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Completion certificate received. I guess it's no longer a dream.....

On the back of @epsilonGreedy's crane thread. This is the house built by Wayne Scott, a rather clever chap I know in NZ. A prolific "ideas" man. He'll design a desk then a crane. Often accompanied by beautiful charcoal sketches. Steel feature "reeds" are Corten steel about 5 years old:

I remember reading somewhere that plastic wall ties were discontinued due to the risk of wall collapse in the event of fire in the cavity. I came to the conclusion the overall heat loss of ties was minimal due to the diminutive cross sectional area ( 64mm2 per m2 ) or 1mm2 per 15000mm2 of wall area for a >250mm cavity. Also the wider the cavity the less the effect of tie material. Stainless steel was a fraction of the price of basalt and the heat loss was counteracted by an extra 10mm of cellulose in the attic according to PHPP.

Then give Tanners a ring; competent, straight sensibly priced.

now you just made it non standard mentioning retaining walls,etc so yes you will need an SE --but surely best to use the design the maker of your chosen ICF system suggests

you mean you weren’t impressed with the way your roofer did it!!!, GRP can look very good if done correctly and is my choice fir flat roofs.

I was going to say that it sounds like I could pack my whole roof up and bring it to you, though I reckon the poor old Toyota Prius might strain a little if asked to carry a 100m2 roof. I presume the fully treated and coated boards would be screwed into place as per normal, with the screws going through the coating etc, but then being covered over by the subsequent strips?

Fibreglass is a manufacturer of materials, it should be glass fibre, as opposed to flakes or powders. Bit like saying Hoover instead of vacuum cleaner, or even thermal mass instead of material thermal properties. Many different plastics can be reinforced with glass.

Probably. Does the work done cope with the water delivered to that area of your house ? If so, bingo! Tea, medals. Peaceful sleep. If not, (... should be...) then come back here and describe the problem in some detail. Relax we'll all pitch in to help. We love a challenge.

Or, you could cut the roofing decking Parts and pre treat them with GRP, you then only have to do the joins, I have never done this but read about it.

Is the store part of the existing property boundary ..?? i.e. has it been used as ancillary to the current dwelling as a store..? If so, it is deemed to be part of the existing dwelling house and any conversion would be at 20% VAT not 5% VAT. The lower rate only applies for conversion from one building type to another (office to residential etc Also, it’s highly unlikely you will get PP for the second 1 bed dwelling on it’s own as the council won’t see it as such. You won’t get any refund under self build VAT as you won’t qualify, and your mortgage funder is unlikely to fund the second build as it would be commercial. Unless you must keep the store, I would bulldoze the lot and start again.

I'm in the middle of drawing my plans for an extension for building control, which I will post on here in my blog when they are done, but may not be done until November time. Not for a full house, but will give you some ideas of whats required. Its masonry cavity wall too.

Because the resin needs an oxidising agent to link the polyester chains together. So it tries to get the oxygen out of the water, but it cannot break the strong H2O bond, so the water just gets dispersed in the free stryrene, which is carbon and hydrogen, and does not need anymore hydrogen. Or It just makes a sticky mess.

I agree. Normally permitted development provided not more than half the original garden has been built on nor would it be within 7 meters of the rear boundary.

We bought one,. First year it worked well, the leaves fell down quickly in a sharp frost and they blew into nice piles easily. Next year, the leaves fell down gradually in a prolonged wet and windy spell. The leaves were stuck to the ground with water and the blower would not shift them and they never dried all winter enough for the blower to shift them. We used the rake.

A real pita to hook out when the cosmetic silicone needs refreshing. The grout is fundamental and the silicone sacrificial.

See, that’s double the price of a normal one. Electric for me, obvs, but more a question of cordless/corded? Is a vacuum necessary? as it’s harder to empty the bag than blowing them into a pile and using those big plastic bin lid hands to pick up the leaves.

I would tap around the crappy looking bits with the corner of a bolster and see what falls out, then fill in with a matching mortar. Unless you get driving rain against this wall it is unlikely to cause issues. The bricks do not look porous.

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=building+regulation+drawings Then look for ‘images’.

The thing is Peter Starck that If you and Wendy did it yourself, You get a sense of pride, and even if it is not perfect (not saying the work you did was not ) it can be done to a standard that you are happy with. I think Pocster is a professional. A total professional B. S.er.???

