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Line the wall with books and put a chair next to the balustrade. Small office space Space for a large feature plant that needs indirect light An occasional table with an old style phone on it - with a phone book and a copy of yellow pages Naughty chair for: wife / grandchildren / teenagers / BCOs Display space for your Gorilla Wrangling trophies and your Cycling Proficiency badge.

They only say that to Southerners....?

We needed both types that @Dudda explains above. One set needed to be bang on ( arrived 12mm out) and the simple beams (could have been 1000mm out )were exact to the mm. (The supplier - on supply and fit - charged VAT and simply wouldn't have it that 0% should be charged - It got to Letter Before Action !!)

A £1:00 per meter saving then. Excellent. At least £500 overall. Lend us a fivver would ya?

Have you tried asking them? Locally you're lucky if you can get it in under a week.

Cheaper too. Think long term.

Think long term.

Councils are required to help applicants succeed. Hence ... 'proactively'.. above. The next challenge looks as if it will be about both careful diplomacy and compromise. Isolate the fundamental objections, address them and you will succeed. Think long term.....

Possibly. And the only way to test it, is to appeal. Anything - any thing at all that a Planner says to you during the application should be regarded as questionable at best , but most likely, simple hot air. The refusal statement is clear. Address those issues and the likelihood of acceptance is much higher. Compromise.

@Bramco, I notice the term Made Ground in your post. That sets the Caution Bell ringing in my head. Please get a Structural Engineer to give you an opinion about the foundations. We sought the opinions of two. One, using the same soil data as the other, saved us many thousands of pounds. He recommended Ground Improvement Columns (a much cheaper piling system to you and I) where the other SE wanted steel sleeved concrete piles. It was a post on BH that alerted me to the fact that not all SEs are equally informed about all aspects of Structural Engineering. I mean who knew that eh? ?

Welcome @Freddie. Sounds like you have forgotten more about self building than I'll ever know. See you over on the electricians forum. @Onoff will know the answer. Added to that he's tame and has a sense of humour. What more can a fella need?

The feedback on German sites about the flushplate is exactly the same, or even more critical. Its clear that both companies are taking the peees.

If only I had taken my own advice......?

Yes. Almost the same spec ground as ours (glacial till). Whatever the engineer specifies will be fine: the business case is a no-brainer. This is the stuff we used. Saved us a good few hundred quid. But just a quick heads up - while on the one hand its brilliant during the build up of your foundation - it's the Devil's Own Assistant when, later, much later you need to dig through it by hand (in our case to lay the foul dain). Like I had to during the first lockdown. 30 meters of it. Which is one of the main reasons why I say - If ya can't take a joke, don't start a self build If you need to put anything under it, get it sorted out before you lay the stuff. Got some spare if you need it.

I have had two flat roof replacements, and one new one. Of a similar design. Each time under the tiles. But, I'm almost sure the answer to your question is that the quality of the work is the key. Over - under probably doesn't matter. Attention to detail does. One question: how - in the '...over ...' case is the felt secured at the edge - how will the edge deal with wind and rain?

Is the membrane being cooked by the metal roof ? Do you not need to ventilate?

Its fun tweeking members' tails gently. I looked at that image and winced. It's not easy .... but a bit of me says that it's likely just as hard to get two 45s to meet as cleanly as the 90s do in the image above. Need @Onoff to try, or Ed ( @Construction Channel ) maybe? What could go wrong Ed? Come On! Photo, please.

Thats bang on correct.

Fiddly fiddly fiddly dee? Fiddly fiddly fiddly dee? etc. (Forgot the name of the song ... but sing it anyway)

That is really sharp @Dudda Next time the corners will be mitred I bet ....?

He knew our house name... maybe he consulted the LA database?

Put a '... skirting... ' with a shadow gap where the window board would have been.... ? FrigginFiddly methinks. Or have I missed something? I love the idea. But, tell ya why I wouldn't get away with it: she couldn't put enough seed trays on a small window board ... ? Here's the closest I could nick in less than a minute: looks nice - PITA to clean. and

No, he didn't. He offered the interesting perspective on satellite surveys, though. Apparently now one pixel from a satellite photo (taken for the OS) gives an error of up to 40mm. In his opinion, nowhere near good enough yet. Which is why he is spending his retirement pootling round Lancashire with one of those GPS lollipops. Very nice way to get yersel out and about in retirment.

@jack , thanks very much indeed. Took three readings of your post to understand most of it (possibly). I'm sure I'll come back to it once in a while for a refresher.....

Well, in our case no. We own both sides of the wall. But, I take your point: I could have erroneously or otherwise have misdirected the guy. And that, well that would be a n i g h t m a r e