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I don't call that financial help, I call that delaying the pain.

Six of one... etc. If you cut pockets you can level with slate or a thin bed of mortar. Foundation would be 400 wide but needs to be deep enough to find stable ground. It could be a tad less than 900mm, not being exposed to frost, but you still need deep enough to avoid drying out. If it were...

I have some of the specifications I use regularly pre-calculated for use in my CAD system. Best thing you can do is go onto the Unilin website and look up a u-value or request a calculation if you want something not on the standard tables. Or any other manufacturer website, come to that.

That will do it. With a standard thermal block internal leaf that should achieve a u-value of 0.17. (The minimum is 0.18)

Energy suppliers can't just switch you to prepayment just like that. They've got to have a justifiable reason and there is a long procedure to follow, and in some circumstances - the elderly etc. - they can't do it at all. If you end up in a situation where it might happen, something has gone...

Did we? Must have missed that.

A fair point. If you're going to die because you can't breath, you'd probably give a ventilator a go?

Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not advocating lockdowns. I knew from the off that they would cause problems and I don't mind admitting that I more or less completely ignored them. Had to. Self employed, zero financial help, unless somebody was going to pay my mortgage, I had to go out and work.

Quite so, but those decisions should be left to the experts and politicians shouldn't be over reacting to hysterical news reporting. I know why they do it, of course, politics has become a popularity contest and all of them are scared to death the papers will make them look bad. And there's some...

Look, I'm not interested in trying to find things that counteract your things that counteracted my thing. But this isn't a dream. Many, many consultants were not happy with the ventilator fiasco. This commentary is by Dr. Turner Osler, who is a career academic trauma surgeon at the University...

Concrete lintels come with a safe working load. You said 9.84k/Nm - but you meant kN/m - which is 9.84 kilonewtons per metre. For a standard concrete lintel you don't need to worry about safety factors. The lintel manufacturer has already allowed for all of that. All you need to do is add up all...

You could hire a really good quality vac, but that's only going to be any good for the accessible section below the window. Is the issue isolated to that small area or does it extend further along the wall? If so you will need to remove bricks at intervals - every third or fourth, or two bricks...

It's normally a last, last resort. Ventilate or die. Of course people do survive a ventilator but they require extremely close attention - intensive care - and even then people die. I saw a report in the Lancet where a consultant said; 'we call it death by ventilator'. That sort of close...

Sorry, should have asked before; is this an extension or a new dwelling? Edit; it must be an extension, or you'd be following a thermal design. Assuming the cavity is fixed at 100mm, you could use 100mm cavity batts (Dritherm 34 or similar) but you'd then need about 40mm PIR internal lining as...

Which regs. Pre or post Jun22?

I think this is what gets lost in the looking back. Most of the decisions taken in the middle of the covid panic were heavily influenced by hysterical press and media reporting. The media demanded more ventilators. Why don't we have more ventilators? Every other country has got more ventilators...

You read a lot of crap about smart meters, most of it about the old versions which did cause issues in some circumstances. The new ones work ok. I've just had a 6 month bill on the 13th June - £154 in credit and they've put my monthly down by fifty quid.

Those knives were quite common back in the day. My old man had one at home that originally belonged to his brother who was a WW2 Navy vet.

You are in the chicken and egg planning situation of an uncompleted development. When you apply for planning for an extension, you are supposed to label the existing and proposed use of each room - including ensuites. So, it could be argued that you don't technically have planning for the...

Definitely vent it. Else it will run with condensation and eventually cause a problem.