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Me thinks his post was perhaps tongue in cheek ive been trying to work out if Fredd is an anagram for something

I think he simply typed to many naughts

We also had a fare amount of spoil to remove 450 off the whole site 1.8 footings 750 tons of muck away 8K I raised the slab by 2 course Due to the Architecht trying to match my Dpc Height to the neighbours 200 year old Cottage

Depends what the items are Most places will try it on and ask you to have a telehandler handy

Quotes can be a strange affair Some come really quick Others seem to take an age

Nail on the head Ian I think I’ll hold back getting my new car till the build is finished

Yes and that’s exactly why the banks don’t want an Archtects cert They just want an insurance policy to protect there interest A friend has self built four years ago Didn’t bother with a waretee As he exspected to stay there at least ten years ago Hes now decided to sell He’s found a buyer There building society has flagged up that there is no Warantee Rather than loose the buyer He’s gone for a retrospective warantee About 1500 more than he would have paid It has taken him ten days to get it all sorted out Buyer bank are happy Sale continues Sort Of makes a mockery of inspections The company he used were satisfied with photos and a 30 minute visit

As stated below you will certainly find answers to your questions on here and often explained in laymen’s terms To get you started normally plaster to the stairs though if like me you plan on putting in hardwood stairs It better to get all the plastering out of the way Then fit the stairs afterwards internal block walls are built upto chamber height so that the posi joists can sit on them Then floored out leaving enough room to carryon building up once the floor is in Once the roof is on and weathertight the studs can be fixed to the underside of the trusses or rafters and on top of the newly laid floor hope this helps

I think you would have to put it up yourself A company wouldn’t get involved we had a HSE visit He had driven past and seen one of the gates held open with a cavity tie I’d to get the contractor down He was pretty p*** d Hi parting words were Anything else remove or altered I’ll take the lot down Its a real minefield I breathed a sigh of relief when it was all gone

I would be suprised if Coventry rates are any higher than up here We are only 30 miles from Manchester

Wow! not sure how big your properties is £15 per mtr is about right though you have to be careful for the time scale i paid 2800 for 15 weeks Then everything striped down Rebuilt to suit render 4 weeks allowed The later is quite important That included three tables no loading bay as I didn’t have a stacker 150 per bay if require my build has a floor area totalling 280 square mtrs Si I’m guessing your build must be considerably larger with a quote of that size

Like Lizzie we didn’t need a warrantee for mortgage purposes But we’ve taken one out just in case we need to sell within ten years From a claims point of view They are a waste of money If I was buying a self build I would have more confidence in an Architechs certificate Though HSBC and some others don’t accept n Architects certificate

It’s a real problem Soon as the heating goes on Everythibg starts to move

Yes one of the faults was bad drainage in the back garden Bit picky there We didn’t even get turf Though no insulation in the dormers is pretty serious

Why do we self build If you google yesterday evenings Lancashire evening post You can read about a couple who have purchased Storey home for £400000 With over 200 faults

We plan to spend 400K including land Looks more like 430 if we go for a German Kitchen an electric gates Bit we should have 25k back in vat Wgen we purchased the fields across the road had one house and a query Now there is several hundred With builders asking upto £520000 for a house that is two thirds the size of ours We’ve had a valuation as we were starting to wonder if we were spending to much As all these housing are coming with this assist to buy 5 bed detached 320000 But when you read the small print that’s not the true amount The owner of the estate agencie just laughed and said what you are building doesn’t compare to the mass produced C**P Valued At 750 Sure you have Still to sell But at least we know we would get our money back and bit for our time should we have to sell

Thank you again we had a electric Suplies put on in June and ended up with an aronious transfer to a company in Island They were adimant that my wife had authorised it Spelt her own name wrong in the process Its taken us till now to get that sorted out Coincidences are starting to stack up

The plot thickens My wife has spoken to our neighbor who we bought the plot from She handed us the letter that had been delivered to them She told my wife that they had applied for a rate reduction She is now banded as C Five bed over three floors Same floor area Albeit joined to the farmhouse A bit of background to this is When we purchased the plot from a single lady with two Children She did have a boyfriend on the scene Who moved in June and has since complained about boundrys Bricklayers noise You name it He never stops we built her a garage installed her a treatment plant re routed her drains that were in a shocking state Febced both plots off Which caused problems with boundrys I set the boundrys and house with an EDM Still not happy Wanted then rechecking At our exspence Which we did I was 20 mil out at the front line and spot on between the two properties Still not happy Out with his long tape and string line He tells us hes built six houses from scratch We don’t believe him We are going to have a good think as to weather we complete the house and sell it Preverablely to someone with a noisy Dog

It has been banded F £2500 per year this has come from the VOA There is absolutely no chance anyone has been in the property and little chance that anyone has been in the plot Unless they have climbed over the Heras fencing and back out When we are moved in I’m hoping the water rates will be less as we are on a treatment plant So no sewage Not sure how this works though

Thank you I’ll keep you posted

Thank you again i was going to get the water connected next month but I’m glad I didn’t If I was to get the water on Would that leave me vonuable In view of what has happened It's pretty obvious that there is no water on as we have a 10 mtr coil of alkathene just outside the site gate we are not there midweek and the site is Locked and fenced off Very unlikely that anyone has been upto the windows Let alone in there Thank you again It’s nice to have the forum to have a good moan and receive a sympathetic response My wife Deborah is very upset I pretending I’m not to bothered and a quick email will get things sorted out I think that I need to get someone down to inspect the the house Rather than just drive by

Thank you for your replies ive just walked in after another long day at the plot Unfortunately like many on here we are doing virtually all the work ourselfs whilst we are both working full time through the week This demand was the last thing we needed The letter stated that while they had taken note of what we had told them The inspected had deemed the property habitable Therefore Liable for counsel tax Please take a look at the pictures that I’ve taken an hour ago

I posted on this subject a few weeks back The lady that we purchased the land from had mistakenly filled in a council tax form that was meant for us we eventually managed to speak to someone at the council who advised Fill the form in stating you are not ready to occupy yet Today we received a demand for nine months at £2000 We are still first fixing electrics and plumbing But the outside looks finished im going to email and try to speak to them on Monday We have thirty days to appeal any help would be most appreciated

They look ok online. Some good reviews though you can never be sure how genuine online reviews are We started with a figure of 10K But after going round virtually all the Kitchen suppliers we have realised that this amount is insufficient with appliances costing £7500 and granite or corian a further 4. I intend fitting the kitchen myself. But even with cheaper carcasses and doors we are miles out. You've nothing to lose by getting a quote from this company

We owned a house that had a beautiful spiral staircase It looked amazing Totally impractical to live with