Mr Punter

I am interested to see the first floor plan. A protected stair would be loads better than sprinklers, but in reality would make little difference to safety if the kitchen / living door is left open at night. Did you consider another WC in the utility? There is lots of room in there. You could then make the guest shower room en suite so they do not need to access it via public space, plus you have an extra loo if the guest bathroom is in use.

If it is nice and flat I cannot see why not. Are you fitting it yourself?

I have a similar door to the roof terrace. We used a piece of hardwood decking along the threshold to make up the height and fill in the gap.

The Hybris product is very flammable - class F. There will be some spiel about it being fine as it is protected by plasterboard etc but get a sample and hold a flame under it for a few seconds before you decide it is what you want in your house.

+1 Strip one of them off, as well as the cill. They will probably all be the same. What insulation you can get in will depend on the windows profile. Even 20mm PIR will be better than none. All around. Fit the windows close the the insulation zone. If it is cavity wall, 80mm back from the outside of outer leaf.

Get a quote in timber frame. If you can't get access, how is your concrete going to get in for the ICF?

I have used some of the stick on seals with some doors. They seem fairly airtight and help with sound as well. You can get drop down seals for the bottoms.

It depends so much on the ICF, the building design and the reinforcing needed. Also bracing, lintels etc all take time. The ICF supplier could probably give an indication if you send a plan.

I guess they wanted exposed brickwork inside. Increase of cavity would be easiest. You could use Kingspan insulation. You are allowed a poorer u value if you compensate elsewhere.

Offer the £250 and go to £275 if you really want to. The valuer is probably more accurate than the agent, who thinks in asking price rather than sold values. Also the slope and access issues are not inconsiderable. If this is your first project it will be a big challenge and all trades who are any good are flat out and expensive.

I would lower the offer to £250k to reflect the valuation. The valuer is a professional and does this all the time, so assume he is correct. Is it worth doing if it costs you £650k total?

Can you make sure the end of the timber cladding are coated before they put the reveal pieces on please!

I like the house design. I would prefer a WC / cloakroom off the hall, so you can have you coat, shoes, go to the loo etc away from having to walk through the kitchen, but you may normally come in via the back anyway. Also the open plan family living room would not be to my taste, but I am not going to be living there! If you build it exactly as is I think you will have a great home.

Good please. No bad.

I have the rads about centred horizontally on the flex outlet and the bottom rung of the rad about 250mm off the floor.

For that reason I have a hood with a bfo remote external fan with 150mm ducting. Good for stir fries.

You could probably get one with a timer so it finishes when you want it to. I don't know if they have a setting where they just tumble intermittently at the end - a bit like a concrete lorry - to stop the stuff creasing? The heat pump ones are really efficient, but they take even longer. The ones with larger drums crease less. Putting the exhaust into the MVHR may overheat other rooms, but ask the supplier what they think.

With a vented dryer you are throwing energy straight out of the wall. You could get rid of the MVHR and just leave the windows open! Why the rush for quick drying?

I have seen the Nest alarms criticised widely. And note they almost self destruct after 10 years! SONOS is not much better. Anyone got a smart fridge? 3D TV? People just seem to want to spend more time looking at an app on their phones.

Just use a multi tool and cut out a rectangle. As long as you keep the bit you cut out you can screw a couple of bits of batten across the hole and fix the piece back in.

Have you thought about the orientation? It looks like you have a large north facing balcony / terrace, but I have had a few lockdown drinkies so may have misread this.

The people that do the metal on commercial projects can do shed loads in a day. We had a guy on site was not the brightest and not suited for what we were doing but his boss regularly paid him £500 a day on price for doing metal frame ceilings and walls elsewhere.

The Ubiquiti APs are powered via the ethernet cable and supplied with a POE injector, which you can either plug in near the access point or near the router.

He not going to use the roofing ladder now he has this bad boy on hire