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4000mm if I remember correctly.
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Hi, as above it is a Hormann door, just from a dealer local to me. Sectional insulated, I think it was about £1600 ex vat, fitted. This included the electric opener & 2 remote fobs.
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I have that screwfix one, wish I’d read the reviews. It’s as sh1te as everyone says!!!
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recommending a VAT reclaim company?
Grosey replied to DH202020's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Just resurrecting this thread. I am now looking for such a company to handle my reclaim.- 30 replies
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Link below, I think I haggled about £100 off that price. https://www.easyfire.co.uk/lillian-3.html
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We put a bio ethanol fireplace in ours. Looks great, convenient, no smell, kicks out a fair bit more heat than expected and does heat the room up to borderline uncomfortable if the UFH has already been on. Probably does work out expensive as I just bought the ethanol from Amazon. However it’s only used as a feature when we have company. Dont believe any any of the fuel consumption claims, 1L lasts about 1hr30 in ours at full whack.
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My mortgage advisor has just informed me that F2F are no longer lending for SELF build projects ie where the borrower is using the money to build a house which they will live in themselves. They are now only lending to customers who are developing/building with a view to sell (and make a profit).
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That seems a fair enough cost, I guess mine was more of an actual custom request.
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If Stairbox can actually offer what you want through their online designer, I think you’ll struggle to find a better price. I enquired about a couple of simple “custom” changes. (We wanted a square instead of round curtail step) And it was £1000 for that change alone. However their off the shelf items are fantastic value compared to the competition.
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Got stacks of F2F paperwork here if anyone wants to know something specific I can try and help out. When I discussed using F2F with my solicitor his first response was “give me a couple of days to speak to some other clients, I may be able to find you a better rate than F2F” he was essentially asking some of his other wealthier clients if they’d like to loan me the money - all drawn up through him. Apparently a reasonably common practice in farming / estate law. I once looked at buying buying a barn conversion off my uncle, and was looking at a form of private mortgage / rent to buy scheme between he and I. I discussed this with the same solicitor and he said it would be very easily done, I just agree terms with my uncle, then a charge is placed on the land registry title that Mr Smith is entitled to £xxx or owns a share in this property until the debt is repaid or something along those lines (lawyer speak). Similar in a a way I suppose to a standard mortgage, you can’t sell the house without paying back whoever you have borrowed from. Thats is a very basic of my understanding of it anyway, over to the many here that are more intelligent than I!
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Perfect thanks guys, have emailed the guy that did the original calculations for ease, hopefully he’s still in the same role. If not I’ll be in touch for recommendations.
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Perfect thank you, I’m assuming that the As built sap assessment will need to take place on site and not just from plans and information I provide?
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The house is built and finished. Just trying to obtain completion certificate.
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Hi, Could someone explain to me to me in layman’s terms what I need to do in relation to these documents in order to get completion certificate? SAPs calculation were done to obviously get Building regs, however I bought my plot with planning permission etc and just got underway so I skipped a lot of the education on these things. I’ve built the house as per the plans in terms of Insulation and windows. Do I now need the place to be certified as it’s built to ensure I have met the calculations or is this just assumed? How does an EPC fall in line with all this, and which ones are critical documents?