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I don't think it is banned so much as it is no longer within the energy strategy. And with refineries bring closed and dismantled... by the oil companies... it seems terminal.

I've just looked at a cascading supplier and see that they have some with incredibly thin steel. So do check tge options for their properties. You will get snow build-up/ drifting with that abutment of almost flat roof and gable wall. So don't under-do the strength of battens. Cheaper to have extra wood than pay for a design. Are you having a gutter or letting rain run off?.

New balls please... Lots of ideas and options, thank you all!

Photo time First beam hoisted and fixed (not properly for final fixing) That's at 5 degree slope, front is about 300mm higher than back. It does not look as ridiculous as I first feared, although it is above the eaves, it only slightly breaks the line of the tiles. Joists will span sideways at 400mm centres to a similar beam the other side and that will be supported by 3 posts. The two side beams will be doubled up and I will brace these overhangs back to the posts on the garage side. I might try the front just a little higher before I decide. the posts won't get cut to length until the very end. And this is why it needs to be so high. There is presently 12cm clearance under the rear beam. We need to do a trial demount before committing to this height because jacking it up takes weight off the springs and the truck rises, so we need to make sure there is enough height to do that.

I was in a similar situation and 75mm ended up as the sweet spot cost wise but it's always worth working out cost per m2 for various thicknesses as well as pack sizes. Pound for pound it's the best thing I've ever done to the house from an energy reduction perspective Did mean I had to add a PIV into the mix as humidity levels sky rocketed due to the reduction in uncontrolled air ingress but it's still been the best thing I've done you may need to consider additional ventilation options/solutions

There’s no benefit to the treasury then? And no potential to increase our energy security.

If the oil producers/exploration companies are not interested then fair enough. In that case though, why bother banning it

Lovely house and design. Interesting Insta account. Your question may well be better directed to legal experts.

OK that's helpful. You will presumably flash the uphill end, so that still needs sealing or the rain will run back inside. The cut end peel problem applied at the factory cut, and they suggested a varnish that sealed it. You can see the issue on some old sheds. 6m is generally easy to source but you might not have much choice of stock material from a local supplier.

Yes, you should. How you do that is the key You are not an expert - or assumed not to be an expert: and the minute you start pointing to what might - or might not - be a problem, you become a target. For his (?) ire. Raise the issue in plain straight terms: I see this [...] as a problem. Am I correct in thinking it is one? How are we going to get to the required level ? And by when ? Do not suggest an answer to your question(s) - you'd be pissed off with me if I came and asked you why you'd coded that 'class' as you did. Give clear direction on the desired outcome Supervise daily - take a benign interest in the short term, tighten as necessary Under no circumstances pay him yet.

I've just discovered that my joists are actually 91mm. I'm thinking 80mm PIR now, because I cannot be bothered to trim pockets out every metre so that the PIR can sit down over the sleeper walls!

I only stumbled across it at the weekend, think the schemes have been running a year or so. Not convinced by that statement, but the £1 per kWh is in addition to the normal export rate you get from the utility company. So my real rate is £1.12 per kWh. If they lowered the pay out much, the advantages start to disappear and people drop out of the scheme.

But he then said, thanks for only putting those two pipes through the ceiling, that bloke down the road had 21, I kid you not 21! By the way guy two door door down, runs them in a service void, so they are hidden, so well out the way - I can't win all my battles.

Yes raise the issue, 22mm is a lot to be out by DPC. What were the foundations like? Has he created a problem or inherited one (even so he should've been picking this up)? If you'll have level thresholds at multiple openings over that length then one potential problem might be you'd struggle later with a liquid screed. Our brickie had to pick one corner up over a few courses, marking the spacings for the next few courses out on the corner profiles seemed to work well (say the good end is 75/150/225/300 then the low end mark 77/154/231/308 etc) until you're back level. You have to have an honest discussion, ask how he plans to get back to level, suggest taking down a course or two as the lower you start to fix this, the easier it'll be. Give him a chance and then decide from his response (both attitude and actions) if he's someone you can work with or will be battling with for the rest of the brickwork. When you say soil pipe into the back inlet, I guess you only mean grey water, not a toilet?

The price would drop to 3p/kWh if they did.

This is so often touted and I really don't know where people are finding these people that will connect pipes from A-B without asking too many questions?! Every single company/plumber I've contacted independently has refused to do anything of the sort. They will supply all the parts and do the install and are usually charging above £500/day for labour - without which the usual get out clause is that we can't provide warranty of any of the work otherwise. Even if I was to accept that, they then stop responding when asked to provide a labour only quote. I'm sure there are people out there that can do this - I just haven't found them in ~ 2years of searching on and off. To the point, where I just went with the builders default option as life is too short and I have better things to do with my time!

That not going to be very accurate though is it. I know peopl who run their house at 15c throughut winter. I know others at 22. The difference in energy comsumption if its a poor house will be big. And then some will have log burners which they use to boost temps, which will often be run "for free". And of course, you can lie. Easily. And boost your epc. Problem ultimately is, whatever system they use is trying to get a semi accurate answer, when the inputs are a bunch of unknowables. Frankly, without an air leakage test, its all rather pointless.

Next time, use an assesor that asks you what outcome you want on the report. Problem solved!

No-one has mentioned steel frame yet so I'll go for that!🤣

...and anti-insect mesh?

First ive heard of it. £1 a kWh? Why isnt everone with batteries doing it?

Is this ok? Appreciate that you've had problems sourcing a bricklayer, but this wouldn't have been ok for us. Not sure if you're able to be there in the day, but what has worked for us is trying to establish buy in for the project, people have seen us doing stuff and we have made it clear its going to be our home (not a profit making venture), and whilst it can be difficult to pick things up a "sorry, not sure that's right; not what we were looking for; or even know we're being picky" has gone a long way. There is no doubt we've been lucky, but ........

It's a single slope so no "ridge" At my present 5 degree ground level mock up that will put the front of the car port just over 300mm higher than the back. I need 3.2m clearance at the back, that will make it 3.5m clearance at the front. That is going to be above the eaves height of the garage it is joining to so it is a question of will it look ridiculous or not. I hope to get a mock up later and take a picture. The length of the roof will be 6 metres. I was hoping to find a roof material supplier that can do 6M in one run without joints. I might be over optomistic there. If not I will spec the overlap as a bit more than normal, but as I say not the end of the world if a little rain leaks. If it is windy enough to blow some rain up the joint, it will be lashing in at the open rear of the car port anyway. Re coatings. I hope to get them supplied to the length I need so nothing needs cutting, like I did with my sun room roof. That has given no problem so I will look up what make it was and they will be my favourite all else being equal.

Rabbit hole of rabbit holes! Tried most models ollama and mlx. Annoyingly things like DeepSeek cant do tools!! - just a friggin chatbot! codex,pi, continue cli, our own harness. Round and round we go! Getting largely no where! So! Conclusion! No local LLM is capable of producing the code and understanding my repo. Created a new harness using codex which produces an evidence pack that I uplaod to chat. Chat then does a patch. The new harness has a simple menu to save infinite copy n paste. Unsurprisingly codex works best with OPenAi models.... whom would of thought!

Whilst in pub, get text from plaster moaning about all the other pipes in the other places……. 30 - 15, play on 🤣.