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Hmmm, tricky one to answer. If i am to be charitable to my conservation/planning department it could be the fact that I pointed out the site has been extensively disturbed back in the 80s when some ground condition tests were carried out. If I was to be skeptical, it would be that I pointed out the condition was capitalised, so was specific, not general, and I wasn't in the said area's so therefore was invalid. Take your pick, but personally I think it probably falls 60/40 into the first category. Whichever, I am more than happy

Haha. I was wondering how I came up in this forum. 21275 cans according to the measurement shown in the pic! I just paid for the tiles today, Foster's cans may have been cheaper!

Hi guys, I'm in the middle of purchasing plumbing gear and have already bought my geberit toilet frames and hansgrohe shower valves from megabad Toilets https://www.megabad.com/hersteller-geberit-spuelkaesten-montageelemente-unterputz-spuelkasten-a-216944.htm Showers https://www.megabad.com/hersteller-hansgrohe-showerselect-thermostate-unterputz-2-a-212325.htm So next purchase is going to be wall taps, and i'm wondering about what brands people would recommend? I have been having a good look around and there is a site tapswhareshouse that seems to have some good prices on the brands i have heard of vado and crosswater. The Grohe/Hansgrohe wall taps are very expensive. The front plate and basic body are nearly double the price of the crosswater taps! They also have brands like Vellamo which seem to have very similar specs to the crosswater etc. Solid brass/Ceramic Disc etc etc. Has anyone used them? Would i be mad to skimp on such an item? Thanks Damian

Megabad order was fine but we were using a Euro card. Likely would have been as easy otherwise. Invoice in German isn't great but there you go. We are only buying the things that are really much cheaper there. Wall taps etc we will get in the UK as the stuff the have on megabad is just too expensive. We went to a few local places and one did up some designs but we didn't end up going with most of what the suggested.

All depends on how you valued the time it took to make yours

Nice ladder Almost as good as my approach at a price of £0.00 (+ £0.00 VAT of course)!

Thanks for the replies to my question, they are very helpful. I will discuss the issue of safety with my neighbour and maybe look to see if there is a part of the agreement which could include something to ask them to take all reasonable steps to ensure that their property is safe? There seem to be a number of aspects to this. If I or my builder was injured whilst on my neighbour's property, the liability might be different if it was due to poor or unsafe practice by me or my builder as opposed to unsafe practice by my neighbour (the neighbour's rake in Construction Channel's reply, for example)? I will check with my builder with regards his insurance and my insurance company with regards to me. I think that the issue of damage to my neighbour's property is a little clearer, in that should I drop a hammer on my neighbour's roof and crack a tile, it would be perfectly reasonable for my neighbour to expect this damage to be made good. We have already agreed verbally that I will, as a goodwill gesture, make good some cracked hard standing on their property before we leave it. I am also channelling a foul drain connection through their property and I will make good the back-fill and surface.

(Note: this is opinion not advice. I may be anal sometimes but IANAL.) This is a tricky one, as much for the relationship as for the law. This is my longish analysis trying to be relevant to projects of all sizes for future visitors. Agree with @RichS above on yours - this is probably not a hill of beans. I was going to try and summarise the principles, but it is difficult without reading the Occupiers Liability Acts from both 1957 and 1984 and writing an essay about Common and Statute Law. To understand Duty of Care read those 2 acts or a summary thereof. Wikipedia will probably be a place to self-educate quickly, as it is established law so not very controversial. With the husk off, this is how I see it: 1 - Should you go "formal", you are in a very weak position to negotiate. At the end of the day, this is a favour by permission only, and he can have you over a barrel holding a horse-whip whenever he wants. You need your neighbour to allow your scaffolding or your workers on his land. He can tell you to take a running jump with no cost to himself except a potentially ugly wall built overhand and the loss of whatever rent you will be paying him for scaffolding if you are using it (£25-£100 a week perhaps?). 2 - Legally you can enforce access to maintain existing structures in the end with a Court Order under the Access to Neighbouring Lands Act. That does not cover new developments or structures. 3 - From his viewpoint, if a bloke wanting scaffolding or workers on my land - with or without a rent - started talking about his need to preserve the right to take legal action against me if one of his builders did something stupid and broke his neck, trust would evaporate completely and I would quite possibly simply not allow you to do it. Ever. 4 - I trust you are aware that Planning Permission does not overrule any of your neighbour's legal rights; it gives you permission to build something provided no one else has a legal right to stop it that they choose to enforce. A favourite phrase by Planners is "not a material planning consideration", which translates to "this is your problem or opportunity and we will not get involved". So how to proceed? 1 - Your need is a) to convince / satisfy your neighbour and then b) to make sure your workers are safe. Proving b is perhaps the best route to satisfying a. 2 - Throwing the document back in his face, or a blunt refusal to consider it is not a possibility imo. One option is to sign it and rely on the rareness of landowners being sued after construction accidents to third parties using their land by permission (I wouldn't be surprised if the actual occurrence is a couple of cases in 25 years), plus the professionalism of your builders. 3 - I would consider several steps: a - Identify what the neighbour is actually worried about (and probably have my answer available before any conversation as a good tactic). b - Talk to your builders. Look at the Public Liability and Employee Liability insurance of your builders. These are I think a legal requirement. And look at their policies to see how this meets the concerns of your neighbour. c - Do you need / have your own liabiliy insurance for the project? What does that say. d - Do a specific risk assessment relating to your work on his land, and specifically the risks relating to his liability concerns. Perhaps consult with your advisers / builders / local authority on that, or look for resources online. Your builders or architect may have run up against this in the past, or there could be one attached to a previous PP that you can find. Manage those risks - eg fence off the area you are working in etc. e - You may be able to get specific insurance if you need, but that could be compromised if you give him an agreement. It very much also depends on the project being done and the relevant risks. So cut your cloth to fit etc. It is easy to overanalyse these things and over elaborate your measures. 99 times from 100 this is probably not mentioned, and 999 from a 1000 there is probably no issue when it is. If you do damage their property, then unless you have dug a 5m deep hole where their house used to be and filled it with asbestos, just getting your builders to fix it to their satisfaction, or you or your insurance company paying for their builders to do the same, will be many times cheaper for both than Court Action. People just usually want their lives back rather than spend 5 years making you suffer. Ferdinand

According to my air test chit, it's internal floor area. Has Part L changed recently? Edited to add: It seems to. It now gives a limiting value of not more than 5m3/m2/hr at 50 Pa internal envelope area for a house with MVHR, limit is 7m3/m2/hr at 50 Pa for a naturally ventilated house. I've edited the earlier posts to show the error I made.

I knew I should not have read this thread. DIY Beer can UFH spreader plates anyone?

Good news I managed to get this condition removed.

A lot of people here me included have used Gary from bpc ventilation who is even a member on the forum. https://www.bpcventilation.com