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Digging out the drain ( threshold drain) for the footpath to our front door made me look again at an issue that I should have thought about years ago: since there's an EPS300 block keeping the side of the slab warm, what am I going to put in the gap between the threshold drain and the front door? Have a look; The red elipse is the area that concerns me: its 120mm wide. It concerns me because I can't fix anything to it can I? Or can I ? Ideally, I'd like something like this, but as the image shows, there's a nice hardwood threshold which - presumably is fixed to summat underneath. I note that the wooden threshold has a drip channel which is more suited to woodlice in search of a good night's sleep ... but thats not the issue. (image stolen fair and square from Wavin https://www.externalworksindex.co.uk/entry/34545/Wavin/Threshold-drains/ ) What I need is a cunning plan. Have you got one?

In other words, formaldehyde concentrations are already lower in the world outside China. And the author is also lazy enough not to specify which national standard has been exceeded and where it was exceeded. Lazy, possibly self-interested, sloppy thinking condensed into a couple of sentences. Fake Noos! (How I miss you Donny)

No cement deliveries in the NW - Lancashire . But 2 BMs tell me they are flat out and wont deliver now til Friday of next week.... Why oh why oh why did I sell my Landrover and trailer? -

Where.... Thats brilliant! .... what are they called?

Welcome. Yeah, but yours failed on the basis of having a plan in the first place. Mine fails because I didn't know I needed to plan for [...]

By contrast, @Adsibob, I have specified switches with neons for almost every switch. My eyesight isn't what it was and I can now tell at a glance - from yards away - which sockets are switched live if there is a supply. Yes, sometimes the switch is intrusive - and a neon switch more so - and on those sockets we fit switchless plates. None of our 5 Amp sockest have a switch.

All part of the service ?

@PeterTweeter, Gaulhofer did our '... bloody great hole(s) ...' @craig of this parish is yer man, maybe?

ENW did our connection: they provided me with an 'Approved Layout' I seem to remember. I'll dig it out .....here.... Maybe for three phase it has to be more substantial ? PS, they sent me a Jewson's leaflet too ......

Thanks for telling me that. How is that rule policed? I ask because illegal-caravan-dweller-living-up-wind-from us very often burns the stuff

We stoopidly fitted a cheapish 13 amp Bosch Inducement hob on a 10mm supply. What induced me? Not even pregnant.... Clicks like a demented tap dancing clog-shod mouse Vorsprung Durch Kliken! Quatsch!

That's what our build has become... a daily hobby. And when there's money and well regarded trades folk to spare, a lot more energy is injected into the project. Simply taking the mower out of the shed at weekends is a few years away methinks. But that, ah that'll be bliss indeed.

Exactly the right approach. Pay £80. Ask. Listen. Highly unlikely you'll need permission. Good luck!

My sincere and inexpert advice is, once PP has been awarded, to ask informally . A little bit of polite deference oils the wheels

Locally, West Lancashire, yes it is. Where the issue gets interesting is, what happens if, while you apply for PP, you set up a caravan but PP is refused, and also refused at Appeal, so you contest the subsequent Enforcement Order ( ordering you, your caravan, chattels, pigs, hens, old Landrovers to leave) and exercise your right of Appeal against Enforcement. When that Appeal Decision goes against you, you merely suck your teeth and say ... Well, pal, you gonna make uzzz 'omeless then? The Enforcement Officer ( think Brick Sh!thouse , broken nose, forearms the size of my thighs, no neck) camped on my drive to protect the Inspector during his site visit, rolled his eyes when I expressed surprise ... 'Appens all 'time lad roun' 'ere lad. All 'time. So far this leedle pantomime has run its course over 6 full years. It'll finish soon! Oh no it won't!

My dad and yours would have got on famously. Dads know best. Do it

To Bowdlerise a, to some, fairly well known process: "Through the ministry of BuildHub, may God give you pardon and peace, and BuildHub Moderators absolve you from your sins in the name of @Onoff, and of @pocster and other Demonic Builders, Amen. There. Go, My Child and sin no more!

Yer. We're nosey as £uck

You could try stairbox

I've just read the whole thread. Could not agree more with @jack above.

In a similar situation, the advice I had about weekend working was..... just bloody do it ... (delivered in the less polite Lancastrian version) because by the time anyone official comes to talk to you about it, it'll probably be Wednesday of the week after the week after next. West Lancashire is full of people with psychopathic tendencies, so that type of behaviour is generally regarded as normal. I'm one now as you might be able to tell.

Of course. Starting on the project this afternoon. KISS.

Yes: but I have a mechanical genius mate who will adapt/ adopt / improve one of my old sack trucks with me. (He's just built himself a 4 foot square laser cutting machine - his workshop is about half the size of our house....Phhhhhhh. Talk about jealous.)

800mm - Mellisa McC. wouldn't get through that with even her slimmest handbag.... What you need is a really super-fit and willing belly dancer then innit? Sounds like a crane job to me. When we investigated , we found a small local crane company that was willing to give us a day's work for £500

Clive, you are brilliant. Thanks so much. Ian