recoveringbuilder

Yes no problem at all they accepted my whole claim even some that I thought they’d probably reject , paid out within 10 weeks of making the application

Mine didn’t have two forms, all receipts were on the one list but obviously ones from shops didn’t have the vat separated, I just made the calculations myself and entered them in the appropriate column

Welcome, well you have to get it right don’t you?! Actually not a bad idea for an architect to do their own self build and experience first hand all the trials and tribulations that go along with it, you’ll find this forum a wealth of information and really helpful people who go out of their way to help or even just sympathise with you! Good luck hope it all goes well oh and we like pictures ?

This is the arrangement we were given by Scottish water for our standpipe (which never actually happened as they took so long to make the connection) they were sticklers for how everything had to be done, 900mm down for the pipe , had to be through blue ducting with pea gravel and had to be in a straight line, we had it in a large sweeping curve to enter the house at the side but they wouldn’t pass it and we had to relay it in a straight line entering the building from the front.

We had the loan for installation of our pellet stove but something they didn’t tell us which the installer did was that you can get iirc 60per cent upfront which we did and only when it was finished and commissioned did we need the mcrs certificate to get the remaining money.

On our second build we spent 2 winters in a towing caravan (it was a big one right enough) and with this build we spent 7 months in a smaller one. It’s all down to how much you’re prepared to forego for what you want to end up with. In our case we wanted to know exactly how much we had to spend and selling our home prior to starting the build gave us the security of actually having the cash rather than worrying about repaying it once the new house was built as who knows how long it would take to sell the current property, self builds are stressful enough without having the added worry of that. Also renting is a waste of valuable resources. If I ever did it again it would still be the same!

I’m having one of those days today when everything is annoying me! Started off with the brickie who was meant to be coming this weekend to get on with the garage and of course didn’t turn up so now it’s going from one thing to another all the little niggling things and reading this post I’m now annoyed about something that happened in the 80s! My father died in 1980 , 5 months after I was married, my mother was allocated a brand new pensioners house and was over the moon she’d never had anything like it, unfortunately she only lived a year after getting it , taking a massive stroke at only 67 but I now am thinking about all the hassle she had in that last year with that new house! A coal fire with a back boiler for the heating (she’d never had central heating before) it was totally useless, kept blowing back into the room and the council were at a loss what to do with it, an outside door that wouldn’t close or lock if it was frost and so it went on. I can’t help but think she would have been better if she’d stayed where she was and might have lasted longer. See what I mean? You only need one thing to annoy you and it turns into the domino effect ?

Hello and welcome, sorry to hear of your trouble. I think maybe your biggest problem would be the cost of land to build your log cabin unless you have already identified somewhere you’d be able to build. I have looked at the price of land down there and anything under£100k seems to be in a street of residential properties where I think it would be unlikely that you’d get permission for a cabin.

Are you sure you’re reading the quote correctly? When we got ours there were two figures, both for the same work but the lower quote was for us doing all the contestable work, both outcomes were the same as in it would entail the same type of connection but it would be more expensive to get them to do all the work.

I feel for you! We had this in our last house. It wasn’t happening for the first couple of years then all of a sudden it started happening. We would have it for a few days then it would disappear for months only to return again, we tried everything, new aav, put an outside stack in , tested pipes, resealed all the pipes at the toilet pan , nothing worked, one plumber we spoke to said the under floor heating was causing it drying out the shower trap but we never did get to the bottom of it.

What I have as mentioned by @Ferdinandare these

I just got all my invoices back this morning and confirmation that my full claim is payable, this includes some invoices that were in my builders name , some in my plumbers name and one for glass that was provided from a local company, the only paperwork I had for this one was a worksheet with the company name on it and amount paid, no vat number on it, I didn’t expect them to pay this one but decided to put it in anyway, happy days! Oh and it’s only 8 weeks since I submitted it!

We paid 70p per block

We have the lithe audio ceiling speakers and I love them , only wish I’d got some put in the kitchen as well

We also looked at a company a few years ago when we had our eye on a plot that would have suited this type of home they were called mountain lodge https://mountainlodgehomes.co.uk/faqs/

He was a producer and he had been behind all the euphoria albums which I used to have to listen to when I had a teenage son at home! Personally I think he wanted a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget, he had been mixing with the stars for too long! I don’t know how he could sleep at night and I don’t blame his wife for getting out.

Has to be a regional thing though I suspect, if we had paid £2k m2 the house would not be worth anywhere near what it had cost to build. We haven’t had it valued yet but going by other similar sized properties in the area currently being marketed the ceiling price seems to be around £400k although we do have a large paddock which will add some value but I wouldn’t have been happy spending much more than we did for this end value.

Quotes are free, I don’t think they’ll do overhead now though, we had just under 400m if I remember correctly and they wouldn’t entertain going overhead, said it all had to go underground now

I’m getting more confused by this film as time goes on, I had a quote from Solartek and they were going to put it on the inside of the window, I then got in touch with sun-x who put us on to the installers in Scotland, the chap came out and measured up but he was going to put it on the outside of the window, when I questioned this he said it would be no good on the inside as the heat would get into the glass and be bouncing back and forth between the two double glazed panes eventually causing damage. This sounded feasible and seemed to make sense so we decided to go with him, he was to come today providing it wasn’t raining or windy, so today it’s sunny, the time for them coming came and went and I eventually phoned them to be told it’s too sunny today! I’m now starting to question what I should be doing here as when I look up where it should be fitted I’m getting results that say it should be inside as if it’s outside it will crackle, what advise can anyone give me on this?

I never had any doubts about the scaffolding coming down, it was a polish team that did ours with a Scottish boss who stood and watched, nothing was thrown about, it took a day and a half to erect and a full day to take down and it never even crossed my mind that anything would be damaged which probably was because I could see they weren’t be rough.

Lucky you, I have had nothing but trouble with bt billing since the beginning of the year, tried to get away from them but was still in contract so they wanted nearly £300 to get out of it, ended up making several complaints and they gave me £50 credit, then they told me again I hadn’t paid my bill, I have been tearing my hair out with them and will be off as soon as I get out of contract !

That sounds an awful long time doesn’t it, we’re just waiting on our updated EPC to apply for RHI payments for our biomass boiler, we were hoping to have it all set up for winter, do you think they’ll backdate to when you made the application?

We originally were to have a standpipe but Scottish Water took so long to connect us the house was all but finished before we got a connection, we were lucky that we got filling a couple of IBCs with a hose from our neighbour. We were charged £200 by Scottish Water for ‘building water’ which we never had.

Resurrecting again as we still haven’t done this yet. The firm I was originally looking at have now changed their name to neotimber and I’m back at the £200 for delivery, I really really grudge paying as much for delivery but I can’t find anything locally which compares in price and quality, our joiner is out the game at the moment after an operation which is giving me more thinking time but the more I think the more confused I get!

We were originally going to have a wood burner with back boiler and connected to a thermal store however just around the time we were due to make the decision the government announced they wanted to do away with wood burners so we decided against it and went with the insert pellet stove .