Big Jimbo

Glad to hear you got it back on track with the builder Adsibob

No problem with that as far as i can see. Nice tidy job.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Those tiles (man made?) look great, but those ridge tiles look dreadful im afraid. I doubt you will be happy even if they do fill the gaps with coloured cement (which will quickly fade)

`Beware as above. I to have found old electric mains sheathed in lead in the past.

IMO should have end caps on.

Fair play fella. As i said i like the idea of it, and will try it myself when i get a chance. Just be careful that it don't end up costing you a fortune. It might be worth seeing if any of the manufacturers do induction days etc. Would defo be worth spending a day with them to see how it should be done, and make sure you are happy. + you should them get to play with there materials at no cost to you. Keep me posted.

I have looked at it, but not used it. I'm an epdm fan, and a fibreglass roof hater.....From what i can remember, you have to tape all the joints on the timber etc, so seemed like a lot of faff. One of my mates used it on a garden pub roof, and said he needed twice as much as the manufacturer said he would need. So it worked out bloody expensive.

If it's not the disabled access i think you can do as you want. IMO, you dont want to be stepping out of a door onto a dropped step, so i would aim for your top step to be roughly the same as your internal floor level. 300mm for a step is ok, but 450mm feels much nicer.

Harry the naughty. The middle One. "what is physically and materially added to the original roof" whatever of the existing loft that becomes habitable space don't count because it already exists......So just what you are adding on in respect of volume buddy/

I think you need 2 calcs Harry. The first would be the volume of the total roof area. The second would be the dormer addition. It's the addition. It's the addition that needs to be less than 40 or 50 square mt. I think it's the outside measurement of the dormer that would count. Ie; 6m long/wide. 2m high. 4m deep. The sum would be 6x2x4divided by 2 if the dormer was being added to an existing sloped roof.

Neighbours.....Great, aren't they ! Would have been no more money to have had him , "Taken out" [mod: deleted reference to citizens of a particular country]. The existing french door bit looks like it might be built up to the boundary, but Don't look like a party wall to me. If you are just joining up the french door bit to the other bit on the left, i don't see why you needed the party wall agreement at all....

can't help much, but make sure you stay on the case of the solicitor, and be aware of exactly what you are buying, and what bits you might not be buying... Be a nightmare to find out after that you thought the bit where you wanted to put your garage was excluded etc.. Good luck

Post away Martin. Lots of good people on here.

Jeez, i doubt i can offer any solid advice. what a nightmare for you. The one thing that i would check on quickly, is are tradespeople allowed to come onto your site, and remove work that they have not been paid for. I'm not sure they can. say the roofer has been contracted by your builder to supply tiles and fit them to your roof. His contract is with your builder, not you. Regardless of if you have paid or not, i'm not sure he has the right to enter your property to remove goods that he has not been paid for.

If you are intending to use any form of glue down flooring, LVT etc you will want to use ply. Don't use MDF. I doubt you will be able to get any sort of G/Tee from your glue down flooring company, if you are asking them to stick down to MDF.

Morning John, and welcome. I have often thought about if a mansard roof meets P.D rules. Just make sure you don't fall foul fella.

Welcome. i understand that there are many different types of timber frame available, but as a chippy imo, you have to knock up your own timber frame. Yes, you will have to get an engineer to sign it off £400? but a simple timber frame for a bungalow ain't rocket science. Go on, you know you want to.

Harry. I know this might sound daft, but the enforcement officer is only doing his/her job, and will have to answer to people higher up the chain. As you will know, the best, and cheapest way is to attempt to get the enforcement officer on your side. If he/she has a "quiet" word with the planning officer, you might be surprised to see your retrospective application sail through, and be an end to your hassle. I once had one where a detached double garage was built 250mm to high. One of the neighbours kicked off, and complained that the solar panels that sat on the main house crown roof were not shown on the application, and that that made the whole main house to high. We had a couple of meetings on site, including tea and biscuits. A retro application went in, and sailed through.

Go and talk to the neighbours. All the houses look the same, so it should be easy to find out from them what method of construction has been used. Best of luck.

Zoot the Hoot. Don't worry about upsetting people on here fella. Most of us have thick skins, and we all wind each other up, every now and then. Good to see you back, and try and ease off the stress.

Looking decent Nod. Me and the Mrs, bumper hoist, done the same a few times.

P.S come on Harry, post some pics up of your hideous dormer, so we can all tell you that we hate it, and that we are glad we dont live next door to you.?

Harry, Harry, Harry. Have you been a naughty boy ? Threat of enforcement, more threat of enforcement, a few letters either way, and i can see that taking a couple to Three months. The head of enforcement will then have a couple of internal meetings at the council, where it will be discussed. What have you done wrong, who has complained etc. This will include the councils legal bods, because they will know that if enforcement is served, and you take it through to appeal and win, it could end up costing them a considerable sum of money. ( all councils are skint) If the breach is not massive, they may decide to take no further action. Sometimes, they will have a quiet word with you and let you know that if you put it in for retrospective it will get passed. One way to think about it is........ let them know that you are having some drawings, etc done, and that you will be submitting that to planning as soon as available. Keep in touch with the enforcement officer and make sure that you avoid an enforcement notice being served on you ( very important ) Stall on the retro application for as long as you can, but have the papers ready to submit so when the enforcement officer gets the hump, you can put them in before the enforcement notice is served on you. Planning app (retro) now in. Council will prob take the usual 12 weeks to consider, and give you a decision. (Lets say refused) You now have 6 months to appeal that decision. Tell the council that you are preparing the papers for appeal. Keep in touch with the enforcement officer, and stall out as much of the 6 months that you can. Bung in the papers for appeal. the average is 9 to 12 months for the appeal. You get refused at appeal, at the enforcement person is back on your case.... Stall him out for as long as you can. He will have to go back through the council meetings again. Eventually, you will get served with an inforcement notice. You don't comply and you string it out with the enforcement officer for as long as you can. Say 3 months. Appeal the enforcement notice. 9 to 12 months to be heard. You get refused, and now you are prob left with a couple of months before the council start really coming at you. On each of the processes above, you change small things, (planting for screening) changing the colour of the dormer so it stands out less etc, etc. You can prob end up with a process that will string out for 3+ years. How do i know ? Because my mate is the head of enforcement at a council. Hope that helps you naughty boy.

Any changes unless very small, at my local council, are judged against what is on the ground now.