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Yesterday we had our planning commitee Meeting and after planning officers recommendation for refusal, 21 objectors letters and objectors speaking for 5 minutes at the meeting the councillors talked it over between them in different aspects and passed our site for one self build dwelling!! ( we applied for two but only ever wanted one). We are absolutely thrilled to say the very least and I don't think it's fully sinked In yet and as the site is a greenfield site on the edge of a hamlet it was always a difficult one to please the officers. For fellow self builders who are going through the stress of outline planning my advice is to use a proven planning consultant ( ours is fantastic), get as much support as possible from neighbours (which is difficult), peg out any boundaries before the site visit of councillors, go to the parish council meeting to answer any questions which may refuse an approval from them, send in a letter with your genuine reasons for the application-this is important as you only have 3 minutes to speak in the meeting. Lastly, do your homework, study the planning process and it's policies back to front and inside out and don't give up!!! Now onto the designing bit ?

As a percentage, the reduction in O₂ is tiny compared with the increase in CO₂. Normally the atmosphere contains about 400 ppm of CO₂ and about 21% O₂ which is 210'000 ppm. If the CO₂ is increased to 2000 ppm (increase of 1600 ppm) then the O₂ will decrease by the same amount, to 208'400 ppm, a decrease of 0.762%. Unless I've got the arithmetic badly wrong you get the same reduction by rising 61 metres. I haven't heard that living higher up tower blocks causes symptoms similar to 2000 ppm CO₂.

Going back to bracket spacing I always go 600mm, I hate saggy guttering, causes all sorts of problems and looks rubbish, brackets are cheap. I also hate guttering that creaks in the sun when warming up, then creaks when it clouds over, I always shave a little off the back of the guttering where it goes into a bracket so its not too tight and can move to take up expansion.?

Just picking up on @PeterW's comment in your other thread, I've used two types of Floplast gutter and on both needed to trim the edge off the actual gutter to get it to fit in the plain brackets/union brackets. Beware.

I used Protec Bariair membrane from Jewsons (to order) And Tescon Vana air tighness tape from a seller on ebay from Germany, way cheaper than the UK sellers.

i'd certainly look at a course of marmox to mitigate cold bridging. definately!

Yes, it was indeed in XX475! The red car is my road-going single seater I built when I was up at West Freugh in the mid-1990s

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dig all the polystyrene out and look at the pipe, you should be able to cut it lower if you need to. Choose your waste fitting. Pic just as an idea. Drop it on pipe and grab a straight edge and a spirit level go to tile shop and pick up half a dozen sample tiles get a bit of hard board or something to pretend to be your tanking adhesive and membrane if you are going to use one. Get on your old knackered knees and have a bit of a dummy up to see what falls you can get. This is all dependant on your floor finish or finish in the adjacent rooms, you may find if you put a 20mm thick timber in the bedroom then that will help you to loose any step.

We're just handing on what others gave us some while ago. And warming our hands on the glow coming from your post.

As others have said, don’t get the kango out yet the fall only needs to be in the shower wet area, you don’t have the whole room on a fall look at some low level grates and work back from that. Worst ways you might have to chip out around the drain. Your title was funny, as I was playing with my new nail gun and had visions of you with a dirty big ring shank sticking out of your boot

Vlogging stunts like the youtube video above need to be taken with a pinch of salt. There seem to be quite a few big and possibly misleading generalisations made in it but it did make me want me to learn what is Really going on. Mainly I wanted to know whether it is elevated CO₂ or the (presumed) lowered O₂ inside the tent and inside those US studied classrooms that impares brain function? Isn't O₂ level also rather important to brain function too? Why no info on those levels inside and outside the tent? My personal experience of reacting to needing more oxygen in my lungs is frequently to feel sick and light-headed - it's caused by physical excercise and apparently it's good for you.

