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It's always been the case that the self build reclaim is only for people building a house to live in themselves or for a relative. The bit about letting is not widely known but there are websites that mention it. It's down to a difference between Exempt and zero rated. One can reclaim input vat and the can't. The bit about need to live near your work is new to me and seems crazy.

Lot of solutions.. Fix something like a 2"x2" batten to the wall then clad upto it. The soffit fits to the underside of the batten. If the cladding is already done then fit a strip of cladding upside down and that will give a vertical face to fix the square 2x2 batten onto. Either that or run 2x2 through a table saw to put the correct angle on it. If you need a ventilation slot where soffit meets cladding... Ive seen someone fix "triangles" to the bottom of the rafters to give a horizontal edge to fix to. You might already have enough bits of scrap rafter left over from cutting them to the angle at the ridge.

To spec the cable you need the total power or current draw and the length of the cable not just the trench. I would put SWA cable and a draw rope in a duct. Put the rope and cable in the duct before burying it.

I was told our electric co was fussy about ducts and it had to be a smooth bore solid wall pipe printed with some standard on the outside (at least for the bit from road to house).

If they send someone to measure you can always offer to hold one end of the tape.

You can hire conveyor belts for this sort of thing. Not used one myself. Perhaps they drop some?

Some sort of foam to raise the mesh onto the slab.

Perhaps a self tapping screw through the joint on the top would be enough to stop it coming apart? Or a bit of PU adhesive like Tigerseal.

Can't two 45 bends be joined and rotated to give the required angle with a slight side step.

Can't tell much from the photo but it looks like they just put a layer on top of the existing?

I think it will be fine. Similar to what we have.

Google tells me they operate on 868MHz which is also used by some burglar alarms. I don't think having a burglar alarm on the same frequency should cause a problem but I suppose it might be something to check.

I was told they all count as highways so fences over 1m need planning permission. I think that was the problem with this story last week... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14801729/We-bought-land-homes-erected-6ft-fence-yobs-snobby-neighbours-complained-council.html

The retained side is the higher side.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2p0kn5zko.amp Quote: A man who was charged £70,000 by his local council for making "a small home improvement" is to get a refund. Steve Dally had been granted planning permission to replace an existing house extension that was exempt from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), but he did not realise an extra application to make minor amendments was subject to the charge.

When they built the M3 past our house in the 1970s my dad fitted double glazing before they eventually offered to pay for it. We were then told they wouldn't pay for what he had installed because the best gap for noise reduction was 6 inches. So they came and installed Secondary glazing with this big gap so we ended up with triple glazing. My son is away on holiday or I would check with him as he's an acoustics engineer. ChatGPT says...

Would dropping the joists at the outer ends put stress on any wiring or pipe work?

I doubt it's caused damage to the foundations but you can see the brick or mortar are leeching salts (the white powder) which is normally exacerbated by damp. Damp bricks can spall (bits flake off) when the water freezes. However they don't look too bad for their age. I wonder if the path is a lot newer? Yes what @Russell griffiths suggest is essentially a French drain. If really keen you can drop some perforated pipe into the gravel and lead the water away to a soakaway or a drain if they allow combined sewers in your area.

ho hum.. https://www.reddit.com/r/OctopusEnergy/comments/1dl01hk/missing_a_day_worth_of_export_data/

Bit of a scandal if the meter is missing export. Imagine the class action lawsuit if it was found a lot of them missed export units.

The site plan in our planning application/grant showed where the verge crossing would be and it's rough shape.

Ours sounds similar. The wide verge between my plot and the road edge was officially "land maintened at the public expense" according to highways. We did the crossing ourselves, or rather our builder did. He also installed a linear drain where it met the edge of the road as it slopes down towards the road. The outlet of this goes via a short pipe into the piped ditch that runs under this area. I've no idea if he was allowed to do this but my builder was good at just getting things done. It probably only took him a day or two to prep everything and another 1/2 day for the tarmac crew to surface it. He wasn't in anyone's way and nobody ever questioned if he had or needed paperwork (other than our planning permission).

I was told to allow 1 day per mm of thickness so 60mm screed takes 60 days to dry.

I take it the inverter knows how much is exported not just whats generated.

No don't do that. Some of the load tends to pull the rafter away from the ridge beam. Check with your SE.