Steven P

I don't know the details for this upgrade, but if they are just replacing the cables then any increase in EMF will not be as great as if they were installing newer larger towers. Suspect they are needing to replace the insulators and doing the cables at the same time - they would need replacing one day anyway. If the towers are the same then the maximum load on them will not be changed, they cannot really install larger heavier cables. Use the same size cables and the current (amps) rating will be roughly the same, any increases will not be in proportion to 275:400.

Sounds perfect, airflow and space to take the condensation away from the wood

Inverse square rule, should be well safe at 100 to 150m away from the conductors.

I don't store many multiple years of firewood, but have taken the opinion that a tarp over the top is probably asking for more problems than it solves - airflow and evaporation is needed. I reckon that if it take moths to dry each 1" of log then the reverse is true, it will take months to get that 1" properly wet again. Most of the rain landing on it will run off or evaporate fairly quickly. British summers of course, it is possible to have rain for the full summer. Logs on wet ground - as JustMe will absorb moisture from below and not have the airflow to dry off well. If you can get a log store with the roof above the top of the log pile - so air flow happens - or perhaps get the tarp suspended above the top of the logs then that would work (a shed is where I'd go given the chose though). Logs that were dry last October and outside will go inside just as soon as we get 3 days with no rain and will be dry be heating season this year

Yup, grasping at straws

Like a cheap nut, easily cross threaded. It has been sugested above that if you want to continue your conpiracy dillusions then you pop over to the other thread instead of continuing to go around and around and around on multiple threads saying exactly the same thing. Be a good chap and pop over there then. Back to making the news then, and I believe UK General Election and whether the voting age should be altered.

Just an opinion on the ages, people mature at different rates, some 16 year olds are with it enough to hold down a job, raise a family, be a constructive member of society and contribute. Some 60 year olds still want looking after, it is how we are. Not sure paying taxes, the amount of tax or education state should be a limit to voting - that would exclude a lot of 'grown ups' too. Likewise with the other metrics mentioned above, if you say "You are young and don't contribute enough' (jobs, education, voluntary works, armed forces, families and so on) then you have to apply that to anyone older too - fair and even for all. Not sure that is a society that is good "You - you are unemployed, and take take take, so you cannot have a say" type of thing.

Sign up at 16, in a general election year, you sign up for 6? years. After 5 years (and 25 days)(max time between elections), at the next general election you could have been in active duty for 3 years and have had no say in the politics that sent you there.

That comes around every few years with on party or the other. Election year, both parties will say a lot but do action on about half. I understand his thoughts, we can send them overseas to be shot and killed but they have no say in the politics that sends them there.

My go to is split as soon as I can, more surface area to dry quicker.... or take the bark off - same thing? Birch doesn't do well being kept damp, which is odd for a tree that likes it wet

Not so sure about knowing 'zip' - if so then you have a dollop of common sense at least. In other walks of life, usually the one who signs something off is responsible for what they are signing off. I do the stuff, my manager signs it off as checked, approved to go ahead, but their manager has accepted that my checker / manager has suitable skills and experience to do the checks. If me and my manager follow the correct process (that isn't anything mental), then the next one up the chain gets hit. In work my line manager is not a checker - checking goes sideways and then back to my manager for approval. Similar for buildings and the council? Design is done, checked by the architects somewhere, council approves with knowledge of the architects experience?

Yes, English law and case law ... 'Candy floss conservatory' - probably went that way because it is low value? Could be looked at again if the damages were to a new build worth lots of money, or lots of money for the repairs where fighting the case, judicial review and all that could make economic sense? Remember years ago a talk by the H&S man, often they would just settle cases because the legal fees were more than the payout even if the injured party had no leg to stand on - cheaper - might be the same here that a small repair is more cheaper than contesting the case, getting the designers or builders to court and passing the liability on to them.

Likewise, consider the timbers for your house - all good after 15 years? so no reason why they shouldn't be.... if they are well stored. Leave them stacked outside on the ground you might get a couple of years from some species, off the ground, plenty of air flow, and covered you should be OK

Yes, tree roots are probably encroaching on their land, report says causing damage. However if the builders built to a certain standard knowing that there was a maturing tree within a distance (Oak, 30m?), then surely some responsibility must go back to the designer of the building?

We do this so well too. To the OP - it is their tree, they can do what they want with it though you can try to persuade them otherwise if you can contact them. If the potential new house has been underpinned is there a guarantee for the work? That might bring some peace of mind that if it continues with subsidence you might be able to get it fixed with that. As for the law of trees - what sort of distances are we talking about. When was the tree planted, when was the house built (which came first?) - house came first then the actions of whoever planted the tree might be a mitigating factor, tree came first then it is the builders who never built the house to consider the environment.

D'Oh! Of course, silly me, I'll start working on that one just now

Which one do you want? 1,690,000 results to choose from.

"Americans for Limited Government" - not something I know about but a quick search looks like they have a very active legal department removing anything negative from the internet.... and you have to wonder why they are hiding so much. I say that because all political groups have negative press - it is a part of the process, opposing opinions are important for political discussion - and these do not - which is unusual... so either everyone love them or their lawyers love them.

I'd bet if I looked you'd find something very similar for Trump too.

Just borrow children and drop them inside till they get the seal right - borrow children cause you can give them back once dirty, use your own and you have to clean and dry them after, PITA.

Can you just poke some plumbing through it, a threaded connection with a washers and bolts to seal it and then any old ball valve? (I haven't ever looked at this but you must be able to get a suitable externally threaded pipe)

Apparently recyclable.

Don't know who is camping it up down my road just now but it is pissing it down as I read this thread!

Just curious, I guess the OPs customer is domestic / gardener / not a full time saw user and can afford to have the saws in the workshop while they argue about half the bill total. Might be wrong but if you depend on the saws to make a living then you'd pay up fairly straight away to get the saws back and profitable again?

Not caught up with the news today but didn't he say the reason there are no adoring crowds outside the court is because the whole area is locked down.... and all the journalists waiting outside just took photos saying "Errr no, it is just that no one is here"