Big Jimbo

I have an old friend who is a pest controller. He told me a choc button is the best bait.

Shame but atleast you had a go.

insurance or not. Poor sods.

If your existing garage / new ground floor extention goes right to the boundary a lot of councils like you to step in the first floor extension to avoid the terracing effect. Best of luck, and congrats.

New house looks fantastic. Now you have just got to build it. Best of luck, and welcome.

A bit like that cow that Damien whats a fella did. I could get right arty....Instead, i'm going to bugger off to bed.

I have decided that i'm not mad. Set in resin. Or coins, or fingers....or gambling chips

Am i a tiny bit mad. I think those panels would look great done in big marbles ?

Pocster... i was trying to be polite about the flint panel. I see you can't be bothered with that.?

Obviously only for solweld stuff buddy. The rest of your exploits are spot on.

The setting out panels look much better.

Don't rip it out on my account, but if the rest of it looks similar, i can't see you being happy at the end.

On off. Please don't be offended. You are my have a go hero on here, to Pocster who is genarally my belly laugh bodger. I'm going to be honest, and say i don't like it. It looks like to much mortar and not enough flint on show for me. I think the flint looks a bit to organised aswell. Sorry mate.

I feel your pain. The way i managed to get my permission was to use all my pd rights on a piece of paper. 3sq m porch on front, half the width of the house on the left hand side, and half the width on the right hand side. 8m extension to the rear. also pointed out that i could cover 50% of my land with buildings, so if they wanted to be knobs, i could make the site look much worse. They actually used my pd rights as special circumstances to pass what i wanted. i am also in the greenbelt, and eventually ended up with permission to go from 600sq ft to 3000sq ft.

My previous research tells me that you will get told "Non standard construction" by a lot of lenders, and that you will either have to pay more, or get refused. I would also be concerned about ever having to sell, and the problem that any future purchaser porting over an existing mortgage might have. Back in the dark ages when i used to agree mortgages for a high street bank. I would have an anual target. At the start i would write up mortgages that perhaps didn't quite tick all the boxes. As i got closer to the target i would get more stringent. When the mortgages got close to the maximum level of exposure that the bank wanted to have to the property market, i would refuse most mortgage applications. Please don't get me wrong. I think there are tons of better ways of building property than bricks, and blocks. Unfortunately the lenders just have not caught up with modern methods of construction.

Did the planning officer speak to you during the time that the application was being considered.

Joe is right, but IMO they look shite in the doors

Normally there is a rebate in the frame for you to put the strip in. You might be able to router them in if your frames dont have them.

A channel in the frame that has the fire strip thingy in

Sounds like a plan. And that is better than no plan fella.

And when they go, they go. Just because they shatter into tiny pieces, if you are holding them at the time, your hand get cut !

And another vote for wall panels. I have used expensive 9mm ply panels with a facing, down to cheap 200mm wide plastic, 6mm thick panels. Both gave excellent results. Panels available have defo moved on from that mobile home in the 80's look. Dont get me wrong, i love a good tiling job, but i just hate grout.

In my opinion, yes, it may be a problem. Our easily reached, and cheap morgage lenders do not like anything that is not standard masonary. Others on here will say it does not matter, but it does. Pick a few morgage brokers close to you, and they will tell you the same as i am. The other thing that would concern me is is somebody has an existing morgage and wanted to port it over to your property......That could be a problem, and could put some purchasers off. My research is what put me off building a house from timber I-beams. In my opinion, there are tons of better ways to build house than masonary, but the lenders do not seem to have moved on.

I have done loads of refurbs, while living in the property. It is not great. Even things wrapped very well get ruined. Kitchen utensils are always filthy. T.V's end up knackered. Etc, etc. Roof off, tin hat on in my opinion. I was lucky once, when i took the side, and back off a roof One morning. Got a gable, and rear dormer built in the day. By the time it got dark my Mrs had been up on the dormer and felted it. By the end of day Two i had the front roof tiled back in.The new gable, and dormer covered in building paper, and the ridge tiles cemented back in. Still don't know how i managed it. (I was young and flexible then)

I do hope the T.V screen is not to big. It might make you feel very inadequate when watching certain types of films.