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Thats all that needs to be said really. The consequences of the error are clear. No 32mm, no sign off. Unless there's reason to suspect mis-communication rather than addle-headedness, then don't pay ( or pay an appropriate amount) until it's put right.

Common ?

Spellchecker... I'm really interested in how these price rises are affecting your decision to build again Gary.....

I asked our oak merchant that same question T.K Knipe in South Cumbria. Heres his response The company does not sell much English oak unless it's harvested from the North East of Cumbria- i.e. in the wind-shadow of the Cumbrian fells. The battering any oak on the windward side of the fells makes the grain confused and difficult to work. The price is many times more than the oak he imports from France: straight-grained longer lengths of knot-free wood.

I ordered 4000+ (A2 SS, 50mm deck screws) from Klokow ( as above) Article number SPAX-0537000500503 , postage 24 Euros. 2 or 3 days (then - might be longer now) Cladding (my hands won't take the recoil of a nail gun, and the sheepdog goes mental.)

I'll have a look....

No Russ, you had a little victory over yourself. The best sort. Here's a start .... I know its for shavers , but (one at a time) you'll still be able to get your legs up high enough to reach the shaver won't you? This particular mirror has a heating element in it to de-fog the glass. Which kind of hints at the possibility of connecting a hair drier (?)

Post deleted: unintentionally unkind ...

? Me too dad.

For a few moments, yes. Longer, no. Look at the treads: they are rounded square in section. Half an hour on those and your feet will hurt. You need treads that are angled so they are level when the ladder is set at 4:1. Hire a scaffold or a tower.... please.

Doctors say NFN - Normal For Norwich, my daughter says its the most beautiful city, the map says its in the middle of a desert with wind in it, drivers say it takes an age to get there. Whatever, welcome!

Unfortunately not ... but what a fantastic place to be building Good luck! Ian

Welcome. For starters, let us help you with that issue .... Oh, by the way, is it true what they say about Norwich?

Hello, Remodelling: how about some before and after photos ? Ian

When this lockdown finishes - serious pub session ?

Write.

No. A bad argument is just that. But micropolitics matters. Exactly this is what we have done. Our house fits in like a supurating thumb wound on a manicured hand. I live on a chocolate box row of local-stone built 15 Century cottages, and slap bang on the end of that row is our new house: a sharp, modern wood-clad passivhaus (ish) design. One '... opinion former ...' Councillor actually wrote in her objection , that the proposed house would '.... spoil my Sunday morning walk ...' You couldn't make it up. Local Councillors one after the other visited us and asked why we were not building in exactly the same external style as the rest of the row ( 4 isolated houses) My reply? It takes a hundred years to replace trees. A few million to replace stone Four years later, that (spoil my walk) Councillor's own chocolate box house has two Tupperware built houses squatting on what was her cabbage-patch size garden. I had to restrain myself from objecting to those houses on the grounds that they would '... spoil my Sunday morning walk ...'

@Pete, stop posting kitchen porn. God, you've even left the quadruple dose of Viagra on the kitchen surface man! GedaGripMan.

And I thought I was being unkind when I had the same thought.

So why don't we? Ease ? Brevity?

Exactly Peter. The term is opaque. It seems to me that the vast majority of self builders and every single architect I have spoken to , all cite a simple(istic ?) measure : square meterage. And @SteamyTea has a point when he says it is a poor measure. But at least its consistent in its inaccuracy. I think the argument he might advance is that cost per square meter is a cloak under which a good deal can be hidden. Rough but ready?

A few people have been talking about their build costs recently. ( @ProDave , @nod, among others) All of them use the cost per square meter measure. When I used the same measure in a comment on an unrelated thread, I got a one word answer as to why the measure was poor . ' ...Geometry... ' That one word answer sparked my interest (as do many of the author's posts). I poked around in the list of RICS measurement methods, and bumped into this document about valuing individual new homes. I'm aware of the conflict between value and cost. But the point made in the introduction to that document talks about the need for consistency of measure : what the teaching profession might call working towards formal units of value, rather than informal ones.. Geometery has to play a role in deriving build costs. But so do many other factors. And geometery can be complex : square meterage , simple. Is cost per square meter despite its simplicity the only practicable cost measure? Or are there others we should consider?

But usefully so ...

And @Paul Leigh, there's your starter for 10. Look for developments that (at the time they were suggested) '... look completely at odds with ...' . @the_r_sole 's repsonse seems negative. It isn't - it's extremely valuable : its the issue that, once addressed, will get you a few steps further on your way to Planning Permission. Persistence . Good luck. Ian

Exactly. Could I suggest you do your research before you talk to the architect. Unless yours is a planning specialist (as opposed to an ' educated artist ' - as some on here would have it ) . He'll be up for the challenge on your purse. If you research thoroughly first, the challenge to your purse could well be smaller. Innit?