Nickfromwales

No rush! Those days are long behind me

Bingo. We're getting somewhere. Did you hear the F&E tank ballcock allow some more water in to top up?

I’d switch your PM inbox off sharpish, if I were you lol! Congrats, I’ll be in touch myself pretty damn soon if you’re up for some new projects to support me on. Last lot didn’t make grade….now gone ‘adios’. Shoot me a message when you get 5 and we can have a chat or maybe meet up. One’s on your doorstep.

“These are not the droids you are looking for……” 🖖

Defo this. Use a battery multitool and have a hose running to manage dust. It’ll wash off the render if it’s not left to settle. Leave the section held captive by the render, and mastic the joint to recreate the weathertight seal. Be sure to multitool the full length of the underside of the bit you need to remove so you can lift it away from the render. Don't simply hope the render will be ok if you just lift the cill up and away. It needs to be disconnected by you just multitool’ing inti the render for maybe 5mm or so. Steady hands and lots of time and patience invested here will make this quick and simple. Rush it and you’ll be into another few cans of real ugly worms.

As the principal designer, and I assume the author of your b regs drawings, they are responsible for the insulation being fit for purpose and sufficient for a “pass”. If their spec is under then it should fall back on them?

Are you aware of our marketplace?

I try to explain the difference, to folk who approach me (both here by PM or in “real life”) for ‘a bit of advice’. I have to explain that me rambling on here has zero repercussion, because in reality nobody should listen to a word I have to say. But, if someone asks me specifically, to advise on their project, well that requires time, and time = £xxx At that point I become liable or responsible for not overpromising or under-delivering, so that’s now managed via my T&C’s (serves myself and the client very well if expectations are managed robustly, and then each party knows what’s been promised vs what’s getting delivered for what sum of money, payment plans agreed, and so on). It’s so much simpler when 2 adults can read the same document, perform a handover, and agree that’s all been done as expected and here’s your dosh. BH has a massive wealth of information available for anyone to read and use, with their own caution needing to be in check, and due diligence performed, eg to avoid misadventure. Reading a few bits on the internet is not robust enough to go spending your hard earned money on. It should be used to compile questions for your chosen contractor, or as a sounding board for your own informed decision making.

They could reduce the head in the current end of line property to 60a and give you the same 60a allowance. You’ll be surprised just how much you can run off that!

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If it’s just a veranda and not a heated space, then the regs are only really about safety eg should the glass break and fall on to someone. DG would be required to keep the heat in, if it was a part of the living space. As you already are going toughened that box is ticked, but I’d not go for less than 8mm glass at that size, and for robustness I’d probably go for 10mm to be safe. 6mm is too thin afaic, as the panel is laying nearly flat so is already fighting gravity / its own weight. Cost doesn’t go up that much for single panes of glass, it’s just bit of an uplift to get them toughened after cutting. Seems pointless to do DG units but they would reduce the noise of rain getting through to the underside, if that is of any importance? @craig any regs on thickness of a flat-ish glazed single roof panel in a veranda?

If it’s going to be a number of weeks or months then lose the tenner and dose with inhibitor immediately. You’d be surprised how quickly the new fresh oxygenated water kicks off the corrosion process again.

Chin up fella. What keeps me going is the FACT that there’s others out there who are far worse off, and that puts my problems into perspective pdq.

Let's not derail this thread please.

All in hand By keeping on....keeping on. Time for another winky-emoji...