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You can pour a shallower depth of screed using it.

I've only done concrete floors until our conversion. Choice of cemfix or a designed concrete pumped screed. Nobody offering anhydrite that I came across, hence my ignorance of this laitence issue. The cemfix pumped easily and flowed well. The only issue has been a couple of shrinkage cracks where another crack inducer would have been better. Completely hard and ready for tiling. With concrete there should be no need to take laitence off. Twice had to grind it but for super-flat industrial spec, not because of laitence. But yes, too much "fat" is a problem if not controlled.

I did that in the last house. I used less that 1/4 of them. In the end I ‘hid’ the rest inside a false wall, never to be seen again.

Wood is a fairly good insulator , don’t make that job more complicated than it needs to be. Just get that ledger board bolted on solid.

PVC and ABS are very different plastics. Solvent cement is great for PVC and ABS see HERE, but you have more options with ABS See HERE although you probably don't need them if it is just for plumbing.

Don’t worry, Shit happens 🤣 and I am happy now 👍😎

Boarding the garage finished. Unfortunately the plasterers got held up on another job so have promised to start over the weekend. Also did a big tidy up so the site is looking neat and tidy again inside and out. I also got the differently tinted glazing unit replaced in guest bedroom so now all the windows match again. Unfortunately they managed to badly scratch the alu cladding. It’s being replaced next week. In hindsight I’m less convinced the alu cladding is a good idea. It might be replaceable but most of mine is behind the timber cladding so it would be quite a task to replace it. Fortunately the bit they damaged is at the bottom so accessible. I was chatting to someone yesterday who was asking me about some of the advantages of building your own house. Apart from all the obvious things I told her the thing that’s surprised me the most is how quiet it is. The other day, when the wind was gusting above 45mph here, you could barely hear it. It was quite surreal to watch the trees bending under the force of the wind but for there to be little audible evidence of it. Also there no rain noise on either the flat roof or the metal roof. Compare that to the metal garage and thing sounds like it’s going to take off. That said, it’s surprisingly airtight with very few drafts. Big week next week. I finally get the borehole plant equipment installed and all the drainage and PTP installed.

I’d go with the hiring of the unit first as posted earlier, as starting currents on generators can be a funny thing. as always start the generator, let it get warmed up and then apply load, too many dafties, turn generator on, then apply full load and it dies… they then give negative Amazon reviews due to the lack of brain cells/ not reading manufacturer instructions

Yes I think you’re 100% right that would be an issue AliG. In theory if the staircase lands further south than on existing drawing, or is made to be with tweaking, that may give just enough head height/floor space as you enter the craft room. Perhaps utilising that low comb height for low level storage. Our Comb height is 1.4m and you don’t really notice it unless you’re mental and stand against the wall for some odd reason, but in fairness that’s on a 45deg roof pitch so would be more noticeable on Glen’s house with the shallower pitch.

It looks as though the 28A starting current would need as a bare minimum a 6kW genny and as @markc says they are notoriously difficult to size correctly. Modern inverter based gennys are more economical at part-load but have all sorts of protection in them which may trip. Suggest you hire one for the weekend and if successful buy the exact same model. Does your HP have a quiet mode or night mode which might draw less current? Another old trick is to get a biggish induction motor and run that in parallel. Start that first with a star-delta starter, then its rotating mass will help supply the HP on startup. But this would require intervention every time and is not easy to automate.

I’ve seen lots of people do this, loads on you tube and insta, lots do it badly and a few do it well. What i see the good ones doing. Build some additional accommodation so let’s say your having a double garage. Build this first, then drag the static over to it and join them together install a wood burner in the garage, with a washing machine and a small drying area, leave the door open to the static, or even cut the door out twice as wide, the warm air keeps the static cosy, little front room in the garage and sleeping only in the static. .

Water softener or move to soft water area