difflock
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Hmmm, def no ridge vents, nor indeed soffit vents, so thanks for that "heads up" guys. Presumably no need, since the roof was uninsulated, and the air circulation within the roofspace void sufficied(it IS proper airy up there!) But there is a quare draught comes in through the gaps in the overlapped felt, so perhaps little need of furthur ventilation, but better safe than sorry I suppose. More work, sigh. -
Botty, I did state that I would fit the 70mm deep PIR between the 120mm deep rafters, therby leaving the requisite 50mm airflow gap beneath the roofing felt. Yes? I will knowingly "risk" the minimal additional weight of the insulation, knowing the general overdesign and factors of safety involved in building regs. To our knowledge or intention this dwelling will not be sold, well in our lifetime. After that?? Cheers, Marcus.
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The proper stairs would complicate that floor raising somewhat, plus anyway the cold draught would simply roll down the stairs into the rest of the house, though there is an internal panel door between the bottom of the stairs and the landing proper, hence my intention to insulate at the rafters.
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Gareth, A good question, and well presented, so it deserves an answer🙂 It is really only for storage, though I have a proper set of stairs to access it, and the space is fully "walk through". So glorified storage. Cheers mth
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About 175m2 to do, 120mm deep rafters at nominal 16" centres. Floor joist voids already glass fibre/hairy molly filled and flooring chipboard over throughout. I have legitimately acquired 1.1mm thick Lamilux which I intend to finish with internally. It is impervious, bright, reflective and wipeclean.(The spiders will not like it!) So PIR or XPS? Or are there affordable alternatives, like a bloke was saying sheeps wool insulation should now be cheap, since the fleece is worthless to the farmer(but its not, at the purchaser end, that I can see) or Sisalwool, which also appears to be expensive. Rafterlok PIR also appears to be too bloody dear, for what it is. Btw I dislike the thought of polystyrene, due to its potential flammability. I can fit 70mm between the rafters, but is it worth fitting another 50mm across the hill, to the underside of the rafters, before affixing my lamilux to finish.
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I longingly looked at and researched 8250 Kg GTW Iveco 5th wheel combos to max out trailer weights for us oldies with the grandfathered "blue" car licence entitlements. But could not get Council managers to bite. Too different. Sigh.
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But overrun brakes max out at 3500Kg, in so far as I know, and I also understand, that therefore over 3500Kg one needs air brakes, which sounds like an expensive additional cost to the towing vehicle(I doubt they were supplied c/w air brakes, as standard, and if so, at what cost?) plus the additional cost of the compatible air braked trailer.
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Fixed that for you.
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Like they are now going to be classed as cars with commensurate levels of emissions based car tax!
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Thank you for that link about Mike Burrows Stere. A fascinating bloke indeed.
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Let nature nature. It is not in an immutable fixed state. That is nature. It is always changing.
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I called in with Outdoor Life in Ballymoney yesterday evening. They have a couple of Giant Contend models on good offer, like £650ish. Which seems about the right amount of money for an old done man like me to spend on a bike. I will look at the gravel bike options as well though. I will go back in at my leisure on Friday.
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Thank you OG. The massive plethora of nomenclature and jargon is truly perplexing and bamboozling me. Started to get my head round some of it. . I have zero notion of being a speed merchant, but nor do I want a bike that is any heavier than it needs to be. On mostly flat terrain, up and down the Bann valley and round the Nth Antrim essentially. And would like mudguards and a minimalistic carrier for limited clag.
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I rida alone! (sounds like a bad Western dont it) I wear hi-leg Lowa combat boots, in the really bad cold snowy weather, Birkenstocks on bare feet in the good weather , and £23.00 trainers the rest of the time. A few pairs of cut down trousers do me for shorts, or some sort of thermal ungarment leggings in the cold. Or both. Full hi-Vis up top. NO LYCRA! So I dont imagine any self respecting cyclist would be seen near me. My tentitve searches seem to show a lot of cheap consumer tat at the bottom end, say £500.00 ish then a significent gap up to the £1500.00 and up market. And yes the choices and permutations are bewildering. Cheers all.
