MikeSharp01

Cool, @JSHarris so now you can have almost anything, control wise, managed by a PI at the end of a wire.

You just need to amend the relevent land registry entry and you can do this yourself provided you can prove title. The key thing is to get the wording right so that there won't be a problem if it gets to two barristers slugging it out in court. Edit. Why not transfer the Portion of land to the cottage then it's simple. Edit 2: you can do the transfer using a boundary agreement even simpler.

Use a membrane not a paint, they last longer. I did an underground building a long time ago and the only bit that was ever damp was the paint on tanking portion, the bit with the membrane was never damp and probably still isn't.

In our case UK power networks paid as they are not allowed, where we are in Kent, to fly cables over buildings with a limited clearance.

Cripes - you are only down the road from me and I thought that radon was a rock strata issue not a clay base issue had not even contemplated that I might need to keep radon out.

I would take the radon barrier out beyond the block and drop it down so as to be sure that you get coverage. As you ahve drawn it damp rising in the block work could migrate along the bottom of the DPC over the radon barrier and into the concrete / insulation, if you get over the blocks with the radon this cannot happen all rising damp stops dead there.

Hi Lucy. We had rather a different experience with moving power cables. The trick we found was as Peter has said was the way leaves on the two poles, both on our land between which a wire ran. We had the wires crossing above the house, one storey, and we said we were building a second storey and that the cables posed a danger as although we would still be below them it would only be 5 feet. They agreed to reroute the cable underground and paid for it all. As it is not you it might be worth finding out who has the pole way leaves and see if they can help you put pressure on the local supplier. In Jeremy's response he mentioned contested works, these are aspects of the work that can be done by people other than the electricity people themselves (IE they don't have a monopoly), so you can either do them yourself or get your ground worker to do them for you.

Yes provided the radon barrier does not get punctured by things, small stones / rough cement, sticking out of the slab then I cannot see the need for anything else. I cannot think why either way round has an advantage so either way and, as you saw with our pour the reinforcing supports didn't push through the EPS, in fact my experience was that he supports crushed before they went into the EPS.

Welcome - sounds like fun - thick lines, thin lines, construction lines, the reassuring rasp of a well honed pencil on the cartridge paper, forming those little arrows - filling them in and writing text between two feint lines. I should get a good rubber. CAD is great but symbiosis of man and thinking machine (JC Jones, Design the Seeds of human futures, 1970) it ain't yet, wish I had the time to indulge with a pencil and the space for an A1 drawing board.

Did they teach you nothing in Sunday School, although on reflection I am not sure the missionaries ever got to your corner of Wales - headed straight for St Davids forgetting to turn left at Neath, in my Sunday school however they taught us that when we get to heaven we will spend our time (forever) in a constant state of delight, which must include beer don't you think. If on the other hand you end up in the other place, they call it hell I believe, there will still be beer but you will spend forever not getting any. However you can do a bit of hedging and become tea total and then you will be forced to drink beer all the time down there, whereas up there they will assume delight is a constant supply of soft drinks so I guess you can't win - better stay here and enjoy it while you can.

Welcome and looks like great fun... You need to know is that self building is a lot of going round the houses so this design will make it easy,

Thanks all, that is all i need to go back to the architect with, All I can find in BR is the need for it to be rodable!

Hi all. Our architect has come back with our house soils plan and has requested rodding access in a straight line from the access chamber on the other side of the house. Is there a way around this requirement as the rodding access requested is going to be inaccessible at the very least as right beside a footpath under a hedge! Is it not possible to put a rodding point above the rest bend from the toilets etc? D-01 Groundworks.pdf

Simple solution is get a laptop / ipad with HDMI output and all viewing is sorted.

Smart TV if you want to watch on the TV or you could just purchase a suitable smart DVD / Blue ray player as these connect to your TV and also have the browser facility - check before you buy, and they are cheaper than a TV. Of course if you need an excuse. .....

Its good news week ( - Hedgehoppers Anonymous 1965). Well done....

That's some pregnancy test kit you have there @SteamyTea. The subsequent children will get through loads of DHW.

Yes the old slippery floor problem. Here is one that sound very 'build hub' " Yes, use the GE II Silicone caulk. You can use it to glue the vinyl on and also seal the joints. Also, think about making your sides taller; 16-18". Russians are great climbers, and you want room for substrate, 4-6" as they love to burrow. Or at least put a lip around the edge to keep him from climbing out! Nice of you to take him in! This winter you can plan the outside enclosure! " Ref

Yes if two competing methods arrive at the same outcome the simpler is to be taken forward and the other summarily shot! Poor old Lorentz....

His Razor, the programming language, or just parsimony not at work?

As I understood it the pipe doesn't have to run in a duct but I thought that it has a bit more protection in a duct and if I ever have to replace it under the slab I could bu just pulling / pushing a new length along the duct.

How about: Devilishly Ingeniousness Gargantuan Galaxy Ephemera Remover. (You me, everybody - as nothing on back of the elephant of time.) Back to work - its windy so moving 8x4s onto the roof of the GR is 'interesting'

I have led such a boring life.... I think I will go and do some building, oh hang on its a Sunday so I will have to do it very quietly. PS Welcome back to THE forum - well on the way now to emulating the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy of all things " building, renovation and self-build " EG: "The build hub guide to the galaxy describes forum members as generally somewhat demented humans who have led otherwise interesting lives on the plant earth but have fallen into building what they euphemistically call dwellings on this plant. The members have a number of rituals that must be performed at regular intervals including out boasting their exploits with their partners such as what they did on their honeymoon, (- a short time spent doing stuff you didn't used to be able to do until you were 'married' but which is now so much practised before marriage that the whole idea of a honey moon has, in the opinion of your editor been entirely devalued) and what they gave as gifts for Christmas (- a short lived celebration requiring the giving and receiving of unwanted gifts as a mechanism for rebalancing out the planets mass because it results in lots of objects being moved from on side of the plant earth to the other). Although such dwellings are designed to keep out the weather, ( - a topic often discussed among the peoples of planet earth), they are no defence against the Vogon destructor fleet that is at this very moment receiving orders to clear a space for the pan galactic highway that will involve the planets destruction. Destruction that is only assuming that the galactic planning authority grants the necessary permissions, insurances are in place, the DHW supply scheme is finalised, the bath surround design is complete and all 'party universe' agreements have been ratified - all of which ensures that although the Vogons are ready and waiting with their DIGGER ( - suggestions please) the highway, like so many others planned by the powers that rule the galaxy, will not be built and the forum will carry on productively using up my time ED."

Have you confirmed that you dont need a party wall agreement?

I am experimenting with airtightness on our garden room and think I would like to go for wraptite, which is an external airtightness membrane that is vapour permeable. The Garden room is designed to be a model of the technologies for the main house so experiment is the name of the game. Anybody out there used it / seen it / got any opinion!