Ralph

My understanding is that the Greencoat installation company comes on site with a forming machine and cuts and fits everything whereas Tata comes pre-cut. A few of the companies around here have apparently stopped using Tata because they were such a pain to deal with.

We were going with Tata but the price seems to have rocketed and we're struggling to get an installer. Instead we are going for GreenCoat PLX. Did you have any oilcanning issues? Ours is going on the roof and down the first floor which apparently increases the risk of it.

Thanks for the info, I can see us having to replace when the roof actually goes on. Just hoping it keeps the water out in the meantime.

Thanks James that is reassuring to know. Did you tape the seams? I'm concerned about wind getting a hold. Your roof is looking good, can't wait to get to that point.

So it looks like our roof is going to be without the standing seam steel until at least mid December thanks to the COVID. At the moment the OSB on the roof is covered in Daltex MultiTX®Plus but I'm slightly concerned about it surviving the bad weather of north east Scotland , especially as the inside is cracking on with aims tapers in today. Builder seems to be more confident about the Daltex than I am. Any thoughts?

Wow that's a lot of bird strikes. We found this worked well in our last house. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UV-Window-Stickers-For-Bird-Strikes-Decals-Anti-Alert-Collision-Glass-Safe/133507908875?hash=item1f15b1050b:g:N-8AAOSwgFxe5T88

Delivery times are unpredictable to say the least, we're looking at 8 weeks for RK doors and I'm skeptical at that. Greencoat steel for the roof is about the same. We've shelved any plans to give notice on our rental flat this year as I just can't see us moving until January at the earliest. And yes prices do seem to have taken a hike up.

Fakro do them vhttps://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/product/fakro-fnu-p209-pine-pu-coated-non-opening-roof-window-94-x-140cm.html

To be honest I left it to my installer. It looks like over the 7 years I will have most of the cost of my heating system paid for.

Are you planning to apply for RHI? If you are I think the rule is that you need to have the system designed by an accredited installer. If that installer models your system and says that you need radiators upstairs then you need them to comply with the rules. We did not want radiators upstairs and had conflicting advice on whether we would need them or not. Finally the heating engineer modeled the house and reckoned we need a few. We have vaulted ceilings in the upstairs sitting room and everything is quite open. The last thing I wanted was to spend all this money on a house and then be cold in the winter for the fairly minimal cost of a few radiators. We also had a wood burner in the plans and decided not to put it in. I'm going back on forth on that decision.

So I think this is one of the main issues for a few of the suppliers we are dealing with, they seem to have lost some of their long term knowledgeable guys. I'm dealing with the head office in Inverurie and the guy there is an old hand. Great guy but clearly picking up the slack from other people leaving. We were dealing with a lady in Dundee who I think is also covering Cumbernauld, Again she was good but it seems like they are all stretched. My builder while at times frustrated with Scotframe still rates them and likes the product enough that he will defend them when I get a bit tetchy with them.

It's starting to get better now but they seem a bit stretched. It seems like some of the their internal communication has been poor over the last lockdown and there are some knock on effects now at the deliver stage. I think they are having issues with suppliers which is also causing some issues. My biggest frustration has been with ADW, agents for Rationel and RK. The windows were delayed a bit which was fair enough but the RK front door delay has had a massive impact on getting cladding etc done. What Scotframe actually deliver has been good but the process has been a bit laboured. I'm getting emails from my contact there into the evening so I think they are flat out. I'm assuming that most frame companies are in the same boat. I've been told that because they are owned by Saint Gobain they have better access to materials, plasterboard etc. but I've no idea if this is true or not. We've not a had a problem (so far) getting sanitaryware and tiles but prices on materials like cladding seems to have taken a real hike up.

They are fairly hardy trees and you have a bit of bark still attached there so you could try and treat it like a graft, depending on the weight of the limb you may be ok. You need to tape the limb back in place and seal the wound with wax. Once you see leaves coming back next year and there is no sign of disease on the wound you cant try taking off the tape and wax. Google grafting a tree limb and you should get some more advice.

Ah, got you. It's two story new build, 150 sqm plus garage. We should be done by end of the year.

Pretty much what you see above there for steelwork and foundation. The drainage report we already had from S A McGregor but I think Ramsay were looking at £500+VAT for that. We did get a price from Millards as well which was a a bit more expensive. I think Ramsay and Chalmers went a bit overboard with the amount of steel the were asking for as do the architect and builder but then they're the experts. There was an additional charge of £200 when they had to come out dues to a ground issue, basically we were trying to build the garage on an old stream bed so ended up moving it.

Ramsay Chalmers £1,250 + VAT

I've not used one but I did use this contract https://www.scottishbuildingcontracts.com/contracts/37/minor-works-building-contract-with-contractor-s-design-for-use-in-scotland/ and had my architect administrate it.

It's take Architectural Doors and Windows ADW over 7 weeks just to give us a price for an RK front door. I still don't know if it's actually been ordered.

When they mix in pig slurry it's the worst.

It's amazing the number of people who don't get the concept of not being a dick. It's exactly why I went to some length to get a plot that just had farmers fields as neighbors. Having said that I may regret it when I have to dig 100 meters along one of the fields for electricity.

Mine is 5% retention throughout the project dropping to 2.5% for 1 year for defects.

I really liked these, we changed design of the house and did not go for them in the end.

Another vote for Rationel, best balance of quality and price I could find but they don't do bifolds.

Blimey, I'm getting annoyed by the delays from Rationel but the above is in another league all together.

They do look interesting, I might go for that and stick a dimmable driver on.