MikeSharp01

Well I decided that, by definition, if one is here then one is like us because, at the very minimum, we are also here.

Looks like @Mhninja did - mentioned in the post.

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Sorry - should not have capitalised - it means old , as in what was there in the past.

£3800 does not sound too bad. You clearly have some complexities around extending etc - you do not want joints breaking between old and new and they will need to fully understand the OLD to ensure the whole thing works structurally and it is probably dependent on the soil conditions. So probably not too far of the ball park really. With the SE, and the Architect, a not insignificant proportion of the fee will be made up of the PI insurance they need to maintain.

Not allowed any more.....

If this is going to be a structural part of the build you will probably need to be able to show it is OSB 3 to whoever is giving you the structural warranty. In the current climate I would want a water tight (pardon the pun) guarantee it is OSB 3 and I am not sure the delivery / note invoice is enough as in the current materials shortage climate. Was there anything on the outer wrap of the pallet?

In a caravan? I guess he means in the house so as to reduce upfront cost? Looks like the get as far as you can then do the final bits as and when affordable might be the sound option to close the gap. That takes some planning to ensure you can live without it looking like a building site for ever but planning is something that does not add to the cost.

Inspiring the next generation is a great way to spend a chunk of life. The only thing I am worried for you about is if your school is anything like that depicted in Derry girls. Anyway welcome to THE forum for people like US.

The construction industry is facing a perfect storm of materials & skills shortage coupled to the effects of these two on costs and timescales. This will bite us all in the bum if not already then soon.

Yep- check who has the way leave. If it is not you and there is one in place you may have much bigger problems in the sense you may be building on someone else's land or, more likely, the wayleave was not transferred with the property. Either way you have options to get the pole moved.

If you have cleared the old building you have sort of already started but you need to watch out fir CIL if it applies in your area get ducks in a row and then trigger start by letter or by setting a trigger automatically EG apply for a demolition order the council will use that to trigger the start, or that is how it happened for us.

We did the same and included the comms and water also so everything bar the sewage comes to the utilities center and gets distributed from there. In our case to the garden room and the house we can isolate either / all and it meant, in our case, the run distance from the base of the pole, Electricity and Broadband, was < 1m the gas was 1.5 meters to the main and water similarly. Electric move was £850 and gas £450, we dug all the trenches.

Ok 'people' will be along shortly. Best way to heat will be something @SteamyTea will have some ideas on. Flooring is a general issue, so loads on here - just use search to find interesting threads. Weird water pressure issues with no doubt engage @Nickfromwales among many others. All of them will want some background information so it might be worth creating a post, perhaps for each, as and when needed.

Build a small services station at the electric meter point, run electric, utilities, broadband etc there and dig a single trench with four conduits in Electric, Water, Comms, Spare to the house from there. You cannot do that with the foul drainage although there is nothing to stop you sharing the foul trench with the conduits, it just needs to observe all the spacings. We did this its been a godsend as everything is in one place, we can isolate the house on all the services and everything is readable at the box. I have still to solve the smart meter transmission to the house as they all seem to rely on proprietary wireless and that is way out of range, there must be an answer to this but I have not run across one yet. (I can read it it via the APP but only after it has been to our supplier.)

It feels like a bodge to lay on the bars without any other support, you could use cable tray on the bars to help, that would support them and might be quicker to install than drilling all that concrete, you can, obvs, also put cables on it. I have used this snake-tray stuff in the past, aluminum, very light and will easily span 1200mm even in the small sizes. https://etechcomponents.com/products/snake-tray-653-series-aluminium-cable-tray/

Our build is a bit similar to @Gone West, we used 300mm I joist but we formed the corners on site and our structural engineer, excellent service, was Steven Evans (http://www.evans-structures.co.uk/).

Thanks chaps look at both options.

Have to fit the waste to our daughters shower tray. The waste instructions, and its construction, want the rubber seal below the tray but the tray is not smooth. It is some sort of synthetic material and full of bubbles. Any thoughts on what I can use to fill the holes and then grind flat or is there a simpler solution? Once this goes in there will be no access except from above the tray so it needs to be right first time.

Yep - Easi-Fill every time, great stuff use it for all sorts - including repair of ornate plaster cornicing, sands perfectly. Don't let it go too far out of date, it goes hard VERY fast when it gets old, and I always use the 60 minute stuff anyway - the 20 minute stuff is a bit quick for me, I cannot throw it on fast enough, but you can re-coat in 30 minutes.

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I didn't weigh it in, my friend, a registered waste carrier took it in for me, I have the ticket somewhere, I can have a look.

It seems not to matter, I cleared out a shed here at millstone manor a few weeks back and and found I had £230 worth of scrap metal which took down to the guy in town, you will know the one opposite TESCO.

That's a millionth or do you mean % in which case 100 millionth of the capacity, which feels like a better share given there are 60 million of us on this island (and its ancillary territories).