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The vet usually gets them from him!

just the once pre fitting. ours was done in the factory and came delivered ready done - so much easier.

All to do with volume of the house.

Did anyone see impossible builds last night, couple building a large cabin in the woods, it came all ready, built by a company in Cumbria and delivered to site in two halves! It was on wheels because of planning regs, very interesting but cost £280k!

Ah, but that’s before the liberal dose of snake oil which will reveal a shimmering lump of googoo magic which you’ll be at pains to understand how you didn’t know about such money saving miracles before! ? Heavens above they may even need to add some external LED’s???

I have just noticed today that my larch is starting to ‘weather’ over a year on. The Silvalbp coating is doing what they say. Shame really as I loved it ‘new’. What is interesting is that I have a bench in a very exposed part of the garden. Seat made of left over Silvalbp larch. Been there about 9 months so much less than that on the house. The larch on the bench has gone a beautiful silver colour almost without me noticing it changing. The house larch which is more sheltered is a long way behind on the weathering when you compare the two. Photos don't really show it that well.

Anything "supply and fit" on a new build house should be rated at 0% by the supplier, so they are correct you have to go back to the supplier and tell them they should have rated it at 0% and you want the over paid VAT returned from them.

12kW seems a lot for a newbuild. What floor area/insulation/air leakage? Nibe is at the expensive end of things so price for heat pump seems O.K. What sort of floor for the UFH and who is laying it? You will be paying for an 'RHI premium'. Most people on here get heat pump etc from ebay etc for a fraction of NIBE prices and forego the small RHI income on a well insulated house.

Cheap coke but use diet and put it in the cistern first ..!! Flush it through the whole lot as it removes limescale everywhere. Aldi 19p Diet Coke is fine for this.

If coke/bleach fail then Barkeepers Friend is excellent stuff too btw. I use it occasionally on our cheapest of the cheap, Wickes stainless steel sink. Used it too on an enamelled hob. Really is good stuff. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bar-Keepers-Friend-Surface-Household/dp/B00BLKGJ2G

+1 on the cheapest cola you can find. But....you have to scoop out and dry the water in there before you add the coke. Bleach mixed with baking soda to make a paste that'll cling to the pan sides.

Full fat coke a cola and wd 40. Let the coke sit in the pan and the acid in it eats away. Flush and repeat till only the hard bits left. Spray wd 40 and use a toliet brush to scrub it.

My understanding from some of the claims that were rejected, is spending on the build had ceased some time before the claim. I suspect that if you have a steady stream of receipts up to the point of submitting the claim that you should be okay or at least will have a damned good case to appeal. I would argue (cough) that you had to pay council tax because the council insisted, even though the house was not complete and you had not moved in.

I submitted in November, 18 months after moving in (but 2 months after getting BCO sign-off). Required external & landscaping work (i.e. condition of planning / BCO) continued up to the claim date. Was 100% honest on the form with dates etc. All got paid in full, no quibbles. However, there are reports of it going the other way so it may be dependent on which individual processes your refund and what they had for breakfast etc.

Can you not have piles, concrete ring beam, beam and block ground floor with brick and block ground floor walls and timber frame above? No issues with corrosion, fire protection or flood resilience. You could externally clad the timber frame walls in slate, hanging tile or cement weatherboard.

I went thIs morning to Sheffield to collect my booty from the second of these sales, and it turned out better I am glad to say. I bought these 3 x kitchen mixer taps for stock for refurbs. and these bathroom counter taps incl. a spare plus a waterfall bath filler for my upstairs bathroom redo in Sept. Total paid including the rather hefty charges and VAT, was about 35% of retail, which is OK but I would not want to pay much more in an auction. I would go again, but I am only 45 minutes away. Ferdinand

It seems entirely random. On this site the current permission is for something that looks like the house next door, we don't particularly like it. Yet across the road when a house was built in another listed house garden they insisted on something modern and not a "pastiche". The funny thing is that after years of argument, they approved a modern house across the road. Someone then bought the land and reapplied for a much less interesting, cheaper to build house and it just sailed through with no argument. I am still suspicious that in fact the planner was going to approve our house and his boss stopped him. In the immediate vicinity of 7 or 8 houses, there is a render and brick listed house, a sandstone listed house, two rendered 1930s houses, a render and zinc 2015 house, a red brick 1980s house a render and stone 1980s house and a pebbledash 1970s house.