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Our claim is with the Self Build Accountant that specialises in these things. He is just waiting for our BCO to issue the completion certificate. We missed the certificate by a whisker before Christmas when he went on holiday

Whoever is going to want to buy a house on that site? There is a new development in a nearby town on a site that the locals have named as a "flood plain". It is all over social media that the site floods regularly. Anyone looking for a house in the area is going to be aware and no amount of reassurance will combat that knowledge.

Thanks for all the most helpful solutions above. I am going to investigate the ones I have not tried already. These are shutting the doors and closing the blinds during the day and opening them at night. This does not work when it is 26C outside. Once the room gets to 20C or more, which it did most of last summer, there is not way it is going to cool down unless we use. air conditioning. Building Control do need to take this in to consideration in sunny climes like East Anglia. We have three large South facing windows and five, large, West facing windows. MVHR is a possibility as husband (a time served heating engineer) says he could fit it easily. I cannot see how moving hot air around the house is going to help us? I like the idea of window shades. More expense - sigh. Ceiling fan is also a possibility. Does anyone have any experience with tinted windows? We have lovely views over countryside so do not want to spoil those.

Following. Our build is finished the hot bedroom syndrome is causing us huge problems. Trickle vents are useless and we live in a bungalow so opening windows would probably negate our home insurance.

We are now living in our, single storey, build and the problem of a hot bedroom is a serious one. We live in sunny Norfolk and, no matter what we do, the bedroom is far too warm at night. I spent all last summer keeping the sun out during the day and trying to release heat at night without sleeping with the windows open. Aside from causing a lot of stress (I am a poor sleeper) it just did not work. We got as far as seeking quotes for air conditioning. If we stay here then that will have to be the answer. I am even considering getting a guarding breed of dog that can sleep in the bedroom with us so that I feel safe sleeping with the windows open! The current Cocker Spaniel just does not cut the mustard 😂 Another solution would be to adopt the Spanish system of metal railing type fixings on the outside, and the windows opening inwards. Not sure if that would fall foul of the fire regulations though? Too late for us as the windows are already installed.

Ask a tiler Ours told us the place to go to get good quality. He had no affiliation to them other than finding their stock to be good quality.

No to the pub. Conservation area? I don't think so.

Our daughter has seen a plot for sale that contains a burned down grade 2 listed property. Do the collective wise ones know if any planning permission would be subject to reinstating the building as it was? It is within a village boundary. The plot is up for auction at a very cheap starting price so I presume planning would not be automatic?

My understanding is that the planning committee's decision is final as far as the local authority goes. You do have the right to appeal to central government. From what we have seen they are less interested in minor details and more interested in the politics of getting more houses built under their watch. If your planning committee is the same as ours they have little knowledge of all the laws and a lot of interest in petty politics.

Thanks for all the replies. The air test has just been done and, as we have proper plastered walls, we passed with flying colours. We are waiting to find out if local electrician is qualified enough to certify husband's installation of air source heat pump and cylinder. He has popped round and was very impressed with what he saw. He holds the G3 certificate of competency. We got so stressed about it all that we were thinking of just leaving it as some people seem to do when they live in their self build. Calmed down a bit now so we are struggling on with getting it done. Mind you if we stay here much longer we will not be able to move if an article I read in Readers Digest is accurate. It was about elderly relatives and went something like this - Moving house in your sixties is difficult, moving house in your seventies is extremely difficult but if you are still around in your eighties then you can forget it! 🫣

For me to progress the SAP Assessment and lodge the EPC, I will require the following information/documentation: Passing Air test certificate (target 5): if one hasn’t been booked already and you would like us to do the test my colleague Louise will assist. Confirmation that fabric information is correct for as built. Confirmation of ventilation strategy, makes/models of plant etc. Make/model of GSHP installed and commissioning certificate. Make/model/size of hot water cylinder installed and commissioning certificate. Can someone explain these please? We have the air test certificate. The heating and hot water was installed by us including the ASHP and the cylinder.

Are you used to having radiators? If so I think it is fairly well recorded that underfloor heating takes some getting used to. We are finding this to be the case.

Thanks @joe90. We wondered if we could do that. There is a guy in the village who specialised in air source heat pumps so he might be the one to ask.

Husband installed all the plumbing and heating. He was a time served plumbing and heating engineer but does not have certificates now. I expect we are going to have to pay someone to come and give us a certificate for something that works perfectly fine

We, too, are at this stage. We just had the air tightness test done and have a certificate for that. I sent it to our BCO and asked if we could now expect a completion certificate. Got a snotty email back saying that he needed - As built SAPS, EPC, Electrical Certificate, Heating Certificate, Unvented Cylinder Benchmark Certificate, Any Other certificate needed for commissioning! A snotty sign off saying not to send them in dribs and drabs as it makes his life complicated! I had no idea that we needed all these I don't know what most of them are Husband, a time served heating engineer who hasn't worked in the industry for many years, installed the air source heat pump and underfloor heating. We fell out with the electricians over the c*ck up they made of connecting the solar panels. Oh Lordy Lordy Who do we contact about SAPS? Would our architect do them? Husband, he of the bowel cancer, heart failure and pneumonia diagnosis in the middle of the build, is of the opinion that we should just sit tight and ignore it all. Me, I am not so sure For one thing we need a completion certificate in order to claim back the VAT!