ToughButterCup

You are right. He has done some work and it needs to be paid for. Pay for the work that he has done minus the cost of putting the errors right. You might like to consider taking photographs of the work that has been done to correct the original errors. He appears to have forgone the opportunity of correcting his own errors, maybe that's why he did not want to do the cladding. In other words pay what you think it is worth on the basis of evidence.

I sometimes think that this board should be called or renamed Advice Central. Welcome. Ian

One day I hope to be as kind and forgiving as you are are. In the meantime sneering will have to do. And politicians wonder or continue to wonder why trust has been lost. Maybe I am wrong. They know that trust has been lost. And continue not to do anything about it. Democracy dies in darkness.

It's when injustice doesn't persist in our consciousness that we'll have lost it. Building two houses without planning permission , to me at least, is unjust.

There's a longer list than that: Fingers Teeth Septum Cartilage Hair Innocence Good will Patience Trust Humour

Its the build without planning permission that got to me. Not one, but two ....

Dom strikes again. If this report is accurate, I'll do something about it, I really will.... I'll get @Russell griffiths to cut down everyone of his trees, @the_r_sole to find a way to Appeal the decision, @Brickie, to sabotage his cement mixer, @Ferdinand to write eloquent but rude letters to everyone , @pocster, to smash every pane of his glass, @Onoff to isolate his consumer units, @SteamyTea to rouse a Cornish whirlwind of pasties, @Temp to winkle out the smallest chink in his armour, @joe90 to block the entrance with his digger. That'll teach him not to build without planning permission or pay his rates. So there! Ya couldn't make it up could ya ?

If the answer is yes, to what extent does it matter? Who will ever know, unless you tell them, that you have changed the internal arrangements of your house? The context of your series of questions appears to be related to the possible sale of your house. If that's the case , then there is one overriding concept: caveat emptor.

Are you pushing on an open door with us..... Our build is a catalogue of delays. Not to mention disasters. Big and small. Lots of success too though. Self-building is a character test. Surviving it seems to involve a hardening off process. Unless of course you are already involved in the building trade. Most self builders need to become involved in all sorts of new , sometimes local , networks. Why was it for example that your brickie was pulled off your job? I often think that the most important thing about a self-build is the human networks that you know and have access to. What you build and how you build it it is not as important as knowledge of who is going to build it for you and when : or perhaps I should say by when. Self builders already in the trade tend to know the answer to that question. During our build I have come to value the life experience I had before building our house especially in relation to persistence. That skill is hard won. As Peter above says you soon forget the difficult bits and hopefully come to look back at them with a rueful smile. Stick with it and we will help you with the technical bits of your build. Moaning on this site is very useful to all members. It helps us all realise that we are not alone in having annoying problems.

This topic has been done to death. BH has a really good search engine. Here's an example of the kind of thing you can do.... in this case everything I've written about Durisol Search>. Durisol > search in title > search by author > press search.... https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/search/?&q=Durisol&author=ToughButterCup&search_and_or=or&search_in=titles&sortby=relevancy Here's one for the term VELOX on its own https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/search/?&q=VELOX&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy The more focused the question, the easier it is for members to answer. Your question (above) is open to wide interpretation.

Ahhhhhggghhh. Like @Declan52 said before I bought mine, you can do so much damage in just a moment. But I never gave a thought to damage I might do to myself. I never once wore the seat belt. And I have never seen anyone wearing one in a digger cab. Have you seen a digger driver wearing one ( excepton a course or test)?

... is the first of very many to come. Trick is to enjoy them somehow. When you find out how let me know eh? Welcome

https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2020100598477/grand-designs-kevin-mccloud-heart-attacks-show/?viewas=amp Poor Kevin. The things he has to put up with for money. Kevin, pal, if you want to know why you piss people off, read the article.

As @Bored Shopper suggests, there's little that's common about common sense. After four years of building when I'm asked " Why didn't you (...)" I now reply " Because I'm not you." Do I sound fed up? ? The sheer volume of choice is the most daunting thing. The most expensive aspect of any build is knowing why you are NOT doing what you might reasonably be expected to do. That's the steepness @Bored Shopper alludes to. You are exactly right @Dima, most of us need a capable, critical, supportive friend. I'm still looking for that hen's tooth. BuildHub is the closest you'll get. But don't rely on her. Due diligence is easy to miss out. It's hard work.

It just occurred to me that you might not know about Martin Goodall's excellent law - blog.. He specialises in permitted changes of use. Much to read there!

Our key cupboard drives me mad. Pick one set of keys out of the lockable key cupboard and another set slips off its hook and drops to the floor. And the floor seems to be getting further away the older I get. We'll be getting a key safe based on this thread . What's needed now is a key cupboard for installation in the house. Recommendations please....

Thanks very much for doing that. Saves us a lot of time . The search engine in this site is very good indeed.

We pitched our application firmly on the sustainability ticket. The trouble is that the meaning of the term is sufficiently amorphous to provide for a wide range of interpretation. I agree with @LSB above. Two things left: persistence and evidence gathering. It took us 35 years of quiet determination - extreme perhaps, but when hope is all that you have, then keeping it alive becomes a useful job.

If I had the chance, that's what I would do. But reality sets in.... a bit of help arrives uninvited and unplanned ... rude to say " Come back next weekend " innit? So I drop everything and get on with xyz. Arrangements to meet next weekend made, .... you guessed it ... fall through. Followed by "Can you bring your digger round and ... " Then, mid lockdown a chippy arrives .... "That cladding needs two of us because...." (I was hand digging the foul drains) Flexibility I call it.

We used it. Setup takes a bit of time, but thereafter, think LEGO. Repairs are super easy. Roof weight is about one third. (Single layer of tiles.) A bit of fireside reading

Yes. We were given permission, the applicant next door (20 meters away), was refused (at Appeal). The difference and reason given? Sustainability. Cutting a long story short, locally at least, the interpretation of the term sustainability seems to have changed recently. Notwithstanding arguments presented elsewhere by @the_r_sole, (search on this site for the term Consistency by @the_r_sole), there was qualitatively next to no difference between our application and that of our neighbours. The only real difference was temporal. I feel for you.

And while theres talk of children, and brooms; here have a read .

It threw a track in sympathy. In all this rain. I look like one of those Turkish oil wrestling chappies. Even got wet, oily .... (self sensored: rare but useful) Hot shower, tea, medals now.

Photos to follow with luck. Smashed my PC yesterday. Editing is SH_eye_Tee on my phone . Oh, by the way, I have boulder envy Dave.

out of the cab like a pocket rocket, IC cover off. There it sits. Grinning. Look at me! Aren't I clever? A perfect fit almost. Reach in, try to lift it. Hernia warns against anything more strenuous. BuggerAndDoubleBugger. Reach down into the hole, three tonne strop and a couple of shackles round the boulder, hook up to the bucket. And lift. (By now the bells are ringing loudly even for me...) POP. ...it actually sounded like that. Out it all comes boulder, IC riser and all. And of course all the surrounding soil rushes in and fills the IC base and pipe. DAMN_BLOODY_NATION. They say nature abhors a vacuum.