Ferdinand

Where have I heard this before ?- going on an adventure at 50. Ah, yes ... Welcome to the forum. You need to choose your mindset developer vs self-builder, or a blended version. There are differences throughout. I try (as a LL renovating) to work from the mindset of imagining it is not my house to strip what I need back to the core, then add necessities and enhancements that are strictly required. Ferdinand

Arise, Sir Lurkalot ?. Welcome, Sunil.

Drainage pipes do not run full !

Having estimated Russell’s lake, I am planning for him to host the Buildhub Hovercraft Grand Prix.

By the time it had collected in all the corners they would approximate round anyway. ? ==> ?

Just checking back in with the kitchen. have been too much of a fustilarian this last couple of weeks. Kitchen looking good ... apart from that cable. When you cut the hedge cable before your experience could be dependent on many things, including the weather and your type of shoes, or where the current happened to flow; might be different next time. Time for some more Zoot Music? This is Rick Springfield and the band Zoot. This is 1970, so I am sure there were some forum members rocking that Star Trek Series 1 - Moonbase Alpha inverted cross “This is strumming my guitar with no other implications” revolutionary look.

For the frame, can you get a local wrought iron business or blacksmith to make you one? It would need careful design to avoid looking like a patio item, but it might work. Alternatively, there are lots of chunky metal legs on Ebay, including some of these. Ignore the hairpin legs. https://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/metal-table-legs Ferdinand

I am more a fustilarian.

I think you would want steam as well as heat, and the bending needs to be a different operation from the planing. You could presumably build a frame and runner to guide your plane, and an electric plane may do it. I am sure that various of us have them - tbh I would not let mine loose on that without some idea what the condition would be when returned. The best people to ask would probably be an oak table factory ?. Or a smallish timber merchant who have their own kilns etc. Or a joiner who starts from the tree or the plank - they are probably around under categories like "artisan". I recently saw a documentary where there was a business who supplied the components for chairs to a furniture company, and their core busines was bending wood. But no idea how common such are more widely. For the base, what about making some trestles? Ask here? https://www.woodworkuk.co.uk/forum/ F

I think I am going to have to resort to Shakespeare, then. Though I am not totally convinced these are all in Shakespeare. For self-build sites sites these might fit and not sound too baroque, for example: CUMBERGROUND - someone who is so useless, they just serve to take up space. DORBEL - a petty, nit-picking teacher. For that phonecall to planning. FUSTILARIAN - someone who stubbornly wastes time on worthless things KLAZOMANIAC - Someone who only seems able to speak by shouting. MUCK-SPOUT - A dialect word for someone who not only talks a lot, but who seems to constantly swear. QUISBY - In Victorian English, doing quisby meant shirking from work or lazing around. A quisby was someone who did just that. WHIFFLE-WHAFFLE - An indecisive, time-wasting ditherer. I like Klazomaniac. Ferdinand

I think the concrete block solution may not be competitive with eg Sunamp Container-Size. The 400ft High by 100ft (guestimated) diameter of the concrete tower stores 20mWh of energy. A Sunamp container is quoted as ‘Multiple mWh’, which I make as perhaps 3mWh based on 50 pallets in 2 layers each storing 60kWh. That makes the Sunamp equivalent a 8ft x 40ft footprint to a height of 8ft x 7 = 60ft, Or I expect rather more energy storage in a single layer of standard containers on the same footprint as the tower. Lots of approximations and guesstimates and fiddle-factors, but I make the Sunamp storage density more than 50x higher, which is some barrier to overcome even if I have estimated everything 100% out the wrong way. So my call is interesting but unlikely. And I wonder what the emissions are from manufacturing all that concrete. Ferdinand

Watch out for Aldi and possibly Lidl branches being built. I have a T who is self-building a conservatory/porch by mutual consent, and the new Aldi being built near here had 7+ pallets of bricks left over, which the site manager opined he would rather have stolen. Buff facers which are worth around £1500-£2k afaics. Anyway, the T is now building his conservatory dwarf walls from free bricks, having obtained a secondhand conservatory for about £100 previously. The dg door is costing about £30 from eBay locally. (It is a let to buy when they can afford it deal). F

Can you teach us some Celtic expletives? They always seem to be very good. Bampot, Parcel of Rogues and so on. I am sure I am still to learn some.

Far too complicated. Install a Ha-ha. With spikes, just like the Romans used to. See Alesia, Battle of. Whatever you install must be visible. If some divot drives their car into your concealed rock, you may end up liable.

You could always fill it up from the over order of the MOT 1 from the driveway ?.

I would consider a custom furniture item to avoid too much buggeration with the wall. I might consider something pushed up against it or fixed with removable screws or wing nuts so I could look behind, and perhaps a ventilation space. Sheet box or toy box or similar?

It means it does not fit any recognised category, in this case Use Class. HMOs are HMOs up to I think 6 bedrooms .. bigger than that and they have to be considered individually. F

In our place there is a Duty Planner who you can talk about specifics with if you are careful not to take the P. No charges for that. Building Control are amenable to conversations. F

You can of course talk to Planning Aid, who are the RTPI offering free advice. http://www.rtpi.org.uk/planning-aid/ They advise on planning law and policy, not cases. F

Would be interested to see how this works out. I was assuming a 28i. I had a Greenstar 28i last Nov, an£ the emergency quotes were between £2000+ and I think £3800 via an online workman site as my regular plumber was not contactable. It was the boiler, a new through the roof flu due to brand change, and a bit of investigation. Eventually I paid 1900 but it took a couple of weeks to find the right guy and get a slot. Two men about 2/3 of a day. What would you regard a# an acceptable emergency premium? F

£1800 is not outrageous nor the cheapest for a Bosch replacement. Probably OK for Timbuctoo at short notice if the job is done well. Phone up Bosch with the Serial No, as sometimes they did long-term warranties which may have been 5 years or more. F

Post a "needed" for a caravan in the Marketplace. There are lots of tricks. One trick is to get it on your PP as a future workshop or garden room. (OK. 4 people have covered this first.) Another trick not mentioned is to choose a van with a plan to match your future needs. IIRC @ProDave has one with a bedroom at each end so that two people can sulk simultaneously in the future (or it may be that he wants a separate storage space and office/workroom). F

IMO if you decide to do it remotely the decision is taken to abandon the detailed management of the project ... unless you have an agent who is there daily. That can be done, but you own the consequences. F

Those are Yoghurt Pots. You are Archie.

This is what ours say about Trade Waste. This looks illegal to me as it discriminates against people who cannot DIY and cannot drive. And Trailers: They are not clear as to whether you can take a horse and cart. The guys at the local centre give different advice on Trailer Size, and told me there are no limits. Our local Council provides a Property Improvement handyman type service to both Residents and Businesses; they have not specified publicly what happens to waste generated. Presumably they take it away as required under the regulations of the County Council ?. Ferdinand