It's definitely tricky... When it comes to what's acceptable, that varies from person-to-person but as a minimum you can expect them to work to the relevant British standard and the manufacturer's guidelines. For tiling a floor for example, there will be a BS specifying the tolerances they should be fitted to, and the tile manufacturer will have their own on top of that. If the tiler has met both of those, I would say they're within their rights to consider their job done and expect payment. If not, then unfortunately it's you as the buyer who's stuck with the job of checking it and pulling them up on it and getting it resolved. I'm with you in the sense that there is pretty much no amount of money you can spend that will guarantee you a result that would please a perfectionist. Everything is manufactured to tolerances and built to tolerances. My company makes aluminium glazing products on a large scale and there are rules about what size scratches in the powder coating are acceptable and how far away you have to stand from the glass to identify a defect. When you buy a chocolate bar, there are rules about how many insect parts can be inside it before it is rejected. Making things with absolutely no defects is just not viable.

When you have a complicated case like this with £££ riding on it you really need to write to HMRC and ask them. It will come down to what they say ultimately, not what people think on here. I don’t think you can leave the building and incorporate it into the new house and have it count as a new build as it fails the “demolish everything to foundations” test. It might then turn it into a conversion instead but it would fail on that point as the building you are demolishing has been a dwelling and presumably lived in.

+1 on not needing it to be 'not flat'. Many GRP roofs are fitted because of this attribute. Panic yea' not.

please don’t, it’s fixable, honest It might be fir him but not for most people (me included) an angle grinder and a flap wheel to take off the rough bits (as long as you don’t go right through, but even if you did it’s patchable) and a bit of topcoat will fix it. flat is ok, I had a GRP roof that had a dip in it (no I didn’t do it!) and a permenant puddle existed in wet weather but it was ok. @ProDave has an old GRP boat, they go on for many years. time to move on, no one has died, consider it a learning experience and onwards to the next hurdle ?‍♂️

Hello, It’s been around two months since we moved in. After a brief period of enjoying the summer and the new house we have made a push towards getting our completion certificate. We got our air test which came back as 3.33. We got the property registered for Council tax, pleased the assessor rated the property as a band D. The last bit of major building work has been the construction of the ramp and decking. We always knew that because of the ground conditions and the suspended timber floor our ramp was going to be higher than your average. After considering many different options we decided to build one out of Siberian Larch, which allowed us to have just a single order and the joiners could do the two together. I’ll need to apply some non-slip oil in the next few weeks. Here is one of the ramp And the decking. As with many self builders I now have an abundance of wooden pallets. I broke a few of them up and started on this. It’s a wood store. Still some finishing touches required. What’s next, all being well, hopefully a final inspection and completion. Other jobs which won’t hold this up, but on the to do list are proper downpipes and ordering gravel for around the house.

10 rolls delivered from Germany for £179.

I used to think these were only for professionals or turbo-nonces who like to strut around their garden wearing a tool belt and pretending they’re Batman. Is there anything I need to know before I ignore all your advice and buy the cheapest one I can find online?

I was unwilling to pay the extra for that, and no slots free on a Monday, may day off. Hopefully they will turn up on Wednesday before I go to work, but I think they use Hermes. Friday 21 August 2020 by Neil Tollfree Amazon offers option to pre-report lost parcel if delivery assigned to Hermes Amazon will now offer customers the chance to pre-report a lost parcel if the delivery has been assigned to Hermes. “If your delivery is assigned to Hermes, then it is pretty much certain that package will end up left up a tree, under a motorway flyover, or on Ebay,” explained Amazon representative Simon Williams. “So, from Monday, as soon as a delivery is assigned to Hermes, customers will have the option to immediately report the parcel as missing and request a replacement or refund. “There will be no need to wait for the inevitable ‘We’ve left your parcel in a bin in an industrial park six miles away’ card to come through your letterbox, everyone will just assume that, because it’s Hermes, that’s going to happen anyway.” Amazon customer Mark Hammond approved of the plan. “Really good idea. Will save a lot of time,” he said. “Only the other day, I got a card through my letterbox from Hermes saying that as no-one was in, they’d left my parcel on my doorstep in a parallel dimension. “So, then I had to spend the rest of the week reading up on trans-dimensional physics and creating a portal to the parallel dimension and when I finally went through the portal, I found they’d left the parcel in a pile of dog-shit and then piled more dog-shit on top of it. “I wouldn’t have minded, but I was in all day.” Hermes responded to Amazon’s move saying ‘f**k off, we’re Hermes, we don’t give a shit. C**ts.”

...maybe Edit: Yes I did!

@OnoffHave you actually drawn a pair of scissors ✂️ on the cut line for lowering your noggin?? ?

I read the post title and thought it said ‘tiles’... ?

Two-stroke leaf blowers must be one of the most anti-social contraptions ever devised. First thing I'll ban when I'm king of the world.

Shall just wait till New Year then,, will have the whole world of choice, and tariff free too. I have now decided to embrace the winning side. Keeping friendly with my Brexiteer neighbour as he has guns, one never knows.