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When doing first fix, I pulled aerial cable to 3 bedrooms, a lounge and one other room - so we have 5 end points into which a receiver/TV can be attached. All these cables run back to the plant room. I can run aerial cable through pre-fitted ducting from outside to the plant room also. (Pocster's already hating this planning ahead and preparation 🙂 ) From what I have gleaned from interweb searches, it is not possible to install one satellite dish, send the signal to a splitter to feed those 5 points and allow each individual TV to be able to freely watch whatever they want. Or even 2 TV's come to that, through a splitter. Suggestions I have read include a 4 "port" LNB on the dish and running 2 cable to each receiver/TV, installing multiple dishes (but this isn't some diplomatic mission or transmission station), or something called Unicable. We're likely to only have 2 TV's to be honest, the bedroom points being for future inhabitants should they desire them. So, anyone got a setup with one dish, and multiple receivers? What splitter/switch are you using?

I'm going to step back as I can't figure out the relationship between those two diagrams. I'm finding it hard to visualise. For others help the answers to the following may help - 1. Are the ground beams pieces of steel? 2. How many ground beams? 3. Does the slab sit on the ground beams? Or, are the ground beams embedded in the 250mm slab? 4. Is the SE aware of your requirement to put the UFH in the 250mm slab? He may design differently if he knows this. Sorry I can't help further at the moment

I may have missed something here. I'm assuming the ground beams (the dashed bits?) will be poured at the same time as the raft - they would just be thicker than the rest of the slab, say 350 instead of 250mm deep. If so, then just lay your pipes as you have described, although I tied ours to the top mesh, before you pour the concrete.

Ah, memories of an all-night party on the beach while a student at Cardiff Uni back in the 80s.

So, EE are working on this. Well they have "contracted" Openreach to install FTTP, but they have already sent the router. So far, OR have installed a telegraph pole and sent someone from Kelly Group to install the boxes outside and inside the house with a piece of optical fibre between them via conduit I had installed during the build for this purpose. We have dug the trench from the base of the new pole to the house, and are now waiting for OR to realise they have not connected from the pole where the fibre already is to the new pole and then to the house via our trench and into the external box. Watching the new pole start to rot and get vandalised by woodpeckers in the meantime.

Summary if you dont want to read it all - contact EE to request new broadband, let them deal with Openreach. I applied to the broadband supplier, Plusnet first but then switched to EE. Both were told it is a new build. I provided postal and What3Words addresses. In both instances, an Openreach dork(s) came out to survey which in both cases involved me telling them where the relevant pole was already, where they needed to install a new pole, where they would be putting the box on the outside, and the inside, which conduit they would use, and I would trench from the base of the new pole to the house. Plusnet wanted to pass on over £1100 of Openreach install fees, so I took some advise from the site and applied to EE instead who are covering the Openreach fees. I will be paying the £20-something per month for 2 years for broadband. See this thread for more details https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/44113-openreach-taking-the-proverbial-for-tree-lopping/

More detail required. Are plans already approved? They should stipulate, but you say red brick, timber and glass. Is that what you want, or is that what's on the plans? Is the plot 270m2, or is the proposed house 270m2? Any pictures of proposed building to share. Can you share anonomised plan drawings (no names, no addresses)?

Keep the u bend and elbows in one cupboard AFAIC. Neater and will therefore annoy certain people 😀

Definitely comes out of their lounge, so not a kitchen extractor. Take your point about they may not have fitted the woodburner, but it's been there for 18 months already, so they could be challenging some of our procrastinators here on t'hub 🙂

Just done a short walk around and found the flue for the gas boiler is elsewhere, so I think this is definitely a chimney for a woodburner, and not a flue as in the subject. My mother, who lives next door k new the previous owners and this chimney comes out of their living room. I think a message to the local council will be forthcoming from a "concerned passer by". I also noticed cracks in the brickwork around the strap support, so you right, Nick, a shit job.

I just did this - took a spur from a socket in an adjoining bedroom, to a fused switch in the vanity unit under the sink, then fed the wire up to a blank plated box behind the mirror.

In which case, we won't complain on behalf of my mother as he is a nasty piece of work and the fumes may help get rid of him 🙂. That ladder could have been mounted lower as well. 😁

Is this flue breaking the law? I thought they had to end above the roof line. (Please move if in wrong forum)

Get a qualified electrician and extend the ring main.

That is looking very nice indeed and I can imagine why you are so pleased

Susie, Nick is right (as always) and I was on my way back to suggest same thing as that is what I ended up using as well. The push fit boss in your last post will do the same thing as what nick suggested.

We're not all arsonists 😀 Reminds me. I must burn that pile of rubbish pallets

That soil pipe suggestion i made is daft @Susie. Start with the swept T but just do a straight line to somwhere close to the basin and the shower with no other bends. Doh, what was I on last night? A show, a basin and a washing machine into that manifold should be far enough away from the toilet pan. Probability of all three being used at the same time i would think is small(ish) so I would use one

Susie, What about inserting a swept T in the existing soil pipe and then extending the soil pipe through the 180mm insulation following the red line in the edited photo. Then run your basin and shower waste following the approximated blue lines? Your waste pipes from the plant room could also come through the stud wall into this soil pipe of course. Then you can go down to 32 or 40mm waste pipe for each "appliance"

Thanks, I know, but this'll be a nice stopgap, building control passing solution, until the primary access is built 🙂

Thanks. Looks like I'm going for a ramp on the inside of the door, and I now have a cunning plan to make it part of a piece of furniture that will be in the hallway, so we can have it in place as and when needed e.g. when the BCO comes to visit 🙂. I'll try and remember to post piccies when its done (don't hold any breathes) This becomes our second disable access 😉 Thanks everyone

Thanks @nod The outside of the door will be fine. I have a plan for that. The bit I'm concerned about is on the inside of the door, which is what the pictures are of.

Click LVT, although if we need a landing step, we could incorporate a mat well, or do it with a slate top that matches the porch area outside

No, that is a different route

Currently the internal area of the front door involves a 49mm step down (not including the 20mm or so of the door frame). I've read relevant BR and still not clear if this is OK. So Q1, is it OK? If not then I propose a step inside the door that goes an appropriate distance from the door as a "landing" area. Something like this Q2. Would something like that satisfy BR (if it is required)?