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But if the utility room was created by hiving a part off the uninsulated garage, is the wall between the room and the garage being uninsulated really the core of the problem? Even if you insulated that divider, would there be 2 other utility room walls that touch the world?

For a lead acid battery even that may be pushing it, though dedicated leisure batteries are more resistant to getting ruined by deeper discharges than normal starter batteries. If deep discharges are likely, a li-ion one can be discharged much further and will probably pay for itself upon the...

Buy or hire a thermal imaging camera and make careful note, when your heating is running and the house is the temperature you like it to be, which are the coldest walls As noseall says, you should really prioritise insulating external walls, but also you may have internal walls that are solid...

Could do with better pics of this end: But basically that is where you adjust the spring tension. Somewhere in that block will be a grub screw or similar that clamps that block to the circa inch thick pole visible on the left of the pic (looks a bit like copper pipe in that pic) and you can...

Could be condensation, if there is a draught somewhere that is causing warmer moister air to be drawn into the conduit

Post some better pictures of this thing, the ends and the middle mainly:

Quick and easy would be to pull the insulation back from wherever nearest joint is and then place it back down again but on top of the pipe not under it Nothing to buy, or carry into the loft Maybe you've never taken a ski holiday for 3 weeks over Xmas Didn't understand this; you're thinking...

What do winning percentages work out at year on year? There are a few instant access accounts at the moment with around 4% interest, just curious whether she'll see £400+ in "winnings" over the year?

My query was to foxhole. I agree with the plans as drawn, that the door of such a small room should open into the larger room Yeah, crazy. It would make the space much more usable if it opened the other way

Ah yes, you're right; doors that open out only swing once

Why would you want a door to open into a small room? The sweep of a hinged door is such a waste of space; it should be done into the room that can best afford it

Do you like coving?

Some more points have been edited into my original post The picture isn't great, it looks like you have a wire coming up behind a socket box and going diagonally across the wall Perhaps you misunderstand; both I and Hugh proposed to run the waste pipe inside the stud wall Drill a 34mm hole...

Racing slicks leaving skid marks eh?

32mm pipe could be routed through those studs (if they're 3 inch and it bothers you that you'd have ~16mm of stud left either side, drill your holes 10mm nearer the room than centre and line the stud with a glued n screwed 19mm batten - you won't notice the 20mm loss of room space), but how big...

You'll soon be able to open a tobacconists with all the lighters they're sending you, at least!?

Some of this is going to be incumbent on the old person, to eg not receive a call "from the bank saying they've had a security breach and need to move all their money into another account" and swallow it hook, line and sinker It seems like it should be possible to enable people savvy enough to...

Oh crumbs, I wasn't thinking to get into designing the entire system right here and now, but how about something like a council version of checkatrade that is open and transparently run and only matches vetted and trustworthy trades with jobs that have been reviewed by a council employee (who is...

It's a plea to the user to examine another variable element of the posted problem No, that's asserting that people always and only ever use the minimum amount necessary, and it's blatantly untrue. I know for a fact that at least one person in this world has before now pulled 20 sheets off the...

I feel like there must be mitigations possible for that too..