Big Jimbo

Your engineer might want to take his own samples however. You can understand that, because you might have taken the sample from better ground, rather than the correct place. It is there PI insurance at the end of the day. But £100 quid for an early indication has to be a good thing.

My engineer was happy to work with the results i received, and my Two samples cost less than £100 to get tested.

@Alan Ambrose I have recently used K4 in Watford. I'm local, so i actually delivered my samples to them. Nice to know that they actually do the testing in-house unlike my engineers company who send the samples off to Poland. I did samples at 1.4 and 2.1 meters. They need about 1.25 kilo of material, and if you ask they will do the modified plasticity index calc for you. Nice bunch of guys. I paid an extra £18 to get my results in 5 days.

I'm not even sure that your walls should be that high. I thought it was 1meter fronting a highway which includes a pavement.

Great news. IMO i would rather go in front of the planning committee anyday than have to put up with crappy Parish councils and usless planning officers.

Jeez @Ferdinand sorry to hear of all your problems. You are very good value on here, so don't you be planning on going anywhere soon, ya hear.

Best of luck. Let us know.

My thoughts are that you would be better off starting again. There will be a lot more that you can't see that will be rotten.

Looks good. Well done.

There won't be any of those old valve things inside the switch, like those old amps, so you will be fine. Good move to get the same make switch. Should be an easy swop, then you will no longer have to be StinkyZoot the Hoot.

Just make sure to turn the electrics off first buddy.

Zoot the hoot. Just get a book and a beer, and head down to your cabin by the water. Just be smelly but happy.

But only if you run a coax up to the loft.

I shall keep my eye on this as i dont have a scooby about network stuff.

Just had a look and read of the guys site. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. It would be nice to see some external images to see what difference it made to the wall outside.

I have done the following in the past, but i'm not saying it is ok. I am qualified 16th edition, and part p. Both completed in 2007. I have never used them on any sort of commercial basis. What i wanted, and the reason that i sat the exams etc, is that i wanted to be able to second fix, on the kitchens, that i was supplying and installing at the time. I basically wanted to give the sparky confidence that i knew what i was doing. Move on to doing a full refurb on a property for my daughter. Before any electrical work was done, i spoke face to face with the LA building inspector. I explained that i had Part P, and various other Domestic electrical installation certificates, But that i was not a trade member of any of the trade association and could not issue a cert. He was happy for me to do the work, and simply get an anual electricty safety cert once i finished from a sparky. Prob the sort of cert that a landlord might have to get. He said that the LA had instances of work being completed where people were unable to get a cert for lots of reasons, such as company gone bust, self trader died etc. As he said nobody could be expected to rip the house apart and have the work done again. I have done this 3 times with LA's since. Have a word with your building control, and your sparky.

Mine came the same night as the committee meeting at about 10pm

Can you remember any of the local councillors that were on the committee when your application was approved. Perhaps you could try emailing them and asking them to chase it up. Makes you wonder why we pay council tax. Bloody waste of desk space. Try and get online and see if you can find the minutes of that meeting. Your planning app decicion will be recorded. Print it off. Once you have it atleast you are safe. Send a copy of that to the head of planning, and ask them for your approval notice by return.

I spotted it straight away. I know feck all about glass but that looks pants. Big plant pot in front of it with bamboo or something. That and a good discount ?

I'm sure its just me, but i was recently on a site with a £70k window install from a company named quite often on here. The windows were fitted and then a guy came a couple of days later with a van full of what looked like self adhesive draft excluder. He gave me a bit and i had a good squeze etc. Once it was fitted, which was basically done with a flat filling blade, i thought it looked shite. The windows were in a light green, the brickwork red. The 10mm + wide tape looked shocking. A week later it still hadn't expanded to meet the wobbly hand made bricks down either side of the windows. IMO how is that an effective air seal. I will be doing my usual. Sealing all around the front with a 10mm deep frame sealer. Covering that with a 3mm thick glued on plastic strip, matching the window. Filled from behind with foam. Foam cut back, and another bead of silicon around the inside. This is covered on the inside by the plasterboard, and skim. I know it's not the "right way", but works for me. I have got great airtest results with this method. Air sealing tape, and that expanding draft excluder cost 1/2 as much as the bloody windows. Chances are that cheap (not that anything is cheap these day) UPVC windows will leak anyway. This post is @pocster 's chance to call me a bodger. It will make a change from me having a go at him.

What a pain. I feel for you. A rat catching friend of mine told me. You have to find the source of where they are getting in. If you don't either poison, or traps will need to be repeated again, and again every couple of months. You are going to need to either have a good explore around, or a good pest controler to try and find the source. What you don't want is a pest controller who just baits of traps. You need to find that entry point.

Once you hace had a track saw, i doubt you will be able to live without one.

You will have to have a gap between the bottom door, and the drop down desk. Ask them to move the drop down desk up, and the bottom door up. See what you think of the result. if you are not happy, it will be a full 5 piece new front re-make.

Bottom left hand corner of the picture.

`Thank you @alfaTom. I understand it now. Cheers fella.