recoveringbuilder

Heard from a lady up here today that she is only able to order limited amounts of building materials and that prices are rising weekly. My son in law who’s a qs says there’s a big shortage of brickies here.

We used claymore for our house in 2018 , very good to deal with and their erectors were top notch. Recently gave their details to someone who will be building this year and he’s had his quote and spec, his architect who recently self built himself has said their spec is great, far superior to who he used .

I had a couple like that, I highlighted the returned items on the invoice and marked with a star and added a note for explanation then recalculated the amounts.

When you know nothing about the equipment apart from what the manufacturer is advertising in terms of performance etc and you do all the right things, getting a registered installer who explains it all to you in layman’s terms then pay thousands of pounds to have it installed, trusting that you have been given correct information, then it all goes tits up because apparently the installer who is registered with all the relevant bodies didn’t really know as much as he claimed to what or who do you blame?

And I wouldn’t install a biomass boiler full stop!

We offered ours for free and had 3 different people take a vanload each, the rest we put in the slab for the garage.

How did this eventually go? We have a banking the full length of the plot, we’ve laid weed barrier, did it in the autumn last year and pinned down however the wind has been catching it and the plan to put bark chipping might not be such a good idea as they might blow away too,now at a loss as to what to do with it!

When we had our chickens they were great at loosening up soil. They also used to follow me back to the house when I let them out in the morning to get some bread, I do miss them but we have these big birds of prey in the area and I think that’s what happened to one of my last ones so won’t be risking it again.

If it’s going to be worth £1m why are you even hesitating about building it?

Back to that time of year again, when you have a large plot it’s not easy to decide what you are going to do with it all. Last year we put up a fence at the back of the house about ten metres out to divide what we wanted as garden from what is essentially a paddock, we had decking built from the house and then you step down onto what is currently rough grass , seed spread quickly last year to give the appearance of a lawn. It’s been difficult trying to plan what to do with this area but we’ve just had a couple of walls built and it’s amazing how when you decide to do something like that you then begin to form a picture in your mind about how the rest should look, it doesn’t all come to mind at once but bit by bit as you decide on one thing and get it done the next part sort of falls into place. I’m really looking forward to getting it all done before winter so that next year should be maintenance only!

Hopefully they will come up with a plan to suit you without you losing out on a connection, they don’t really want to remove so will go all out to accommodate you once they realise you are serious.

Can’t see you needing to tell them until you are going to demolish the old property but I don’t think they’ll just swap the mortgage onto the new one, you’ll probably have to apply again so that they can do all the legal stuff with title deeds etc on the new house.

Have to disagree with you there, we have corian, never had any problems with stains, I’m not the tidiest cook and have spilt lots of things including beetroot and it’s cleaned off no problem.

Welcome from another Scottish member, should be an interesting job

think it’ll depend on the size, if it’s a commonly used size you’ll be fine although you probably won’t get what you paid for it. When we started looking for a garage door I checked gumtree and found one which was brand new, off a new build house where the owner had decided to make the garage into a room, he couldn’t get rid of it because it was so big, over 5 metres wide , he had continuously advertised it with no takers and by the time I saw it he had reduced it to £30 just to get it away out of his road, great for us but not so good for him!

If they have a wayleave they have to produce it , how long have you owned the property? If the wayleave was in place before you bought it, it will now be void unless it’s a necessary wayleave as wayleaves don’t continue on to the next owner.If the wayleave was granted by yourself you’ll have been receiving paltry payments every year. we have had a similar situation with a plot we have been marketing, asked them to produce the wayleave, they don’t have one ( which I already suspected) served them notice to remove the overhead cables, this started getting them engaged, they have come up with a plan to underground the cables, I have now handed over the negotiations to the person wishing to purchase the land and he has had them on site with a surveyor to plan the route and they have agreed to do this in 12 weeks time, so far there has been no mention of any payment to do the work and it looks like there won’t be any charge. As for the trees, if their cables are going through them they should be doing the work, where we are a firm comes out every year to check all the trees and do any work needed, last time they were here they wanted to trim back one of the trees on our land and I asked them to take it down altogether which they did, no charge.

Our aerial is in the loft with a signal booster

Think you’re complicating things for yourself, roughing joiners can usually do kit erection, window fitting and partitioning plasterboarding etc and finishing joiners for all your doors , skirting , reveals etc

Is there not a Facebook page for your area? I know here there’s a local Facebook page which proves very useful, I even tracked down a missing parcel on it, the other thing is a self build Facebook page for your area?

We have two of these, one is south facing and we had to have film put on it because of the solar gain, the room was reaching over 30 degrees in summer and the film has definitely helped. I started looking for blinds for the winter time as you always‘ feel’ a coldness from a bare window even although there really isn’t any cold coming in, I found a company that do motorized blinds that go up the way from bottom to top into the triangular part of the window, unfortunately not in Scotland and I can’t find anyone that does them up here.

I was expecting one night a couple of weeks ago as it was advertised in my telly paper and then it didn’t come on! Had a look online and it was saying starts in May?

We parted company with our builders near the end as they just stopped turning up, they’d been paid at stages during the build and I’d paid them an amount on the Friday before we parted company the following Wednesday, when we told them to go they tried to bill us another amount which they weren’t due, after ignoring the first two bills when it appeared for the third time I told them they wouldn’t be getting it until building control had been out to check their work, never heard another thing about it. The electrician they’d sub contracted still had work to do and he continued the work with us paying him directly.

I feel for you with this, we’ve just discovered (although we had heard through the grapevine) that a local block making firm are expanding their operation closer to us and have applied for new factories etc, however they have already gained permission to work from them 24 hours a day without anyone being consulted. Currently they are 2 fields away from us and only working through the day and we hear the machinery but after expansion they will be a field closer and 24 hours seems wrong to me. It appears they’ve already had noise testing done and it’s been passed but I can’t understand why we haven’t been informed about this!

No matter who you get to do the work SP energy have to make the connection, same with your water, £3k seems a reasonable amount to get an electricity connection and I doubt you’ll get it any cheaper.

Get yourself a good plumber and electrician, they know how to set things out but in my experience they don’t like you interfering unless you know exactly what you’re doing so you might find they’re not too happy with you doing first fix yourself. We paid around £3k 3 years ago to have the whole house wired up ( we bought all the components) and it was money well spent knowing it was all done to regulations by someone who knew what they were doing.