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Yes it will. skip the trim, and cut them as tight to the ceiling as you can. Mitre off the back top edge to make sure they don't kick out.

NO Supply and fit to a new build must be zero rated, you will not be able to claim it back. Don't agree to the contract unless they agree this. Otherwise separate supply and fit to separate invoices so at least you can claim back VAT on supply. (this happens if the installer is not VAT registered)

Well my first lot of home made baskets have been installed ! Iused high tensile sheep netting doubled up and offset to make the holes small, wired them together and then they were filled with Stone salvaged from site. It worked really well and saved me a lot of money but it did take some time all said and done. Got a lot more projects to do so will need to get on and build some more......

https://www.stovesonline.co.uk/stove-hearth-size.html Any good? I bought my stove from them and they were very helpful.

You can also refer him to VAT Notice 708 section 7 or 8 depending on your conversion https://www.gov.uk/guidance/buildings-and-construction-vat-notice-708#section7

I am a milwaukee 18v tool man -and have now tried 2 different non genuine makes of batteries for my tools --the problem is the tools are so powerful that the batteries over heat when you work the tools hard -- they start smoking and eventually burn out the strap connectors inside the pack --the cells are good --just the joining straps are too thin so yes they are half the price --but not up to what the big power tools can draw - buy genuine ones we live and learn

My brother fitted the same product except 7500L a few years back. Shallow dig was a factor though to be honest I did not look at any other options. It just works.

That's exactly what we are doing. I'm using bat friendly cladding and roofing on a shipping container workshop in the garden. In these situations, the planners are meant to follow the guidence of the relative experts.

You called???

F***ing scrumpy necking, West Country yokel! In The Garden Of England we say "One still goes everywhere!"

We are going to go with the Cupa R12 in the end. Cheaper than SSQ Del Carmen, @makie advised against any other SSQ slates, and we prefer grey to black/blue anyway. Spoke to Burton roofing as suggested and they recommended R12 as it's thinner/smoother so a good fit for a fairly contempory build in south-east. We'd be looking at the Heavy 3 if we were up in Scotland though..

And if you’re boarding with 6mm ply, why not pack out the 44mm frame with offcuts for 50mm insulation?

Just call your mobile provider and they’ll tell you which one you connect too more frequently.

Is 140mm any good? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110-200mm-Bi-Metal-M42-HSS-Hole-Saw-Cutter-Drill-Bit-For-Aluminum-Iron-Pipe-Wood/264636749412?hash=item3d9d945664:g:wkgAAOSwi0RXzm03 i made my own plenums, can’t remember the hole size now.

If it were me, I would tile up to the ceiling, then either grout or silicone between tile and ceiling. silicone will hide the cut edges too

That’s true . I can actually see the difference in size and even thickness in my tiles . (expletive deleted)ing expensive rubbish . So stick a nice metal trim as tight to the ceiling as I can get ( whilst being level ! ) then tile upto it with my pro skills

IN my opinion, flush.

On a job a few years ago i met a polish tiler. It was facinating watching him. He measured nothing. He would hold a tile up, look at what he needed to cut, put it down and cut it. Even including going around sockets etc. He did mitres on a external corners, and used no trim anywhere. His tiling was the best i had ever seen, and boy was he quick. I wanted some tiling done, and spoke to him about it. I showed him photos of the room, and he simply said "A grand" I had been let down, and having seen his work said OK. A few days later he turned up, worked for the day, finished the job, got his money, and off he went. The tiling looked fantastic. The only strange thing about him was that at lunchtime, he went outside for a hour, put some foreign drum and bass rubbish on full blast in his car. Striped to his underpants, and laid down on the drive to sunbathe.

Can be left months and months and even years and won't make no difference.

PIV is in and running. Noticed quite a change already. The downstairs is probably 10-15% lower RH than it was before, depending upon the weather we’re sweating between 50% and 60% consistently now, rather than 60-75% A success I’d say. It’s underpowered for the size of house (250m2) but I’m using it more as a way of inputting fresh dry air in a controlled manner, rather than worrying too much about there being a specific positive pressure. Does the trick!

In our planning fight our ecologist agreed that I could build bat boxes into the roof of my workshop to stop having bats in the house, planners said we still want them in the house. At the appeal the gov inspector told the planners they were not qualified to over rule the ecologist ?

hatched box on the plan the right size (fits handily over a bath)

Ha ha, yeah. I do that too. Definitely buy a foam gun (and cleaner) - I promise you you'll love it. One thing that might not be obvious is how controllable the gun is as the flow is proportional to the trigger throw.

I think we can all relate to that experience @Gav_P! That said, most (all?) find the issues completely go away when they move to using a gun (rather than nozzles cans) - have you done this? It really is chalk and cheese. Ignore the cost of the gun as it soon pays for itself thanks to far less wastage (and being able to spread the use of a single can over several weeks if not months).

