Amateur bob

personally i am just glad i didnt have to clad the whole thing in wood lie they were origionally suggesting

i should have clarified the wood cladding is already on, just deciding whether to paint it now

how do u mean planning condition? as in what colour it had to be?

it was intended to be painting so looks like pine

The gable is white if that makes any difference

Ill need to ask builder what sort of wood it is but itll need treated? the wood ones already on i got google gemini to adapt it to the colour builders planning to paint it, im still undecided

Which of the 2 of these looks best the wood or the dark grey/black one? Thanks

protek have bn difficult so far, upon first inspection it was pointed out to me by the inspector that i didt have a "principal designer" for the project and it was pointed out to me that the guy who did my planning drawings couldnt be put down as he didnt have the necessary pii

nobody told me it was required either until the first inspection

good afternoon, i am no further forward on this tbh what structural warranty company are u using? protek have told me the principal designer needs to have pii which i dont have

Good afternoon Gus, sorry for late reply im not on here often ive only just logged back in, im struggling to get a professional wit PII to put down as principal designer on my protek warranty which the protek guy insists i need If you were to take a look at it for me and agree to let me put you down for it with protek what sort of fee would you require? i wouldnt need you to actually fulfill all the roles of a principal designer i just need to give the guy a name etc to put down provided u were comfortable with it i have a SER certificate for the structural drawings from Harley Haddow thanks Andrew

good afternoon, how are u gettin on with this? ive heard nothing back from the structural engineer yet

did you get a structural engineer to do the detailed ones for the building warrant?

i contacted the SE 2 weeks ago but not heard back yet, i have a mortgage secured on some farmland to get the house built but ill want to remortgage onto a standard residential mortgage once its done, not many will lend without a structural warranty? i do have a Certificate of Design signed by the structural engineer to say its all designed up to standard would that help?

good morning Gus thanks for the feedback, i have already paid the protek warranty which was over 3k, when the guy came up from england for inspection of the slab he asked who the principal designer was and i told him my mate who he then phoned up but he had no PII so wasnt able to do it, next i had contacted the SE firm and the guy who inspected the trenches to see if he would take on the role, he said he would check his PII and get back to me that was 2 weeks ago, i tried to phone him on Monday but no reply, are there and structural engineers or architects i could get to look over the drawings and take on the role for a fee perhaps?

regarding BCO i did technically have a principle designer who had the software and did the drawings but he doesnt have professional indemnity insurance

this is the issue the drawings were done by a friend in the industry who knew wat he was doing and had the software, then passed onto a structural engineer who did the detailed drawings for the building warrant stage, do you think the structural engineer might be able to help sign something here for the protek guys?

a structural warranty company signed off on drawings its more for getting a person thats liable so they can sue them if i make a claim against protek by the sounds of things

i heard a lot of good reviews about proteck online and signed up with them online for their structural warranty, the house is now being built and a surveyor came up to do his first inspection, he then asked for the name of the principal designer or architect, i said their wasnt one this is now causing an issue as theyre saying they need an architect to sign something to say they stand on the design etc and any defects in the future so that ifi claim off protek they can then sue the architect, is this really how it works? a friend in the housing trade did all my drawings and got it all passed through the building warrant etc but hes no insurance for this type of thing and rightly doesnt want sued, is there any way round such a dilemma? ive paid £3400 for this thanks

ok might have a word then, do u think theyd allow me to start?

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yes ive had a look at the building warrant checklist it says 7 days too, ive got all of the planning conditions sorted out now except the one that says not to start the build until a sepa car license has been optained how much weight do these planning conditions carry? surely if its at least being processed by sepa when you start then a start could be made to founds itll be a while before any treatment plants are installed etc?

Yes u have the warrant but i have not submitted the notification for start of works yet, i read somewhere ive to notify building control 24hrs before starting the founds so they can arrange someone to inspect the trenches? The sepa license is a planning condition not a building warrant condition so will the building control check up on this license? I dont really see the issue with it going into a field drain and down to the burn i cant think of any reason they wouldnt allow this? Cheers

Interesting that ive bn issued the building warrant without it also i see with the building warrant application there is a pic showing where it discharges into the burn, although sepa have recentky asked the pic to be altered to show its a field drain and not a dry burn that runs down into the main burn, do u think i should just push on with founds but not connect up any drains yet?