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I have a couple of 1200 x 800 trays with 1200 glass panel and a 300 “flipper panel”. The flipper panel stops water tracking off the end of the1200 screen, with the tray being 1200 very little water gets out of the shower but enough room to step out of the water spray without leaving the enclosure . I think this works very well ( I don’t like wet rooms)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282194371739 Is this the sort of thing you are thinking of?

Just for info.. I found an online quote place.. https://madetomeasureglassuk.com/toughened-glass/toughened-clear-glass and entered 6mm toughened glass 1800 x 700 1800 x 900 1800 x 300 Came to £237 + VAT just for regular glass with no fittings or mounting holes. The fittings can be quite expensive. Might not be much saving over a complete shower kit?

As long as it is toughened You can do it yourself but take care of the fixings.

You could alternatively go back to square one and get another SE to look at your build plans. From my experience many are over cautious and will cover their arse to the n'th degree. Obviously you don't want issues with your build, but sometimes things are way over engineered. But certainly if you need piling done, get a survey first. And then get ready for a big hit on the wallet (as you have no doubt seen from your the quotes you already have in). I'd also recommending piling in the drier months as it's no fun shifting the rig around in the quagmire and any miss-drilled piles could be at extra cost to you so check the contract carefully!

There a lot of SAP assessors who can be accessed online and they will want copies of the plans and other information. It will probably cost IRO £150 based on what we paid. This is the first company that came up on a search list. https://www.buildenergy.co.uk/what-are-sap-calculations/

I think the effective ultimate lobbying mechanism would be individual MPs to get them to ask Questions, nobble the Housing Minister, the Housing Minister's cabinet level boss and the Chancellor. Plus the direct letters that have to be done. Plus media - letters to nationals and personal stories in locals. Plus perhaps direct contact with journos or twitter journos with sob stories - there are umpteen journos on twitter looking for emotion driven stories. I don't think we can do the mass stuff, as we do not have 50-100k twitterers who will sign any petition that moves. F

I would put a timber patress behind where you intend to hang anything Though Delta is pretty robust

I think the implication of the exception is that a wheelchair user would not be expected to be involved in repair and maintenance, but I would expect laundry-related sockets/switches to be in-scope.

I wouldn't read too much into that, they make RHD cars in batches and try to time it for the current quarter taking into account the five weeks it takes to get here. 150 cars have appeared into inventory over the last couple of days but are almost certain to still be on the ships steaming up the western approaches. Trying to time it for the new tax year I expect.

Our contractors mentioned a recent job with 32m piles which was in their experience exceptional. They said most were between 5m and 10m, but of course it depends on the local conditions. The depth also depends on how much load you need on each pile, which will be determined ultimately by the weight of the building, the line loads and the number of piles. Ours at 150kN per pile was fairly modest, I was told. If we'd required a greater loading then the piles would have needed to go deeper to get the greater resistance on the pile to take the higher load.

I wonder if we could leverage the "power of BuildHub" to try and highlight the unfair way that HMRC are seeking to undermine rules intended to create a level playing field? We have a lot of members, and it seems clear that HMRC are using "bully boy" tactics to try to avoid their legal obligation to ensure that self-builders are treated in the same way as any other house builder within the UK. Not sure how best to tackle this, but it might be worth starting a thread, perhaps with a poll, to see just how much support we may get for lobbying government.

Marmox Multiboard is very similar to this stuff, and very good

It all depends on your own site. I have seen piles over 30m deep and some 5m deep. http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html Load this up and find your site and see if there are any boreholes close by. When you open it up and find your location then click the symbol at the bottom left corner then boreholes and click them. If you see a dot near your site click on it and it will bring up any info about that job.

Since the board apparently has a BBA Agrément Certificate, that should have the details. I'm currently looking for a similar product so just tried looking it up and can't find one, and the link from their own web site is dead (at the foot of this page) which is curious...

It all depends on the site. How big it is will dictate how many holes need done. Then you have to look at the previous history of the site. Has there been something there that might need to be investigated for possible contamination. The main cost of site investigation is the mobilization costs. Once the rig is there its not much more to do another few holes. With a terrier rig, pretty small but will do most jobs, you could do 6/8 holes in a day down to 10m and collect a few samples from each hole. If your looking at depths of 20m + then your into big rigs with bigger gear so will be much slower and more expensive. Has there been any building in the fields beside your site recently. This will be the best indication of how deep you need to go.

Delta fine no need for ply unless you are hanging something heavy Hardly anyone uses marine now Writing facing out

Yes I can access it from the front by pulling off the panel. Previously I've plaster boarded the framework up. But you could easily cut through it to fix it. Just how inaccessible will yours be? I would guess that the worst case would be tiles on cement board in front of it. I always try to make things accessible, but in reality its not always possible. Second best option would be to be able to see it via a endoscope/camera. I've yet to have a leak from a hep2o, I would be more worried about having a brass connector in there. This is my shower setup. consisting of several compression fittings on to hep2o pipe and 4no. 3/4" to 1/2" bsp reducers. This is 100% inaccessible or visible. I do wonder a lot of the time as to whether its dripping away behind there or something. All I can do it try to take comfort in the fact that I left it pressurised for 24h without a sign of leaking. But at the end of the day, if it does leak, I have the ability to fix it and finally get rid of the bloody P-Bath.