I think our dog must be a bit spoilt as we're building a 'doggy shower' in the utility room for him.

I'm being slightly lazy, as we have been round this one about once a year sometimes for taps not showers, and I did not want to go digging. One of the lessons is to use plastic pipe for the outside bit. Another is to run the pipe so that that the outside pipe will tend to drain if you switch off the supply and leave the outside turned on. For a shower I guess that a handheld shower and a hook on the wall may be a good option, combined with a locker it can be coiled back into. You'll also want to think about all your outside water and services including rainwater collection for the garden. IIRC Jeremy Harris being Jeremy Harris has about 3 taps and electric sockets distributed around his plot like the Bristol Botanical Gardens. I think he also has an appropriate ornamental well above his borehole too, and I didn't manage to persuade him to put a Jeremy-lookalike garden gnome with a fishing rod sitting on the wall; I'd have bought him one, too. F Here are a couple of threads:

The unit that i had damaged, the chap who picked it up said he was collecting all the damaged bits for a new kitchen in his council house, so fair play to them really, it was usable, but not worth paying for.

That’s what admins are for ...

You do make a good point 15 % is a good target Especially when you think most large commercial projects aim for 5% I think you have to choose your plot carefully Even if you think it is your “Forever Home” You never know what’s around the corner Further North this can be difficult Further south would be much easier If we were to move three miles up the road (Quite rural) You expect to knock at least 100k off the sale price Plot price about the same Groundwork’s should be the only unknown If you run over on this something has to go off your wish list Bifolds fancy kitchen and bathrooms expensive flooring All can be reined in TF is convenient but expect to pay We have looked again at TF for the next one It would be nice to just have a shell to fit out But the numbers are much higher than traditional Yes I have some experience I run a plastering/ Tiling/Framing company But there was lots of things that I had no experience of Roofing wiring and plumbing Most was just a case of taking your time Yes we do have employees But apart from getting my son to help for a week with the rendering and and skimming My wife and myself tackled most things We wanted it to be as much of a self build as possible Cost of Labour and shopping around for materials is the key You can make lots of savings on both and don’t get carried away with professional fees At the end of the day your getting a house exactly how you want it at an affordable price

@Gav_P in answer to your question on @pocster's thread. The wet room corner, without screens: See the 4x4 tiles that are laid to falls in the picture. The full tile line outside that gets wet, so the top of then loo seat a bit and the bath corner. Up to the grey mat on the top right. Its the tiles get wetter that anything else. After showering it's a quick squeegee over the floor then kick the towel around the floor.

Handy having somewhere to store them until you need them...

I know i don't help, but i kin hate tiling. Good luck.

Had some scraps of oak around, so used it inside. The only thing is it's a lot of different colours. Not sure if to leave it, and just varnish. Stain it then varnish, or just paint it white? It is only a shed. Flooring and blinds next.

Welcome.

We purchased a house from a surveyor. After having our own done by another surveyor we went back for another look. Chatting to the wife she explains our surveyor had been there ages, lifting manholes and getting her to run taps, going up in the loft etc. Turning to her husband she says "He spent far longer here than you do on a house". We made a mental note never to use his company.

This will change a lot as you refine it. The most obvious thing is at the moment you have marked no storage at all. Even moving the utility room next to the garage, what would you do with a 5.4m long utility room. I would split it into a utility and plant room. Personally I would rather the toilet was not stuck under the stairs in such a large house. It is a room a very high percentage of visitors will use and so I think people don't give it enough space often. I agree with most of the already made points re bifolds, better master bedroom etc. I would add, double doors into a cinema room is not a good idea, they are normally glass, you want to be able to make it dark. All those little areas where the ground floor sticks out past the edge of the roof will require lots of steel beams and little flat roofs which will be awkward/expensive to build. Especially that bit at the side which creates an almost 10m span. It kind of looks like a side extension. As hinted at 8.2m is too long for a lounge, you will end up with large gaps at the end. It also has so many windows and doors that you would struggle to put furniture in it. It is often useful to think about the furniture you want and how it would fit.

