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Maybe light a disposable BBQ in there and smoke the little bugger out. Weve got Capt. McChirpface on the gutter at around 05:00 everyday waking everyone up. He'll be getting a cricket bat around the ear if he doesn't shut his little beak up.

Electricity finally connected today. Yay! Windows were fitted last week and doors are supposed to be tomorrow. I will then have a finished shell. Whilst there is lots still to do I think a fully watertight shell is a definite landmark and reason to celebrate - even though I had hoped to be in by now. My current house will hopefully be fully on the market by the weekend in order to get the bank holiday viewers. Hopefully my luck will be in and someone will fall in love with it.

I built this 7.5 x 5 metre home for £30k

You might have to wait a while for the next thrilling installment! Waiting for the Neurofen to kick in at the mo. Doing the soil pipe yesterday and I didn't bat an eyelid at the smells etc which is unusual for me. I got proper stuck in, gloves but no mask mind. A bucket of bleach to wash the existing components in and hosing it all off in the garden etc. So the reason I feel rough is cholera / typhoid I reckon. Nothing to do with the beer, wine & kebab last night...

Hurrah - Power has been connected Now to arrange meters - I didn't dare do it earlier having cancelled twice

It's been a quiet few weeks on the house site waiting for the contractors to come back, but we have done the following: Building control and quantity surveyor inspected the works carried out to date The plumber supplied our the internal drainage. Anchor straps fitted. Alum clad, triple glazed windows order finalised and placed Attic trusses design reviewed and finalised We are now commencing the final stage of the foundations. In filling the solum is the first job. The solum has now been infilled and whacked with the aggregate. A finer layer is now being added on top. Plenty of diggers and dumpers here. Last day of the foundations. DPC was put down and then the concrete wagon came back on site. We used around 25m3 of concrete and as the photos show through the last few blog posts, we had fantastic weather conditions during this foundation. I was also pleased with the amount of the rubbish that is going to the dump, just four cements bag full of plastic waste.

What you need, son, is summat with a high thermals mass. 300mm of concrete should do it . It's OK, I'm outta here - no need to pick up me coat. ?

Why not avoid the crowds and give up on the ugly downlights...go Spanish and TILE the soffits... @Nickfromwales could do it lying on his back?

I’d be worried for the “caravan roof effect” with a very thin roof as you will hear everything .!!! Splays on the roof lights will help a lot.

I would fully endorse ubiquiti also, done a few installs for businesses and conference facilities. Will be using them in my house also if I ever get to a finished stage. Feel free to ask for any help/advice as @Dreadnaught says. Plug in range extenders (like those mentioned above) quite often reduce the speed and bandwidth of the connection they provide.

Thermal bridging may be an issue, as all the insulation would have to go outside the structure and would inevitably increase the overall wall and roof thickness. The thickness could be kept down by using a high performance insulation, but then the decrement delay would be short, which may well lead to comfort problems in terms of maintaining a stable internal temperature. Lots of potential labour time and cost savings to be made by using a prefabricated steel portal frame, though, but whether they would be greater than the time and cost savings from a prefabricated timber frame I'm not so sure.

Rescuing the chat from here.... ....before it gets to the point where everyones dizzy. Bathroom here and the worlds first motorised, bluetooth, wifi, sonar, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrified but not simplified shower head over there. Excellent save

Just to be clear are you talking about digging 25 years ago and imagining her while digging or digging today and imagining her as she was 25 years ago. Either way the holding it bit is way out of order and the imagining bit is probably exploitation although the general populace was not as clear on that 25 years ago as they are today.

Welcome Claire, Sorry if you know all this but... Make sure you do your due diligence checks on the plot. Over the years there have been a lot of scams involving "building plots" that stand no chance of getting planning permission. In some cases owners end up with land they cant even access to maintain. Essential you use a solicitor of your own choosing and ideally one that has done conveyancing on building plots not just completed houses. Under no circumstances use a solicitor the seller recommends or take up their offer to do the legal work. Many solicitors, even good ones, never even visit the site so you need to be extra careful to ensure you are buying what you think you are. If you haven't got a 60m tape measure it might be worth buying one to do your own mini survey to compare with the plans used to register the plot.

