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And if you don't follow up that issue with the accounts clerk the price agreed over the phone is just hot air. In self-builds, its the relentlessness of the need to attend to detail that gets to me . We could all do with a back-office whirling dervish posessed of an uncomfortable eye for detail.

I have used neither. But I have learned that whatever the fabric - it's the quality of the work that is the key issue. I suspect you can get U values pretty much the same overall for each build method. Its the focus on detail and pride in accuracy that repays. Just one slapdash worker is enough to cause lots more downstream work, and therefore cost.

Our chippy says the same - while not giving a damn about neatness himself. And he was talking to me the other day about his OH moaning at him about - not picking his dirty clothes off the floor - taking his boots off - not washing up - not .... etc. Some are born neat, some messy, and some have neatness thrust upon them. Yet others are OCD. Screwheads in fact.

The cost. ?

Exactly right: unspeakable issue. Its that unspeakability which causes so much unnecessary kicking of cans down the road. For one extreme example read this. Bleach and toilet cleaners, in moderation, have made no difference to ours - as yet (2 years in, weekly bleach clean of all loos and bathroom). In normal use, the volumes of good bacteria-killing chemicals like bleach should be too small. But there are alternatives; you might want to try those. In the normal cleaning cycle for the digester, sanitary waste that does not break down will get pumped away every two or three years. If you decide to use a digester, ask the manufacturer what their recommendation is. If we'd had the choice, we would have connected to the mains sewage system. Its a no-brainer. Even if you need to pump it up-hill a bit.

Visit some BMs and waste time looking at their stacks of tiles. One will click eventually.

For both mine, the bowl came in cardboard packaging: you take the top off the package and the bowl is sitting on a cardboard framework....... Maybe yours is a different model. Mine's Tuma Classic.

Its a bit of a struggle on your own: are you using the Geberit cardboard support frame so you can just slide the pan up to the fittings .... ?

Add to Gary's ( @nod ) wise view : think about the problem for yourself too - how for example anyone going to repair / clean / clear the drain run? Will the groundworker take responsibility for an inadequate design ( PPI ?). Run the design past your plumber too. To answer your question directly None. Because everyone is shoving responsibility to everyone else. And that pisses me off. Exactly what everyone tried to do to us. 'King lazy if you ask me. Because everyone's final answer is "Well its up to you mate" So, ask everyone, pay no-one for the design because nobody is going to commit - unless they do commit of course. Can you tell I'm cross about the issue for you? Good because it happened to us. Why? Because its about the soft and smelly stuff. And thus to be avoided as far as self-build is concerned. A large house builder would not stand for it. Gather a range of views and spend a bit of time researching the subject for yourself. BH is a great place to get a good range of views. The key question is - what happens when (not if) there's a blockage.

In haste, (apologies) Here's the Permitted Development guru. An information goldmine for someone like you. Here's a search for the term consistency within that blog. You appear to me to be arguing that the decisions relevant to you have not been made in a manner consistent with other similar cases. Consistency is (or should be in a legal context) an important element of planning decisions. I think this might be a fruitful area for your research.

Thats exactly what we intended to do at the switch banks next to the front and rear entrance. On entry, one switch switches 'on' all the 5amp lights either on or off. On - on the way in - off the other way round. @ProDave mentioned it earlier last year - it would have been such a reassuring thing for someone coming home to an empty deserted house. Then COVID hit. There's another feature that fell to the Self-Build-But syndrome. Cant take joke, don't self-build. PS, I suppose there'll be a way of doing that via WiFi. But thats for later.

Gaz, that's what our plumber told us their new bloke did - he was made redundant but wouldn't give in, so he asked all round the Northwest Lancs. coastal area...... Be proactive, and persistent. Good luck. Ian

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Oh, just found this stuff glow in the dark tape. Temp bodge, but anything to keep Twinkle Toes smiling.

Pure genius. My mate has (built himself) a laser cutter : 4' by 2', massive thing. I'll whip the Scolmore cover plates off and get him to etch the plate above and below two of the switches ( the most often used). Then change one other switch to the red one that Scolmore already sell. Genius Clive, genius. Thanks

I've had time to think about your post Dave. We deliberately designed the switching so that anyone entering the house (legitimately) could switch on lights all over the house. We did that for security reasons. I don't want to go into it in any detail, but it doesn't take too much imagination to figure out why a house owner would want to be able to do that. I'd like to make the switches serve us, not the other way around - so adapting this idea My mate has a 3D printer. There ain't nowt he can't wire up - he's made his own flight simulator in his massive shed We'll '... fab summat oop lad ...' as he says. I'm really gettin' in to this now. Who knows even @Onoff might have a thought or two about this.....

Hmmm, you're getting too much sleep mate.....?

Thats the one... (that I woulod never have thought of for myslef I suspect) Thats the COVID-related issue. In the meantime I'm trying to bodge a temporary configuration. Thats the ultimate aim. Its still the Self-Build-But though, at the moment....... Red switches for (say) the kitchen and pink sparkly nail varnish for the sitting room it is then Hey... is there such a thing as glow-in-the-dark nail varnish? Too embarrassed to Google it ....

Agreed . My mistake. But I am where I am. And the problem will not disappear. And nor will the Self-Build-But. I have found this red coloured switch made by the same manufacturer . That looks to me to be a sensible idea. Maybe I could consider using an illuminated switch or paint some kind of low-level 'glow' on the switch?

Its not broken functionally, it's broken from a usability perpective. If they all looked like that, with switches in exactly the same position, all would be well. I did take a peek, and nearly died. Clapham railway junction has nothing on the insides of those switch grids.

and so little time..... ?

We took the Scolmore Click Mode Minigrid shilling . Smashing idea - in theory. Small interchangeable light switches and modules. Like this Lovely. Until you come to look at the detail of how to implement them. Cos if your sparky has never used them before - and doesn't care about usability, - with four (or is it five ?) 6 by two switch banks around the house, across the switch banks, the switch for the kitchen lights is never in the same place, neither is the one for the Dining Room, or the hall or the ... you get the picture. So you label them. Hmmmmmmmm. Try reading those labels with only the TV and the 5amp lights on. So, separately and luckily not at the same time, we each lose our tempers with the damn things, and end up stabbing the minigrid randomly and before you know it every bloody light in the house is blazing brightly. Bang goes that romantic interlude then dunnit. I did ask the sparky to put the switch for each circuit in the same place across all the minigrids. But . The Self-Build-But struck again. We've tried coloured tape. Cant differentiate between colours in the low light levels We've tried learning the switch positions on each minigrid: life's too short We've tried swearing and shouting: that went well. For a few seconds. I tried blobs of blutak on the kitchen switch - til they fell off Scolmore Minigrid have a much improved website. Had a look there for some alternative switches There's just not enough colour contrast in the switches. And our eyesight is likely to get worse not better. Maybe the RNIB will have an idea? This is driving us both mad, please help.

You have to ask? Really?

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