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I don't know about NI regs but in England it would be the internal dimensions after tiling. Here there are also minimum distances between basin and wall (eg so a wheel chair can get from a door, past the basin to the WC).

Apparently you can hire moling kit.. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/impact-moling-new-water-supply-pipes.497296/ but poster says it's around £356 + vat for a weeks hire so not cheap. Would need three pits to go 15m.

Now you mention it my junior hack must have been Australian. It wouldn't cut at all until I took the blade out and turned it teeth down.

How old is the garage flat roof? If it's not got much life left have you considered raising the whole thing? Might be possible to make the new internal dividing wall all blockwork as none of it would then project above the roof line. You might also be able to run a gutter on the neighbours side to catch any run off if they are happy with that. Obviously you would have to raise the front wall and a bit more of the party wall as well.

Ideally you need 300mm plus two brick courses for the flashing. On my house that's about 6 brick courses. Only looks like 3 on the neighbours house.

+1 to what @ProDave said. looking at the rear elevation.. Is there enough clearance below the eaves of the house to raise the garage 300mm? I cant tell from the photo due to the angle but if it's the same height as at the front it looks tight. Edit: Looking at the view out of the window towards the neighbours the gap looks about 3 brick courses or 250mm ish . So If you raise the roof 300mm this will cut into the facia. This area would need careful design or you will have a leak in a difficult area to fix. Think I'd want to see a sketch of the proposed solution

Think you are allowed to mole a water pipe through a root protection zone.

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/10/conservatories/3

Some time ago I picked up a junior hacksaw at one of the sheds. Today I needed to hack some pipe in half to fit it in the car. This is the straightest cut it would make. Soon as it starts I'm twisting the saw as far as I can trying to steer it left. Totally useless.

How about something like this. The "hooks" would be made from battens/strips of wood.. Would need to allow a small gap (20mm?) at the top to allow the back to slide up to remove. Lots of variations on this theme possible eg top hook longer than the bottom and pointing upwards could also work.

I had some light fitting delivered to my address which at the time was in Belgium ?.

That last bit should read.. But also.. My reading of this is that a design service that is primarily used by the window maker (eg to help them make the windows) it should be zero rated,. However if the design service was primarily provided to you (eg to get the shape and styling to suit your house) then it should be standard rated.

It depends what the invoice says.. Safest way is just to ask them for the invoice to say "Supply of windows" "or perhaps "Supply of windows to customer drawing" or something like that. Then they would count as "materials" and their invoice should include VAT which you reclaim like any other materials. It gets complicated if they itemise everything and what the breakdown says.. If its got a "service" element such as "Design windows" I believe that can be argued either way because VAT 708 says in 3.4.1.. EDIT: Sorry one missing / and the formatting goes to pot and cannot be fixed. At least I cant figure out how to repair it.

So I've seen a nice bathroom sink/vanity unit that has rounded corners. Looks very nice but they want over £600 for it. The basin top is available on its own for £150ish so they essentially want £450 for the 60cm wide three draw base unit. Apart from the rounded corners its basically just painted wood, almost shaker style. I figure next spring/summer I can buy a 50cm wide drawer unit and add dummy side to it and come up with something very similar for a lot less than £450. However I'm stuck on the best way to make the rounded vertical corners. They need a radius of about 40mm. * I've not been able to find any quadrant mouldings that big. * I could plane down square blocks but it's time consuming and difficult to get perfect and errors would be very obvious. * Don't think my router would take a big enough bit to make one? * I thought about bendy plywood around (perhaps 3D printed) formers but the radius seems too tight for say 5mm ply. * Perhaps I could cut 80mm round into quadrants but all I can find that size are pressure treated fence posts. I'm leaning towards laminating some very thin plywood as I've done that on model aircraft before but have i missed an easier way? Obvious source of 80mm round? Stair posts?

Sometimes. Typically it would count as a rear extension. If less than 4 meters deep (detached house) or 3 meters (semi) it would most likely not need planning permission. However the devil is in the detail. For example if there was already be rear extension or more than half the original garden was built on PP may be required. If it is heated or they knocked through so it's part of the living room then it might need Building Control Approval.

