MikeSharp01

Hi Jack. Did you have to go through the DPM. I have looked at ducting it / using duo insulated duct but have concluded its a non starter as the turns would be difficult if I come in through the slab former side then through the DPC and along in the EPS layer then up I think it should work.

If you have the email confirming 2 sliders and 1 fixed then you look to be on solid ground, did you pay by credit card, if so you can gt your money back that way if they refuse to play ball. Personally, provided you can get bifolds that meet the regs - they are an air tightness nightmare, and your requirements they are probably the best way to go even at a little higher cost a few extra pounds now will be worth it to roll away the whole window when you want to connect the inside with the outside.

Everywhere more like and I am sure there are loads of circular references in there and mostly they are impenetrable, not written in lay persons language as they expect the reader to be an expert in the subject. I am a little lucky in that the University subscribes to some, not many in construction, but I can pop along to the British Library and access them for the cost of a zone 6 travel card. (£11 off peak) Some councils have them in their libraries, I found this: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/about-bsi/uk-national-standards-body/Library-Access-to-Standards/ and https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/The-Digital-Library/ which gives some access by the looks of it.

Tomorrow I will be installing the land drain round our slab base and was wondering if I need to wrap the perforated land drain pipe (solid 110mm pipe with a seam of drilled holes) with geotextile or not? The slab design does not call for it but given we are on clay it may stop the silt from getting into the pipe but will it clog up the holes. I will bed the pipe in pea shingle but again this is not called for in the slab design as the whole thing is encased in type 1. Any thoughts anyone?

Just to be clear are you talking about digging 25 years ago and imagining her while digging or digging today and imagining her as she was 25 years ago. Either way the holding it bit is way out of order and the imagining bit is probably exploitation although the general populace was not as clear on that 25 years ago as they are today.

Yes. Given above advice I will run the problem past the BC chap and prepare to use type 1.

You split the anti freeze, a case or two of half decent Chablis will do or perhaps a few bottles of 24 year old malt, into two collections and then offer one each to the local plumber & electrician as barter for them to do the job.

I have been digging out the main slab foundations area for our passive slab and have found that the trench carrying services to the garden room at the back of the site, running under the slab from the utilities hub to the garden room about 600mm below slab base is very boggy. When I back filled it it was wacked down but still the digger tracks are sinking in if I track along it. I can only think that as it was a trench in heavy clay that the wacking has not been able to replicate 350 million years of compression and it has absorbed loads of the water we had in the early part of the year. It is only about 450mm wide and I made sure that it is not anywhere near under the main structural points on the slab. Should I just pile more earth (clay in our case) on top and keep wacking, dig out and fill with type 1 and whack that or given that it will have 150mm of type one above it whacked down anyway to support the slab former just leave it alone. Any thoughts anyone?

Such progress - must work harder down here, still I suppose we are known up there as 'those soft southern coves'.

Hi @ProDave did you finally decide one way or another.

Yes we had the same with the LPG chaps when we did the rebuild at Millstone manor. We laid the pipe from the proposed tank position to the house entry point. They did the rest but as there is no meter I guess things are different. Anyway have started gathering names of local worthy plumbers from neighbours.

Brewers are usually keen on price. We paid about that for our exterior RAL colour from DULUX weathershield range.

Ok so I need a GSR person next week to get things moving. How deep will they expect @Nickfromwales ? Will be about 500 below soil level and 600 below slab.

There have been discussions about this before that seem pretty definitive but I thought I would clarify. I am ready to lay the gas duct from the external meter box under the soon to be laid slab and to bring it up in the plant room. Will be Yellow duct and I will try and keep the bends as smooth as I can. I can put the Trac Pipe in the duct ready. (The end near the meter box will be vented once the main install is complete). The connection to the meter will happen with the main install as I need to slide the trac pipe down the duct below finished floor level, pull it back 300mm, as the whole slab is being polished and the gas duct, along with all the other ducts, will finish in a sealed sunken pocket that will be opened once the concrete is set. My question is this. Do I need a gas safe engineer to witness any of this if the trac pipe is essentially free in the duct, so it could be withdrawn and pressure tested if needs be? AND If I do need one to check the ground works and pipe install what form of words do I need to get from them to ensure that the person who gets the install of the gas system will accept the witnessing if, for some reason, it cannot be the same person? Finally I wonder if @PeterStarck , @oranjeboom or any other East Kent dwellers can recommend a gas safe engineer (The main boiler will be a Vaillant) .

Just taking a quick look round it does come out at about 60% of other sources. I am also in the market for a 300m coil but had not started my search, now ones eyes are open in a big way!

Seems harsh to burn members at the stake to warm your home just because they have used a couple of suppliers.

Sorry, did not mean to hijack this thread with emoji issues - so its just him?

Does that include the 'Adult shop'? (PS finding it difficult to get on with the new emojis will keep working at it!)

Welcome to THE forum, stay dreaming - believe me the reality is a very different place. (EG )

Keep a hi viz, and you hard hat / bump cap in the car for just such occasions.

This dropped through, rather into, the letter box at millstone manor this week. The truth is, as one might expect, in the small print. If I were a vulnerable person I might be fooled into thinking I could not do this myself and that this has come from the council. Am I being picky!

Almost same scheme as her. Our diversion was £600 but all we needed was the pipe squeezed, a new connection made and fed to the new gas meter location to which I had dug all the trenches. I then pulled the plastic pipe out of the metal in the severed end and all was well.

Yes ours, when visiting, never hear the 'would you like to help me clear up after lunch / supper / dinner' ?

It sounds unlikely and you might think you have exhausted your search but if someone turns up with a title deed for the land before the parcels were sold and can show that the gaps between the parcels were never sold they will have a valid claim. Land registry is not the only repository of land ownership.

Somebody owns everywhere seems like a good code to start with. There used to be an 8 year rule now it is 12 years in total IIRC. Once you fence it in you will need to be unchallenged for 12 years. After 10 you write to LR and tell them you have had unrestricted personal use for the last 10 years. You then need to wait 2 more years and if you remain unchallenged the land becomes yours and can be registered to you.