Has anybody done work with Gabions, and got any hints & tips ? I am looking to square off the bottom of a bank in the back garden. I have many many tonnes of...
Nigel, wehen you have the building up, let me know and If you like I will come and have a proper look at. There are a few options that I can see now but it's...
Nigel, wehen you have the building up, let me know and If you like I will come and have a proper look at. There are a few options that I can see now but it's...
Just a reminder on how to join to join the UK_Selfbuild group - been asked to re-post this for people who wish to send to colleagues etc. The UK_Selfbuild...
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May 1, 2008 12:49 pm
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Hi Everyone, I would like to introduce a simple and free website to advertise your cars online. Go to http://www.cartradersuk.com to advertise for free!...
A question for those of you who may have been down this line of thought... My gas boiler needs replacing (an old floor mounted beast under a kitchen cupboard -...
My timber frame had nice (and very expensive) Tyvek breather paper on the outside of the frame. I recall a post that someone mentioned using Building Paper on...
Look carefully for the price of the baskets - prices vary lots - possible get someone to make them up for you might be cheaper, stacking has to be done...
'have been down this line of thought ... and, given what's charged for connection, fitting, and the boilers themselves, it's a mystery to me that people go /...
Mark, I know it is a standing joke about self builders not finishing but the building is up and the Building Control have signed it off... Although I have to...
Hi All The time has come to start on our new garden house - well, Summerhouse/studio/thing. Demolition of old buildings is complete and I have just recovered...
Electricity is expensive to run, so relatively few use it except 1 those in high-rise flats - no choice. 2 those too poor to afford the capital cost of a...
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May 1, 2008 5:58 pm
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Nick The guy on Grand Designs that build the straw bale house in the woods has a couple of books out. They may be worth checking out. The program gave the...
Nick I think the trick with straw bales is to keep them dry by having a good DPC under the walls and plastering them over. |If you get leaks around the...
I built two straw bale huts as a sort of feasibility study a few years ago. Unless you have a very good reason to use bales the short answer is don't even...
PS: 'was assuming E7 & modern standards of insulation ... and ruling- out anything with a payback-period of over about ten-years ... Chris PS: went out to vote...
Thanks Rick, Simon and Bill. All useful stuff and my Amazon order is going in tonight! I do remember seeing a very crude bale hut at Machynelleth (which I may,...
In a recent GD prog that I watched (though it could of course have been on a sat channel & really ten years ago), Kev McThingy was building his own office...
'bit OT, but 'wondered if anyone has a Panasonic TX32LMD70A TV ... SWMBO's Mum has just got one & it seems the only way to use the headphones is to set the...
I just sat there with my mouth hanging open!! Begs the question, though ... how do they get it back on? Nick Nick Laurie PC Repairs 01458 250834 and 07941...
Build itself a ramp ? There is actually another video showing a similar shovel putting itself on a low-loader :- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EtPqIEKU4Ww&NR=1...
Whilst walking past a construction site today, I saw some beams made from 2 lengths of 2x2 timber, with a web made of arch shaped nail plates which were ...
Hi, Oil and gas reserves are running low. Coal is plentiful (they tell me). Whatever, if we have anything left, I bet somebody manages to sell it all to China...
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May 2, 2008 4:36 am
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... I was wondering how they got it back on and then this turned up: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EtPqIEKU4Ww&NR=1...
... Not sure that's quite accurate. Lot's of oil reserves (e.g. Canadian shale sands) which were previously uneconomic to extract are now economic, so the rise...
Richard, I think you're describing "posi-joists", see: http://www.palgravebrown.co.uk/downloads/brochure/PB-15787-PosiJoistLeaflet_270307.pdf Also from...
In a message dated 02/05/2008 06:30:01 GMT Daylight Time, richard_owen_mba@... writes: How's that PC behaving, John? Richard Hi Richard, Thanks for...
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May 2, 2008 6:12 am
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Hi, Program about Iceland on TV, possibly Working Lunch, about how they used geo-thermal heat to generate electricity to make hydrogen. Of course, they are ...
