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You are spot on @PeterW I had thought about fixings with 50mm and a service batten I can get away with 120mm wood screws, any thicker and I’m in to longer more expensive screws, my ceiling area is 220m so a fair few screws.

So in my original plans I was going to have 50mm of pir insulation under my ceiling joists all taped up, now it looks like I have plenty of room to fit 70mm pir instead. The extra cost would be £600, would this extra 20mm save me much on my heating, how long is it going to pay back £600 or should I not look at it like that and stuff in as much as I have space for.

Nothing needed, if it’s a strip trench it will be protected by the soil surrounding it, if a frost is coming a roll of hessian over the trench over night. If you are talking about a finished floor slab then that is different.

Doesn’t look a problem it just depends if you know what to expect, that to me looks like a whole house remodel, so you will loose the use of all those rooms for a good while, you will be in complete chaos don’t even think you can just move the sofa while they put the steels in, you will be living in one room at the front living on takeaway food and washing up in the bath. Been there done it many times. You need to work out if the beams will be visible at ceiling height or will they get hidden i the ceiling void, expect additional foundations under the columns supporting the beams, so floors will get dug up. this is the sort of disruption to expect.

If I had to bet I would say the one on the right was English not Siberian. I have just given MillWorks a small fortune for cedar and it is absolutely spot on clear, not a knot in it anywhere. I did have samples of larch of them. It really is down to the look you are after, my neighbour has just done a huge barn in English grown Douglas fir and it looks very good are you after rustic or modern, treated or going to let it grey.

I’m sitting here waiting for the agro to start. C,mon who’s going to throw the first one.

What worktop was that @Big Jimbo

Can you run the waste along the floor and up into the cupboard from below instead of behind. You normaly have 150mm to play with under a unit. Got any pics.

A roof that keeps the building warm is not dependent on the roof covering, it’s the insulation layer under the waterproof coating that does that, tell your Achitect you want top spec in heat loss design as he will need to allow for extra height for the insulation buildup.

Not if your in a conservation area or tree has tpo, consent required for everything apart from dead, dying, dangerous.

Have you thought of planning your MVHR and getting holes cut in your steel before you fit them.

I thought that video was fairly straight forward.

Sounds good, how about services on the underside, would it be an idea to have the steels high so you get a gap under for services to run under the steels.

I don’t see cost as really anything that matters, do you want planning or not, if I had been in the same situation £5,000- £10,000 -£15,000 on a wall would just have been another minor irritation.

My planning application cost £14,600 most of this made up of consultants who knew their way around the system at the end of the day it was worth every penny, I would have paid a lot more. If it could be a make or brake situation I would get the best traffic consultant I could find and go armed with some good back up. if it meant rebuilding a wall then in the grand scheme of obtaining planning spending money on a wall you don’t own will be a small price to pay. I really like this saying. ITS HARD TO SOAR LIKE AN EAGLE WHILST SURROUNDED BY TURKEYS. get good professional advice.

Have you considered getting somebody out with an air spade to do an assessment of the root spread.

Do you have laminate floor anywhere, the green stuff looks like under lay for cheap flooring.

They cannot make you plant a new tree, full stop end of if a tree is not covered by a restriction to not carry out work to it without consent, then you can do what you like with it, they cannot come along after the event and say : ooh ooh I wish we had of put a TPO on that missing tree can you now plant one back. If you apply to remove a tree and are granted consent they may ask for a replacement to be planted, you can ask to locate this replacement in a better location and you can ask to change species, both of these may be refused but you do have a say if you ask nicely. go down the council office ask for some plans showing TPO trees near your property and also conservation areas,get copies of these for your records. I bet you that the tree officer doesn’t come running down stars jumps in his car and screeches around to your gaff waiving a TPO about, they really have not got the staff to go running all over the borough every time a saw is started. Now if you are talking about a high profile site viewed by the locals everyday with a prominent tree slap bang on the frontage and you go in and ask questions, then that might raise a few eyebrows, but if it’s such an important tree then they should have TPO it in the first place.

If you ever find me on a golf course you have my consent to give me a swift kick in the rollocks

Unless you are tight on budget I would pile rather than a 3m trench, I went down 2.3 with a big extension and it was horrible, so messy sides collapsed, had to shore it all up, props and ply and mud every where the piles we have just done where done in a week with no mess and fuss. I would pile straightaway if over 2m.

Any reason you need to know this. My architect sent the drawings to the piling engineer, he designed the piles and then they got put in. Having known the loadings myself I don’t think anything would have changed.

I was on a course last weekend and they showed us this.

£120 that would buy some nice parts for an old Capri.

I have not been involved in the tree business for a good few years so I would clarify anything first but generally a generic e mail to the tree department, get a confirmation back to keep on record and start cutting. If the councils do not put the appropriate measures in place to stop these things then they have nobody to blame but themselves.

What permission is this? if you are not in a conservation area and the trees are not covered by a tree preservation order then no consent is required check the site has no other planning restrictions and your good to go.