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  1. Ferdinand
    Notes that Airobe is an anagram of “I Bare, O !”.
  2. Ferdinand
    You need *shoulders and biceps* to be a real plasterererer...
  3. Ferdinand
    Good to have you joining. You are two thirds of the ghost of David Frost, and I claim my £5 .
  4. Ferdinand
    Yep. pretty much. I live in a chalet bungalow conversion done around the same time or a little later (2007 I think for PP) and have some similar issues, although some of ours (eg roof) seem to be done to a somewhat better standard than then Regs but nothing like BH ‘best practice’. It would be a significant project to redo it all, and would be difficult to justify. Tis why we often recommend to spend money on the 'fabric first' and keep the posh kitchen and the dog-spa for later, if the budget is tight. I keep coming across potential aspiring rental purchases where the cosmetics have been done but not the fabric, and it would be necessary to undo then redo to make it acceptable in the long term. Ferdinand
  5. Ferdinand
    An iPad Up?
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    The Wee House Company

    Ferdinand commented on caliwag's blog entry in caliwag

    To me that is probably inspired by Victorian Tin Tabernacles.
  7. Ferdinand
    it is not quite in place of. But you do not need the tiles or similar behind the area where the panels go. So you would have your waterproof Edpm membrane, with panels over, but tiles round the edge only. Here is J’s blog. It is worthwhile reading from end to end. http://www.mayfly.eu/ F
  8. Ferdinand
    If you dig around eg on @JSHarris‘s blog Jeremy costed his in-roof solar panel system. I think if you go for solar tiles the efficiency roughly halves. Jeremy's is in a conservation area. The cost efficient in roof solar are roof membranes plus panels and minus the cost of tiles which are not then needed. F
  9. Ferdinand
    The regulations and costs for solar are likely to be an issue at 10kWp, not 4. I have 9.98 and they just included all the extra admin in the price that did not feel too expensive. Cost for black panels and backgrounds with Solaredge and as 3 separate arrays some easy some hard was about £11.75k in Jan 2016 all in. Play the game right with saving on the tiles for a new roof and you should save a good chunk off that. I think you are within range, so I will PM the details of my supplier. It feels to me that you probably want a distributed solution for water heating, and to transfer the energy around via electricity or gas rather than hot water, certainly to the annexe. Several Distributed Sunamps? A monopitch on the annexe angled to catch the sun might give you a full 10kWp solar install in that one place. I make 800 sqft plus a roof pitch big enough for about 40 pv panels, which is 10kWp as near as dammit. If it is single storey or even a ground style array on a flat roof that will also hugely simplify any maintenance should you need it. F
  10. Ferdinand
    Edited .. not sure I was right.
  11. Ferdinand
    Interesting comment, @JSHarris. I think a painted surface would potentially be vulnerable to the treatment / environment. EG it would suffer if knocked in to a soil with clay or pebbles with a post rammer. Treatment might also be more complex if we had to get into heated bitumen for effectiveness. But perhaps a use for eft over painted damp proof course? That may work better if a hole Is dug first, but for me I would then probably be using a concrete post or spur plus bolted on wooden square post. The key point is that they will rot near or just above/below the surface. An experiment would be good, but all my current stock now have postsaver sleeves on them . Volunteers?
  12. Ferdinand
    The ones in the pic are 1.65m and 2.4m 80mm tanalised machined rounds for which I pay about £2.30 and £4.20 both inc VAT. Normal life in my soil in my experience would be 5-7 years or perhaps a bit more, and depending on the exact environment I have reused some after that time. With a postsaver I am expecting 10-12 years, but I have not had any in the ground that long. That is more conservative than the manufacturer claims, and since Network Rail and similar are routine users I am happy to treat their claims a# credible. Obviously it is horses for courses. For a longer life fence or a heavier load I would select a different post or perhaps go for a 100 125 or 150mm. F
  13. Ferdinand
    My first construction video, because we were putting Postsaver sleeves onto some of the fence posts in stock. There is also a blog entry with a little more information.
