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It has been known for the arrangement to split the supply to be made elsewhere.

Yes, I went twice; took loads of photos which were useful as a starting point for my own thinking. Please don't forget to do your Due Diligence if you are contemplating buying any of the services or products on offer there. The NSBRC appears to me to confer a mantle of respectability which, in the case of some companies, is absent.

Good luck @Jac.

I used to live in a set of flats with a similar stairwell, slightly more generous proportions. One poor visitor had to face the outside wall, put her hands against it and 'slide' up the stairs, eyes tight shut, cheek against the wall. The 'well' had a lift she would use in preference, but needed to crawl across the walkway to my front door.

I've forgotten who it was - a new member - made a comment recently along the lines of - in the context of his significant high-level experience of large building project management , that the self build sector is the most disfunctional he had ever experienced. And I tend to agree. I think the issue is the way that many tradespeople - not all by far - think that self builders (in their capacity as Domestic Clients CDM2015) are fair game. Their status as the inexpert part of the team make them an easy target: despite our status as the paymaster. Dont expect it to be treated with any respect for the next person who needs to use it. The only time I ever snarled at the whole team of people who were working for us was when someone left the loo in sh1t order. The pan was missed, nowt cleaned up - all cleaning stuff necessary to hand, ready to use: gloves , hot water, the lot. They were all banned from that day on. Not a word was said. In retrospect, I now wish I'd done a lot more snarling. Get a copy of the NHBC Standards, (or similar) download and print them out. That'll give you a framework to help you judge what is being offered as ' workmanlike ' . Snarl the instant you smell unworkmanlike nonsense. Good luck, Ian

In conjunction with a paper diary, thats the perfect solution. Easy to provide evidence of (unfortunately for me) criminal damage. Knocked an £8000 invoice right on the head.

I bet that poor bit is really sore about being trapped in your groin. Photo please (Not often I piss Mods off now is it?)

I am assuming you want a metal reveal.... if so, I'm almost sure you'll need to have it made for you. I really love your idea, and have made much more discrete versions of the same thing out of our over-ordered cladding

No, it isn't. But I decided to re-qualify as one.

I can't read script that small now ... add a dose of pollen to the air ... smudge my glasses a bit ... crack a joke, make me cry with laughter ... functionally blind. ?

Can we all come?

When I was going through the same trauma, I ended up sticking to Geberit and Hansgrohe. No imagination.

Or in my case, residual marks from the bloody stuff is still visible in my work jeans three years later. It gets every-bloody-where. @PeterW warned me, I disbelieved him. I wuz rong rong rong. Got some in my hair - had to grow it out.

Then please do that. We are but interested (not to say nosey) amateurs. While some may draft posts that sound authoritative, we aren't. @ProDave's post above makes good common sense; but any reply we might write lacks detailed knowledge of your house design, and so we can only make an educated guess. I have it on good authority that Dave is educated (some say ?). Before you engage anyone to advise you, please do your Due Diligence

A cold-water pool is the key to health and happiness. Yep, its a shock to the system, but it's addictive. Cheaper too.

Welcome. 'Waste time' on BuildHub. Often repays the effort. If nowt else is 'on' there's Good Sport to be had watching some of the regulars needling Mods. Saints, all of them. ?

After the twentieth refusal, (including one from Pasquils also) I gave up trying. Thereafter, I always asked for the invoice to be sent via email so that I could deal with it 'online' as it were. Now, if I were a serial self builder, I'd have a project email address so that I would not have to sort private emails from project-related ones. .... But - I'm not as young as you Gary.

Just finished wiring in the last 5 Amp socket switched - at @ProDave 's suggestion - from the bank of switches next to the front door. It means that when SWMBO comes home and feels a bit 'jangled' she can switch all the 5Amp lights on at once (and she can switch them all off on the way out of the house). Thanks Dave.

I'm glad that someone has the vision and drive to make a project of that size work. I think people will exist in it, but find it hard to live there. I really hope they are happy there: any house is meaningless without that. That's psychobabble for learning opportunity.

Sheets of polyurethane insulation. Disgusting stuff to cut. I wore a full suit of armour, had dust extraction on full power and it still got in my throat, eyes , ears , knickers . Ughhhh.

Morning John . . . Have a look at this channel . Helped me no end

I'd love to see the Loss Adjuster's report and decision. Short of ...."It were nudged by a stray 50 tonne armoured personnel carrier - honest".... I can't see how anyone responsible for that mess can get a good night's sleep for a while..... well, @pocster maybe. ?

hook followed by qualifier .... style ...

We do often suggest folk do their Due Diligence....

OK, one last try .... in your sector, you anticipated the cost increases, and adjusted your prices accordingly. Excellent. Well done. The fallacy to which I had hoped I was pointing is that price changes in one sector (yours for example) don't necessarily mean that changes should be made in another sector.