Russell griffiths

200mm eps then screed, save a fortune over pir.

Engineering for at least 150mm above ground level to allow for water splash. I like the look of 2-3 courses of a darker brick at ground level then the face brick. 450 is only 6 courses.

With a mist coat you need to work out your finished paint system and work backwards. it is a big problem in the painting industry at the moment of using 50 year old technology of a watered down contract emulsion then going over the top with one of the new technology scrubbable matts. the two types of paint don’t work and the hard wearing scrubbable version will pull the mist coat off the plaster. look at your top coat and follow the instructions on surface preparation.

600mm appliance normally only requires 615mm hole.

Mines all ducted.

I’ve never seen a raft foundation for a single dwelling with an expansion joint in the slab. what’s your engineers thoughts on this.

Run the duct for the fibre into the plot, run enough cable to reach the new house, but run it to the site hut or caravan, then just redirect it to the house when finished.

You need to buy the tap, then work out if your fitting flexible pipes or not, then mock it all up and do a drawing for the pipe penetration through the wall.

Not understanding the question block n beam floor has blocks between the beams, is that what you mean.

£600,000

If you have a non existent budget then why build the garden room like an extension, build it like a garden room and save the £5-6 grand to do the extension. if you have no prior building knowledge then your not going to build the extension yourself anyway, so pointless trying to learn something. you would be better off learning the methods of construction so you can employ trades as and when you need them. you will need a fair chunk of money for the extension, don’t for a minute think it will be cheap.

Starlink dish, your build will be 50% up before bt get to you.

That’s for an application, are the confident it will go through. I thought you wanted a pre application meeting, to find out if an application was worth a go. we went down the route of. pre talking to council under the radar site meeting £250 2-3 hours in their office doing a bit of research £300. full application all drawings checked, organise site surveys, prepare planning app, liaise with council man, site meetings with council man, everything needed in a 16 month planning battle. £4000 They told me we are not going in half cocked, either go in with the attitude it’s going to pass or why bother, they hit the council with every condition already covered, whatever the council came back with we had already covered it in a report somewhere, it cost a lot of money but was worth every penny.

I’m from Ruislip and worked around Pinner a lot. your extension will not be built on a trench 600mm deep, it will likely need a strip foundation at least 1.5m deep with mass fill concrete to within 450mm of ground level. I would bet you actually end up doing the extension on a percussion driven pile, this is very common around that area due to the soil and trees. the last extension I did in Ruislip we went down 2.3m with a strip foundation as piles were not common back then, and expensive. it’s far more common to use this method now. are you being misled when they say 600mm foundation, this normally means the amount of concrete, not the depth in the ground the concrete is placed at, so you actually have a 1m deep trench with 600mm of concrete in it. minimum dig depth for anything looking at needing building regs is a metre.

Stick a plastic builders sack over the top. will get a tad Smokey indoors.

Is it a flue or a chimney for a woodburner.

6 years, just me, have I gone over. 🤣🤣

Stop looking at it, and go to the pub.

You are not solving this problem and keeping that stone exposed. not unless you dig down outside and tank it out there.

That plywood lifter is genius. 👍👍

Go to a local timber merchants they will have a spindle molder and match the profile.

Scaffolding, digger hire, concrete pumps, anything you can’t claim back.

Would an outward opening door allow you to comply with the disability regs, I personally would avoid one if you can, my parents had one and opening it on a windy day was a near death experience.

Do not go down the macerator route. end of.

You said this wasn’t your disability access, you don’t need two just the one. no ramp needed.