In my limited experience, as many as you pay them for. Ideally you want to get some representation of conditions across your building footprint- this is where dynamic probes are better than inspection pits as you can easily move the rig around and as the probes are quite thin, you're not making swiss cheese of the site. Maybe an approach is to do a best / worst case analysis of the piling costs and then see what a day's worth of site investigation will cost as as % of that. You're really paying to remove uncertainty and to select the most cost efficient contractor - the ground conditions will be what they are - so you need to quantify what that is worth to you.

Once you get a house down to where the heating requirement is around 1,500 to 2,000 kWh/year, it may well be possible to build an inter-seasonal heat store to meet the heating needs, but would it be cost effective? Our heating requirement is around 1,500 kWh/year, and with an ASHP running with a COP of 3 (in reality it's more like 3.5), run from off-peak electricity at 8.148p/kWh, the annual heating bill is around £41. An inter-seasonal heat store would have to be very cheap in order to make sense. We find that if our floor slab gets too hot it can take several days to cool down, and all the time the floor is too warm the house will be too warm. I would guess that a trombe wall would behave similarly. We take care to stop the floor slab getting too warm, by running the UFH pump to circulate water around and transfer heat from the warmer areas to the cooler areas. We also fitted solar reflective film on the windows that tended to allow sun to shine on the floor, to reduce the problem a bit.

Protek asked for the specification of the piles and a schedule of piling. I supplied the piling plan which showed the number and location of the piles and ground beam along with the details of the piles we used (150mm tubular steel driven to set for 150kN). They also asked for details of any party wall agreements required which didn't apply in our case. Once the piling was complete they wanted to see the piling log. Just to clarify my comments above, we did have a soil investigation carried out which involved 4 trial pits down to about 2.5m. I am assuming this is what you've already had done for the soil analysis. In our case it was very clear from these that piling would be necessary. If we were borderline and a further investigation could possibly remove the need for piling I would have carried it out. Moreover if the SE or piling company would have said further investigation were necessary I would have had it done. I think it's also worth mentioning that we had a selection of piling quotes, all of which quoted a price to a certain depth and then an additional cost per meter per pile thereafter. All of them made it clear there was no discount if the piles didn't go as deep as their initial depth. With the quotes we gathered the one who quoted the smallest initial depth was also best value at deeper depths but I imagine there may be situations where one company is cheaper at shallower depths and another cheaper at deeper depths and in this case it may be worth having more investigation up front to determine which route would be best value. Finally there's no guarantee that the piles will go to the same depth across the whole site and there can be large variations. I'm not sure how may boreholes a typically geotechnical survey carries out but even with this data there's still a chance the actual piles will need to go deeper (or less deep) in parts of the site as the conditions vary.

Not dead, just resting!

The comment 2 up from here? I think only admin can see this detail. We can only see that you edited it.

Be careful if you do this as if it triggers a ‘completion inspection’ in HMRC’s eyes this is the point at which in a couple of VAT Tribunal cases HMRC decided that the property was complete. As soon as you ask for a completion certificate to be issued HMRC have in some cases decided that this is the start of the 3 month timeline to get the VAT reclaim in because it is the point at which the self builder has personally admitted that the property is complete. Another joyful inconsistency from HMRC.

Don't forget that BC sign off signifies complete so you may run into VAT reclaim issues for dates after that EG getting the VAT back on the kitchen might be problematic if invoice date after sign off.

Outside reveals on a few of the windows, and doors done, and started to batten out for cladding.

I think 58cm should be fine and the basin and shower screen won't have a sharp corners which will both be in your favour

Sink box on left . Shower rectangle on right . As I said I have been a bit greedy and increased shower tray from 1200 x 800 to 1200 x 900 - so I could gain 100 mm Shower will have a full glass screen to that edge

Imperial, not metric router bits ? Hmmm, we going to £SD as well then? Rods, Poles, Pecks soon ? Got to hand it to Bosch though, they're quick off the mark.

Just read the motoring press or watch any major motoring channel. It is not a real car. It’s not even a full concept. Even Tesla fan sites say it is not real. It’s just sheet metal on a tesla “skateboard” chassis. They could put a sheet steel elephant on one if they wanted too.

It is. That grouting is VERY old now. Also it never lined up behind the cistern - keeps me awake at night.....

Yep - will be tiled over . Like you I worry about the brass side leaking not the Hep2o !! . I’ll do it and be damned ! . Spend the rest of my life worrying about a Schrödinger's leak ...... Only way to answer the question years from now will be to smash the tile and backer board out to look at a bone dry connection - then explain to my wife the years of stress it caused - the not knowing ! . Before anyone suggests I’m not going to put some glazing over the fitting so I can watch it !!!

I had one guy on site . Messed up the measurements for some custom walk on glazing . Cost me £3.5k - F ‘ ing idiot !

? People will be hoping it is time to rip it out and start again!!

The Bathroom thread, miss it so much!!

I dared-- correct me if wrong ,but it looks like a glass wall with a reflective surface on inside which allows solar to come through from outside and heat the "THERMAL MASS" the reflective surface (on the glass) stops it exiting as quick as it came in

Despite recent setbacks, word is it may still be released but instead as 'British Sovereign-y' under the Sussex Roil brand.

By amazing co-incidence, 'British Sovereignty' was a premium fragrance due to be released under the Sussex Royal brand later this year.

Must be fakes, the S is backwards ?

I can almost smell the British sovereignty in that picture

I was thinking you must have the calves of one of Cinderella's footmen.