+1 Our house is far from airtight. We have two chimneys for starters. Despite this the incoming air from the MVHR vents is noticeably warmer than outside air so we are recovering some energy even if it not optimum. The air quality is far better than any house we have lived in before. My feeling is that this is due to the constant high level of ventilation MVHR provides. Love it. In short I would install one again even if it actually cost me money to run.

As I said above its the Council Tax department that issue the "completion notification". I would write to them telling them your house is finished and request issue a "Completion Notification under Schedule 4A of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and Section 17 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and please notify the VOA". Building Control only do "Completion Certificates", these are two different things for different purposes. My "completion notification" looked more like a letter. It stated that the Council believed our house would be complete for council tax purposes on <date>. In fact I disagreed with the date they said and wrote back to tell them the date I thought we would be complete. They sent me a revised "completion notification". Soon after that we had the VOA valuation. Then when we had actually finished Building Control gave me their Completion Certificate. See also.. https://www.northampton.gov.uk/info/200028/council-tax/1905/council-tax-new-properties-and-completion-notices

We once had a house that had a room over a porch. The bit of floor over the porch was less well insulated and colder. We had so much condensation on the floor it formed puddles overnight. Pointing a desk fan at the floor was enough to warm the floor a bit and increase evaporation to the point where they stopped forming.

I'm wondering if the problem is your use of the term "equity release" rather than "remortgage" ? These days "equity release" has come to be associated with an interest free mortgage/annuity package to give you income in old age. You might have more luck if you stick with remortgsge? Just a thought.

It sounds like they are trying to reduce/limit the size of accumulator tank(s) needed by specifying a larger pump to help with the refill time? What's the biggest pressurised tank you can get? If I've understood correctly.. They suggest an accumulator of 80L per person so for a four person house they are suggesting a 320L accumulator. They recommend a pump capable of 2 cubic meters per hour but that's only 33 litres per min which isn't that huge. If someone runs a 100L bath from the accumulator it would take just over 3 mins to put 100L back into it. Its like they are saying a 33 L/Min pump will cope with the demand most of the time and the accumulator just deals with unusual cases. Eg Bath, shower and appliances all at once. I don't know if that's better than a smaller pump and larger accumulator. I think their way the pump duty cycle is lower so perhaps the pump lives longer? Also the level in the accumulator probably stays within a narrower range if that matters?

I forget.. Are you on a bore hole? What's the available flow rate from that? If not on a bore hole.. I don't think you are allowed to pump the mains directly so big tank needed at the bottom of the hill.

If i had to guess I would say peak flow for a house could be as high as 70L/Min. Power shower is perhaps 40L/Min. Taps 10-15L/Min. 70L/Min would be 4.2m^3 an hour. I think an accumulator would also help stop the pump short cycling when just one tap is on low or a cistern valve is leaking.

If you have paid the fee the naming and numbering department should arrange for the address to appear in the national address database (NLPG/NAG), and the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF). Check your address is in the postcode finder to see if they have done that.. https://m.royalmail.com/mt/www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode When your house is nearly complete the council should send you a "completion notification" which is not to be confused with a "completion certificate". The former comes from the council tax department and is to tell you when they will start charging council tax. The latter is from Building control. So have you received a "completion notification" yet? If not write to the council tax department telling them the date you expect to complete and ask them to arrange the VOA valuation.

Bit of googling found they have been around 7 years. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/david-maccabe-7aa14926 https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/07947939-primary-financial-solutions-ltd https://register.fca.org.uk/ShPo_FirmDetailsPage?id=001b000000NMhDiAAL It says their status is "Appointed Representative" They appear to be representatives of Quilter Financial Services Ltd. So Primary Financial Solutions aren't directly authorised by the FCA but Quilter is. https://register.fca.org.uk/ShPo_FirmDetailsPage?id=001b000000MfaDiAAJ Quilter seems to be quite a big company and its shares are traded on the stock market. https://www.quilter.com/ Sorry about font size variation in this post.

Make a scale cardboard model using squared paper?