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A chance of winning a Drafta award? Even better if your wife remains upset with it; builder will be getting Victoria cross

The "your projects" forum is for blogging about long running projects such as house builds and extensions

Same reason that a teaspoon of sugar in your hot cup of tea dissolves faster than in a cold glass of water. Higher temperatures cause molecular interactions to happen faster. You acknowledge the problem in your next post, when you say that summer heat can turn mortar back into sand/cement - if...

Why ask a bloke on the internet when the person who needs to be happy with it is coming next week. Email your BCO son some pics?

Mortar doesn't go off by drying out. It goes off via a crystallisation reaction in the presence of water. It takes several days to cure and will do so regardless of weather so log as the rain isn't so torrential that it washes it out/sun isn't so blazing g that it evaporates the available water...

Get yourself a tub of "plastidip" off eBay. It's a sort of liquid rubber in solvent, often used to give a rubberised handle to metal tools e.g. Pliers; you dip the handle in the tube then withdraw it slowly, the slower you draw the thicker it applies, let dry then presto. Did a few wiring loom...

The mix is probably the most important thing to get right; you didn't put any water in yours I see :) Joking aside, put your plasticiser in a half bucket of water and chuck it in the mixer. Then add just enough water that it clumps together and looks like crumble (on an apple crumble) then...

That's a rare and commendable approach! Maybe drop it to 25mm between and 25mm over, then :)

Looking at the schematic in Wikipedia, am I right in thinking that you lose the benefits of a DSG if you shift "first third fifth" I.e. It can only do the near-instant-shift if you gear sequentially? Is is even possible to skip gears with them (is there a traditional gear knob, or is it paddle...

That's your insurance; other policies vary (mine makes no representations about the car needing to be insured by the owner for my third party "driving other cars" cover to apply) Towing or trailering it to the garage may be the cheapest option, or insuring it and then cancelling within the...

The heat pump is a good idea.. by running it in reverse it should cool the car also

Did it take you an hour to make? Be honest now...

When you're building a timber frame house. Your context will be fine with MR plasterboard

On a budget, nothing that will improve your E. Fit 25mm kingspan between (PIR/PUR) and then line with another 50mm of kingspan over, and then fit your drywall sheets.. Then you'd be getting somewhere. What are your heating bills, in £ per year and what fuel do you use?

Yeah, I joke about it but one of the things that killed me the most building this stupid house the past 3 years was I missed out on a lot of family time with the first. Maybe one day when he's riding motorbikes round the garden it'll all be worth it, as thankfully he doesn't seem to remember me...

Definitely an age thing.. my sleep problems are 3 years and 5 weeks old respectively. I think I'll get my sleep back in at most 17 years, 10months and 3 weeks. Not that I'm counting or anything..

Ah, yes, that was what Eric mark was driving at (and your query to e same). Missed those, sorry In CH, the heat pump will only activate the compressor max 3 times per hour, but in my tests with my light switch control it will respond to a call for DHW every time it's asked. It does at least...

In my DHW system? It's a bit old school compared to the Mitsubishi that my father in law has. The heat pump has a command unit with a thermostat in that will do central heating/ufh.. the heat pump unit itself modulates, and in ch mode basically supplies 22 degree water by upping the temp of...

I'm not sure; I did say in one of my posts, before you first posted: But This might have been missed between your successive postings?

Cobblers. Show me a gas hob that is as controllable/usable/safe (I.e. Has a timer, auto boil and simmer functions, accidental activation protection, max run time, power consumption monitor) and is as easy to clean as an induction hob... Gas is caveman compared to induction, and the sooner it...