Big Jimbo

@mjc55 Common with most people who think Oak is a hardwood. It's not.

@Susie Bamboo would be a lot harder, as Oak is actually a softwood.

Would you not be better with a nice thick bead of silicone ?

You should have 150mm below DPC. I would not settle for anything less.

Exactly @Onoff. It just happens to be a "Posh" One.

Have our fantastic government just announced that. That will put the muck away, skip, etc prices up.

There has to be a way that they are getting into your property. Cavity walls ? Internal holes that pipes go through ? I got some now banned poison from a retired, old boy rat man. I put loads of it in the ceiling where the buggers were. I mean loads. My daughter had 6 months of complete peace...... Then they came back. If they are getting into your house, then there is a route, and an internal hole letting them in. Find the internal hole. Like Arnie in Terminator.....They will be back...... I repeat. Find that hole. The only way to stop them, is to block the route. Best of Luck. They are discusting, and i can't blame your tennants for not being willing to put up with them. I removed 27 nests from One ceiling.

@Roger440 Just watched that. Oh my, what a job. I have only done 3 epdm roof jobs for family over the last 10 years. My first One was a million times better than that. Shocking.

Do you need the goalposts ? is there not enough room to simply bear the RSJ on the wall either side of the opening ?

I dont have a clue, but would it not be easier / cheaper to just have a wider plate welded to the underside of the RSJ. to allow a larger bearing surface ?

I will prob get shot down but, The house next to my daughters was rented by the boss of an EWI company. He new bugger all about much, but admitted to me that he started the company, just to cash in on government funds. He went from driving an old beater of a car, to a brand new Bentley, in about 18 months. I have seen a couple of the install, his company did, and frankly, that put me off EWI

You did well. They can be a total pain in the butt about wardrobes. I got done once for £22k in vat, re wardrobes.

Councils, and indeed planning officers differ. Some want a set back, like your current garage, and some will be ok with being flush with the main front wall. As for the roof. Again, some like it tied in at a lower level, others will be ok with you going to existing ridge height. A local bod, to do your planning drawings will probably have dealt with your council before, and will be the best person to give you a steer. If it's going to be refused, the planning officer might give you a chance to withdraw the application. Which might, i believe give you a second free go. If the appplication gets refused, than there are no free goes. It's pay again time.

Personally, i cant see that a stud wall running either across joists, or alongside inbetween joists is going to add much load, unless it is also going to be holding up the roof. Put a few noggins in the parallel section, but where it is running across joists, i wouldn't bother.

Right, i was previously told by the planning officer, to do my outbuildings, shed, dog kennel, etc. Before i started work on the planning permission. (However, i did have existing PD rights. ) He said to send him a few photos, and a map, showing where they were on the plot, and he would mark the records that they had been built, before the development started. i thought that was dodgy, because obviously, the new buildings would not be on the passed plans ! But, that is what he said to do.

Is that why you are call Steamy Tea ? 😀

Nice looking job.

Ask for forgivness after. You don't go to confession to say, i want to do a murder. you go after the murder. Crack on bud.

I think it's like lots of things these days my friend. I have mains drainage. One pipe that comes into my land from the lane outside. I'm responsible for all the pipework on my land going to various buildings etc. If if blocks up on my land, it is down to me to sort it out. I can do what i like with those pipes. Extend them etc, as long as i do it to building Regs. However, if i want to put a new manhole, just inside my boundary, and provide a new branch, to take the waste from a new, stand alone property, on my land, i have to apply for permission. It's just Big Brother......You are being watched. The satillites are hovering over Bristol.....

An old thread, but relevant so...... What a malarky.... My wife who is a lot brighter than me, is currently trying to get her head around Biodiversity net gain. She completed the building regs part "O" to a high standard and got a pass for our previous planning for One large house. We now have permission for Two houses on the site which is preferable to us. I said to her, no bother, we will put a couple of swift boxes in each house, and a native hedge between each property when dividing the plot, either side of a wire fence. We can put holes in the fences on all sides to allow wildlife highways, and a few bird boxes attached to the wire fencing that surrounds the plot. Each plot is about .25acres. She tells me that bird boxes, holes in fences, swift boxes etc, count for nothing ! So i might as well block up all my existing entry ways that currently allow in Deer, to eat the hedge, Badgers, who dig up the lawn. Rabbits who spend all day eating my grass, and Foxes, who come in to eat the rabbits, or the chicken carcass that i leave out for them. I have already planted 300ft of laurel hedging to Two sides, which is now about 10ft tall. Should have left the hedging as i'm sure that would have counted. Anyway, rant over. What concerns me the most, is this 30 years bit for monitoring. I won't be alive then, and i don't want some stupid covenant on my house saying that any future occupant has to spend a minimum of 10 minutes a day, talking to the plants, and stroking the bluebells. Even worse, I don't want the council saying that because it is a private garden, they can't monitor it, and therefore i have to buy off site credits. Has anybody had any recent expierience of this ? Or can recommend any good reading on the matter. Thanks in advance.

I am going to have to wait for some time until i can get acurate quotes for services, so i am having a guess. i already have the following services on site. 3 Phase electricity. Water. gas. Mains drainage. These services will service One of the new houses. The services are all located in the lane outside, so the maximum distance to the boundary would be about 6 meters. I would do all digging on my land. I'm guessing at the following costs for bringing new services in for the second new house, and i'm guessing at the following prices. Anybody have any idea if i might be in the right ballpark ? 3 phase electric £25k Water £5k Gas £1k . I think the cost is still subsidised. Mains drainage £10k. I do have the option of splitting the foul drainage, within my land. Although i believe i would need Thames Water approval for that. I believe i might be able to have the 3Phase split. Again within my own land, to provide a single phase to each house. Although, i would have to have that confirmed.

And, don't ask @Pocster to do any of your solweld.... Have you thought about incorporating some walk on glazing ? (Apols in advance to the One, the only, Pocster)

Say it like it is @Nickfromwales . True. Factual. Dogshit.

I'm rubbish with computers, but i have just looked up the manual on line. The drain off is clearly shown in the manual. Google is your friend

Can i be honest. I would be dissapointed if that was the finish that my plasterer left for me. I'd be putting a coat of easy fill over that. Then a large rotary sander with a very fine grit paper to get it better than what it is now. Sorry, if i'm the odd One out.