Big Jimbo

The only conditions attached to my Planning Permission is Materials. Cladding, Render, and Roof Tiles. I've put in to discharge these. Do you think i would have a problem if i started digging my foundations while i wait ?

You will be fine with a coupler, however, swearing at it may also help.

I think a lot of the others have now caught up. However, the back to wall toilets for me are a no no. Being able to do anything by sticking your hand through the flush plate...... Really, have you ever tried it ? perhaps i have shovel hands, but i think thats a joke. I do use back to wall toilets, but always design, and build in a shelf or something to allow top access to anything i hide in a wall. Perhaps that is me just being over cautious.

I have got 2 paslode nail guns, and 2 air nailers and a compressor. The paslode guns save a huge amount of time if you are getting into any sort of serious chunky woodwork. My air nailers fire 18gauge brads up to 50mm long, and 23gauge brads up to 20mm long. I love all of them, but you defo need to take care when using both. I had a 100mm paslode nail skip passed its intended piece of wood, go through a fence, and pass about 2ft from my neighbours head. I also managed to fire a 50mm brad into the top of my leg. I had to laugh when i got to hospital, as when they wheeled me through the hospital they were saying "Got one here who has been shot in the leg" everybody turned round to see who had been involved in a gunfight.... It had gone through the flesh, and stuck in the bone. Dont under estimate the power of either type.

After they have finished with your lawn, do they do the maintainance on your mower ? Very impressive if they do. My mower is out of action at the moment. Could you have a word with your Badger gang please ?

Thank you for the kind offer. Unfortunately a rescue with a very, very sad passed. He only knows, and is comfortable with 8 people in the world, and that took a lot of effort

i can't get a dog sitter so can't go. I really do want some windows that are going to extend my life by 20 years.....

Don't burn the house. get a potty...... Remember using one as a kid at my grans.....Nice............

I have no idea, but i built a stream / pond in our last house. When the new people wanted rid, they re-located over 200 frogs.

My personal thoughts are that you should adopt a fabric first approach. That is make the actual building structure as good as you can. Design out as much of the Thermal Bridging that you can. Try and achieve very high levels of insulation in the floor, walls, and roof. Try and make the building as airtight as you can, and fit some decent windows and doors. If you do this you won't go far wrong.

really do feel for you. I hate people who take advantage of our older folk. Please P.M. me the website.

Plenty of good advice here. Best site i have found by far.

Good job. That should get you a pass from building control.

A good magic man is worth his weight in gold. Hard to find now, as the good ones are all getting on. I doubt that the younger ones will stick at it very long.

If anybody has a massive pile of used notes in a bag marked Swag, i will be very happy to come and collect it from you. I remember, back in the day, sitting down with an ex president, who handed me his case and asked me how much he had in there. He did'nt have a clue, and the bag was full of bearer bonds for $250,000 each. I counted them for him, and he had $27 million dollars. It would have been so easy to nick a few.... Only problem was, i was a very honest young man back then. Or perhaps, stupid.

You can double that 93 cubic meters, by the time you pull it out of the ground. It will defo add some considerable costs, but you only have to do it once.

Oh yes. Still criminal. Banking in the 80's was defo legal crime. Money laundering was a huge income. Arms dealers. Bent presidents. Dodgy arabs. I had em all. Interesting times.

Randomiser... Thanks so much. The problem i had was that i went back in for permission for 2 houses instead of the single large one.. The council decided that because i had not discharged my planning conditions (materials) or started work. They could disregard my permission, and would only consider the existing bungalow. This allowed them to refuse for the reason of overdevelopement.

Evening all. As some of you will know i have permission to extend my 650sq ft bungalow to about 3000sq ft house and a separate detatched garage. I'm going to go back into planning for 2 new properties instead of the single large extended house and detatched garage. I want to ensure that my new proposal is looked at against my current permission, rather than the existing bungalow which stands on the land. I am currently satisfying my planning conditions, and once that is done, i intend to clear the ground, and dig the footings for my garage. I can do this without involving building control, as the garage is just under 30 sq meters. By satisfying my planning conditions, and digging some footing for my garage, do you consider that i will have done enough to ensure that my proposal for 2 houses will have to be judged against my extended property, and not the bungalow that currently stands ? As always, thanks for your help.

Defo not fella, although it might help me with the planners if it was. Believe it or not the organisation was Banking !!!!

Hope you find him. I think you can kiss your money goodbye. In a former life i used to use a chinese fella. He was fantastic, had contacts in the police, BT, Tax office, Post office, DHSS, Banks, Building Socs etc. He could find anybody in the Uk within 24 hours. He was a right crafty sod. He used to dig up serious dirt on people. If he couldn't get any dirt, he would set them up using prostitutes, drugs etc. Used to blag his way into any office building, or home. Once he had his dirt, photos etc, he would directly front up to the person and advise them that they had 7 days to pay or he would destroy there lives. Loss of job,, wife, kids etc. He was about 5ft 2 but some sort of kung fu expert. He got me back over a million from about 6 clients in a year. He charged 33% of monies recovered, and would only entertain cases in excess of 100k. Despite the fantastic results, the organisation i was involved with at the time, decided that he stepped over the line a couple of times and stopped me using him. I was introduced to him by a pimp, of high class London Hookers back in the early 80's who was also a large drug supplier to North London dealers. The pimp was a customer of the organisation i worked for at the time. The early 80's was Maggies "If you want it, go and get it" era. London was Madness.

Just wanted to say, I feel for you. What a pain in the butt. These things can be so frustrating. If you could figure out what is happening you would undoubtably be able to solve it.

That stuff looks like the dogs danglies. I bet it costs, but so much better than trying to grout in around the bottom after the timber frame is installed.

All the smart people will be along soon. That thickness has got to be giving you a good "U" value though ?

Morning all, My local council (Dacorum) Has a core strategy that runs from 2006 - 2031.... It does not have a current local plan, as it is currently under review. Any ideas how this may help me in my quest for Planning Permission..... Ie, am i able to use the fact that the local plan is being reviewed ??? Many thanks as always