Russell griffiths

My leaf blower would do this nicely. the only thing to sort out is some sort of liquid to bond them together.

As long as you don’t mind lots of mess everything is possible I would go back to the original structural engineer and get their opinion.

Don’t pay the £150 yet download a couple for the one off price, I think they are a few quid each lets have a look somebody put a pic of one up recently and it was missing lots of detail. have you bought a digger yet.

If you are doing this it’s not cheap, so do it right. your VCL goes over the inner most pir and under the battens. it needs to be connected to the floor in some way and also needs to pass up through the first floor, your insulation also needs to pass up through the first floor joists. if you make a good job of the inner pir you can use the foil face of it as a VCL by taping it together, then you tape it to the floor and upper ceiling to form a continuous line. imagine drawing your house, then get a pen and drawer a line around your house as the VCL you must drawer this line continuously until you get to where you started without taking your pen off the paper.

Why on Earth are your architects planning guy not attending what the bloody hell are you paying them for. as I said mine had an argument for every thing the council guy mentioned she didn’t say much, but every word was absolutely glorious, she countered everything the council guy said to the point that by the end of the meeting the council guy just said put everything you have just said in writing to me and I will pass it. There is a saying get your ducks in a row. this is exactly what you need to do, you will only get one chance.

Can you not get a meeting before the outcome, to try and workout what the likely outcome will be.

You are best of getting rid of all that rubble, that is not a good base for porcelain tiles. scratch all that out You will need a good base of type one for porcelain with a solid mortar bed. get rid of all that rubbish and then you will be able to peg out you heights better.

It’s another cheque you will need to write get it designed, get it signed off. install all wiring where you want it, install minimal lights as per agreed plan, get house signed off, install extra lights. it’s just another box ticking waste of time. I had to have my house superimposed onto some pictures taken by a landscape ecology designer to show it wouldn’t upset the 3 people per year that walk down a footpath that is 100m from the house.

As far as I’m aware. from the day you rent it out until the day you sell it you are liable for the CGT that has arisen from any increase in value. so you move out and it’s worth £500,000 you rent it for 5 years and decide to sell, you get it sold for £600,000, so you pay CGT on £100,000 plus you will pay income tax on any money earned from the rental, but you can claim certain expenses as it’s now a rental property and not your principal residence. best to talk to your accountant.

Have you costed in all the aluminium corner trims and base starter trims. they can add up a fair bit. im not sure if the cost estimater on the website costs in wastage, so you need to allow 10-15% wastage. but even if it comes out at £15000, then you can save £5000 doing it yourself with the special trims it’s a fairly straightforward job, but requires lots of setting out correctly.

Is the look of your house relevant I walked around all the neighbours and made a note of the house type and materials used, there where no two the same so we had an argument that it didn’t need to look like any of the others as there wasn’t a precedent for a certain type. ridge height I can see being a problem if everything is a bungalow and you want two storey, but if that isn’t the case then why does everything need to look like a run down cottage. get some ammunition together.

How is that split between labour and materials.

Get a planning consultant on board we spent £4500 on one and if it had been 5 times this price it would have been worth it. the lady that did ours had an answer to ever point the council raised, every time they pointed out something she shot them down. regarding neighbours, we had a lady that said it shouldn’t be built as when we do build it the lorries coming into our site would fall in the lake, utter retards the lot of them.

I think your terminology is a bit mixed up. I think you have a timberframe house, with a brick outer skin, this isn’t cavity construction, but a gap is left between the timber and the bricks leading to it looking like a cavity. are you planning on stripping all the internal plasterboard and upgrading the insulation levels. if this is the case I think a fair few on here would be interested to see the standard of the framing and insulation. I think we can answer this better when that is understood.

If you are running multiple things into this drain sink-washing machine- dishwasher it’s probably better to bring the 110mm up into the room and then reduce down to 50mm. you also don’t need the bottle gulley outside but can go direct to an inspection chamber.

Blown in beads. im sure between us lot on here we can work out how to do it. there’s a lad on here the bought a machine to blow in the cellulose type insulation. your wall area isn’t large, I’m sure it’s doable.

Take the doors and windows out and do it yourself.

If you want it internal y then he should have run a pipe already and a concrete lintel over the top of it where it goes through the walls.

Don’t get caught out with your vat claim or cil self build dispensation. all this depends on who you built it for.

Yes completely following regs. sockets for normal everyday things are set at 450 high, you can then choose to sit any amount of sockets at any height you wish, you might want to hide a low level one , as we have, or you might want one at 1500 high behind a telly. not every socket has to be at 450, just enough to keep within the rules 😉

I’d be more worried that they have fixed close to the edge, with a 140 sole plate they should be 70mm in from the edge its a bit shit to be honest and I would be checking every fixing. I wouldn’t be happy with the sole plate fixed down with plastic plugs either, do you have frame anchors going down into that concrete as well.

I was told to avoid floor sockets, as a change in furniture layout will leave a socket in the middle of the floor, with a bit of planning we have installed low level plugs, just above skirting height, and re wired a standard lamp with a long lead that runs hidden under the sofa, no lead on show and no floor sockets.

A fine from who. the hedge owner would need to prove you killed it and then take you to court over it, very very unlikely to happen, now if it was a large tree with a TPO on it I would say tread carefully. the chances of killing some hazel by excavating near it are very slim. as a side note i would not build any form of rigid wall, ie not block n render, use gabion baskets or sleepers, any form of ground movement will not be noticed in a flexible wall, but make it rigid and render it and your asking for trouble.

Look up the Calder lead guide. as a general rule no single piece of lead should be longer than 1.5m. have you thought of a folded aluminium one, or powder coated steel.

Chuck a 300 square of plywood behind the cladding, but leave a large hole in the centre for a bit of wiggle room when fitting the light.