entire sections of loft on a house-build with a seriously large crane. Really quite interesting, and an opportunity to indulge in some doggerel. As I was planning for my toft I met a man with a Modular Loft Windows were installed and tiles With insulation, floors and style Windows, Lift, Loft, Tiles Make an instant ancient pile! A extraordinarily transportable loft - But do I want one for my toft? (with apologies to St Ives) More photos below, and you can see the contact details on the side of the van in the last picture if you want one.. Gently does it... What they are matching... Close-ups and Details The Company Installing

Hi Gilly. This has been discussed at length from time to time, if you dig - perhaps via Google with the site:buildhub.org.uk parameter. A further option is a site office type Portakabin, as those come insulated (to a degree) and wired. If you are able to connect it to the drains, then that can also be your builder-loo and kitchen, potentially. Ferdinand

One more on this thread. The car has also now carried its first major load - three rooms worth of scrap laminate floor to the tip, which I make about 45 sqm at perhaps 10kg per sqm = 450kg. Handled without turning a hair, or losing any driveability. That may have to do with the fact that *all* cars are now junior tanks. Mine weighs in at approx 1500kg, and that is light for the class - the equivalent Merc E-Class is 300kg heavier. F

Interesting stuff. Thanks for all the comments. It may be others than BC - eg the various forms of landlord regulator, HMO departments, Env Health, and others. Tenant Parents worried about their small children being trapped in or out of bedrooms is a regular thing. I am not aware if eg proper fire alarm arrangements count as a mitigation, which in theory they should. A classic similar situation is thumbturn locks to external doors imposed by Authorities to make sure that Ts losing the keys can get out. The T can see that as "now my three year old can get into the road and be run over". There may also be a slight security issue. Sometimes these are honoured in the breach, sometimes they are enforced. F

Looking at that diagram, I'd say that Strongbacks are as much about dampening vibration, as they are about reducing deflection. F

BUt I think that if I needed to do that, I think I would create a pedestal for the bath of say 1.8m by 1.8m and make that a strong monocoque spanning 4 joists, or alternatively as a raised end of the room. Then treat it decoratively as drawing attention within the room decor. I am sure I recall Sean Connery and a Bond Girl in such a bath, where the bath was a fish tank.

I think I will just strengthen as much as possible. I am told that 82kg is not that heavy for a bath & a cast iron one would be about 130kg. + up to 80kg for the water. + up to perhaps another 80kg (x2?) for the occupant. = potentially a 400-500 lb gorilla standing in your bathroom. Swing it from the roof like a hammock? If you are concerned you could bridge the floor area where the bath is going with a more rigid floor to engage more joists (eg one or two thickness of ply, as you would to lay tiles over a suspended floor). Or you could just put a BFO steel plate under the bath as far out as necessary. Or if you intend to cover them up a plate below may do the same job .. effectively giving you a monocoque. You would need to consider finishes, though. Could that be done with several steel rods inserted through a series of joists and attached to each, or something similar, or steel braces done like noggins? F

They also clear carpets, for example. And I suppose that they can also be a halfway house towards self-closing fire doors eg if the closing device is stronger than a child trying to open it. F

As I wrote elsewhere I spent last weekend fitting laminate floorIng with an acquaintance. They have used rising butt hinges throughout their house, and I was wondering whether anyone has used these in their self-build, and if not why not. I had forgotten how much pfaff they save ... all you do is list the door off, and lean it against the wall. https://www.ironmongeryonline.com/blog/diytips/how-and-when-to-fit-rising-butt-hinges/ Ferdinand

It seems that the canine has decided to return to a state of slumber, so just proceed cautiously until something says stop. if you are roughly doing the right thing, then other priorities will probably be prioritised. If there is anything you intend to communicate on a 'please reply within 14 days or I will assume it is ok basis', Thu 20 or Fri 21 may be a good day to send the email ;-). UNless you actually want something to happen. YOu can even use the December post and 'x .. 14 or 21 .. days from the date of this letter'. There are lots of beneficial options, including quite useful deemed service dates measured from your date of proof of posting. F

I was the Junior, so would not presume to make such a suggestion on that occasion. Rather like I tend to get people in to do awkward jobs at home, so I don't get jumped on when it breaks ? ? ? ==>> ?.

A varied, and educational, long weekend laying down laminate flooring (one of the Uniclic range from Quick-Step) to help an acquaintance improve his house in London. The task was to lay about 3 rooms-worth full of Uniclic Laminate (28 packs), and moving a lot of furniture around - the killer reason for needing two people. My protagonist in laying the laminate, and moving all the furniture, is a detail-of-finish man, and at one stage was whittling away with a multitool for 20 minutes at a piece of laminate to match the outline of a curly 1930s doorpost; a demented boy-scout aiming for "Floor Laying, Advanced". Inevitably the worst happened. As at Beauvais Cathedral in 1284, the integrity of the structure did not quite measure up to the aspiration of the designer, and there was a sharp crack followed by some of the most creative language expressed in 750 years. It worked second time around. Having bought a car with the dimensions of a small barge (aka my new Skoda Superb Estate), this was the first opportunity to really test the performance over a long run. An MPG of 59 on the way down to London on a Thursday afternoon / teatime, and 64 mpg on the way back on a clear run, measured on a tested-and-accurate car-computer, will do for a car that can fit in a couple of coffins, and tow 2 tonnes. It is about 10-20% more economical than my old non-turbocharged Citroen BX from the mid-1990s, and has twice the power. Whilst on waiting time, I was able to binge-watch on Netflix the documentary The 9 episode 11hr documentary mini-series The Civil War, by Ken Burns. I never studied this historical period at school, and time to reflect provoked a few new insights for me - a bit of an eye-opener. I had not absorbed just how contemporaneous is the American Civil War. We (or at least I) think of it is a long time ago, but the war was only 5 years before my own Great-Grandfather was born. The last Civil War widow - Maudie Hopkins - only died in 2008. Yes - she was a 19 year-old who married a pensioner during the depression, on what looks like a classic security-for-care type arrangement, but the point stands. Sobering.