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@Nickfromwales Promise I will start a new topic when or if I get more details. In the mean time @Barney12 and @JamieM here is a link to the VortexAir Hybrid with some basic information.

As a little tip, we brought an old vax for £20 and used it to clean the entire slab before our carpets went down, it worked really well and removed all the dust and plaster splashes, everyone thought I was mad at time but was well worth the day I spent doing it.

Sitting in another Parish Committee meeting (I'm not a councillor), I regularly hear invalid reasons for objection put forward. The best of tonight's crop were; '.... the design includes a lift.... and I think it's going to be used as a care home...', and that from a Councillor So, I spent a few moments googling 'invalid reasons for objecting to planning applications' And this is what I found; Martin Goodhall's planning blog K S Law's site Clackmannashire's planning site Designing Buildings Wiki The Government's own advice (read 'What Cannot Be Considered') I spoke up, and said that I thought speculation about motive for the build was probably unwise, and might well be improper (impugning the application). Got shot at for saying that. That's absolutely fine by me. It's a privilege to be taken to task for openness. None of us is getting older are we? None of us are going to need a lift in our old age. Everyone uses stair-lifts. What's the 'worst' reason for objection you've heard?

Has anybody used an acid etch. It's used in Australia to scratch up the surface of new polished floor slabs before tiling. Works a treat.

This should be fun... Actually I think the former is actually the pattern, pattern for the shape I want to form. The mould is the thing into which you pour the, for want of a better word, stuff you want to form into a given shape. Dictionary definition is: 'a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens.' So, @jack would say never start a sentence with so, now the mould in this case is the expanded polystyrene slab former supplemented by the shower tray former, which together FORM the mould. Ergo, ipso facto, inter alia and among other things and to be perfectly pedantic - until @Nickfromwales or some other master of both English and the language of the technology of casting concrete tells us otherwise, the former is just / only part of the mould and as such is FORMING part of said mould. Let the fun commence, I will look for a pin the head of which I can throw some shapes upon

Building inspection today and he was very happy with work so far!not a single issue... hooray! ..... Roof now completely gone and one cheek in.

I'd second just doing this over the phone, and do as jack says, far better, in my view, to keep things as informal as possible at this stage, and just spell out that you have a duty of care to keep the site safe and secure until the hedge has grown and become established enough to form an adequate barrier.

I think your Heras fencing argument is a good one. Instead of threatening that option, perhaps consider calling (not emailing) and explaining that: (a) until the building work is completed you have a legal duty to keep the site secure, and the current fence achieves that outcome. Rather than threatening Heras fencing, just make the comparison (ie, I'd be allowed to have Heras fencing, and it's more than 1m high, so why is this more attractive fencing not compliant for the moment?) (b) say that you want to work with them to make sure you get the sizing of the hedge right up front, and ask them what size and density they would consider acceptable. I think it's difficult for them to insist you meet some arbitrary standard that they won't set out in concrete terms up front. Whatever you do, I'd be inclined to keep it verbal rather than putting it in writing. When you write something down, people tend to read and re-read it (especially if they don't like what they read). Small things become large, distorted things. It's a lot easier to sound reasonable by phone.

Carpet fitter was trying to push me out of the way in my house but I insisted on scraping and hoovering every inch of the dusty weyroc. I would have preferred to PVA it all too but it was 3 days before Xmas and I was running behind. .

I've got the Wilo pump - pure preference being those are now plastic casings and the noise is lower.

Only from wet trades mixing mortar directly on it ..... ask me how I know that ..!!

Tbh.....the original idea was a standard, round waste in the very corner i.e away from the UFH pipe. Then "someone" posted an all singing, all dancing job he'd done with the wall corner mitred and the shower controls set on that. Made the mistake of letting the missus see it etc, etc.

Grant engineering now do a hybrid asap and oil boiler probably more suitable for the NI market where much of rural NI have no mains gas. They had it on display at the show, I'm waiting on more detailed information coming through from their technical department.

As above, with a cut roof and 50 x 125 rafters I would use a 25 x 200 ridge board. As Nick explained better than me the ridge in this situation is not structural. The roof gets it's strength from the triangulation of rafters / ceiling joists etc all being nailed together. This stops any spread loading on the wall plates (even though it's only a dormer).

I'm assuming you mean the ridge board as opposed to a ridge beam. If it's only a ridge board 50 x 250 is way overkill, with 50 x 125 rafters I would use more like 25 x 200.

Welcome aboard . Another from the land of the hot press.