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Umm, electromagnetic waves are very different to sound waves. Sound is pressure pulses and absolutely will sneak through tiny gaps.

As @joe90 says, a cantilever supported solely on your side has to be the best option. Gutter can be built into the structure so no leading or other flashing required on the neighbours wall. No pillars or post to get in the way.

11 is better

You can cite that rainwater harvesting is an accepted method of reducing nutrient emissions attributable to surface water.. https://www.waterwise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/A-Review-of-Water-Neutrality-in-the-UK-03.02.2021-1-1.pdf

No hangers needed for uplift or downward movement IMHO fit a 25x 50 batten the full length of your ridge, do a plumb cut on the rafter end including a notch for the batten. Fit rafter and secure with a 125-150x8 timber fixing. All you need then is restraint straps, these will go over the top of the ridge and fit to the top or side of the opposite rafter.

No. Think in terms of a completely free standing cantilevered car port supported entirely on your house wall and sloping away from your house. That would have a normal gutter at the left hand edge to collect the rainwater and you would pipe it to some form of drain at the front or the back of the run of gutter. Now just make that so the width is such that the outer edge of your gutter almost, but not quite, touches next doors wall.

Yes. The deadline for the consultants is May 2023, with a proviso that it may take till May 2024 at the latest. It's not clear whether either deadline is simply to identify and plan mitigation solutions, or to have them up and running as well.

It absolutely can, and is often the reasoned efforts to provide soundproofing are so significantly undermined due to poor detailing.

Please don’t say that I buy at least a couple of thousand tubes of the stuff each year 😂

Different takes on approach here from Peter and Charlie. BH is about say buying your first house/ flat, doing it up, then..maybe self building or just sitting back and saying I did that once and that suits me, innovation, the excitement and that deep personal reward you get, feeling of achievement. I think Charlie and Peter to my mind have identified part of the problem. Charlie mentions new SE's coming in not knowing about the building regs in detail, it's a valid point.. on a social level it could be defined as the division of labour, see for example Adam Smith.. The Wealth of Nations for a bit of background. In summary we all have become more specialised in what we do as the population has grown and now we are arguing the toss about a few quid between Architects and SEs etc. We used to draw on paper, now we use a computer.. it's just a tool. I can spend a day, sometimes more on cad just working through a detail that will last for 50 - 100 years more I hope! Before I could go through a wad of paper. Folks on BH.. it's the thinking time that counts not how fast you can move a mouse. @CharlieKLPbut the same can can be applied to young Architect's and other young designers. It's not their fault that they maybe have less intuition about how to realise their designs economically so that they will actually get built. My advise to the folk on BH is this. Rather than look to save everything you can on professional fees find the right fit for you. You need to work to find the right person for you, they are there and they will save you money in the long run. Bear this in mind. A good tradesperson will cost you £250.00 per day at least. Say £1250 a week. A good designer only needs to save you one weeks labour on say an extension and they have washed their face, never mind any material savings.. and here we are splitting hairs on how fast you can draw in CAD or look up the building regs to check something! Don't get hung up on a few hundred quid on design fees and how fast someone may be on cad. The test is this. Can my designer deliver what I want and save me more than I'm paying them any extra in fees compared with just getting a bog standard "off the internet" design.

50% self used sounds pessimistic but it's probably too optimistic. It's difficult to use every drop of power and not a Watt more than you need to - even with a solar diverter to immersion. The coincidence of lower heating use and higher Solar supply in the summer is a PITA. Batteries are the go-to solution but push the ROI out twice as far. I personally favour a smaller PV array of, say, no more than 3kWp and both divert to immersion as priority and to Air Conditioning as a second way to burn off excess. Both are controllable and perform useful work.

Chatting to a chap about solar panels pros and cons and he said that as we had missed out on the good sell back to the grid tarrifs what we needed was an old style rotary electric meter as they go backwards when power is going back into the grid. Anybody got one an can confirm this is correct? Not that there’s any chance of any energy supplier fitting one for us, just curious.

Isn't this a repeat of a thread a few weeks ago? That went round in circles.

Quote from Cool Energy: "The standby power consumption of all of our inverTech range is 0.013kW/h or 312w per 24hours as per our independent TUV test data."

The downside is they are often in rotten areas We recently witnessed a young lad knocked off his motorcycle outside the job I ran to help him and two guys with knives jumped out of the car Threatening me Then proceeded to stab the injured lad The site was shut down for four days as a potential murder scene Not a nice place to live

Very tidy, if you don't count the 45 degree link on the veroboard😁, where would we be without veroboard I wonder?