G and J

Thank you. I initially called it the Pigpen but that wasn’t generally liked and the neighbours may have inferred that we would be keeping livestock rather than a barely housetrained, smelly and untidy little, round, bald fella who makes loads on noise.

Hmmmm, wonder if I dig a big hole and throw this in whether that would work on my ridiculously sandy subsoil….. https://www.septic-tanks-emptied.co.uk/index.php/shop/septic-tank-white

I’ve helped at scout camps with facilities like that. Don’t think that’s allowed for such things any more.

Just to be awkward we use the green one (teabag style in fact) in our campervan potty. We thought that was ok with drains and septic tanks, etc. Do I need to go over to Barbie Pink Potty Juice?

That’s my kind of thinking, I watch with interest….

May I ask why you are contemplating doing this?

I’m more of a turmeric kinda guy….

If you did would you have some form of electric shutter on the duct to close it when not in use?

Once I’ve cooked that do I serve it on rice? 😉

The downdraught ones I looked at ducted the extracted air down to vent at the kick boards. So good for warm, onion smelling toes methinks.

Did the network provider reroute or bury the cables and if they did did they charge you?

Given that you can ask the builder to show you stuff like that that they’ve done.

What was the impetus for this change?

Have you decided what build method/system to use?

I think peeps like architects mean well by suggesting companies that they’ve witnessed successfully building for others before, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best fit for your project/attitudes/budget/desires. It seems that finding a good solution involves a lot of dead ends, and that’s lead me to believe that good decisions are fuelled by pursuing each dead end as if it’s the best thing since sliced bread, until it’s proven to be bogus. I can’t comment on that company, and those that can can only do so from the prism of their own experience, but I would urge pursuing multiple solutions simultaneously. If nothing else I believe it accelerates the learning process.

Sorry, does not pass muster. Way too much maintenance polishing that bell. I presume that’s one of these modern ‘Ring’ doorbells everyone is talking about. 😉

Sorry to lower the tone but down at our end of town we won’t have a plant room, we will have a rather forward thinking plant encapsulation system (a.k.a. a little cupboard at the end of the garage). We’ve streamlined our data centre, patch panel and comms distribution system, it’s now called a Wi-Fi router. We’ve also recalibrated our multi functional audio-visual experience system and using the latest 2018 technologies we’ve managed to cover all the current state of the art functions with a smart tv and sound bar. Oh and we’ll have one of those new fangled DAB radios too. We’ve pushed the home automation system boat out massively in that we will have a couple of hive bulbs so some lights come on when we are away in our campervan. Through dedicated use of exactly what we do already we won’t have any cat anything cables or PoE either so we will save a few bob too. We will however, most importantly, have a whizzy coffee maker. But not in the plant suite.

Why need it be any different than a join in plasterboard? Especially if both sides are firmly supported and the same technique is applied to the edge of the vent as the normal pb joins? I imagine getting a nice sharp edge on the circle might be more challenging.

So the developer simply didn’t think of peeps building sideways I guess. Either way such covenants can be released so if I were a planner I’d not rely on them. I can see your desire, and in your shoes I’d probably think of that too. But the trouble with this stuff is that peeps are inspired by others getting permission so from a planning perspective I guess they have to think that granting one thing will lead to others doing stuff that then can’t be refused but which may not be so good. We bought some field behind us for extra garden, then abetted neighbours doing the same. For decades after we all lived happily with big gardens. Then houses changed hands to peeps who think gardens should be wall to wall with extensions, sheds, gazebos, hot tubs, and everything else one associates with such an outlook, clearly “the only way is….” Oh, what did we inadvertently start?

Sorry to be a party pooper but if I understand correctly your extension will stick out way beyond the current front building line of the row of houses behind yours. So if you walk towards your house up the road behind you you will see a neat set of aligned frontages and then your extension sticking way out. I would have expected a flat ‘no’ on such an application, partly as it would establish a precedent to all the houses behind you to extend toward the road (feel free to guess why this comes to my mind as we contemplate moving from our hitherto rural idyll!). If that extension was single story it would reduce the impact on the road compared to a two storey extension, but if I lived behind you I’d be planning what I’ll then build on my frontage.

Au contraire. You lack the vision and creativity of an architect. Imagine how impressed your friends will be to ascend half a staircase then clamber over a banister to finish the climb. No one else will have a feature like it. 😉

I’m either zoning in on the final details of our wall build up…… or…… I’m spiralling inwards until I disappear up my own rear end…. only time will tell (often at the moment it feels like the latter!). I do know that we will be having a layer of PIR on the inside of our frame, covered by a VCL, then a service void then plasterboard or habito or fermacell. But I don’t need a service void everywhere, in fact I’ve whole walls without a socket or switch, which leads to my question: Can I, and if I can, is it a good idea, to put up the plasterboard without battens? i.e. straight onto the top of the PIR? I presume not, but my assumptions may seem logical to me but keep being proven to be completely bogus. If so I can use more PIR, which is the motivation.

Sounds familiar !

So maybe, being hard nosed about it, I use the PH stuff to improve our design as much as practical within budget and simply enjoy the comfortable result.

I wonder how an estate agent would view a PH certified house versus an identical uncertified house.