I am a little confused by the process here. I thought the planners had to look at the proposal and either approve it, or reject it. They can impose conditions if they want to So if they believed one dwelling would be suitable, I would have expected a proposal for 2 to have been rejected. In their summary of why it was rejectedthey might make mention of the plot being suitable for one, giving you the nod to try a new planning application. If I am understanding it, what has happened here, is you applied for 2 houses and they have said no, but you can have one. I just don't understand how that can actually happen in practice. Anyway congratulations.

Hold on to the fizz you're feeling now. Guard it safe. Cherish it. Polish it every now and then. Keep it ready for future access. Pub tonight then?

Fantastic news, well done! Looks like a lovely spot. Always surprises me when there are objections by planning to single houses that are clearly right next to other houses (2 can be seen in your photo) but then suddenly a developer gets permission to build an estate full of houses further outside the boundary. Has happened on many occasions IME.

Well done, it is a nice feeling isn’t it.

Well done! We had much the same situation, refused first time around but after a visit to the local councillor and resubmitting it went through no problem, we had an architect do the initial work but at the end of the day it was us who secured the pp, the councillors are The ones to get on side

Ive used automotive double side foam tape for years, once on its waterproof and something like this could work as a nailing strip plus reasonable in 50 meter lengths. Used to get it from tapes direct , looks like they have changed/sold/bust , so found this supplier. The width I've used was 50 or 60mm but haves seen lots of different widths. https://www.psasolutions.uk.com/product/19mm-x-50-metre-automotive-double-sided-polyethylene-foam-tape

Cordless angle grinder is my weapon of choice tbh with a flap disc. You have to be confident with it though and I appreciate they scare a lot of people.

Given how close you are to actually using the shower, I saw this on offer today and thought of you ?. @Construction Channel can give you some tips on usage ?. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078J5ZVP2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DtuxCbH8X5MC7

https://www.guttersupplies.co.uk/guides-and-tips/gutter-installation/your-questions/how-far-apart-should-fascia-brackets-be-installed/

I wish I'd had a chamfer tool nine years ago when doing all my soil pipes. To cut mine square I wrapped a sheet of A3 paper around the pipe, lining up the edges, and taped it on. I cut them by hand and then used a rasp to chamfer the ends. I used a smear of silicone grease on the chamfer when pushing it home.

Whatever the manufacturers spec states would be a good starting point. I fitted rainclear aluminium clic system which asked for 750mm centers. You need more brackets than you think as the snow loading can get pretty high.

If you have any solvent weld stuff to do I'd get the same brand if you can. I've had some grief mixing and matching with too tight/loose. Not insurmountable but certainly avoidable. On the push fit stuff a can of silicone spray is a must and a chamfer tool v.useful.

Got a 2 for 1 offer on slab didn't you?!

I was talking domestic use. We've seen I think @Bitpipe? constuct a 4000L diy system based on second hand IBC tanks for very little money. I'm on a meter here and that would make a fair difference to me in the Summer. Appreciate not all have the land/space/ability to construct such a system and in that specific case a concrete enclosure for the tanks was incorporated in the build. I was just trying to get across that water is and will become more so just another taxable commidity. It'll be fresh air next! I'd I suspect be able to easily do a borehole given I'm in the bottom of a valley and either side about 100m away are capped boreholes

I've not heard about any extension yet. Depending on your budget and looking on the bright side, it will 'only' involve a cost of around £236'ish in fees and in theory you've got some drawings already. Then there's the longer determination of around 6-8 weeks, though some councils are having a hard time achieving that (I can only speak for outer London and the South East).

