CalvinHobbes

So trying to work out a money saving way to achieve a good fence to stop anyone from going over the top to a steep fall. Thinking wood just not sure how? I presume vertical slats to stop climbing? Has to satisfy building control.

Thank you!

Hello, we have 17 cat 6a electrical cables coming down into the room where our fuse boxes etc are. We would like to put that on ice for now but to get past building control if we velcro tied them into a figure of 8 (or three) with the ends electrical taped - would that do? Or do we need to trunk them and put them into a box or something?

The guy that owns it I understand owns a chain of furniture stores, he built 5. The rest were in richer areas, they sold. This one didnt but they had downgraded the original plans. I understand the owner is now retiring and wants rid so they put these up. It really hasnt worked.

So its supposed to look like this... https://www.colliersni.com/development/the-qube/CNRDEV145/ Instead it looks like that!

yup, I can't read my writing lol it must be unvented

Hello, I am chasing up certs for Building Control in NI. One of the things is a copy of the install id for the inverted heating system. We had our builders who have 2 family members who installed our underfloor heating and ashp. Then they had a separate guy commission the heat pump. The builders/plumbers a;so installed our water tank/plumbing. Who is meant to give this certificate or copy of the install id? The builders or the commissioners and where can i get a blank copy for them to sign? Thanks

Thank you, will say that to the groundsman. Huge help

Forgive me for coming back at this, I asked before re a path around the rear of the house and patio area. Our planning says we need semi permeable. We have groundsman coming back tomorrow night. First time he came he said just use gravel and we didn't need any drains/pipes at the bottom of the slope above patio, he would just widen it a bit as requested and slope. I think we need a drain, it rains a lot here. Also now is the time to do it. Advice from here was to use MOT for the path. I think mot1 isn't permeable but mot 3 is, was thinking of putting 14mm on top of donegal quartz 14mm on top in the second stage. Second stage too we will drop kerb, it will be moving the entry slighty to the right, where the silver citroen is parked. We looked at a new builds nearby they all use paving slabs. Any thoughts, it would be really appreciated. That brown pipe just was temporary it was just for rodding drains.

Temp Thank you, the more I understood and thought about what you said it's brilliant. I dont know if we can put it against the house though, maybe we need to come out a bit and use 2 x 4 or strips of scaffolding in between? Then later on we can get this down on top of the subbase https://www.mcmonaglestone.com/products/14mm-rose-gold-stone-chippings-tonne?pr_prod_strat=pinned&pr_rec_id=dc9ca52c5&pr_rec_pid=9597265084743&pr_ref_pid=9597264527687&pr_seq=uniform Again, thank you!

We have some damaged scaffodling board so i was thinking of ripping some lengths and treating it then using it as a border with the bigger gravel beside the house and 10mm on path followed by another board. Would that look ok? How do the boards sit upright? How are they secured?

Hi we have the house up and ramp entrance to porch. Driveway is gravel because sisters site is up to ground level and hopefully will be tackled soon. We really just want the length of the house at the back with some surface we can walk on and not spend a fortune. Hard ask I know these days. Have a groundsman gonna come and clear rubble, do dropped kerb etc. But he suggested putting 20mm gravel in back. its about 7ft between the house and the hedge and about 50ft long. Any suggestions other than 20mm gravel? Our budget is tight. Climate is wet so saw some 10mm granite stone, far nicer in a stately home with I think 2 x 4

So you mind that Qube house that never sold. https://www.colliersni.com/development/the-qube/CNRDEV145/ I passed it today, scaffold up and rust on windows.

We weren't using that much! And that figure seems to fluctuate dramatically despite there being no identifiable reason for the grid load displayed in the app. What happens is that the battery reaches full charge and then immediatly dumps all the power again into the grid load despite their being nothing to justify the figures displayed. The heat pump is not running, we not charging an electric car and the electrician couldn't work out why it would be indicating the readings.

We have a 12Kw Pv system on a 3 phase supply, Pylontech batteries and a Solis inverter. We recently got the batteries hooked up but since then the behaviour of the system looks odd when displayed on the Solis Cloud app. The battery seems to start discharging as soon as it reaches full charge and dumps everything into the grid load. We get spikes indicating large power consumption randomly, even though there is no obvious cause, and always results in the battery depleting. Then there is the exporting to grid and charging at the same time!!! (Pics attached) The grid load figure just seems to be a sum of PV, Battery and Grid as opposed to the actual physical power usage. It's just the sum total of all three power sources! We have asked the installer to look into it but I was hoping someone here may have a good understanding. I understand that the CT clamps might be the issue but the installer insists they are correctly in stalled and not reversed. Is the position or sequence in the meter cabinet critical??? (Attached a pic of the CT clamps in the meter cabinet with clamps circled in red) Thanks in advance all