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Planning made it a condition for us to put in a large soakaway but it was never checked. One of the folk onsite suggested we just take a pipe right down to the burn because that’s what a lot of folk do because it’s never checked. That’s fine but way below us down in the valley where the water all ends up suffers from flooding a few times per year so I didn’t want to add to that so we put in a large soakaway. Cost very little and was easy to do.

Banking in my former life. DIY - I’ll have a go at most things. Gloucestershire. Bob

Bravo. I'd give more than one heart if I could. .❤️♥️💙 There you are. Unfortunately I haven't yet met a Planner who remotely understood that it all adds up to a flood further down. I suspect their skillset is procedure and doesn't include this sort of thing. It can be, but on an appropriate plot with skilled design it is easy enough. Unfortunately the non-expert designers tend to throw bought 'solutions' at it, at the clients expense of course. On a tiny plot it can be near impossible, so planning permission perhaps was misguided. The cost should come off the plot purchase price, but not enough people will know that, and the agent won't be saying.

We fitted a roller doors on our previous build Very simple to fit Electrics are colour coded The only difficult thing that we found was feed the roller door in While Im a strapping 6”4 and 15.5 stone My wife is 5”6 and 8 stone We managed But could have done with another pair of hands

I am having trouble interpreting the regulations for the height of weak mix cavity fill with relation to DPC and ground level. One interpretation would mean the lower end of my telescopic air vents would be encased by the infill. Would it be ok to partially encase the ducts?

Because I had a similar experience I decided to fit a commercial Hormann door and motor. I went with an insulated sectional door and the WA300 S4 shaft operator (which can operate a roller door too) I called Hormann directly they gave me a list of installers. My assumption here is with it being commercial and designed for multiple actuations per day it should last a long time. We shall see. The other advantage of this motor and system is it allowed the door to open and follow the pitch of the roof. Obviously not a concern with a roller door.

Feels like the majority of discussions around finance on Grand Designs. I remember that one on the Isle of Wight where they built an absolutely massive house with half basement and high quality finishes. They budgeted less than £1000/sqm, with them doing literally no actual building themselves. By the time the windows arrived from Switzerland, they were already out of money. The guy was running around trying to scrape together enough cash to allow the windows to be unloaded. Apparently they built that big because the plot deserved it.

Slight side note: it's a funny thing but I saw this on my own project - a small fortune of windows sitting on the truck (held to ransom so to speak) - but nobody in the accounts team at the window company thought to ask for payment before the day of delivery !