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You would also be doing a gas check in multiples

We are through a nationwide agent and every 5 years per property seems to be the norm While we don’t have much of a turnover of tenants We wouldn’t have more than one test in 5 years Our Electrian normally says allow an afternoon and will need access to every room I think it would be reasonable for a tenant to refuse access for this Certainly this side of Christmas

Bit of a coincidence We where discussing this yesterday Not sure if this is of any help But we have an Electrical check overdue by three months In a property that the daughter is awaiting a heart lung transplant So can’t send an electrician in Weve been told this is ok and to use common sense and work around what we have

Hilti Rugby Spectra Green if you can afford Bosch and dewalt are the better DIY brands I’ve several Hilti But my first kit some 30 years ago was a Spectra Well made and a third of the price of Hilti

Be very careful in your choices A lot of building companies will go bust this year

As a plasterer it pains me to say Before Much easier to skim without them cut But if you loose a wire or trap one when boarding its only five minutes to take a board down Pictures where taken two weeks ago After skimming one plot the electrician realized he had placed a row of Dow lights on a RSJ Expensive mistake Four other plots we where able to remove a few boards for him No real drama

Yes it’s normal to knock the internal skin out in doorways and add insulation in its place and run the floor insulation into it

This is what I did

You will have to hang a ceiling below the floor Forget about timber an MF ceiling set out on a 400 x 600 grid will give you the void and soundproofing that you need If you look on the BG website they do a bracket set on rubbers that you can fix to the underside of the floor which allows you to attach a threaded bar Board the underside of the floor with two layers of SB Leaving the bars popping through Simply set your laser and trim the bars say 200 mil down and add a mf ceiling below Insulate and board with two layers of SB I can’t remember doing this on a house But I’ve used this on conference rooms and quite a few schools If there’s room they normally ask for the the finished ceiling to be sloping towards the projector Not sure why Bit long winded but BG will have a booklet with all the details

Ours said she had valued ours from the roadside Oom The law they are using is to stop builders having dozens of houses complete minus a working loo So as to avoid paying CT They should be using it to tax self builders For the last three months of the build we where paying full CT on both properties Our solicitor advised against appealing as the original 12 months arrears they claimed we owed could be levied against us I suspect the arrears had been put in to stop us kicking up a fuss

We where in the exact same position No plaster on the walls no first fix They are not interested I Took Jeremy's advise Told then we where no where near sign off No water supply or toilet The argument they used was But you could have water electricity etc YOU are choosing not to Barrett's can have a house built in 12 weeks was one of the gems I sought legal advise and eventually they back down slightly No back community charge then six weeks grace Then we would agree to 50% CT For six weeks then 100% Our Solicitor said they where using a law brought in to stop mainstream house builders stockpiling homes

Expansion join Every 8mtres

Most of the jobs I quote for aren’t built So we are quoting off plan I always say allow 30 40 mil Tile to be agreed Easy to come up a little

The adhesive and Dura 9mil If you can get Ditra at the same price Better to use and performance 10 mil adhesive Flexi Plus 3 back butter 6 mil notch for matting 10 mil notch for adhesive

Depending on the quality the sellers will drop You should be closer to 30 m2 Stay away from Turkish Chinese Oh and Topps ?

This is one I did for a friend last year 1980s brown facing brick

I left ours at 50 mil plus the render 70 over all 40 or 50 mil looks fine if you are cladding also Splayed reveals look great and let more light in

Plus one with above I’ve used these guys Just measure the thickness of the door glass

We had an issue with a recently purchased plot and was told by the land registry that they rely on boundary’s drawn by estate agents Not what we wanted to hear

I had no experience either while ours was only 20 m2 I had upstand around the perimeter and the lantern As Joe has already pointed out Everything must be dry Semi skilled at best

While a warrantee is pretty worthless Most lenders insist that the house they are lending on has one that covers the first ten years Most seem to play it safe and have protec or Buildzone on there lists

What you need to consider is if the lintel drops Even a few mil your doors won’t open I used a 5 mtr steel with a hit and miss plate welded to take the outside skin

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Our Architect offered to produce one I questioned weather we needed one His reply was probably not So we didn’t bother

I’ve just cut Two 5 mtre tree down and cut them into wood burning size off one sharpen as John points out the ivy is the main culprit still a few to go