Ferdinand

“We’re going on a Mug Hunt; we’re going to catch a Big One.” They will likely revise their prices in 18 months, or they will be in a hole. PP on 5 plots will have cost quite a lot of thousands. Just the PApp fee will be 2.5k. Then there is design and tests and consultants and ologists and marketing. They may have spent 20k or more. F

Whilst our local programme was a bit of a mess by all accounts, and now mainly suffer from condensation. They did not ventilate properly according to my chats.

Welcome to the forum. You need to look into eg what work you can do yourselves, but for a start we need to know where you are, where the substation is, and what is in between, in or over which the cable will run or could potentially run. An anonymised plan with x and y marks the spot would be good. And to know whether you have time to address this carefully or are you committed to your dates and need to scramble. For dealing with utilities a few weeks in probably a very short time indeed. Ferdinand

Mine is more like ... Oh God ! Him ! At least I hope it is. ? F

And 5 year olds not being toddlers, perhaps a temporary solution then removed might be suitable. Depending on your own view. F

Is it not to do with toddlers and heads?

Thanks. Really interesting. I think there could be mileage in restricting compact flats to high standard newbuild rather than conversions, but that the author is mistaken in his restriction of the idea to Central London as the only “networked” environment yuppies want to live in. These days plenty of places are within a 30 minute commute of London eg Luton, West Drayton. And a huge range of inner suburbs within 30 minutes on the bike. F

I think the attempted paternalism justification is quite funny. They are scared to argue practicality, perhaps ?. I can see a use for smaller units, particularly for example for Pieds-a-Terre, but I am not convinced that smaller flats would be that much cheaper to build. There would be a saving from increased density. There would also be a large effect from how Planning taxes were implemented - when cars were taxed on piston area we had a lot of longer stroke engines! This, like a lot of things, is perhaps substantially a London problem, exasperated by supply vs demand limitations. 380 sqft seems high as a blanket minimum. That is 20% larger than the 1961 Parker-Morris minimum for a 1 bed flat, and studios could be smaller than that. Parker-Morris is sometimes referenced by media generalists who have not taken the time to read the detail, who then are surprised by the actual numbers. To be fair, the 1967 Parker-Morris standard was about 8-9% larger. There are various projects around at the moment creating private ensuite room plus canteen and services for yuppies, as a modified form of student residence for graduates etc. The fly in that ointment is that some councils tax each room in an HMO as a Band A property. I am unable to see the report, as Apple require me to install their app. Ferdinand

Just to add another data point to provide more confusion. Our outside cat, which was a stray which appeared of its own accord, became an inside cat at age 14 or 15 ish.

My brief view. A competent AT should do a good job. A competent architect should add a measure of inspiration. A client using an AT probably needs to supply that inspiration A client using an architect needs to direct and ground the Architect's inspiration. As Peter says, you pays your money and... hopefully after taking the time to learn your role in the dance with whoever you choose, and to have learnt to choose the right partner in the first place. A lot of spadework first makes for a better tree later! F

Technician may be different from Technologist.

I have just switched to a Lower Carb diet wrt to Diabetes as discussed elsewhere. Do you happen to know if BioFresh works with fake rice - eg Broccoli Rice or Cauliflower Rice? The 2-3 day fridge life of these is currently a bit of a challenge. Ferdinand

Which would reduce the use to a marginal buffering effect, for which I may as well use a housebrick.

Yep. The idea is that you lay berries or herbs out on a shallow shelf to freeze without squash, and you then transfer them to the freezer drawer and they don't stick together. You thaw them similarly - spread out on a tray. You and me clearly need to discover the Waitrose lifestyle. Currently experimenting with Aldi frozen berries, which are a fraction of the price of Aldi fresh berries - to see how they come out. I have some thawing between 2 dinner plates as I write. I still need to learn about the "Pull-out BioFresh safes mounted on telescopic rails with flexible humidity control for use as DrySafes or HydroSafes for longer freshness of fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products", which comes with the £4.5k Liebherr. Apparently it doubles the fridge-life of fresh veg, which is why everybody is trying currently to sell counter-top food dehumidifiers. And there was me thinking that Bavarians kept their sausages in meatsafes with a flyscreen and a frustrated sheepdog. Perhaps @le-cerveau has one ?. F

No studs on that shelf here, either. Though I guess that since the top of an upright freezer is the warmest, the benefit is most at the top should something break. Yes.

Do you mean it had the volume, or is there a particular space where it goes? Suspect they may mean the Berry Shelf at the top, but I am a little bit reluctant on that since mum is under 5ft and they could come flying down if that drawer is pulled out by mistake. Tempting to have one in the fridge which cycles temp more as it is opened more often.

Here are the details. Mine has two of the item on the right in the pic. They are an accessory for other manufacturers too eg Siemens. http://household-appliances.frigicoll.com/liebherr/cold-storage-accumulator The type of thing I would expect to see in the Lakeland or Innovations catalogues, If the latter still exists. Application 4 is for super cool picnics.

It is not something that had occurred to me as an application, but our new freezer has come with a couple of 1200g phase change ‘Cold Storage Accumulators’, which 1 - act as protection during power cuts etc. 2 - provide a buffer when adding a quantity of food to be frozen. 3 - can be placed in contact with food for quicker freezing. A very obvious application, which had completely passed me by - possibly because our freezers tend to last more than 15 years each. Have these been a common thing for a long time?

@Ed_MK It may add to the speed with which it runs off the roof (drag of the surface vs gravity) but that would affect eg the size of gutter you have along the bottom edge to prevent water running over etc. Volume would not change, since that would be the same as they amount of rain landing per unit time. Perhaps there may transient effects eg when the rainstorm starts, but those should be minor. F

That makes me think that mischievous people could get ones like those fairground mirrors :-). Not awake yet, this morning .... I read that as ‘well-hung’. Imagining Clarkson with magnifying mirrors on the toes of his clown-shoes so he can see that Percy is still present.

This is a video taken at 6pm on Monday. We did not quite make it, but we reopen on Tuesday afternoon. The bricked up double-doors in the new dividing wall are in case the LL ever needs to recombine the units.

Up and running.

I would get the two costed first.

And what is the payback period?

Better not comment on that,