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Hydrostatic pressure, someone put a concrete floor into an old building...... just like in the bothy on Grand Designs the other day... I winced! It has done well if only showing up now having been put in in the 70's some react much quicker than that, so looks like yours will be an easy fix, I guess a sump pump somewhere will fix it.

There are vehicles out there powered by compressed air or CO2 which is better, but they get little air time. Seems like a good way to store energy commercially.

That is simple, they want to dangle their toes in the Indian Ocean, that has been the same for a long time, so anything they can do to further that aim is no surprise. The question is why rely on a hostile energy partner, for some countries, maybe they have no other option, but surely we do!

Diesel and Unleaded now, someone is having a laugh!

But did prices drop to customers when fuel prices dropped early in 2020, so prices went up again, is that really such a shock to the system?

On the news it said 2 more had gone bust this morning, but not which ones and I cannot find anything for today, anybody know which ones went today?

Just checking on my electric supplier Neon Reef and they are on the naughty step, as they have not paid their bill to OFGEM this month, that maybe an indication, really not liking a lot of things that are happening at the moment. So five suppliers are looking at loosing their license, at the moment.

That is why I am asking, they obviously do in the EU, does that carry through to the present in the UK. There is a company in Northern Ireland, but do not know if they have built any there yet. Think it is considerably safer than ICFs, as they just drywall the inside? The smoke will kill you quicker than the structure failing. Some of these styrofoam building use reinforced concrete pillars cast in, as in one of the videos I posted, especially when building a basement.

Sips, ICFs I guess they are not allowed for fire safety reasons and can you get a mortgage on them? Comes to mind many recent internally wood framed houses that go up quick, but burn a lot quicker. They are points I think about, but it is essentially a Structural Insulated Panel type system and less flammable than most recent builds I have seen.

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What it replaced was quite ugly, and ugly seems to be the winner with many new builds. Hiding it behind a haystack is what lost it for Fidler.

A house made of polystyrene - Independent.ie Home (passivehousing.ie) There is a company from Ukraine that does something similar a friend told me about, not sure I can find details on that. There are videos on using styrofoam boards to build houses on Hawaii and elsewhere, walls, floors and roof all monolithic.

Not sure this is the right area to post it, but I have seen styrofoam houses being built and see they have been built in Ireland and that a company in NI is also marketing them, have any actually been built in the UK. Basically sections of building cut from styrofoam, or styrofoam boards, then assembled into a house and coated in structural cement, passive and passive plus. They were very cheap in Poland, about 20k for a house. https://www.facebook.com/m3systempl/videos/747955855266063

Start looking at those prices and can start looking at buying a rig.

Looks like it is the middle of nowhere, they should be glad someone wants to live there.

I am quite sure in the video he says he is putting them inside. In Scotland they do an annual inspection? For commercial customers I guess? Would not worry me, main thing is making sure no debris from outside gets in. I used to think water quality in the UK was the best, but having lived in one lovely small town where the water would go off in a couple of days and smelt of chlorine and moving to a small village where the water stays clear for months, I no longer believe that to be the case.

Had this system, but it was Italian made. We had it going into the well ( more than a meter underground, I dug the trench with a jet washer) and the well had a 'Spritzer' like a mini borehole going a few metres deeper put in. Something went wrong with this coupling and had to get the plumbers in, this in minus 27. It did not freeze inside the well, not idea what went wrong as I can't see what could go wrong, so was probably the plumbers who fitted it made some mistake.

This is Scotland;

For internet, Starlink is maybe available or available soon, and if you are going to be making a house from the barn or building one maybe a Tesla roof or other system.

How many and how close are trees? I know something I overlooked when I was halfway off grid was rainwater collection, you can do it yourself or have a company set it up for you. It is a great deal cheaper than a borehole. Some farms are using this.

Where I was the ready made trays were cheap but the rolls worked out better in use, cannot imagine much waste from the roll.

I find it strange, I was in Latvia for 8 years and this standing seam is the cheapest option, even less than the stick on shingles. Why is it so in and so expensive in the UK, when it is the cheapest in most of northern europe?

Packed it inside the Lorry for a laugh. When I was in Latvia, they just made pallets fit in whatever vehicle, so crunched in the side and top into a caddy van etc, Then wonder why I got upset, "it's all there isn't it?" Glad I am back in the UK!

I had a bunch of those Aldi-Lidl connecting gym mats, had them for years, I had to turn around a place to live within two weeks from a vandalised first fix and used them as underlay. They worked very well and are still in use 6 years later with no complaints from me or the people who live there now. Eastern Europe, so even carpet was quite rare, never mind underlay...

Tweet 4 set to continue, with ever fewer owning the land, if reports are to be believed. On the other hand, most farms are loss making enterprises artificially kept afloat, and are looking to sell, plus there are several schemes in existence or in the process, to make it easier for people to start good life projects and build their own homes. If as they seem to want to do they are just going to subsidies the large landowners, that would seem a hard sell to the public without some type of trade off, the likes of OPD and Single Development being brought through for all parts of the UK might be such a trade off.