MikeSharp01

Is your ground higher or lower? You need to remember that they may also wish to build up to the fence line at some point.

Is the new wall in any way a retaining wall - this makes a difference. If the neighbour has only a building regs question then I would offer to get the BCO to set out the reason all is well so as to reassure them, if the BR things is a smoke screen for something else then you need to find out what the something else is before working out your strategy. Boundary disputes can go on and on so you might find a few searches of the Land Registry DB helps as your deeds may not show it but theirs, or someone else in the row, does.

Unless you are going for Passive house standards in which case you need a different metric, PHPP - n50≤0.6 ac/h, and even better air tightness. Sadly the conversion between PHPP units and SAP (Air Permeability - AP) units is not simple as one uses just the volume of the property to calculate total air changes per hour while the other uses the surface area as well, and is measured per m2 , to calculate the AP. if you know both volume and envelope area you can do the maths and compare the two values.

Do you already have planning permission or are you trying to get it? I think the latter but thought it would be worth checking. How long have the neighbours lived there with the conservatory? If it is longer than the right to light trigger period then you may have a problem if any part of the new build overshadows any window. Have you had a sun track plot done to show how the shadow moves as this will help you either prove your case or understand theirs? Neighbours have rights to light but not to the views. PS is the plan North South (IE the new build faces due south) - if so then you can see their issue. PPS infringing a right to light (must meet the criteria) can be VERY expensive as they can sue you for damages to their utility and enjoyment!

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Ok - so if the wisdom of crowds holds then, given the guesses to this point, we have an average of: £557.18, without factoring in the parking fines idea - that feels high. Assuming a fine of £35 (worst case for Brighton & Hove higher, see below) if you pay early and Mr P is not toying with us by giving us the clue that if you paid early it would be cheaper to pay the fines - and, by extension that it would be more expensive to pay the full fine, then the range, per bay, is between £75 (3 days lower rate) and £210 (3 days full fine higher.) However we have no idea how many vehicles will need parking although we have a variety of guesses at that above. So if three days / 3 bays then worst case £630 and best case £225 so after careful consideration and trying to get a best estimate I think I will go for £400! Parking fines from Bright & Hove web site. Level of charge Amount of charge Discount charge if paid within 14 days from the date of the issuing of the notice Higher £70 £35 Lower £50 £25 Bus lane £60 £30

Snap again - we are four years in, since planning permission granted 3 years of building, and just getting the roof rafters in which is a great feeling. I am not quite knackered but feeling the pressure now to crack so so having wished you all the best that is what I intend to do. Good luck - maybe I will have a coffee first - no just get back out there sharpie..

So is the access plan a very shallow ramp or do you want the ground everywhere to be at the level of the threshold. In either case there is nothing to stop you providing a trough as @Russell griffiths & pdf27 suggests and even if it is 600 wide there is nothing to stop you (them if its they who have to fix it) putting a grill on top of the trough so you can wheel across it although it will still fill with debris, leaves etc, and need regular cleaning so if you can get the telescopes that will be the better solution. As @pdf27 says if level access is in the spec then that is what the contractor should provide.

Our daughter, 28, checks that we still have all her notes in the GGE. Wonder now much it will cost us to help her buy a place of her own with room for 'notes'. We can talk J and I both still have all our Uni notes / assignments / letters (remember them) we wrote to each other stored in our loft along with the accretion of life together as a pair of baby boomers who's parents forced the never throw it away it might come in useful mentality upon us. Now we have sheds of sheds, hundreds of KwHr of combustible material, our children will look at briefly as they pass it from loft to skip - 8 yards won't hack it, or more probably just hand over the keys to the house clearance people and tell them to 'disappear' it all. I guess with the exception of her notes, son won't care a jot. Sentiment for sediment is a forgotten thing.

I suppose the question is how fail safe, it is a relative term? - IE fails safe every time or doesn't fail safe once every hundred million operations and burns the house down. Yep

Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded types.. Looks like a stunning project - enjoy the good weather.

Well at least you don't have to put up with the local Morris dancing crew, jangling and squeeze box, practising all day in the garden next door but one! Quiet today though - maybe the pro boxer next door has had words!

Yes but dragons can be slain can't they, particularly with money. PS Welcome to THE forum for self builders and like minded people

Hmmm -- it comes with 12 bales of warmcell as well, bit pricey, might try a cheeky offer once I have done the PHPP change to warmcell from current product to check all is well.

Welcome to THE forum for selfbuilders and like minded types. Our experience, still building in Kent, was to create a mood board, in our case a word document, into which we pasted dozens of images, furniture, interiors / exteriors / details from the web and photos we took out and about. We thinned this down and gave it to the architect as 'our sort of thing'. They then worked with that as their starting place. We have put a bedroom, with ensuite, downstairs as we are basically retired and we were wondering how long we would be able to climb stairs - however we put another upstairs and that will be our bedroom at the outset, the room downstairs will be our snug / guest room, albeit with a rather odd ensuite attached, complete with sofa bed. Our kids are grown up - well mostly, and live away so the extension we built at millstone manor is now largely empty - we have three bedrooms and a sitting room we don't use - how daft is that we now think. If I were going for a forever home I think I might just think about the tightest spot, when the kids were about 16/18 and create for that but working out how each of the spaces would be used once they are flown away. Eventually, one hopes, they will be back with partners & kids of their own so maybe those rooms will get used sometimes.

Wonder how that works - will have to investigate.

Can they modulate down any further though? Is that not just introducing more heat loss into the house.

That means just unlocking, they can open it - although in the Covid era maybe better of the 'entertainment' does not touch the door handle - no let them open the door, once unlocked, but fit these new fangled Silver Ion coated door handles that kill Covid. Simples!

Not sure why you would do this, it is after all a positive pressure system so the stuff in the air from inside the house will be on the inside of the outlet filter trying to get out, or already out - small enough, and creating a fallout pattern around your exhaust outlet and there is no connection between in an out flows in most MVHR systems, other than across the roof / wall between the external inlet and outlet.

Surely the door is smarter than to make you go around the town to lock it again. I recall having a car, I might still have it somewhere, that you can unlock remotely but if you don't open the door in 10 seconds it locks again so if you accidentally hit the unlock it protects itself and of course you could always hit the lock button!

Rafts tend to have peripheral drainage so working all the time to dry out the makeup below the slab thus reducing the likelihood of water up between the blocks.

Yes I wrote in the "Self Installed with MCS accredited sign of TBA" lets hope that works.

Probably - had not thought that high level - the form does after all cover all the technologies developing less than 50Kw (3Phase)

I am filling out my G99 A-1 form, it is the one that goes to DNO to get permission for connecting your PV supply and there is one question I am struggling with. In the Details of proposed additional Generating Unit(s) it asks for the Technology type. Any one know what technology type they are talking about is it: The cell system - Mono / Poly Crystalline. Is it the inverter type - EG String / with or without compensators / micro inverters. Is it the inverter 'system' IE with / without MPPT. Something else? Any ideas. (PS I know I could pay an installer to do this but I am seeing how far I get without doing that.)

Your right - the controller must be software cored and the interfaces common / industry standard so an accommodating controller seems obvious.