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Clair Aaaahh...I wondered who this 'Clair' was. Just figured it out. :lol: :lol: Loads of appoligies so have i oops :dontknow: :iconbiggrin: :dontknow: btw just today applied under Tescos insulation grants scheme so lets see what if any help they can or will offer? should be educational if nothing ...

Yes ive been reading up on it all, seems likely that either my partner or self will be able to put one together, with everything removed from the original open fireplace we will have to reconstruct a hearth and tidy up the rear inner walls of it! but quite fancy, like the challenge of this.. We are ...

Yip Thermal curtains we have, the carpets are all new, but cheap cord in some rooms admittedly (not our choice admittedly but brand new so we will hold onto them untill our decorations are all in truth completed) although i do like the idea of using old carpet as underlay although not really in a po...

Keith That is great, thanks for that makes considerably more sense now :iconbiggrin: just need to work out a decent size for it, the idea would be to have it housed in a small building, built to the size of whatever the genny is a type of shelter but there wouldnt be any open windows hence running t...

Ah right, ok thats sounds quite if not too simple :iconbiggrin: i shall give that a go tommorow and see what we end up with :dontknow: I had a wee £90 one in one of my motorhomes through which was brand new and useless hence my trepidation in purchasing another to be equally as useless, is it also c...

Thanks Racheal i shall give that a look over, see what i can learn from it..

Guys liking the idea of the mesh for the airbricks though as i have had a look around certainly at ground level and cant see anywhere else they could be getting in but am well aware they can and do get through very small spaces sadly. One slight observation as i say from the noise created i beleive ...

Clair thanks for that all great suggestions of course, sadly none of which we could really make use of given that our cottage is a rented housing association property and we would never get away with any of the measures you have mentioned sadly apart from the trees and a hedge, we overlook a world r...

All i can say is i take it nobody noticed my sig that says just learning then?? Anyway meaning no offence to anyone i shall agree to disagree i truly beleive from your comments that you have a preconception of who/what i am therefore so as to keep the peace i am going to bow out of this conversation...

Maggie Rushed comment im afraid storms raging, power again coming and going ah the joys of Scottish Highland life :dontknow: :iconbiggrin: Anyways many thanks that has probably and possibly halved my £2k in one foul swoop :hugish: :hugish: Slanj ps. an idea how easy it would be to take cutting from ...

Clair Many thanks for that, we do have a kind of small house as it is, but had considered dropping the ceilings as they are slightly higher than normal by about a foot or so? (which would also allow us to loose all the god awful artexed ceilings in one foul sweep) although the walls would be a bit h...

Boboff I feel i have to take offence at your comments above, first off i/we are nowhere close to how you describe us, you are basing your very singular views my friend on odd comments i have made throughout my time here-in a rather onesided way taking most it would seem out of context, given that yo...

Btw, for the required areas involved mainstream nurseries were quoting in excess of £2k for enough plants at 2ft to make said hedge ....... certainly not cheap for sure ..... there absolutely has got to be a cheaper, better method ....

Maggie I know what you mean, as i say chicken wire option is ordered (awaiting delivery but up here everything takes twice as long and today ordered 100 tent pegs which ought to do it all trust its more important that at the font/side its kept cottage gardenish, roses round the front door etc so not...

I will of course gain the relative permissions if and when we acertain if its cost effective and of course possible to do it :dontknow: as for punching holes in walls, isnt that what the original chimneys for to act as a flue?? (btw the next property to us is an identical cottage but council owned (...