recoveringbuilder

I think with the younger generation, thirty somethings, it’s all about status, IMO that’s why there are so many working mothers these days because they have to have the house, the car and the fancy holidays. I stayed at home with my children until they went to school and we had a council house, an old banger and holidayed in a caravan!

You @ProDaveseem to have gone along the same lines as us! Once the thermal store was in there wasn’t a lot of room left for the wc and sink however I had got quite a compact wc (short projection) and a tiny vanity unit and was happy that it would fit, the plumber however had other ideas because he was by this time looking for short cuts so he suggested I forget about the wc! No way, my better half would then walk from the garden right through the house to the main bathroom with his outdoor shoes on! As it is when we’re sitting in the lounge at night the main bathroom is nearer but we also have an ensuite in one of the downstairs bedrooms which I tend to use, and the reason for this being hubby again as he always leaves the seat up and it’s one of these soft close things which I hate having to wait on it going down ?

Our thermostat for the bathroom is also in the hall just outside the bathroom door, we have it set at 18 degrees because as you say you don’t want to be heating a big hall up to 22 degrees, BUT, the bathroom is the warmest room in the house! Can’t understand why, only thing we thought it might be is because it’s fully tiled in quartz tiles and maybe they hold the heat better, as for our wc it’s for our use only and it’s very warm too but that’s because it also houses the thermal store

but it does involve learning about a wide range of things that most people probably aren't thatwell aware of. definitely right there, think it’s one of the hardest things that you have no-one to discuss problems with other than each other because nobody knows what you are talking about. at work I was introduced to a new member of staff and they were told ‘Christine is building a house, ha ha not personally ‘ people at work have no idea how much you have to put into it even with builders on site the buck stops with you and my colleagues had no idea that I was probably spending as much if not more time on the house build than I was at work, that’s why I found build hub a great place to sound off because you are speaking to like minded people.

You have to put in an amendment to warrant , sorry dog got in my way there? ammendments are made to the original plan, our architect will do this at a cost of £450

We had no problem getting it just had to give them the spec of the treatment plant

In Scotland we have to have permission from Sepa so I’m guessing there’s an English equivalent??

Oh yes, we have had a bespoke kitchen installed in this house and it is superb, solid units, hinges, , everything just right and the installer made everything just perfect, painter followed him in to paint the units which we were having painted, worktop installers spent full day fitting corian and polishing it then the boss arrived in to check all the work, he also is coming back in the spring to check everything once the units have been loaded for a while, couldn’t have wished for better workmanship although it did come at a price which I never thought I would pay for a kitchen! I have had several different kitchens in previous builds but they were never quite right.

We were so lucky last year that the weather was so dry for weeks on end our builders sat outside on summer seats we’d kept out of storage, we did have a portable toilet though

Pity it’s not skirting you’re looking for we have a good few lengths left could have had a trip down ?

Oh well then SP energy must be wrong

I’m not surprised @Randomiser that the call handler seemed clueless, when I first mentioned to a team leader that if they wouldn’t reduce their quote I would be requesting removal of the pole in my garden his answer was ‘ well you’ll cut off your connection then’ —REALLY! I don’t have a connection! I find this repeatedly that the person on the other end of the phone knows less about things than you do yourself! Energy saving trust is another one you waste your time speaking to, can’t understand why they don’t employ people with a bit of savvy, I’m going off on a rant now, yesterday was in a local garden centre with my friend and she asked one of the staff the name of a plant she was interested in- answer- I haven’t a clue!

asements An Easement (also known as Deed of Grant) provides similar access rights for installing and maintaining infrastructure equipment, but for a one-off payment and it provides permanent access. An Easement can also be registered at the Land Registry in order to ensure that future owners of the land adhere to it.

Wayleaves. A Wayleave is a means of providing rights for a company to install and retain their cabling or piping across private land in return for annual payments to the landowner. A Wayleave is normally a temporary arrangement and does not automatically transfer to a new owner or occupier.

Wayleaves are not noted on the deeds @vivienz but easements are, was told this when I made the enquiry about removing the poles on our plots

Wayleaves do not continue when the property changes hands , so if you have recently bought the land even if there was a wayleave with the previous owner it would not continue when you bought the place

Before you go asking them to remove it I’d get your quote for a connection. We’ve had a lot of dealings last year with SP energy both with the supply to our new build which they wanted an arm and a leg for; there was a pole in our plot which they had no Wayleave for and from which they said we couldn’t get a supply as it was at capacity, they soon saw sense with their quote though when I told them I would be requesting it’s removal and we ended up paying a fifth of what they had originally quoted on the understanding we’d sign a wayleave for it. On the other hand we have two plots a mile up the road from us which we have been marketing and two prospective buyers weren’t happy with the fact that in the corner of one of the plots there were two poles with a transformer on them, I made enquiries about having them removed and was told I could request their removal but would be better getting a connection to the plots first as removing them to another location could make a connection afterwards more expensive if they had to move them further away, sounded reasonable to me however we accepted an offer on both plots from an individual who lived abroad and hadn’t physically seen the plots, whatever happened next I don’t know but somehow he then discovered the poles and asked for us to have them removed, I tried to explain that he would be better to get the connection first then ask for their removal but he then said he had contacted them and it was going to cost50k which he wanted us to pay, in other words he wanted two plots valued at 130k for 80k , when we refused he withdrew his offer. As a footnote to this we recently had cause to visit the plots with another prospective buyer and guess what! Where there had been two poles with a transformer there now was only one solitary pole with only wires coming from it, we don’t know when or how this happened but we’re quite happy with it!

Looks good, similar layout downstairs to my last house and we more or less lived in the kitchen/dining/family room but was good to have a formal lounge that was always tidy for visitors! handy too to have the playroom for all the toys and a downstairs loo for potty training.

If you’re not occupying the property you can get 3 months without paying council tax providing you can prove you live elsewhere and are paying ct there, that’s in Scotland anyway

I’ll leave that for some of the technically minded guys but I certainly wouldn’t have paid their prices, mine were all Brett Martin which seems to be a good make

We paid here £160 /day for a good digger driver, £90/day for labourer and I expect the dumper driver will be somewhere in between but you are in England aren’t you? Always more expensive!

I’m imagining your situation, you’ve got all the pricing done then out of the blue this crops up, be prepared for a lot of this, we thought since we were on our third build that we had it all covered, wrong! There’s always something or someone trying to grab more of your cash?

Wow! That’s some money, if I were you I’d go through that drainage plan and cost everything that’s what we did and although we had to go back and get a few more fittings it was nowhere near that amount, probably about a third of that at the highest!

We bought all our pipe and most of fittings and inspection chambers from an online company called build plumb plastics, I’d need to look at receipt but I’m sure we got 150 m of Brett Martin pipe for around £300, hubby did all the drains along with the digger driver who was really good at getting off his machine to help and it was all done in 6 days that included putting in the sewage treatment plant,

We put in a thermal store and biomass stove which we will get RHI payments for, the thermal store can take solar thermal too and the installer was promoting it however solar thermal is not legible for RHI payments , this came straight from the energy saving trust