What did you do today?

[Drum]

Now that is impressive!

Thanks. The windows and doors were due to be fitted in March. Now to be 24th August, so that has been a very annoying delay. That and builder's merchants closing for 3 months.

[SiC]

Now that is impressive!

Thanks. The windows and doors were due to be fitted in March. Now to be 24th August, so that has been a very annoying delay. That and builder's merchants closing for 3 months.

At least the weather has been kind and this all didn't happen in the depths of a Scottish winter.

[Drum]

I'm currently putting insulation in the walls and ceiling.
150mm kingspan plus 37.5mm insulated plasterboard. 300mm wool in the ceiling. I've got vapour barrier arriving today so I'll be using my new hammer stapler tool I bought last week.

[DodgeRover]

That's an awful lot of insulation! it's normally 90mm kingspan then the triple layer foil stuff down here in the loft conversions - I guess building regs are different up there! Are you having air con?

[Sloth]

wasted my time with this...

[panhard65]

I know bugger all about paint but that has reacted pretty bad. Actually I bet if I did try painting anything I would be lucky if it came up that well. Paintwork is certainly not my thing. I am sure someone will be along shortly to tell you exactly what went wrong and how to sort it.

[Drum]

That's an awful lot of insulation! it's normally 90mm kingspan then the triple layer foil stuff down here in the loft conversions - I guess building regs are different up there! Are you having air con?

The sloping roof is 150mm kingspan + insulated plasterboard and the walls are 120mm + insulated plasterboard. I'm going to use 25mm kingspan and normal plasterboard because it's less expensive.

[DodgeRover]

Strewth mate, the insulation is going to cost more than the build. Is the triple layer stuff approved for use in your area, I've got a feeling it's equivalent to 70 or 80mm celotex, it is more cost effective and the (thermoquilt I think?) rep was going on about a new one they are doing that you can use instead of hard insulation.
Are they not wanting you to tape the joints?

[Drum]

I've never heard of the triple layer stuff. I'll be taping the joints of the 25mm layer below the plasterboard.
Hopefully the low fuel bills will help pay off the insulation costs, eventually.

According to YouTube, North Americans and Scandinavians use wool 'batts' which must be cheaper than board and must also be effective if they're using it.

[mercrocker]

Quite a sad day for me. I have decided it is not going to end well constantly fielding stupid enquiries to my 190E advert on EBay and CCFS and I am still paying tax and garage rent. Therefore it has been taken to auction today where it will sit in free storage until the sale in October. The run down to Poole took us past a few of the social clubs where we have been for rock and roll nights and outside of which the Merc patiently sat on many a night waiting for Mrs Rocker to drive us home. It was rather like driving Grandad past his favourite boozer on the way to the Crem......

We also passed the site of the dealership where it came from new. No trace of the intermittent stalling and it drove like a dream all the way, sunroof open, that P6-like burble from the exhaust also reminding me of Grandad and his 2000TCs.

Finally, I left it gleaming in the car park before chucking the keys and paperwork over the counter. I had to get Mrs Rocker to drive us home in the Focus as I didn't want to jump from the Merc into the driving seat of that.....

I don't know why I get so emotionally involved with bloody cars, it is practically a scrapper economically and I cannot afford to keep chucking at it now I am about to give up my job. I would feel better if I bent the thing round a bloody lamp post really at least I could nurse a bit of regret and get over it. At the moment I feel like I have just drowned a puppy. Bloody cars!