Ferdinand

150 here.

Perhaps a gentle power wash or hose finger across the face of the roof first?

Good excuse to get the IPA in ?.

What measurement units? Above we have talk of Calcium Carbonate, but for water hardness I am more used to TDS .. Total Dissolved Solids, for which I need a meter costing about £4.14. Could someone clarify. Cheers F

How do you make sure it is all ou5 pre-cleaning? What will stop it staining again? F

Interesting. The people who owned the farm where it was built put in fishing lakes.

Is this mid-century? Our neighbours 194x bungalow had an 18" thick sweep driveway with the same washboard finish. The new purchasers had to dig it up. Like you Russell, he was in the heavy game .. in this case demolition. F

Good spot. Pah. I'm ALDI for my lower end tools. Final answer, I'm afraid, Chris.

Welcome to the forum. Looks like a lovely spot. Starting as we will doubtless go on - what are those lovely wires and do they cross or go alongside your plot? ? Ferdinand

I have had some success in particular circs persuading the Local Authority to speed this up, which came down to talking to the right person nicely and supplying a good reason. Frankly I am surprised there is not a more expensive express service; I have had occasions when I would have paid £200 or £250 for a service in days not weeks. F

Cold frames for all your friends ?.

Cold frames, if they have small panes?

I think an electric shutter may be the easiest, as they may be sized to match windows. They will come with motors, remote control wires etc. Though one of those advertising signs made from triangular prisms might be an interesting base to use for a DIY project. F

Agree there - quite good summary, though they are watching the main chance! There is an official Govt explanatory paper around somewhere, too.

That sounds like the same texture quality issue as trying to touch up over a spray painted surface. It may be necessary to rough up an entire section / room, or create a feature (eg area for a sitting area or a dining table). Or I suppose one could rough it up in patches across a region so that the larger texture becomes the feature. F

Do polished concrete floors get sealed? What with? There should be nothing to stop you imposing a pattern on top if you find the right material, before sealing. A long time ago my father stenciled a border onto a (I think) chipboard floor with an appropriate type of paint., as opposed to trying to hide that it was a cheap and cheerful material. The effect was to turn the chipboard tinted by the sealant into a background texture. I think it was resealed once or twice in a couple of decades. But he had the same sort of resin / fibreglass experience as @SteamyTea, and was an architect to boot. There may have been a tinted sealant under the stencil, and a more transparent one on top. I would not have expected it to work, but it did. I would probably not be that bold without a lot of homework first. There is probably a type of paint that would do it over concrete then be sealed. Just one way to alter the impression. Best of luck. F

What the ... are you talking about a pie? ? With grout, it is attention to detail. My B-I-L is wonderfully anal about this, and spends an extra hour cleaning up all the joints with a cloth round his finger after I have already stopped. Glad to have someone like that around. It just gets harder to get off. (Physically, not metaphorically) Good to see the progress, F

The shower appears to spray across the shower, not along it.

Another missed opportunity ... ?.

So I stand by my original statement .. same footprint as a bath give or take.

This is mine in the posh bathroom. Front to back is 1.1m. End to end is 2.6m. The screen is 1.8m high. Installed by the former owner. This is 8mo overkill. My plan is to shrink it a little by installing a bath on the left end on. You could play tennis in this.

I gave my students 760 x 1600 in their student house. But the 760 was constrained. 900 or 1000 x1800 sounds good. To me the same footprint as a bath seems one way to be make a decision where the exact dimensions are not that important. Another way is a comfortable size for 2 people (or 3 students) to enjoy themselves, or if downstairs space to wash 2 large muddy dogs, or person plus carer, or enough room to be spacious for a very fat man like Eglon King of Moab (content alert: gory story - young children will love it), or someone in a wheelchair. Or for space for a shower plus a bench or chair to sit and shave your legs. Or you could plan to dry your washing in there with a dehumidifier. Personally I think that say 900 x 1600 would be better than square, so one end can be wet, and the other "mainly dry". Ferdinand

@vivienz I made a late comment on your previous post but this is now more similar to my situation where I made them move their wires back in 2013. Can you PM me a pic of your Wayleave please and I can see if I can see anything helpful. I did this to move my lines. Ours was also a 1950s agreement. We probably saved 6 figures in our case ... as it as planning for an estate. Yours is hopefully less drastic. There is a detailed resource thread here copied from Buildhub, which I hope you found via the other. F

I cannot find my original thread from the end of last year; it s somewhere ?. My setup is exactly the same Combi as you, ufh downstairs and rads upstairs, controlled via 2 separate programmers. UFH have room room stats, rads have TRVs. There are a couple of small pipe runs that are on whenever the heating is running. UFH was broadly zoned by room. the controllers are overkill imo. I do not have a buffer tank, so there is some cycling. My problem was that the ufh was not getting heat all the way through, which meant that it was unpredictable what was running hot and cold, and I was having to mess about with flow tenperatures too much. The main things that we adjusted under guidance from the gurus, Pump setting, to make sure that the heat was getting all the way round. Boiler flow temp, to keep the flow/return difference to a minimum. I have ended up with a flow return difference of about 12-20C in winter, which is still quite a bit but far better. Best of luck. F

Thanks for the comments. I used an Ikea Lillangen tall, narrow unit, which has worked excellently. Here are before and after pics. £85 plus a bit over £10 for the legs. And the existing towel rail was just cut down. Pics are not colour balanced. It is actually from the same range as the whb.