ToughButterCup

Some of the answers you obtain will be measured in cost per square meter. You might like to take this thread into account when reading the answers. Oh, how rude of me: welcome ?

Trouble is, it does. How I wish we lived in a principles-based system instead of a rules-based one. Principles-based order means that everyone would be trustworthy. But we aren't. Any rule draws a line. Most people will develop up to that line, and a touch beyond (because we're human). And someone else pushes a bit further until someone else says 'No Further' . 200mm

Tune in, turn on, drop out sister! Ya need wind chimes too then eh?

I think that normal pressure is expressed as ' # Bar ' : generally between 1 and 2 Bar for domestic properties isn't it? If it's higher then a PRV may be needed. Got the wrong end of this stick haven't I? Again ?

You are in excellent company here, excellent company. ...

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?