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Not sure that would help with the insulation problem

Thanks, looks ok. I read some retrofit eco website that said it is often not possible just because old concrete is too hard. I guess next steps are structural engineer and test hole.

Thank you. Yes, interesting. The slab doesn’t have pipes in it, there is no gas, and the water comes in from outside above it, but I would probably have to get a structural engineer out to tell me if it is holding the house up I suppose.

How solid was the kitchen floor? How much depth did you pull up? How long did it take and what did you learn? I had discounted being able to smash out the concrete ground floor in my 1950s house. It is freezing. I would like to add insulation. I have spent a long time looking for advice and there doesn’t seem to be much that is useful, things like “insulate under the concrete” only work if you don’t already have concrete…

There are two types of thin insulation that could work for me without smashing the concrete but both are expensive and have other draw backs - aerogel and vacuum panels.

If I could smash out enough to gain even 50mm then I could probably get 70mm of insulation in and a screed without losing too much head room.

The central bar confuses me. I think maybe there were some Victorian era stately homes with skylights in the attics or something. I was allowed to put huge skylights in, as long as they had the longitudinal bar. My neighbours (same conservation area) got away without. Tbf though mine were much nicer windows.

Love this, it reminds me of hanging out with my dad. He’s just an electronics nerd not an electronics + audio nerd, but i still get the same enjoyable feeling of being miles out of my depth.

Do it! Proper shop vac of any description will be revelatory. @dbr I ❤️ my fein.

I broke my Dad’s one too in the same way! Drilled a hole through the button that is supposed to lock the axle so you can tighten/untighten and now stick a metal rod in through the button to lock it, works fine, looks crap.

Ah cool. Thank you. I was being thick. Ofc the big circular cut out is on the door, not the carcass.

Presumably CWorkshop cut those out

Excellent, thank you! They look great and it’s a much better idea than wasting space and having a pelmet as I was going to as well.

can you remember if you bought the pax carcasses without the doors? They seem to come in two versions, but I’m not sure yet whether you can get the “drilled for door hinges” version without also getting doors from them. I think that would be easier than buying the “doorless” version and trying to drill it for the hinges myself.

More info / photos please! What height cupboards, how much bigger are the doors too and bottom than the cupboard? I assume that’s what you’ve done - some sort of overhang?

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Someone was looking for something similar to this on here last week, I’ll have a look

Amazing. How have they done that so quickly / how many hours of work is that
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Anyone got an ffx referral code?

Fingers crossed… it’s in stock, it’s overkill, it’s more money than I should be spending, I’m fed up of clogging up my normal hoover, I’ve gone for it!

I’m sure someone on here said that tall column radiators are less efficient at converting always - it sounded logical to me at the time

I wonder what the most important metric is for vacuum power - litres/second?

I found a good karcher with almost the same litres/second as the fancy Bosch one, although not a dust extractor/filter one. Can’t get it this weekend, so that’s made m choice for me and I’m joining the titan crew.

what’s the best sensibly priced (£200 or less) shop vac / wet & dry vac to buy please?

I borrowed one of these, which was amazing, but £450 is too much. The friend who owns it says the same - it is amazing and can be used 365 days a year, I want something that is as powerful but for amateur use. I don’t know, maybe breaks twice as soon for half the price, would still last me 10 years!

Thank you. I’m going to move this to the DIY thread, I am so confused by the numerous numbers claiming to be how “powerful” they are, and you’re the second person who’s just said that a Henry is good - I read a review of a 3000W triple motor 100 litre capacity huge vac that someone said was barely better than their Henry…!

Grazie tutti

What’s the best thread to ask about what’s the best sensibly priced (£200 or less) shop vac / wet & dry vac to buy? / what’s the best sensibly priced (£200 or less) shop vac / wet & dry vac to buy?

The power tools thread doesn’t seem to have been used for ~10 years but I’m sure I saw power tool / hoover chat somewhere.

This is good. I was trying to say that saying “most farmers voted for brexit, but actually they don’t deserve to be punished for it, because if you compare them to the brexity groups they belong to (white old rural men) they’re slightly less brexity” is a poor argument. Which seemed to me to be one of the points the article was making.

But of course farmers aren’t homogenous, and nearly half voted to stay, and it’s not great to generalise / blame.

Also I don’t think it’s relevant that they couldn’t have swung the vote - if (and I don’t know whether this is true) the same farmers who voted Brexit are now wanting special help because Brexit has brexited them [to borrow a phrase from the playground] it would be justifiably annoying.

I’m not sure this is a strong argument. Still more than the overall % (ie 53% > 51.9%, although obviously not by much).

Analogy: 90% of public school old boys enjoy a good caning. Only 85% of old Etonians do, therefore old Etonians are not sadomasochists.