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Lay down hardcore, cover with plastic, 50mm thick concrete ramp to correct specifications. Get it signed off then smash the ramp up with a sledge hammer and turn it into a bit more hardcore, the plastic prevents it sticking to the hardcore so it breaks up easily.

Anything you want to remove, do it now. Anything to be retained can have a net put over it to prevent birds entering it, it must be tied at the base to prevent entry. Any shrubs you want to retain that might get damaged get them dug out and put somewhere out of harms way.

It would depend on how your paying him. If he’s on a metre rate, he won’t want to start messing with steels, you need to ask him to price installation separately, or you hire the lifting device and pay them day work to fit them.

Vertical battens, no counter batten required horizontal batten, counter batten required. The battens ideally should go through the osb and into the studs for extra support.

Nope, just mark it up and cut it out, glue it screw it. Just get it fookin on and get onto the next bit.

You can put a y branch under the sink with an access cap for cleaning out, you shouldn’t need to remove the trap, you will also need rodding access in the garden in the form of an inspection chamber.

I believe 100mm is just about building regs standard.

I would also look at your downstairs insulation 100mm is not enough over block n beam.

I wouldn’t get too gloomy my planning cost £14600, then I had piled foundation, it’s not the end of the world, and looking at your location it’s not exactly the cheapest place to do anything.

Omg you both need therapy, there’s nothing there even worth keeping box of matches to all of it.

Why would a tree survey cost £1000 if you have no trees present. It should be around £300 you do the leg work first, so supply a site map so the arborists does not need to download one. Their report will be about a paragraph long, stating no trees on this site that have any significant amenity value and none that will be in the way of the future development. Job done. Or produce your own maps and photographs showing no trees and write in your submission beside tree report, no report obtained due to the site not having any trees. I did did a lot of legwork for my submission saving the planning consultant a lot of time. Regarding the piling, why would you offer a solution to a problem that doesn’t yet exist, wait for a soil survey before you think about piling.

You do know that there are help groups you can go to, hoarders anonymous.

So you take out one when that situation arises. Keep the money in your pocket, you might not sell in 10 years.

If you put solar panels on the roof of the caravan you could put the hot tub inside and it’s a mobile love making shack for weekend escapes.

You don’t need s warranty unless you have a mortgage.

Maybe you need to forget that silly word PASSIVE HOUSE and instead build a very well insulated, airtight house. Im in agreement that unless you do a MASSIVE amount of work your budget is woefully small. You can get a shell up with a £1000 kitchen and move in, then finish it over the next few years.

Entirely up to you really. Whats the chances of somebody buying the old bungalow and wanting to knock it down. Could be easier to have it priced up and have the quote ready to reduce the price of the bungalow by. Would be a shame to stick a nice new one in and the new people don’t want it.

@SeanDean have a read of this lot.

Ok so it looks like the electrician is right on this and I will need to eat some humble pie ?? however I much prefer the idea that anybody who stretches the hairdryer into the shower should die anyway.

So does that differ from the electrical regs.

So if they need to be 3m from a shower or bath, what is the distance from a basin. I was under the impression that 300mm from the bowl of the sink was correct. @Onoff

Do you have a diagram of zone one please, big fella.

He’s a bit overweight I think he would have gone down like a sack of spuds.

So after living abroad for a few years we have got used to having a double socket in a bathroom. The wife wants to put one in every bathroom for hairdryers curling tongs and other stuff women need to make them look less ugly. Whats peoples opinions, my discussion with the electrician yesterday turned a bit ugly and I thought I might need to punch him. I managed to exercise complete restraint and he had a lucky escape. Thoughts people.

If it’s really thick you might need to remove the filters from the spray unit. Have a look at some vids of the lads spraying air sealing pastes and spray plaster.