Declan52

The Republic of Ireland had the right idea. They brought forward much stricter building regs and introduced a new standard where all new homes being built from 2020 had to be low energy homes. In order to have gas installed you had to overcome that many hurdles that a heat pump was the preferred option. Oil boilers in New builds will be banned from 2022 and gas 2025. So they are already miles further down the path than the UK are. A standard new build house built by a large developer in the UK isnt going to be suitable for a heat pump as they will have just scraped past the poor building regs we have. In Eire they are suitable. Changing the regs is the only real solution along with actually testing each house performance not just 1 in every 20. To get round the issue of older housing stock if you are doing a renovation then in order to meet the much higher building regs the government will give you a grant to install towards EWI and better Windows and what ever else you want to do.

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Sorted.

Hire out a few boxes of scaffolding and do it right. No hanging of ropes tied to chimney stacks or the neighbours tree type operations. You will be able to get a much better look at what is needed and then actually do the work right plus much much safer. For the sake of a few hundred quid do it safe.

Would you get pin holes like when you use too much of plasterciser making motar and put too much air into the mix making it like fluff. Does anything like this get added to the render to help playability or is it premixed into it.

There is bound to be some sort of clip/bracket type system that you could use. Then silicone around the edge to seal it up.

You could get a design/ artwork printed and use this as a decorative piece which will then be covered and sealed by the glass covering. Wouldn't be too expensive to get a few fixing holes drilled in the glass.

Find the last section of board in the final run and take the screws out and try and lift the board out. You will quickly be able to see if it's got any glue.

If they used d4 glue there is no chance that floor will come up. D4 glue expands and will come out of the edges of the boards. It will be very noticeable. I would get them to do as he suggested and pull the screws out enough to lift the board up and allow a bead of D4 glue, not some cheap ass alternative wood glue, to be put on top of the joists.

You could try grinding a few mm of the concrete to create the channel needed. In effect all you would be doing is polishing the surface. If that fails then your going to have to cut it out.

Either would do the job for such a small span.

I don't make the law it's just how it is. A relative has the same kind of issues with neighbours and the camera that covers their back garden only covers it and no other persons property and the police where happy. The one or the front as it covers a path and road needs a sign to inform people that they are being recorded. https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-guidance-for-people-using-cctv/

Use a concrete head on the inside but only bed it at the end away from the window so you leave 100mm with no motar. Then when the time comes you can slip the catnic in under the concrete head and point in the gap.

You are allowed cameras as long as it picks up your property and no one else's. If you cover another person's property or public areas like a path or road then you have to put up signs informing people they are being recorded.

If the lorry can tip and has a hiab. Get the larger amount loose and the other in tonne bags.

Use different shrubs to form a screen around your seated area. So you have something growing up to 2m around 2/3 sides giving you and area which is totally private. You can use a pergola as a frame and have slotted sides using lath. Use the same idea along where you mainly walk. Small trees or large shrubs to form a thick screen. It will require quite a bit of planning to figure out which plant will grow to a specific height and put it in the correct position. Your never going to block out a line of site from a first floor window without planting something that will be huge but by concentrating on certain sections you could do it with smaller, 2m ish, planting.

Reckon you could have fried soda bread on that roof this past week. Looks really good.

They would be nailed to the batton but as they are so small they have to have used some sort of adhesive otherwise the first bit of wind you get they are going on their holidays and not coming back.

How are the tiny pieces of tile held in place??

Our council was pretty quick, think it took 6 weeks. But as you say the way things are now they are all working from home ( sunbathing in their garden in this weather) so would guess 8-10 weeks.

They really should be started on the concrete foundations. 50mm of screed is not a lot to rest a wall on. What type of screed are you using, sand cement or a flow type screed??

It's not just about ticking a box with 150/200mm insulation in the cavity and you will have a toasty house. Lol You have to adopt a whole house policy. High quality Windows and doors, triple glazed of the budget allows, good depth of insulation in the floor and roof, very good airtightness throughout etc. I've a block house and my kids still move around like hippos and slam doors. After years of in depth research the final conclusion I have reached to stopping them slamming doors is to remove the door.

Every two weeks!!! Some company is making a fortune with that schedule.

Not a lot of work and can all be done from the inside. Pop the window out and remove the inside row of tiles that are cut short. Replace with tiles that rest on the foam and are long enough to bridge the gap so it sits over the ridge. That's the easy bit. The ugly lead work won't be as easy fixed.

Cavity fire sock if it's not put on by the timber frame company.