Woodworks

That was just the sort of thing I had in mind. Thanks doobin

Sadly I often cant get the truck near it as I work in lots of small yards

Just fitted an electric start to my processor due to a shoulder problems so I now need to sort a battery pack. There is not much space on the processor to fit a large battery and it needs to be tidy as this is a road tow processor. Wondering if one of those dinky lithium jump start packs would work. Probably only turn it on 10 times a day and I can recharge when I get back or in the truck or would it best just to lug a leisure battery about and just set it up on site?

Loads of choices of finish. Found some pics of the surface coat going on dads place. Half the house is done as in the picture and the other half we slate hung with insulation behind. The later is more expensive on materials but can be done by a competent DIYer saving a few bob.

If this is your last house start with sorting the insulation. Long term this will save you more and be more environmentally friendly. Have a look at external wall insulation (EWI) and if thats not an option internal wall insulation (IWI). Fitted EWI on my dads old farmhouse and its been transformed with no internal impact. We converted a barn with IWI and a ground source heat pump and its brilliant but we were starting from scratch not disrupting a functioning home. Once insulated you wont need much of a heating system. No point in changing your current night storage with new ones if they still work ok. To all intensive purposes direct electric is 100% efficient the only variable is how long it can store the heat for.

I am dyslexic so laugh away no skin off my nose on that one ?

You do the maths and I think you can say with certainty it's not possible. I may have done the maths wrong so check We all have to bare the responsibiles of our choices every day and this in no different. Not saying the other way is great and we may end up down the herd immunity rout anyway but I would like to give the alternative a chance in these early days. The stats I posted are not extreme. If I wanted to do that I would have use the WHOs original death rate of 3.4%

No it's not possible. If the ONS numbers are correct and we have 50000 excess deaths probably due to Covid 19 For the table to be right the UK would have a population 177 million and all of us have had the virus. As it is the science is pointing to a lower death rate than was first thought which was 3.4%. Nearer the 1% seems most likely at present from what I have read from recent studies. Say we go down the herd immunity rout which seems to be favoured on here. Maybe 60% of us need to have for that to work? Put that into Arbtalk members which are at 37161 so 60% of them have it equalling 21696. 1% death rate may not be far off as are we are not all that young and the majority are male which is clearly a bad thing as far as surviving it is concerned. So by the time we reach herd immunity we have 216 dead Arbtalkers. Does that sound like good plan or might it be better to try and stop the spread of virus now in the hope we might have better treatment or a vaccine in the future?

Do you honestly believe that?

They dont update the graph very often but I have been logging the numbers each day. It could be just a blip but does not look like its dropping any more. And a graph someone had made of recent numbers. 10th 245693 11th 244191 12th 242965 13th 244600 14th 243517 15th 245913 16th 248600 17th 252926 Edit. Page now updated showing the rise Covid Radar COVID.JOINZOE.COM Discover levels of COVID infection in your area based on millions of contributors to the COVID Symptom Tracker

Cases start rising and more deaths I imagine unless we are smarter about our behaviour. The Covid tracker app is already showing a slight increase of new cases. Oh and a heads up from the other side. My OH got back from her shift on a Covid ward yesterday and there is still not enough PPE for the current low level of cases!

Our BC officer said the plastic membrane was mainly there to stop the concrete drying out too quickly which would weaken it it. He reckoned concrete was pretty much waterproof anyway. Bit of this wont hurt Everbuild 202 Integral Liquid Waterproofer 5L WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Long term water protection to mortar, concrete and rendering. BS 4887. Hazard safety codes: Xi, R36, R38, R52, R53.

Not doubting it good for a solid wood but still nothing like the values you get from proper insulation materials. Also hard to escape the inevitable problems with movement and air gaps

I posted as a follow up on yesterday as the interactive chart shows how you cant get herd immunity quickly keeping the R down as the government has promised it will.

As J says you will end up with lots of gaps due to seasonal movement pretty much negation the insulation value of the wood which is not great to start with. Might be of interest https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/types-homes/energy-efficiency-log-homes

One take on it. Nice interactive chart on this page Without A Vaccine, Herd Immunity Won’t Save Us | FiveThirtyEight FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM Daniel Arlein has already had COVID-19. In March, the 36-year-old small business owner and DJ, who lives in Brooklyn, tested...

Love this to be right but not holding my breath.

I would be staggered if they did. It is like a different world here this week not that movement alone will create transmission but you can see how lax many are now being as it feels closer to the old normal. Love to be wrong on this though.

I will talk to my mate. He lives out there and his partners kids are both doctors in Stockholm

I clearly am not explaining my point very well. To get herd immunity in any sensible timeframe we need more than are currently infected to keep passing it on. We wont have a lot people infected at any one time if we do keep the R below 1 as they have promised. Does that make sense?

Thought that was only for Stockholm and not the whole country

It might well be the way but why did they say they will keep the R below 1? We now have a lowish amount of the population infected so if we stay at a similar level it will take and age to get herd immunity. Never going to get down to low levels where track and trace will work on current plan and wont be able to get herd immunity quickly without the R going a fair bit higher for a while. They just seem to have made a rod for their own back if what you say is the plan

So what will follow? The government has said it will keep the R below 1 yet its was barely below that a few weeks back. Will they lockdown again or just bluster that this is the plan? Cant suss out what they are up to as it makes no sense. If they want us to get herd immunity why say we will keep the R below 1 If the really want to keep the R below 1 why open up so much and so fast?

In all seriousness what do we recon is going to happen to infection rates after this weeks changes?

Not much will change for us but will be nice to go up and see the in-laws. Really like to go camping on Skye again.