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He is Canadian, not a Yank, quite different really. Also their weather can get a lot colder than ours, and we have a lot less timber cladding than they do. My Parents lived in the middle of canada some years ago, the letterbox bolts would get icicles on the inside in the winter. Also building...

My luck with wickes has been very different, lots of splits and wind with all they have sold me over the years, I dont even look at their timber any more now.

The heat loss into the floor must be close to double a radiator heated room if you do not put a thermal barrier below. Consider a radiator heated room, top of floor is at ~20C, base below ground will be at 5-15C dependant upon winter to summer, then when you run 40to 50C water through the UFH...

I like the one given to an american tourist many years ago, roll and mow every day for 300 years...

we have a silicone attached upstand behind the work surface, put in an unknown number of years before we moved in 25 years ago, it is still intact and whole.

You really will need to cut the top 1/2 inch to an inch off the existing strip of cement, do it carefully with a diamond disk cutter or slowly with a sharp cold chisel. you stand no chance of getting it to bed properly otherwise. you need to apply an SBR and cement powder slurry with an old...

yes, something like that, there should also be valves with one pipe on one side and you switch between two pipes on the other side, easier to keep the pump running if you can find one of those

Looking at point 3, you need a valve pair in the intake to change draw from garden or draw from sump, and you need another valve pair at the outlet to deliver to sump, or deliver to sprinklers.

Ash will dissolve the zinc, leaving the steel ungalvanised so it rusts quicker. Zinc boils at about 900C, so a hot bin will lose its zinc that way too.

It is hard to kill a holly, go for it. You may need to trim some of the branches on the remaining trunk to keep the centre of gravity above the base, but it will soon bounce back.

The ash is alkaline, turns hydrangeas blue if sprinkled on the soil, and does a lot of damage to rasberry bushes when sprinkled around them. Also used to be used to turn the grease in pans into soap in times gone by. It will also dissolve the zinc too.

A dilute brick acid mix and a scrubbing brush, then hose down once brick facing is clean to prevent unused acid from damaging mortar.

Trees do gush water from the roots in spring, especially the maples. Just have to let it quieten down eventually.

But if you solder be very careful not to overheat the battery cells while you do it, hence the spot welding recommendation.

remount the hinges with some fresh holes slightly higher up the post.

An electric saw will get blunt quite quickly with the coating of soil on roots, best dug out by hand really.

Lidl and or Aldi occasionally carry wood colour restorer, it seems to work quite well and an ok price too.

you need to have a stiff enough bearer beams in the base to support the whole length of the sides, extra piers reduce the strength required in the base. Also, I used composite beams as the lowest level so that the bearer beams get a frequent chance to dry out.

Looks like it got too wet in the second pic and too much hot things on the first pic...

Dependant on your soil there are alternatives. I put my log cabin on about 15 piers, using a hand auger to make 6" diameter holes to about a metre down. If I had used a raft it would have been 6 tonnes of concrete, but piers added to at about 1 tonne. I went a metre deep to get below the frost...