Re the wall ties, our last house had a similar cavity due to the addition of an additional layer of insulation on the outer face of the timber frame. Helical screw wall ties were provided and used. Similar to these: https://www.helifix.co.uk/products/new-build-ties-fixings/timtie/

Yes, that's the standard way of doing it round these parts AFAIK. We'll just go with a flat UPVC board over the timber- colour matched to the guttering and windows- like Dave is doing but not just as deep.

yep, 12mm cement board, have a look at the info for another cement board product https://www.jameshardie.co.uk/product/hardiebacker/

I've experience of reduced partial pressure of oxygen; had to endure a hyperbaric chamber session every two years for around 20 years. Up to about 10,000 to 12,000ft (reduction in available oxygen from about 21% to around 12% to 13%) there are no perceptible physiological symptoms for the vast majority of people. Above about 12,000ft symptoms of hypoxia start to become apparent, but hypoxia is insidious, in that you are often completely unaware that you are becoming hypoxic. The idea of making aircrew do a chamber run every two years was precisely because the symptoms of hypoxia are so difficult to spot. By sticking you in a chamber with a doctor, then taking you up to 25,000ft, you get a chance (a slim one, in my experience) of being able to detect your own set of symptoms that might, possibly, allow you to recognise that you are hypoxic. I should add that at 25,000ft with no oxygen most people only remain conscious for five minutes or so, so it was a slightly extreme way of teaching a vital safety lesson. To highlight just how insidious hypoxia can be, this is a tale of the only time in a few decades of flying that I've ever been hypoxic. Two of us were flying from West Freugh up to Inverness. I was in the right hand seat, pilot flying was in the left seat. I did all the flip card checks, and our taxy checks were interrupted several times by a minor airfield emergency (nothing to do with us, but there was a lot of radio chatter). We lined up, took off, completed the post-take off checks and set the autopilot to climb on a set heading. We'd been cleared to FL22 (~22,000ft). About 3 or 4 minutes into the climb I noticed my ears pop more abruptly than usual and made a remark to my colleague, who confirmed his had as well. We just assumed that the cockpit pressurisation was being a bit clunky (not that unusual). We sat back for another few minutes, when I spotted the altimeter coming up to our assigned cruise height and mentioned it to my colleague. He didn't reply, so I gave him a nudge, and found he was asleep. He didn't wake up, so I wound the height bug down to level us out, but found that I was really struggling to do something this simple. Not being able to wake my colleague up didn't bother me at all. I eventually noticed that my vision was fading to black and white, remembered having experienced this in the chamber and thought to look down between the seats at the cabin altitude gauge. It was showing 22,000ft, when it should have been around 8,000ft. There was no way I could fly the aeroplane, but I did manage to wind the height bug right down to a few thousand feet, which caused the autopilot to put the aircraft into a steady descent. I'm not sure if I remained conscious or not, but remember making a pan call much later, telling Scottish Mil that we were doing an emergency descent, so they could clear any conflicting traffic out of the way. My colleague came to just as I was making the radio call, and was as confused as hell. We sorted things out, cancelled the sortie to Inverness and headed back to West Freugh. We both regained full consciousness pretty quickly and spotted the cause of our problem before we landed. During the interrupted taxy checks we'd both somehow missed the pressurisation dump valve check and cross-check, and left it wide open. There was no way the cockpit pressurisation could have worked, as with the valve open at the rear of the aircraft pressurisation air would have been blowing out as fast as the engines could pump it in. In the inevitable stack of paperwork we had to complete after we'd landed on, we both noted that neither of us had thought to don our emergency oxygen masks, despite them being stowed at the side of our seats. Looking back, we were both seriously compromised by hypoxia, and it was pure luck that we came out of it OK. My colleague was about 10 years older than me, with over 30 years flying experience in fast jets, yet this didn't help him spot that he was losing consciousness. It was pure luck that I spotted the loss of colour vision. If I hadn't been concentrating really hard on the flight director display I might well have never noticed that I was on the verge of passing out. We could very easily have been yet another "pilotless aircraft flying on until the fuel runs out" accidents. I think I worked out afterwards that we'd have been over half way to Greenland before we'd have crashed into the sea. Whether we'd still have been alive when that happened is anyone's guess; I think we probably could have been.