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OK yes please to the sketch you have would be great to visually get your system. Thanks. As the niegbour is an elderly council tenant, one day, all that will be removed back to level. But I'm tempted to ask them if I can go and dig it out and just bag it up and leave it there neat for that time. I like the idea of making up the entire rear timber wall ( as it has to be insulated later anyway and needs to be 95 mm deep timbers plus external covering - what do you recommend as the skinnest final sheeting to use under the breather membrane)? im gonna have the rear wall slightly stepped off for ventilation from both sides. but I will fix the top roof timber flush to the wall to just under the existing tile coarse as its dry as a bone up there and it acts well to move any rain waters away from the soldier coarse etc on the roof. (proberbly just below it, a bevelled 2 x 2 rip along the whole length prior to coverings). As you may see in the images, the rear wall is about 15 degrees off perpendicular to the both fences. It also has a staggerd build with an old hollow steel stanchion inset tight in the middle left - see sketch, (which in a dreamy way would make a great chimney) but its too tight and can't be insulated) Anyway, I will maintenance the angle as every mm counts in this small urban 4 x 10 garden. A fella told me, if there is not a single brick or block layed in the structure, then you do not need planning permission and just wait around 4 years before you declare the structure existence in situ and all will then accepted.( I might be slightly off here with the dodge) Is this just tosh? Thanks all.

I've got a really weird question hanging around me about something else but don't know where to post it etc and it is, I've converted the loft with a shower bathroom about a metre of flat ceiling ( for door and shower unit etc) then it rakes about 30 degrees down to the from, passing by the toilet and opposite sink, leaving 2 m of rake space until the supporting wall on the steel beam for the existing roof etc. In this approx 2m x 2 m space, am I allowed by regs to have a single bed to use now and again? It could have a sliding barrier or similar ( like in victorian times when people slept in inclosed wooden compartments within he room occupied. Are there regs basicly to stop this practice of resting in such a spot.? There is a velux above and the door could be changed to an fd 30. OK just a thought. Cheers

Howdy, Like others i want to build a man cave livable room and the end of the garden. Its gonna be 2440 x 2440 x 2500 plus a small side extention same hieght for toilet and shower to the right. (very cramped i know but doable). Currently my dying shed is there but thats all to go. I share a solid rear boundary brick wall 215 with some extra piers my side in it. ( it used to be a cavityless factory outer wall) Its has pertruding double flat tile drip and a soldier coarse on across the top. Total 2650 high from ground. My side, there is damp on 1/3 because the niegbour has build up all sort on the other (a small high disused fish pond ). I'm to make up off this wall a standard timber frame and flat roof. My question is this so far; I already have 175mm poly slabs for floor insulation. I want the threshold of doors and the floor to be say 25 mm up from level with outside ground on completion. I don't want to pour one big slab but rather build a 215mm block perimeter on a footing, then infill with the insulation slab to levelish with the blocks and my floor cover on top of that. What do I need to additional do to make this level floor water and damp proof from the outside ground ( and underneath i guess) before I build my frame work on top. Anyway thats me and my dream for this years nice weather. Any tips and guides be great. Thanks