Big Jimbo

I would deduct from the main contractors bill.

Had some engineered oak floorboards left over from my daughters renovation 7 years ago. Ripped some up and used them to line the windows, skirting etc. Bloody pain in the butt. Should have just done it in mdf, and got the Mrs to paint it.

As Peter said above is the way to go. If the pipes are not going to be accessable again once the units are fitted, make sure you seal up all around them, with silicon or whatever. My daughter had a nightmare with ants, and when i ripped half the place apart, a missing bit of plasterboard was the little blighters access point.

Or even worse. Hacks into a ring. Sticks on a few new sockets, and then joins it back into the ring........Nothing wrong with that.....Except that 4 times in the last 5 years i have found that done, and joined into another ring. !!!!!!!!!

I'm with Temp, and the devil. IMHO that is not permitted devl. It's a wraparound.

That doe's ring a bell. I'd better still look it up. Would'nt want a ruddy great stack of it in the wrong colour?

It,s James Hardie, i cant remember the name....I'd better find out as i'm going to use it on the garage and house?

Wouldn't have bothered with asking planning. Move in to your shed. When planning come along, say you had no idea that you were not allowed. Tell them you will apply for permission, but dont bother. When they come back again, say you forgot and bang in an application. If it get refused, stick it in for appeal, after waiting for a good few weeks. You should easily get 18months, by which time you will have moved back into your house.. Sorted.

Not sure there would be enough room for you, and your glazing?

Had enforcement round 4 times in 6 months. Neighbours are all stuck up twats. Got the Lawyer to drop planning a line advising them that if they come back without carrying out due dilligence first, I will have there woolly tied butts in court without any further warnings. One of the neighbours reported me for an unauthorised building down the bottom of the garden....Turns out its a tennis court sized bit of grass with a wood edging.

It is a shed, However, when i knock the house i will prob stay in it, untill i get the walls up, roof and windows in. When i sell the place, it will be a home office, gym, teenagers hang out zone etc. What ever you want it to be. Even a shed. Just a posh one with 18 double power sockets, T.V, Internet points, Shower, basin and toilet. Or it could even be used to store unused walk on glazing ?

Let me know how you get on. Onoff

I would prefer strip, but i will just have to wait and see.

Love your recessed light. That looks fab. I hate mine. I'll have to bite the bullit and get a decent door entry video thingy. They just seem to cost so much from Brit suppliers, and they are all prob made in China.

My plot is quite near an old brickworks, so i was always a bit concerned about clay content. I also have a lot of mature large trees. I have recently hooked up with my structural engineer, and i really clicked, and get on with him well. He came to visit my site, and we talked about the trees. He said that if i ripped out all the trees, he would still have to take them into account when designing my foundations. As it happens i will keep the trees, as it means that once you come onto site, it is not overlooked. The S.E said to get some soil samples, so i dug two rubble sack samples at 1500mm down and gave them 2 him to send off. The ground was so hard that my mini digger struggled, and the ground was very dry. (Large Trees) What came out at 1500mm deep was quite red, and felt quite granular, with some large, about the size of a brick, pieces of flint. The lab came back with 96% clay, and the S.E. has gone back to them and asked them to check there results. I must say i was surprised, as last year i did an extension at my daughters in Bletchley near Milton Keynes. I dug down 1200mm, and once i got below the top soil at about 300mm i was pulling out nothing but sticky toffee pure clay. Nothing else. You could have made pots out of it. Thats why i am so surprised at the results of mine. We shall have to wait and see, unless anybody has any pointers ?

At the moment i just have photo cells, and a flashing light. The motor is from Italy. (Actually made in italy) The company is called Oxygen. Its a 2000kg motor. The gate is bloody huge and heavy. I bought four wheels, and a track from Rolling centre, I am going to make a loop detector, and i plan on adding an edge contact strip. (Better not kill anybody) I'm a right tight sod, and my only mistake was getting a video door entry, with keypad, and rfids from China. £69...I got the Key unlock from inside to work, but can't get the rfids to work or the number pad. The video works great. Im rubbish with tecno, but the entry systems from brit companies were about a grand, so i though for £69 squid i'd give it a go.

That is going to be very cheap cladding with those figures. Nice job

Yeah, I made them. 8 ft wide each, then joined them with metalwork at the top and bottom. Too heavy to lift as 1 gate. So it is now 1gate 16ft wide. Made it sliding, and stuck a grands worth of c20 concrete in the ground to take the sliding track, and to act as a super strong crossover for big lorries etc. Bought the motor from Italy, and welded up the stop catches etc from scrap.

Couldn't be bothered to plaster, so when I finished plasterboarding, I got the Mrs to dry line it. She has now started painting.

So I made some gates. That should stop all the people walking passed having to watch me in my pants, scratching my bits, having a fag outdoors. I'm pleased with them 16ft wide.

So I fitted out a shower room to the posh shed. Nothing to fancy, but should be functional enough. Still got to fit a shower door.

No problems at all. Outdoor shower, for when you step out of the pool.

That can't be right. So you are saying that the Planning officer supported your application, but he, or she refused it because the P.C. has objected ? Using there delegated powers.

Jeremy, no offence was directly aimed at you either. Regardless, as i believe you will have seen. At some councils a valid objection received from a P.C. will cause an application to be taken out of the hands of a Qualified, and Paid planning officer, and put before a Full Planning committee. That, in my opinion, is a complete waste of money, and time. At my last P.C meeting they raised objections to 11 out of 12 applications. At the meeting before 14 out of 15 applications. All of those applications that were objected to will now have to go before a full planning committee. If we can't trust the trained planning officer to pick up on material considerations than we need a whole new set of planning officers. Perhaps we should swop them for Parish councillors. We have, in several councils, outside untrained people, who are taking the decision away from the trained planning officer. Regardless of who wrote the policy. That is wrong. In the case of my council, we may aswell do away with the planning officers, because the rate of objections received from the P.C. means we don't need them or there expertise. I state for the record, not all planning officers are tossers. (Just the one's i know) and not all Parish Councillors are muppets, or twats. ( Just the one's i know)

We all have a tendancy to kick off every now and then Jo90, and no offence to your wife was intended. Obviously, in your area, your wife, if she sits on the planning committee of the local Parish Council, gives her view, along with others on the committee, and they vote. which will conclude with a support, object etc. There comments, from what you say, will only be viewed with the same strength, as a neighbour who may have been consulted. I have got no problem with that fella. What i do object to is that untrained people sitting on a Parish Council, can by objecting, cause an application, to be taken effectively, out of the hands of a trained, and paid for planning officer, and cause it to have to go before a full planning committee where quite often, party politics will come into play. I don't like to admit that i sat on a Parish Council for 9 years. I left in the end, because i found so many of them thought that they were soooo important, If one of there pals wanted a bench in the villiage, we were all expected to ok it. The money that was received (Tax payers Money) was wasted, and the local small businesses, would be be-littled, and bullied to contribute to the crimbo lights. The P.C. would then switch them on to great hurrah despite not having contributed a single penny towards them.