MikeSharp01

Mean Trump or Johnson Nope = "stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action" I was using the latter meaning in that it, natural wood, can absolutely be relied upon to warp / twist / shrink / bend constantly until you get it in a controlled environment. You have to admire chippy types who understand the nature of wood to such an extent that they can cope with this as I find it frustrating.

Two reasons. Firstly I have always found natural timber very obdurate in that it never stays where you put it. It struck me that engineered timber got round this. Secondly I could not achieve the open spans we wanted in normal timber unless I wanted to go for very large sections.

We are doing it with I joists and I am not a time served chippy so it should be a breeze for someone who is.

Hard to see it all on a phone - looks good like the low wall betwern dinning area and sitting room. My comment is about the angled zone at the end of the kitchen with the window. I wonder if it is really useful and the shape feels awkward although I guess it is a feature and we don't all want to live in square buildings, maybe look at squaring it off and making it the same depth as the 1st floor to reduce complexity.

Good question - @Nebyou might find it valuable to see if you can get work that will leverage your interest there and add value at the end of your degree in terms of career. This can take may forms from just having it on your CV up to to giving you insights into your industry and enabling / supporting your ability to communicate widely across it and have understanding of people who you now work with from your graduate role. Win - win.

You are right concrete adds much more pressure but its all down to how well the external face is protected along with the the depth of water behind it and I did hedge a bit with 'might'.

On our build for the garden room I created two holes in the DPM, at the lowest points, to let the water out into the land drain and then sealed them up very carefully with some fearsome double sided mastic tape before we put the concrete in with full BC approval. We didn't need it for the main build as it didn't rain in the final weeks and we had a deep pocket we could pump out and then bale.

If it a passive raft you will need to keep the thing drained or you will end up with a swimming pool and it may well force the sides out.

The lower one is 10%+ better than the higher one.. So provided it is not 10% more expensive it would, all other things being equal - which they often aren't, be a better bet, if more than 10% more expensive the payback steps out a bit.

Yes it looks like a standard strip I think you can get from Screwfix.

Welcome to the THE forum for self builders - sounds like a challenging project for you both - look forward to travelling with you.

Also how is / does the insulation detail look as the block work might be part of the insulation detail.

Yes I appreciate how it works - but it still seems a lot of talking just to turn a light on / off / brighter / colour change. You will also have to tell it about zones and which lights are in which zones. Overly complex I feel. Juts find a controlled dimmer / colour controller for a bunch of dumb lights much simpler - although you still have to tell it which zone you want to control.

How does an individual bulb know you are talking to it and it alone. "Alexa - 2nd bulb on left off"

It looks like something breaks the join, assuming outside is at the bottom or the image, a little, those squares (x) in the corners or is that just the mastic? Either way it does not feel like a robust detail.

Yes - get some more Torx bits rather than Magnets.

Not 100% sure I can see what bit of the drawing refers to what you have photographed I am assuming we are looking along the rafter in the drawing view (rafter to SE spec...). Is that the gutter we can see the top of the photo? Sounds like insect mesh is going to be the solution if you need ventilation but you would need to create an approximately flat run to pin it to.

Traffic -on your lane or did they install the meter in the middle lane of the M6?

Yes between papyrus and instagram.

Try leaving it off for a longer period, couple of minutes, just in case some residual voltage is lurking about in some capacitor in there.

No Best leave it unless there is a clear reset button on the outside.

Has the main unit got a reset button / switch hidden behind a tiny hole somewhere. Although looking at the message it implies that some communication blockage has occured there are no switches (network) anywhere in the system - is the panel wired direct to the main unit?

Has it got / is there a flat backup battery somewhere and its lost its settings?

Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded individuals. Sketchup is the best for the job you are looking at and can probably take you all the way, so give that a go.

Nope them (you) Germans were and still are good with concrete just now it is used for different purposes.