Crofter

2025 Scottish regs are on p.458 of the Domestic Buildings Technical Handbook and put windows and doors at 1.2 The wall, floor, and roof values are all lower than those quoted above which are presumably for England?

I'd be wary of simply googling this. I was looking on to it recently and Google returned the 2022 Scottish regs, which have been superseded. I was only alerted to this because I'd been chatting to another forum member who had mentioned needing to reach lower numbers to comply. I had to dig a bit deeper to get the current numbers. Where are you located? It might make a difference.

Could you replace the screws?

For an off grid system the order is disconnect panels before batteries. I've killed an MPPT by getting that one wrong.

I'd expect so. Same as the asylum housing costs- a lot of that is companies like Serco taking on tired old hotels and then charging out rooms to the government at ludicrous rates. We get angry about the wrong things in this country.

If you've never claimed it, and don't even know what it is, maybe you should think twice before blaming the country's financial problems on it. I've been a JSA claimant twice in my life. I was only successful once. Honestly the most degrading and miserable thing I've ever done. And this was years ago before things were tightened up. I didn't have to face sanctions like they do today. I went in to the experience expecting to feel slightly guilty that I was getting 'money for nothing'. But they make you work so hard to jump through all the hoops- especially as a newcomer to the system- that in the end I felt that I had earned every single miserable hard won penny. These days it's much worse. And disability benefits are even more demeaning. I have a friend who was a waitress. She suffered a stroke and was unable to go back to work. Every six months the DWP pay for her to go to Inverness where she meets an assessor who has been flown there and put up in a hotel, just so that he can say yes, you're still paralysed down one side. It's not about saving money. It's about making people feel worthless.

This sounds promising, I'll check it out, thanks.

I'm planning on doing the build myself (same as last time) but there might be details that I'll need to pass on to the sparky or plumber. I'm also hopefully not reinventing the wheel, and presenting detailing that BCO is unfamiliar with.

On the last build, I ended up doing the elevations etc for planning by hand. It was quite enjoyable really. I think that if I'm going to stand a chance of doing my own building warrant designs, it will be worth doing them in CAD to add an air of professionalism...

Just resurrecting this thread because I'm also looking for recommendations for a CAD package. I used to be fairly fluent with SketchUp, which I will use for the 3D stuff, but I also need to produce dimensioned 2D drawings and AFAIK that isn't possible with SketchUp. I've got very basic needs really- this is for BCO/Planning drawings. I'm going to be tinkering with this for several months/years so free trials aren't really going to work for me. I'll have time to get my head around a program but I'd like to keep things nice and simple. Don't mind paying a reasonable one off cost (sub £50, say).

Well if somebody who owns more than 22 properties isn't rich, who is???

Have you ever claimed JSA yourself?

Mine doesn't have an app. I'm not sure how complicated a fan in a box needs to be 🤷‍♂️

We did a self built at the same time as having a baby... not sure which one caused more stress...

And the 'tech' he wants to avoid is a fan.