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I'd be VERY careful with your search terms there.....

Had a few days off so doing the prep for the shed...managed a lick of paint in the loo too Doesn't look like much but tackled a jungle of bush with a friend's Lidl petrol strimmer Job done ? Update Tried the Glasgow Barras (flea market) for three items I wanted for the hut. An hour of raking through junk and found nothing other than a big teapot...but without its lid. Headed over to the west end dissatisfied but looking forward to a spicy curry from Mother India Cafe as compensation. One curry tapas medley later and thought I'd try some of the trendy second hand/antique shops in the area. Bingo Bango in the first shop. All three things on the list...30 squids! We got a catering teapot ( for heating water for washing up on the stove) a brass and copper coal scuttle and a nice toast fork...and I made a nice picture for you lot to look at since the forum is quiet.???

FFX sometimes have good deals on,

We buy loads from Amazon. They have always been very good when there has been a problem.

I ended up using the file claim process after an order failed to materialise. Can't remember now if it was out of stock or they wouldn't deliver up here. IIRC you have to contact them first and if they fail to respond, file a claim (time limits apply). Having filed my claim, my money was refunded. I think the sellers refunded rather than Amazon in my case but from what I remember, Amazon operate an escrow type operation with sellers accounts. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201889730 I don't think you have anything to worry about. You should get a refund if it doesn't arrive / isn't what it's advertised as, it'll just be the hassle and delay of going through the process.

Three things.... I think I picked up the tip of marking the PIR with the tape like that from one of your early videos before I was maybe even on eBuild. Was it you doing a loft conversion? Second, totally disagree about the proper Celotex saws. I've got a little pink one! Thirdly.....pretty sure there's a market for vids of girls in PPE wielding power tools. Some people find it very "exciting"...

You should consider getting the Samaritans to sponsor your videos

I think a decent filter would be a necessity. My DIY one was going to be longer and use copper. But I wouldn't be able to have the corrugated pipe surfaces. Edit to add: surely copper is adequately long lived, unless you're planning on showering in salt water or battery acid??

Don't tell me about hair! Between the wife and daughter it's like living with a pair of Cousin Its! It's No.2 clippers all over for me!

Who's ready for some more moaning? Im getting quite good at this... why can't i moan for 2-3 minutes, It can't be done so heres another 8 min video

A big house with lots of bedrooms will no doubt become a grandchildren magnet with the hordes descending for holidays & festivities. Just when you thought you'd got rid of the kids!

Not everyone is English!

Welcome indeed. 6miles from Cambridge means we are not to far apart depending which direction you are going? Dunno if that's a good thing or not but good luck either way. I'm fairly sure the fact you found this place will make it a "better" if not "cheaper" build

hi and welcome, a 300mm-350mm twin stud or i beam wall fill with pumped cellulose will be warm and quiet, 3g windows, good design and mvhr = passive. i agree on the smaller footprint with founds poured incase of extension. futureproof running costs for the future. simon

This is how the half day shift started And this was afterwards OSB bit is for the shed and the decking part will be open to the front to create a little *bus shelter* area. And this is the Hut looking dressed up in the snow?

PMSL You don't think ?!? FFS........ Ill buy you the bastard thing if you hurry up and get some tiles on. ? ??????

That is all true, and you can be tax efficient when building in your own garden. However, I would still put a question mark over building your dream home as it would have been a decade ago. I hope you don't mind trenchant arguments - most people welcome strong opinions as "iron striking iron" even if they reject them. If you plan to stay then don't you need to be building the dream home you want to live in in 2025 not 2005 or you could end up with lots of cleaners and 2 or 3 permanently empty bedrooms? Is it better to reconsider? I currently live in somebody else's dream home which didn't suit them after their kids left, and then stopped coming back as much since they developed families and responsible jobs away. Unfortunately for them they never completely finished while they still needed it and then the market tanked and the cost won over the benefit. However it suits me perfectly and they had to drop their price by 20% as it was 2013. All I did was build the conservatory and gravel the drive, and have fixed some corners they seem to have cut, and I have a lovely home. To be fair I had previously had to drop *mine* by significantly more than that to shift what was my parents' house of 35 years. Options could be to have a design which is smaller but suitable for extension but not build the extension (or do a further PP afterwards for an extra wing and just lock in the PP by building foundations), or build something that could be split later, or build two, or do something extravagant for real fun such as a gym or 4 car garage for the classic cars you are about to collect, which could be converted later, or a ballroom. Or think of something to do with the other half of it you may not use. In Cambridge, however, you probably won't have selling problems for a large family house unless all the Sky Is Falling In predictions about Brexit coming from the various Professors Henny Penny in academe turn out to be even worse than feared, as you are in the London penumbra. Ferdinand

now you just need to get yourself a label maker. and put everything back when you have finished with it, (you might already be that kinda guy, unfortunately i am not ) i bought a smaller red one a while ago and tried mounting it in the back of the van, lets just say that was a bad idea because when they fall over they make a hell of a mess, now its in the workshop somewhere upside down in a mess, maybe ill tidy it all up someday, maybe ill tidy the rest of the workshop while I'm at it...........LOL who am i kidding

Well I've only had chance to listen to the first podcast and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jeremy does sound far too young However his verbal style is as clear and confident as his writing. As as for the rest of this thread....... GROUP HUG ???

I'm slowly reassembling the workshop. So here's today's task. A bit of tool storage porn

Not wanting to detract from this thread so I'll keep it short. Ref the issues between myself and Jeremy, we've been in direct contact throughout the day and the air has I hope been cleared over this. I'm in a better position knowing what apparently went on over eBuild's demise. Jeremy made some comments in haste ref his setting up his own site which riled myself and others. I bit and had a little dig back then and that carried on over to here. Jeremy has been gracious enough to admit this and I've genuinely conveyed my respect for what he's achieved and that I would be sad to see him go. I really do mean that. Apologies also for the self promotion jibe. I'd like to leave it at that. Regards

Thanks for all the messages of support, they are appreciated. Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've just spent a couple of hours writing a PM to Jamie, copied to the staff and another here, explaining, wholly from my perspective and what I've heard subsequently, what went down back in May. Sadly he's blocked PMs from me so won't get to read it.......................

Well @noobuilder, its good to feel the energy in your enthusiasm. Now that, that takes skill. Ian

Newts might do it for me.... I'll apply for some research funding

The word "shed" doesn't really do it justice does it?

As Natural England rejected our application to re-home the bats today I thought I'd update this thread by swearing and throwing a tantrum Oh alright then. How about a picture of the doors that I made at the weekend. Two sets (sorry only one set photographed), one set for the workshop and one for the store. Of course they're massively over engineered (when will I ever learn!). I didn't want flimsy tongue and groove boarding so instead machined up my own boards using 25mm stock and then bonded them together with a large number of biscuits! All the frames are loose tenon jointed. Everything glued, pinned and screwed for good measure. Seems a shame to paint them black but that's what the planners demand. All I need to do now is re-enforce the door frames to take the weight :D.