ToughButterCup

I'm wincing. How well do you get on with the neighbour?

I bought Kwik Stage, and am now at the point of re-selling some of it at about 90% of what I paid for it. On a DIY max build, the buisiness case for it is compelling. The only question is how much to retain. Steep learning curve at first ... I now mix it with normal scaff and clips to do little tweeks that make the jobs a bit easier (arthritic) and safer still.

I don't need mine any more. Yours for the postage ....?

? ... how about on the ceiling then......?

This is just a thought: instead of glass, how about a mirror? A big one. Mounted on battens. In a previous life I cleaned windows to pay my way round university. A really posh (super-posh) customer had me clean her bathroom mirror each time I came round: floor to ceiling (2.5 ish high) at least 3 meters long. Took me half an hour to clean properly (shoes off stand in the bath job). Hell it looked good. Doubled the size of the room. And NO, @pocster, I didn't crack it......?

Does anyone kow of a company that does a wide range of architectural fixings, please? I need to attach our juliet balcony to the house wall somehow. And I have spent half a day on Tinternet getting nowhere.....

My first thought was .... water. OSB3 therefore, or similar. Soffit board is commonly much thinner than 18mm, I understand

Hello. You are most welcome. Ahhhhhh, the imagineering phase of a build. Something to wallow in, enjoy, chat through with mates - mull over in a traffic jam or waiting for train. Brilliant time. I look forward to the first post you write about the topographical survey and the geophysical survey. (£2500 for us : 8 cores and lab analysis)

Absolutely certain that I'd cut this straight ..... Sometimes, when working on your own, you really can't see how knackered you are .

Hey! Welcome! .... sounds like a wheeze.... There are a few of us round here : pictures ? - we're all damnably nosey ?

No, because a carefully considered answer depends ( at least in part) on technical details we don't have, and the micopolitics of your area which we cannot know. All we can do is refer to generalities and our own experiences: the argument in favour of appointing a local planning consultant.

Exactly that has happened 3 houses away from us. It took about half the time you suggest from a planning perspective. That shocked me. Our planners are overworked I am told. In terms of the building work, I really don't think -currently- it's possible to make a sensible guess at how long that will take. Too much depends on local factors.

Lets start with a list of candidates whose houses should have their very own private supply of ... scentless explosive gas ... I can think of quite a few at the moment.....

Just for the sake of completeness, our diverter needed a set of tweeklets to cope with the SA's characteristics: they are well known and simple to set up. EDDI's phone support is excellent.

No anemic folk round your way then eh?

@Triassic, the issue for us is space. The SA fits neatly in a little nook next to our bathroom. So, yes is the answer.

Might it be something else? I ask because I don't know what dissolved iron in water tastes like - and bet most of us don't. And if your assumption is wrong then ....

It is not Permitted Development - as explained here . Park that thought for a minute. It is very common, locally anway, for folk to make minor alterations like yours and wait to see if anyone shouts about it. And when they do, get retrospective permission. There is a risk that you will be told to reinstate the roof without the skylight. Whats your risk appetite?

Yes, and no. No, because - at the ideal burning temperature - you have put dry (<15%) wood on the fire , and yes if the wood is ..... How you deal with the condensate is another matter.

Not drunk enough ... Time to get really properly bladdered then. Cheaper in the end.

This thread is a good example of how a worm cast becomes a mountain.

Go to the pub. Talk. Both walk the boundary together, sledge hammer and 2 by 2 stakes. Agree each marker. Hammer each one in while visualising Anti-Vaxers, and every trades person who didn't do what they said they would do. Hit each one once more thinking about Donald Trump. Arrive home tired, pissed, happy and giggling. No longer sure what the issue was....

A Post Scriptum can sometimes become essential knowledge. Thanks ?

Have you seen this?

That (above) would not be my approach @saveasteading, but I can see the value of yours. The rationale for my approach is to show that I don't attach any value to errors of fact. If the Planner were to decide against awarding planning permission based on erroneous information, then the subsequent Appeal would be very easy. I assume, maybe wrongly, a basic level of competence among planners. The delay, and extra costs involved would irritate though.