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I do like a nice wooden shaft personally. but I must admit for "construction" I tend to reach for my FatMax. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-151277-FatMax-Curve-Hammer/dp/B00481IK9A but in all honesty I think Dave is right. Pop down to your local DIY shed and fondle a few shafts for girth, length and weight

You really need to keep in mind your site when designing a house and not just copy one directly. You have to consider views, orientation and sunlight, location of entrance, slope and topography, etc. You might have to flip, mirror, etc the house or parts of it to align with any views you have. eg you don't want the large glazed area facing to the north where you have no view but you'd also need to consider if it was facing south would it overheat that room. If you're on an elevated unsheltered site you'd want to consider the prevailing wind direction and ensure that the carport between the garage and house doesn't end up a wind tunnel. By all means use the house as a starting base or precedent to inform your design but take careful consideration of your own site and requirements.

Not only that but why would you leave so little standing. The loss of zero rated VAT alone would seem crazy?

Interesting. Our property has a fully operating septic tank built over 200 years ago. It has three brick bell chambers and a drainage field that has been replaced recently. The first chamber is full of thousands of small red worms that eat what we deposit We don't use anything that will kill the worms and in 14 years only had to empty it twice and both times they always leave a foot or so in the bottom so they breed again. No smell or issues

OK, me with my spaz hands : got eight fingers of which only six work properly and two just get in the effin' way all the time, I'd just love to have the excuse to buy one of these magnetic hammers. Picking things up to hit with a hammer like as not results in bloodied thumbs and fumbled miss-hits. Yes they're overly expensive, and yes, it'd get nicked, but everyone knows that my lad's the local copper and his missus is the local CSI. In frustration and sheer anger I bought £300 worth of pure joy - a DeWalt nailer, so the £50 these costs is peanuts.

+1 on the Estwing, but probably only worth it if you are really going to be doing some serious nailing.

As far as weight is concerned I prefer 20oz, I find 16 oz to light to drive large nails but ok for panel pins etc.

Well the prices are in. Steel Roof sheets.co.uk quoted £405 including VAT but not carriage with "phone for delivery price" and when I told them where I was they said delivery would be about £500 and they would get a quote for that if I really wanted. Er no thank you. Planwell were £516 including VAT and delivery. Then I tried the two local merchants. Travis Perkins were £342 including VAT and delivery, and Jewsons were £329 including VAT and delivery. so Jewsons have the order. The lesson there seems to be forget the specialist and just go to a builders merchant.

I honestly could not tell you what make my hammer is. I chose it because it has an orange handle and is ever so slightly less hard to find when you have put it down somewhere. The only hammer I have ever broken was an old wooden handled one and I was trying to remove a really stubborn nail and the handle snapped. More modern metal handled hammers don't seem to suffer from that. Otherwise they differ in size and weight.

Use sika to bond the tiles on the reveal so you just end up with the thickness of the tile against the window. The sika can be fag paper thin and still hold like a chav with a winning scratch card.

I rather suspect that there is no such thing :-).

Surely the title of that article should have been "Pitch Perfect"?

I think a roof pitch of 30 degrees is also good (eg for a bungalow) in build terms, since this gives measurements of 1 in ridge height for 2 along the surface of the roof, You can play the same games with eg 3 4 5 triangles for an angle of 37 degrees to keep measurements straightforward, though not quite as simple as 45 degrees. Here is an article in HB&R about it, which also discusses aesthetics (*) https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/getting-the-right-pitch/ But I am sure you will get the balance. Ferdinand (*) The centipede was happy, quite until the frog in fun said: "Pray, which leg goes after which?"; and worked her mind to such a pitch she lay distracted in a ditch - considering how to run.

That's mighty close to the glazing bead, have you checked it for a tile + adhesive?