In essence, yes. Ideally the stone wall should have been built with a mortar course 150mm up from the finished roof height, as that makes the job easier. Cutting a straight slot through a mix of mortar joints and stone will be harder, depends on the stone. I had to cut a flashing slot in a Cornish granite rubble stone wall years ago, which wasn't a lot of fun, but that's probably at the extreme end, sandstones are often a lot easier to cut. Dressing the lead flashing down over an uneven wall shouldn't be a problem.

£1,500 should be achievable, if the circumstances are right. Beware plots on sloping ground, with no services, demolitions with asbestos or bat surveys. We only had a fixed price on the timber frame, the rest we used local builders or specialist trades. And purchase your own materials rather than supply by builder, I found they pop into the local BM and pick whatever they need at a higher price than I could usually find.

Ahem...45 sq/m for £10k???

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Mine had long disappeared from the planning website so I asked the council to send me pdf files that I printed A3 and sent. I’ve got through that part of the process as they wrote to me to say that my claim would now be processed (eventually .......).

I sent A4 prints from the planning website and they accepted them OK. They do look at them I found, as they came back to us with a question about the bike storage shed being ineligible for VAT reclaim, even though it was on the approved plans. As we'd only added that (as a lean to on the side of the garage) to comply with the Code for Sustainable Homes rules, and as those rules were withdrawn between the time we submitted our application and the date it was approved, we didn't build the bike storage shed anyway. I wrote and told them that, with a photo of the garage as built to prove it, and they seemed content.

Believe it or not, after a great deal of searching around for a wide rail, without too many bars or being too high, I found it on ebay of all places. The seller was Company Blue and they still have the same rails available: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1300mm-Wide-400mm-HIgh-Heated-Towel-Rail-Radiator-Chrome-Straight-Bathroom/191256380598?hash=item2c87c4c4b6:g:KOoAAOSwPcVVlAq0 If you want white, then they are a bit cheaper: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1300mm-Wide-Straight-White-Towel-Rail-Radiator-Towel-Radiator-Bathroom-Designer/191343834476?hash=item2c8cfb356c:m:m_Lon_6Feeg6LYVgC0LqcMg

Should find what you need here ... https://www.waterirrigation.co.uk/pipes-and-fittings/pipe-fittings/tap-and-hose-connectors.html

On the nature of PCM34, as Andrew Bessell of SunAmp told us, PCM88 uses Strontium Bromide Hexahydrate. Source reposted by @Alphonsox from the previous forum here: In the letter from Andrew Bessell on the current issues re posted with permission by @le-cerveau in the thread below it says only that SU34 is a bromide with a different metal ion, i.e. not Strontium.

@JSHarris Bromide is causing the issue in the PCM88 ( not 58, a totally different compound ) and its the bromide in the 34 that's causing concern. Note the 34 isn't actually known to be suffering or to have failed, but the 88 has failed, catastrophically, so the 34 has been pulled temporarily as a precautionary measure.

I have one - have not had this issue but agree that the seal between incoming filter and chamber is not 100% - I gave our heat exchanger a good clean last year once we'd finished our landscaping - was quite grubby but scrubbed up well.

We also get flies in the filter chamber of ours, but nothing gets through the pollen filter on the intake side at all. I took the heat exchanger out of ours last year to see if it needed cleaning, but it was spotless, no trace of any dust or anything in it. We do have a problem with fluffy floating seeds partially blocking the intake grill outside, which means I have to get up a ladder with a brush and clean it periodically, but I'm planning on running an external duct extension from that down to a lower level, with an easily accessible pre-filter screen, as a long term measure to try and help keep the main filter a bit cleaner. I agree with what @Declan52 has said, it sounds like the filter isn't sealing properly and is allowing stuff to bypass it, so it's worth checking that everything is properly fitted and sealed.

I live in midge central and my vent axia b+ seems to filter them out pretty good. Are you sure that you have everything fully clicked in place after cleaning it. Or can you add a finer mesh to your inlet/outlet covers to stop them here.

Wow, very nice Brickwork Hecateh . My walls are very similar I am looking forward to the end.