Big Jimbo

I did'nt think that you were allowed to KASPLOSH. I think your connection branch is going to have to go "Down, down, deeper and down" and join up with the existing at the bottom.

put your planning application number up, and what council it is, and i will happily take a look for you.

I'm a bit of a chancer, and so much cheaper than MOT

I love the old road scalpings. I have used them on my temp drive over to get to the road. They have really locked up, and during the heat last summer, seem to have all melted together. A contractor told me last year that you are not allowed to use them on new build properties, due to them potentally being a contaminated material. Ant idea if this is true, as i can get a bloody huge load for £200

I know what you are saying. My last application for 2 houses which was refused had a two page D&A. The problem i feel is that you have a certain level of expectation as to the abilities of the planning officer. If you leave out things that seem obvious to you, the planning officer just dont get it. In view of the last one, this time i have covered everything, so that if i dont get a grant, i can go straight to appeal without further work.

It's funny how so many companies make such a fuss, but the actual guys that come to do the work are happy with a cup of tea and a bit of cake.

Just another thought. As you have a solicitor they would photocopy you original docs, and certify them, as true copies of the original docs. If they charged you it would prop only be a few quid.

Nice to not have to have the external box anymore. Just something else to get wet, or bashed in the future.

Well done, fingers crossed. Dont forget to photocopy all your docs, and try and keep the originals. LR won't return any paperwork you send them. They are very slow, so a friendly once a week phone call to them to ask how it is going will be worth doing. Fingers crossed for you, and good luck with the sale. Keep on top of the agent. Those who shout loudest and all that.

I love that gate. If it could talk i think it would be saying, "You can break in here, but, if you are caught, and you will be caught, you will be taken to the underground lair, tortured, and you will never be seen again. Go on make my day."

I have done exactly that in the past, and find it works really well. One full bore isolator on the incomming 22mm, and individual full bore isolators on each out. Spent about an hour making it, and cost about £30

Waving your arms above your head, like you are swatting wasps, trying to hold the bloody stuff up. Add to that the shoulder ache at the end of the day. All good fun if you have a wierd sense of humor.

Made me just want to go down, and lend a hand. even if it was just lugging stuff around for someone for a day. So much better than the normal GD's. I stopped watching that a few years ago. Good luck to them all.

In my opinion you will have to apply for full planning permission. A house near me, Young couple and wife pregnant had exactly the same. They wanted to just carry on. Building Control told the planning dept and a stop notice was issued. They had to go back in for full planning, new application. They had no problem getting it, but had to wait the 8 weeks for the council to determine the application.

Good luck. I have to sit on my bum aswell. Can't kneel down. Bum shuffling works well.

You will need to tell the council (planning permission) where on your land you want to build, and what you want to build. they will then hopefully grant you permission.

I'm sure you are right John, just saying what the Water company told me when i wrote to them. I believe that the smaller intelligent pumps will regulate to ensure that a max of 12lt a min can be drawn, and that these can be fitted directly to the incoming mains without any other steps needing to be taken.

If you don't want the advice, don't ask. Good luck in not selling your house for a very long time

Talk to a surveyor, and they will tell you that the pretty red line means jack all in the eyes of the law. You need to have your boundaries determined.

Just because land is not registered does not mean it is not owned. You need a Chartered Surveyor who specialises in land as i have said. You will have to get the boundary registered, and to do that, you will need to prove that it is yours. if anybody want to buy your house, this will be picked up again and again by the solicitors. I should know, I've been there.

I think you are wrong. A 1.5 bar pump on the mains will not draw in more than 12Lts of water a min, and are therefore not a problem. You only need to go all high tech, and expensive if you want to pull in more than 12lt. This was confirmed for me by the water company.

Right. I have been through something similar in the last year.... Not great. The first piece of advice i would offer is don't waste to much time or money with solicitors. I spent a lot of money with a firm of central London Lawers and eventually took it off them due to getting knowhere and spending Thousands. In my opinion you need to get all of your paperwork together and get yourself a fully qualified chartered surveyors. Do a bit of research as some are rubbish, and you want one that specialises in land.The one i used has mapped countries for governments, and recently The falkland Islands. He looked over all my paperwork, and then surveyed my land using some amazing high tech gear. He then produced a report of 150 pages..... He canged me about 8 grand + vat. Once you have that information you have to apply to the Land Registry for Determined Boundaries. (Costs about £90) Some civil servant will then look at it, won't understand it, and will pass it up the chain to the Land Registry Lawyers. If they can get there heads around it they will then look at all of the boundaries that meet yours, and will write to the registered owners, tell them they have received a request to register boundaries that effect them. They may choose to agree with your position, and advise the land registry of that, or they might not...... If they dont agree with your position, they will be asked by the land registry to send in there information. The chances are that the land registry won't be able to say who is right, and who is wrong, so will invite you and your neighbours to sort it out and agree it between yourselves !!!!! This won't happen as other people will consider that you are trying to nick bits of there land. You are now in what's called a BOUNDARY DISPUTE. Get ready at this point to end up in court, fall out with your neighbours, pay a load of professionals ££££££££. A week in court will cost about £125.000. The first step is to get a professional Chartered Serveyor to look at your case. Be prepared to spend a fair few quid, and don't forget that you might end up being told that you don't own the land that you think you do.

I used a pump on my daughters incoming mains to boost it to 1.5 bar. Works well. I think you can get more powerful one's but i think you might need the water boards permission to fit on bigger than 1.5 bar.

That may have been the case, however, i believe that my proposal for 2 is better than my planning for one. I believe that i have done enough in my application to demonstrate that. Only time will tell. The application will be going in via the planning portal on Sunday evening.

Yeah, some of them are great. I think if i had my time over i would quite like to have been a BCO