I thought I'd post a bit of an update as this is proving a useful thread to capture people's experience of DIY Kitchens. We had ours delivered a couple of days ago - was given a 48hr window and promise of an hour's advanced text message notification which ordinarily would've been a bit of an issue but as I am working from home during lockdown it was a non-issue. In actual fact they text me at lunchtime asking if it'd be okay to aim to arrive for 7:30pm-ish so this meant I could relax a bit and get things ready, and they turned up on the dot and delivered without issue: The drivers were really friendly and most obliging about where to put things. I'd made them a ramp to ease getting up our front step and I always feel little things like that can help things go smoothly. Really impressed with the packaging too - carefully wrapped doors and panels, and carcasses wrapped simply (but very effectively) in cardboard and PP strapping. The quality of the units, drawers and paint seems spot on too. I spent the whole of the next day unwrapping and checking everything... I do love the way the original order, invoice and delivery sheet all have a completely different order and subtly different part numbers just to make things take twice as long as they need to! Such is the forced intimate familiarity with each and every item there's a very real risk I'll end up referring to the 'pan drawers' as P2ID1-6 forvever more... ? There were unfortunately a few issues: - Wrong internal drawers (6 of) sent (I'd paid for the glass-sided Tandembox Intivo/Antaro drawers but got the basic Tandembox Plus ones) - A crack on one of the drawer fronts (it's on the rear but as it appears to be in the timber itself - not just the paint - I think it is only a matter of time before it comes through to the front) - A chip in the corner on one of the large doors (on an edge that's on the end of a run so unfortunately likely to be visible) - A permanent(?) marker mark where the writing on a piece of tape with my order number had gone beyond the edge of the tape (it might well come off easily but haven't yet dared try anything other than a damp cloth until it's been discussed as I don't want to risk damaging the paint/finish) - Insufficient soft-close buffers - only one fitted per pair of hinges which isn't enough for these heavy doors (20mm timber) - surely this can't be right? (The Blum technical manual advises one per hinge for 'normal door sizes' and I'd hope/expect them to follow this) - A larder unit supplied with drawer runners fitted and fully glued despite requesting no fittings and dry-assembly (to allow me to experiment with shelf and drawer positioning which now I can't really do without leaving visible fitment marks/holes and I'll also have to drill my own hinge holes for no reason) - Hinges missing for those doors requested to be supplied undrilled (soft-close zero protrusion ones so not cheap) It's just my luck really to have these issues and so whilst I do feel some disappointment I am not the slightest bit surprised! We're fortunate that we're not in any rush: this is a new kitchen in a new room (still got the functioning old one), I'm DIYing so there are no fitters and/or other trades to rearrange and our extension is already many many months beyond how long we thought it would take so 'a bit longer' is something we've learnt to live with! I've raised a ticket and finger's crossed it'll get sorted without too much issue - I've been really impressed with their pre-sales support so hopefully they won't be giving up on me now they've got my money. Incidentally, does anyone know what happens with damaged items? Do they get collected when replacements are delivered? If they're going to end up chucking them I wondered if I could keep them as whilst they're not acceptable for a 1-day old kitchen they well find some purpose years down the line as spares.

yes we did. it was very impressive. great quality work and the owners spoke very highly of them. the house we saw was the valu-therm panels so a little different to our open panel TF but still looked like very good work. after some thought it was actually an easy decision for us and they were the company we chose to go with. we paid our deposit and the architects are currently working with them on the TF design and building control drawings. so far I have nothing but good things to say about them. but the proof, as they say, will be in the pudding. and by that I mean when I get to the stage of delivery and erection which could be 3 or 4 months away not by what sort of culinary delights they give us after dinner.

No systems or bling, just fabric first - highly insulated, best windows you can afford, low air permeability. If you get that right then I'll grant you the MVHR bling ? But you probably won't need much in the way of heating, so a GSHP might be overkill. You're better off putting the £20k-odd that costs into the fabric. All completely possible with traditional design.

Buildhub has a veritable infezdation!

In addition to this I have recently done a basic budget for a 30 sq m garden room at the bottom of the garden with a view to completion over 12-18 months. Something like 100mm timber frame with insulation and flat roof. This was coming in at £10-12k before extras and paid contractors. So the commercial department have also put a stop on this as well. Instead the Commercial Manager would like to see a shed summerhouse structure, such as yours, approx 12 sq m, in place in 4-6 weeks for approx £2k. Fortunately, it looks like a lot of suppliers are out of stock until next spring.

I expect the adhesive comes off the tile face a lot easier too!

That was my twin .

LED profile?

well done! you managed to get her to buy you a shed. she sounds like a keeper. ? as long as she doesn't change the locks to the house while you're 'working' in the shed that is.

Turns out it’s happening to me.. she’s just ordered me a new shed for my home office.

can't the wife be put outdoors instead?

I think it’s brilliant stuff, but I hate it! I end up with it stuck to everything, walls, floors, ceilings, the sink, the dog, the car, trees.... and I’d only be trying to create a seal in a small hole drilled through a wall. Oh, and I end up with an elephants head size bit of foam growing out of a 10mm hole in the wall!!... which also sticks to everything within a 5m radius.

Silly season is over so, I’ve put a purchase request in to the commercial department and I’ve been knocked back ? Been told I must use the guest room ?