Big Jimbo

Morning Daniel, and welcome. This is a great site. You will be helped through the good and bad times of your project.

Be so careful. That is seriously high. Do ask yourself the question is it worth the risk. I know you want to get it sorted, but perhaps a few hundred quid to a local roofer might be a safer option. I know you are struggling to find one. There is usually a local pub, where the local builders meet for a tall tales session on a Friday afternoon. I'd find that, and start chatting to a few of them. You would'nt believe the power of a phone call from a builder to a roofer that he uses all the time. Especially if you have just bought him a pint.

Joe, was he 110. i'm with you, but i can't remember the last time i saw that done.

Good on you Patrick. The prob i have down south is that the piling comp want to do piles and ringbeam, at about £35k. When i tell them i'm happy to do the ringbeam and just want a quote for the piles, they are either not interested or start quoting me silly figures £1500 fo drag the plant to my site, and about a grand a pile. I have good ground, but loads of bloody big trees, but i'm a tight sod. I know that in the end i will just end up hiring in a big digger, (I have a mini digger) and doing 3mt deep trenches, and filling them full of concrete. If i do that i thonk i can do the founds for about 12k. £16k if i don't spread the spoil over my garden, and have it carted away.

The morter in you chimney looks soaking wet. I've had it before where the bricks, and morter were taking in so much water, that regardless of the lead, etc, the chimney was soaking up the water, it was dropping downwards through the brickwork, and the heat in the room below was drawing it out, and staining the wall. To be honest, i gave it 3 good coats of Thompsons waterseal, and it was fine up to the point when i sold the place.

Soakers are basically L shaped bits of tin or ally. You can make yhem out of lead. At the moment any water going under you lead, has reached the tiles. It will run down the tiles, and pass onto the tiles further down the roof, and eventually into the gutter. However if any of the water that has passed you lead onto your tiles goes sideways, due to a slight slope in that direction, or being pushed sideways by the wind, it will run off the side of your tiles up against the chimney and into your house. It there were soakers under the tiles, they would act as a last defence, and carry any water down to tiles below your chimney.

Patrick. Are you doing your own piling ? What about the ringbeam, are you doing that ?

No soakers ?, and i would have tucked that lead uner the ridge tile at the top. It looks poor i'm afraid.

Intended to do just that fella. Not many people want a shed that big, so before i sell i can stick a wc and shower in, and although it might not get me any more money for the house, it will be a bonus Gym etc for anybody in the future.

Yeah but i wont put any drainage, or electrics in untill i finish my bungalow. In the meantime i can power it with an extension lead. So, i build my shed now, no electrics or drainage. Then start my planning permission. Complete it and get it signed off. Then if i wanted to run some power and drainage to my shed and get it signed off. The one thing i do not want to do is screw up my CIL exemption.

My application, was a micky take, because i thought it was a joke that they had taken away my rights. It was taken by the planning officer in good spirit, and has now been binned.I actually only want a good size large shed/workshop of 30 sq mts

You do apply in Dacorum at the same time., and i got my letter saying that my PP is exempt from CIL. I know that if i put electrics or drainage in i will have to comply with building regs.

Temp. I don't know which is why i'm asking. Currently i have a small Bungalow, and full PD rights. Why would i need to get a CIL exemption for a 30sq mt shed in my garden ? Why would building my large shed now, before i start my extension, as advised by the planning officer, be a problem. Would this invalidate the CIL exemption i have got (only property) on my bungalow extension ???

I would like to think that 30 sq mt is considered small ( exempt from building regs ) I do have CIL exemption. I had to apply for it at the same time as my planning permission. ??????

That looks great. I did similar on my sisters kitchen, I tiled an area with huge tiles. masked them up, and squirted Silicon in . Smoothed off, peeled the masking, and done.

he did go and check my permission, and said that had my application shown any existing structures, that he would have included that "All existing structures have to be removed before implementing the permission. However, because i had no existing garden structures, he had not included the clause, and that is why we were able to work around it.