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I been riding an old bicycle of our son's, which was always somewhat too small for me. Being aware that the cycle market is currently in turmoil/bloodbath/freefall price wise. . . So I am in the notion of buying myself sommat more suitable. For recreational road use. Buy how do I size a bicycle, since I am aware that I have a slightly longer back/ shorter legs than the norm. Height, say 5' 9". I shall also ask my wife to measure my inside leg. . .
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Well they, the few survivors are only worth £200,000 cos your dad, and many others, cut most of them up for scrap!
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Andy Smyths father and a mate went to a MOD disposal auction sometime in the 1960's to buy a couple of motorbikes, which they duely did, and a couple more motorbikes at very bad money, well, just because. They then quickly realized that they could not ride them all home, so bid on a scruffy 3 tonner, which was, again knocked down for silly low money, being petrol probably played a part in the lack of bidder interest. Anyway when the went to load their purchased motorbikes into the rear of the 3 tonner. It was already full of other motorbikes. Andys dad, being a very straight Ex RAF bloke, told some of the staff that they had only bid on the lorry, not the cargo therein, and where would they offload them. "Mate, you bought them, so please bloody take them away".. So they did.
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I liked the super low stump. Though I was dissappointed a rope was involved in the climbing at all. Pussies.
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I paid a local pressure washer "guru" £400.00 for a 196cc Loncin "re-engined" reputable brand (which pw pump name evades me as I type) 2nd hand pressure washer a few years ago. It has been faultless, easy started, economial and plenty powerful. So perhaps a Honda is not essential.
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But, all school children from all backgrounds, should be provided with a hot dinner when attending school. Those who work and pay their taxes are funding the meals anyway, and economies of scale should apply if all were provided for, and hey! as beloved of those on the socialist side, zero discrimination. Yes. But termtime only.
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Since I started with Wrightbus, which firm is shipping in Filipions by the planeload, I have been afflicted by the Philipino flu"(or so I christened it) about 3 times, sneezing my head off and a bit snottery/chesty, I was not off work, though I slept a lot at home. There was chat about Covid, and I was pleased to note any comments I heard were to the effect, "meh, Covid, tis the new flu" so live wi it. Just to comment, despite getting up at 04:00, to travel significently furthur, to physically work longer hours, for less pay, and fewer benefits. I am enjoying working on a private sector shop floor, MUCH more than I ever enjoyed working to the Council. Due to the entirely different attitude of the workers. Sad but true.
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Different land types and less of it, relatively speaking, in the UK. I would suggest. Or those underpopulated areas in the U.K. are not suited to decidious forestry like the such vast areas are on the continent.
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Needs wholesale reintroduction of the Pine Marten, which here in those bits of Ireland where they have been reintroduced, have allowed the populations of Reds to rebound, since the Pine Martens appear to find the Greys easier or better eating, which gives the Reds a chance. Nature, huh.
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Well it would do no harm for some of those bleeding heart protesting liberals, nevermind the murderous minded militant Palestinians and Muslims. To experience some of the fear and terror they daily subject those of the Jewish faith to suffer. In Israel and worldwide, including London. Bring it on. Btw. We, of the non Nationalist/Republican majority here in NI knew and still know all to well the insidious propaganda the BBC propagate. To simplify, and paraphrase somewhat, "devout Catholics" but "hard-line Protestants". Etc etc etc. Drip drip drip.
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My sanguine thought about the weather and our climate, is that since the dawn of humanity, it has always been in a state of flux, driving many human migrations and conflicts, and causing the fall of many sophisticated civilizations, as is evidenced by geological and archilogical evidence. And that our current Westenn civilization arose due to a particularily favourable benign of climate that favoured crop growing and animal husbandry. And that we cannot nor will not change these climatic changes. We could on the other hand reduce human population expansion, "growth economies" and our concurrent progligate energy and unneeded material consumptions, which in turn add to the extensive destructive mining practises, deforestation and the vast piles of waste that pollute our planet. Without returning to the Dark Ages.
