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I also have a heat pump, and the wood is not treated - it was a bunch of trees until a few years ago, and is now drying out nicely.

I have a free supply of many years-worth of firewood, and, as has been pointed out, gas and electric is shockingly expensive. And we'll all be dead from climate change soon anyway - one more woodburner isn't going to end the world when world war 3 is kicking off in the middle east and China is...

Hello, I am planning to have a Stovax woodburner, sitting on an 1800mm wide x 465mm deep x 350mm high steel bench. It will sit on an engineered hardwood floor which will be laid on (glued to) a cement screed. I am considering having a large (1950mm wide x 800mm deep x 30mm thick) slate hearth...

Thanks, @dazlight . Yes, I know about the "under 65%" moisture level - I've been doing hygrometer tests (I have borrowed 3 meters); it's currently around 76% (in darkest recesses of the floor) after 24 hours. I'm wondering what would be the reason for a latex screed AND sealer - surely they'd...

Hello, I have 150sq.m of liquid screed floor (70mm thick, poured about 3 months ago, laitance removed) with liquid UFH (first switched on - low heat - yesterday!), and I'm planning to install an engineered hardwood floor over it. I've had a couple of conflicting opinions from fitters: Fitter 1...

***T happens when the aforementioned morons vote for ***t to happen. Do you know how hard it is to get citizenship of a decent country? Do you know how easy it was to live anywhere in the EU before the morons voted against it? Anyway...I'm still waiting for JUST ONE benefit of Brexit. Go on...

She was a more extreme remainer than me - and it was a mutual separation.

I was in the legit, Southern side. The kicking out of rightful owners is disgusting - whether it's Turks kicking people out of Northern Cyprus, or Israeli terrorists stealing Palestinian land and their horrendous genocide that the world seems to be largely ignoring at the moment.

The thing that makes me consider that Brexiteers are less than intelligent, is that they voted for something that made this country and their own lives worse, with absolutely ZERO benefits. If there had been ANY benefits, I'm sure that one of them would have proudly pointed them out to me, but...

Correct. Plenty of friends, but funnily enough, they are all Remainers - and many of them are considerably more intelligent than me.

Having previously lived in Cyprus for a few years (courtesy of the UK being part of the EU...I literally packed my stuff into a 40ft shipping container, booked a flight over there, got off the plane, bought some land and built a house there) and America for a few years (courtesy of my then wife...

Funnily enough, I used to be! I even had the displeasure of meeting her to discuss her bee-killing policy when she was Minister Against the Environment. I have never met anyone so utterly thick in my whole life.

Don't let Benjamin NaziYahoo know this - he'll change it instantly! (Although he's too busy committing genocide at the moment to bother. Hitler will surely give this despicable fascist tyrant a warm welcome in hell when he dies).

Sadly, a lot of us are stuck here in this pathetic post-Brexit wasteland, further ruined by 13 years of toryfuckwittery. I'm sure millions of us would move to an EU country if we were allowed, but some unfortunate idiots ruined it for everyone in this sh!thole country by falling for a load of...

I wonder if that person read a tweet (viewed ~100,000 times) that someone posted, after they deliberately misinterpreted a Canadian Cancer Society's message? https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-cervical-cancer-trans-testing-249098855574

Happily the NHS has guidance (for very stupid people) to let them know that if they don't have a cervix, they don't need it screened: https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/sexual-health/should-trans-men-have-cervical-screening-tests/

I'm guessing there are two options here: (a) the person actually has a cervix, regardless of how they identify their gender, therefore should be entitled to cervical screening or (b) they are very stupid. Remember that there are stupid straight people, stupid white people, stupid trans people...

Really? Are you sure you didn't read this in a fantasy publication such as the Daily Mail?

Hello, I'm in the process of getting a new electrical supply from UK Power Networks for my 4-bed, ~200sq.m barn conversion (not started yet!) and they're asking for a kVA rating. I'm planning to use an air source heat pump (maybe 12kW - 16kW output) and probably also one car charging point...

So, @Snowyy, it's been a couple of years - did you ever find a cellar?! I've just moved house, and there's no sign of a cellar, but the area under the stairs (from ground floor to first floor) is completely blocked off - no under-stairs cupboard/storage/anything. There is a walk-in cupboard...