  14. Ferdinand
    A video I made whilst we were putting Postsaver protective sleeves on part of the stock of fence posts. It is a really excellent product, which should more or less double the length of life of a fence post, and takes little more than a minute to apply once you are set up. But make sure to buy direct from the manufacturer, because retail outlets will gouge you comparatively. The starter kits are particularly good value. And they do trade accounts if you have a repeated need. The feature photo repeated below shows an alternative way to create a long-life fence - use a repair spur and keep the wood off the ground completely.
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    Not convinced by that . I don't see the air gap on the outside, ie the atmosphere, as compromising the insulation of a wall. F
  16. Ferdinand
    These are the approx. required building regs u-values for floors from here: http://great-home.co.uk/building-regulations-u-values-how-have-they-changed/ 0.28 would have been OK (ie meets the regs) before 2010, which is probably the date of the @newhome your PP. Ferdinand
  17. Ferdinand
    All the best things are my fault. Except vodka.
  18. Ferdinand
    Cheers. Currently playing with some new diet items. Have we caught up with @Onoff's bathroom yet?
  19. Ferdinand
    So if I open a tin of it, how long can I keep it for? Used a small amount in a dish, and lost my nerve after a fortnight with the remainder in the fridge.
  20. Ferdinand
    How do you stop the coconut oil going off? Or is it Thai Green Curry twice a week?
  21. Ferdinand
    If it is a rental your gas safety certificate will tell you. There may be a facility at the Gas Safety Register website to check by address, but I am not sure.
  22. Ferdinand
    Wickes have 15% off everything this weekend on the website, with the voucher code EXTRA15. It runs until BH Monday. It does not stack on top of the 10% Trade Discount, but it *will* stack with the extra 10% you get for using a reusable cash card via an employer or other scheme (this latter was discussed last year and in 2016 - eg search this topic for "Westfield"). My Trade Pro email says the 15% off is operating in store too, but for Traders will be replacing the usual 10%. A good opportunity for Velux Roof Window flashings which are on clearance or other things on 3 for 2s etc. It will bring postcrete down to £3.50 or £3.20 a bag for 3 or more, for example. And they have existing bulk discounts on things like rockwool insulation and paint. I'll be bagging a £30 incinerator for £15. There are also offers on kitchens, but I am always cynical about those. Ferdinand
  23. Ferdinand
    You could put something like this but a touch taller in front of it if you want to be slightly away, perhaps paint the container green first. We will grow our Himalayan Giant blackberry on that. 6 feet x 12 feet with another section to be added, and put up in an hour or so. Remarkable how something which is basically straight can look a little twisted from an angle.
  24. Ferdinand
    If you can shift the emphasis from explicit clauses to reliance on the Planning System, then it may be that some of your internal changes are not material planning matters, and come into the JFDI category. Not sure what happens when a non-material matter is specified in the Planning Application, and someone asks the Council to enforce on it. You could even base parts of your agreement on applying to the Council for particular Planning Conditions where you have agreed a wording. I disagree with a couple of others on the enforcibility of covenants - I see them as being very difficult and expensive, as it requires specific legal action and their continued validity / applicability to be proven, especially when the property has changed ownership. This is perhaps less so in the case of an individual property such as yours, compared eg to a property on an estate where somebody else successfully violating the covenant would undermine it everywhere. My overall feel is with @lizzie and others - go through the normal options and negotiate and an acceptable compromise should be within reach. Best of luck. Ferdinand
  25. Ferdinand
    Entirely normal, and done carefully are an advantage to both sides in allowing a sale to go through at a price which does not have to include a guess about the value of future development potential. At the previous house my parents bought next door (rural bungalow, half acre plot), to prevent the restaurant the other side buying it and making a car park, which came with a 20-year duration overage of 50% on any uplift in value due to a planning permission payable on the granting of that permission. If we had not accepted the overage they might not have sold it, and we would not have been protected. In practice we sold it after 12 years, and the people we sold it too did the max they could under Permitted Development, which was enough and did not trigger the clause. In @Jamie998's case they could offer a suitable overage which will give the neighbour a perceived lollipop and protection should someone come along and develop it, but they know will not be something they want to do so is immaterial to them. That could be a more acceptable alternative to parts of the proposal for Jamie. Ferdinand
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