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Hi Jilly, If the CIL applies in your area do all the exemption paperwork before you do anything on site. Otherwise you lose the self build exemption. Are there any conditions on your grant of planning? Some of these may have to be discharged before starting work. You don't need to apply for a postal address for the site until much later but I don't know if there is anything to stop you doing so early. We fixed up a temporary postbox long before we had an official address. You don't pay council tax until much later (unless you live on site in a caravan?). Eg after the house is habitable.

Is there some sort of boost on the night storage heater or something else that might have been left on overnight? 116 units over say 12 hours is roughly 10 units an hour or 10kw. Not many things dissipate that much. Don't think an oven would do it.

I'd just stick in another duct. I'd have three valves. One on each of the incoming and one on the outgoing to the garage.

+1 He MUST zero rate his service to you. Refer him to VAT Notice 708 section 3.3.4. I wouldn't accept his quote until it states something like "inc VAT at 0%". https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-708-buildings-and-construction/vat-notice-708-buildings-and-construction His work must be zero rated therefore his materials must also be zero rated. If YOU buy any materials then you will pay VAT on them and this VAT can be reclaimed. Now this is getting annoying. I very carefully checked I had quote and /quote tags in the right place and again the formatting is messed up.

Are any of the big builders ISO9000 registered? Perhaps someone should revoke their registration :-)

Looking at the process described here you will need the MCS certificate (their bold).... https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2014/12/how-to-apply-for-the-feed-in-tariff-fit Edit sorry the formatting got messed up and it won't let me fix it. Last two paragraphs are mine and shouldn't be in same quote block.

Leave doors open downstairs, although that does increase the risk of fire spreading. Electric wall heaters range in price enormously. Personally my feeling is that it's hard to justify the high prices charged for some of the more expensive heaters. In the past I have filed complaints with the ASA over some adverts and had them upheld. So I would look at exactly which heaters you were quoted for carefully. You can get some with a thermostat and programmer for under £100. There are also some that that come with feet and a plug so no installation cost at all, just plug and go. You may also find some have mounting holes on the back so you can fix them to a wall and wire them in more permanently later.

Just to echo what others have said.. That's the legal minimum they are obliged to provide, same in England. However in practice it's very site specific. In many places you actually get >3 bar. Before deciding on anything you should measure the actual static pressure on site and the flow rate you get from an open pipe in liters per min. You may not need to do anything, no pumps or storage tanks.

It sounds like some apprentice was told to allow 50mm for the ends to be trimmed and took that to mean trim 50mm off each end :-)

Check the length of the other joists. Perhaps I'm wrong but it looks like they may have taken 100mm off the length of those even though some only have a wall plate one end? For example it looks like J003 goes from a wall to a beam? So they should be 2589mm less 50mm for one wall plate = 2539mm. They have them as 2489mm ?

Ok so basically they are saying that Permitted Development Rights were removed or restricted in the grant of planning for the development. I would do two things... 1) Ask the developer to confirm that that planning reference (13/03196/FU - normally they end /FUL) is the correct one . 2) Log into the planning portal and check the exact wording of all the planning conditions on the grant. If Permitted Development rights were removed then you will need to submit a planning application. However from your description of the extension I think its very likely to be granted. While you are logged into the planning portal you might also be able to download a site plan with a scale on it to work out the distance to the plot boundary.

£23 seems to be a good price for 50m of 25mm.

It's not quite clear where the boundary is on the image in your OP. Can you mark it in red tell us how many meters (or feet if you prefer) it is from the garage wall to the plot boundary. We may also need the height of the eaves/gutters of the garage. Planning Permission: May not be needed if it meets the height rule near a boundary. Building Control: You may not need to involve Building Control if less than 30sqm AND is far enough from the boundary. In short you haven't quite given us enough information. If you can provide that we should be able to give you a clear answer.

My guess I they would scale off the drawing and see if your building was out by more than could reasonably be justified.

Our varies by room but typically 20 first thing, 18 during the day, 20 in evening, 16-18 depending on the room at night. Room stats and tank stats have hysteresis so boiler certainly doesn't run continuously.

My understanding is as follows...let's suppose the existing area is 200sqm... Simple extension...there would be no cil liability as the increase is under 100sqm of new space. Knock down and rebuild 40sqm larger... The new building is 240sqm. Since thsg is bigger than 100sqm there will be a cil liability. However it would be calculated on 240-200 = 40sqm eg the increase in area only. Not on the total area 240sqm. This is provide the new pp is granted before demolition. You sould also get the self builder exemption if you do all the claim paperwork before starting. See also.. https://www.khub.net/web/planningadvisoryservicepas/forum/-/message_boards/message/28062398 So yes you should avoid doing any work on site including demolition before you have the new pp and cil exemption paperwork done.

Covenants normally get split automatically so they apply to both parts. However I think if you get permission from the land owner that benefits from the covenant it should be possible to get it removed from the existing house after the split. Or you could just leave it as it might be unenforceable after the split so easier to remove? Speak to a solicitor.

Three years ago I would probably have agreed with you. We had several GU10 fail but the failure rate seems to have improved since. There might still be issues with some makes but less than there was overall.

You can get longer dishwasher hose from places like Screwfix. I would also get a pipe clip to support the hose reducing any string on the spigot.

What a wind farm does is build the access point and then they apply for a certificate of lawful development so they have something official in writing. CLD are legally binding where as regular letters from planners are just their opinion which can change later.

A new build would be exempt from the CIL but you would have to get pp and pay the previous owner his uplift. If a conversation isnt exempt then the CIL might outweigh some of the saving. I think it should be exempt but the Cambridge link mentions situations when it isnt.

That one is better. The battery is 32Wh so in theory should run a 10W Led for 3 hours.

The 10W model has a 2.2AH 3.7V battery = 8.4WH If it's a 10W Led it won't last an hour. The 50w version is similar.. 2.2AH at 8.4V = 19WH. If it at 50W LED it will last about 19/50 hours = 22 mins. Someone check my figures as they claim 3-4 hours lighting time.

Does your council have the CIL? It's not clear (to me) if the self build exemption applies to a convertion built under permitted development. The guidelines on my council web site are very confusing... https://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/planning/cil-frequently-asked-questions Scroll down to "What development is liable for the CIL" Edit: On second thoughts it probably is exempt. Just make sure it's been in legal use for 6 months. Get that in writing from the seller. And don't do any work on site until you have done all the paperwork needed for the exemption.

Think I saw someone on eBay doing the same recently.