SteamyTea

Not any more. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prevent-japanese-knotweed-from-spreading

Cornwall had a large program to eradicate JKW a decade or so back. It was largely successful and I have not seen any for a good few years now. So this was a complete surprise. 15 years ago I started spraying it when it appeared in the car parking area. Couple of years of monthly spraying and it went away. Shall go out and check the area tomorrow when everyone has gone to work. If it really devalued property, why have homes in Cornwall always been relatively expensive.

Luckily it has taken root in a large planter, so when it dies down a bit, I can remove it, along with the bamboo.

No idea where it came from, the area has been free of it for several years now. Glyphosated it, but that will probably kill some stuff around it, including the echiums and bamboo.

Much easier knowing where you want to end up than trying to find materials that get you there.

Wasn't it called university then, and just how old are you. Last house I saw that had round pins was my Grandmother's, that was build in 1936, but the wiring was upgraded to AC not long after WW2 (by my Father and Jean Shrimpton's Father)

Mine still looks good when I get home in the dark and don't turn the lights on. My car looks clean as well.

Look up the R-Values and calculate. You can always build a timber frame place inside it, that will stop the noise getting out. (Your noise issues are build quality/design, not an inherent problem with timber frame. Most of your floors are going to be timber, unless you are going for poured concrete.

I used to make display panels for Shell, the painter came to me one day with a sample. It looked the same as the other speckled panels he had been painting for a year or so. Then he ran a large bastard file over it. No damage. I should have noted down what the two pack paint was called. Also, I used a resin with diamond powder in it, that was tough.

I had a new car 35 years ago. Owned it for about a year, then, while getting my bike out the back, put a tiny scratch in it. Now I just run my key across the doors to get it over and done with. Oh hang on, that was the woman who I asked to stop taking up 3 parking spaces. When u confronted her about her act of vandalism, she drove off, and not been back since. Scratched my hob with some oven crockery. I got over it.

Yes they do in most places. And under the fridges, tables, cabinets. I clean as I go, others don't, and I hate working with them. Only in TV does the chef create a master piece perfectly. The rest of use have to do whatever it takes to keep within the food hygiene laws, produce consistent meals, to a varying schedule, within price bounds and like last night, in over 40⁰C. The building industry could learn a lot from catering, including how to deal with panicking staff and customers with unrealistically high expectations. Catering could learn a lot from production engineering.

Only the legacy ones. Most new kitchens are now all electric. Works out cheaper, cleaner, cooler and easier. So yet again you are showing just how backward thinking is still happening.

Going to be interesting now that John Lewis are building a load of homes for worker. There was a bit in the local paper about the hospital not able to get workers because of shortage/high price of housing. No sure if it is a real problem, or just that all the houses in the small town of St. Agnes are already occupied. Bet there are many available in Camborne and Redruth area because is is a run down ex industrial place. Think parts of Stapleford in the 1990's (when I lived there).

That will be interesting. I don't think a fundamental like housing should be subsidised as that generally pushes the total price up. Claiming the VAT back is really a false discount. The price is set by what people are willing to spend, not how much they can claim back at the end. CIL/S106 is a bit different, that really comes down to who, how and when market failures should be paid.

Do you mean (or the installer mean) service, or routine maintenance?

Demelza came from Illogan. A strange place near Redruth, full of Cornish Units.

Your wife is right, she is the client, the architect is wrong, they are trying to insist that you have what they want.

All goes back to here. The Cornish Mother of all surveying.

How important is it that the two heights are known?

13 months on, my echiums are now quite tall.

Probably less, and a lot safer to eat, at least it is legislated what is and what is not allowed.

Are you not considering roof integrated PV?

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/home-owner-baffled-petty-320-21024142 The bureaucracy is better as well. You can get beer/fish and chip down here.