Ok here goes. Alot of effort to get the planning officer to allow me to extend my existing property to about 5 times it original size + double garage, in the Greenbelt... Split my extant permission into 2 houses with a slightly smaller combined footprint than my large extant permission. Stuck it back in, and got refused. To be fair i had sort of , maybe, bullied him a bit about my first application. (Got a hooker to come on to him in a bar. Do the bizz, and got her to get some photos of him snorting coke from her boobs. Told him i'd make sure that his wife got the pics.) Only kidding (or am i ?) Anyway, stuck it in for appeal, and got refused. The planning inspectorate said that the extant permission was not reason to override Green Belt Policy. Fair Enough. Anyway, my permission for my big extension included removing my rights for any other buildings, schedule 2 part E i think. I came on here and said that i was going to put in for permission for some items in my garden. ie: snooker room, pole dancing room, dog kennel, reptile house, chicken shed, an actual shed, greenhouse, potting shed, workshop, etc, etc etc. The list ended up quite long, and all covered by my removed part E. Phone conversation with my planning officer yesterday. "Build what you like under part E. Finish them all, and take a load of photo's of the various structures. Do it before you start your planning permission build, and i will attach all of the photo's to your file, so ther will be no prob" I said. Am i best to leave some time between completing them, and starting my planning permission ? "Nah" he said !!!!!!!! i have always said that planning officers are top fellas. !!! I don't know if the photo's had anything to do with it. I have asked him to put that in writing, so fingers crossed i can get that out of him in the next few days, and get started. If anybody want's to visit my lap dancing emporium, let me know.

You have all come high tech on my little brain. All i know is that there was no water in the system, or any other liquid..... I just did'nt visit very often.

True Steamy Tea. most people can design and fit there own kitchens. I can usually spot the one's that have within 60secs of walking bin the room.

Just for giggles i will tell you this little one from my past. About 10 years or so ago, a friend in a flat with storage heaters, wanted to get rid of them. He basically designs weapons, bombs, and guidence systems, so he is a right tech type. He found some sort of system, that aggitated the atoms in the rooms, made them rush around, bumping into each other, which caused them to heat up. It worked really well. Fast forward a few months, and i was with a client, basically the person who invented coloured X-Rays, that are now used at every Airport etc around the world. When i explained the system that my mate had installed in his flat, she gave me a look, and said "What do you think your friend is made of ? Atoms. I wouldn't go anywhere near his flat again" That's why i used to cut up bits of wood for a living

Thanks Sensus. I'm happy with my 30 sq mt, and your clarification that i don't have to include my external walls.

If i want to build a shed, art studio etc under PD rules, and want to avoid building regs (trees and deep foundations) I know i can build a floor area of 30sq mt or under. Would you take this as the actual internal floor area, or would you include the thickness of the walls. Thanks gang.

Much slower grown, so as Peter said, should be much stronger, and much better. The one on the right is quick grown, much lighter, and looks by comparison, SH*"E. You get what you pay for.

I have done loads of EPDM. Each to there own. Personally i love it. Bit of a pain to do in winter, as below a certain temp you have to stick it down with, glue on substrate, and glue on the rubber, You only get one chance to get it down without ripples, as it aint coming up again. Much easier in better weather, when the stuff you stick it down with is like PVA and you just glue the substrate. If you get a ripple, you can pull it back to get the ripple out. Going around roof windows is a bit of a pain but not really an issue. Fibreglass. I did a large flat roof with a buddy a couple of years back, and to be honest i thought it was a right faff with movement joints etc around the parapet walls. Only my opinion, but if your roof is ply, osb or whatever it will have some movement (expansion and contraction) in cold or hot weather. I know it may only be quite small, but my small brain says. The rubber will stretch with any movement = no prob. The Fibreglass willl be rigid = ???

Granite Russell. In my opinion nothing beats it for a kitchen Worktop.