ToughButterCup

I think one post above probably meant this website... https://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/

Welcome. Getting old with as much dignity as we can muster became one of the most important themes of our house build. The more we thought about it, the more fabric-first our thinking became. Right from the wall construction to (among many others) wetroom tile choice. Our tiler still hasn't fully recovered from slipping on a wetroom floor and bruising his coccyx - his back permanently damaged. Inflict that on a 70 year old and ...

Ah, thats how you do it...... I just saw the image of a saddle branch and my thought train went from there. Just a little knowledge. Dangerous.

I'm drawing a blank trying to find one of these for sale : Anyone know where I can source one? Might you have one down the back of your sofa maybe? If so, can I buy it from you?

Russ, just in case ... she looks at you looking at it.... Danger...Look away... Christmas is not far off. Have you seen how much a good one costs?

You are most welcome. I mis-read your last sentence as We hope to build a new house in one day. Hmmmm.

Tested my poo tank today. Connected up the air pump to the airline. Switch on - should have stood back - ? WHOOOOOSH ! Dont think digester, or discrete trickle of little bubbles. Think LOG FLUME or JACUZZI or FULL ROLLING BOIL. And what should bubble to the surface - yes you guessed it - a friggin Great Crested Bloody Newt. There it was clinging, newt-like, to a piece of insulation the size of my thumbnail. The ensuing rescue operation lasted until I dropped my Sharpie in the boiling water. Just out of reach of course. But - tell me this: didya know Sharpies float? Yeah, but my bloody glasses don't do they! All of £12 (mean like that I am) down the pan as it were. Straight out my top T shirt pocket - PLOP. Anyway - the electricity supply is via an SWA to the digester compressor compartment. The compressor only has a piddly little cable fitted. How do I connect the little compressor cable to the SWA please?

@Onoff, the weather's with you for a good while now. Crack on!

Oh if only the term engineer meant something we could all understand!

Hmmm, ' spose I'd better answer this one..... First, welcome: a renovation and a build. You'll never be off BH then.... Excellent. I have a fair bit of experience with Durisol and have only just finished building a house and a piggery. Dog house to come. (For me ?) Can I try and save you some time? This site has an excellent search engine. Play around with it. Here's a link to a search using the terms Durisol AND (logical AND) ToughButtercup. As you can see, I don't get out much .... Try adapting the searches to what you need. Good luck with your builds. Ian

Ok, quick email to the manufacturer then: along the lines , 'Please reassure me that previous similar installations have been acceptable to Building Control'

Prickly plants, ground hugging roses, that pyro-'summat' plant A hidden Police Stinger (spike strip) for the bikes, Dig a child-and-bike-size hole so the problem appears and disappears at almost the same instant, while you decide how to deal with inevitable complaints and get ready for the paperwork.

In comparison to round here, for a 4 by 4 ceiling you have a bargain. It may well be more efficient for you to ask the plasterer to source the plaster because - round here anyway - shops and BMs are keeping plaster for their large volume customers - plasterers

Hello. This forum is useful: the more focused the question, the better the quality of advice. So feel free to ask away. Ian

I may have missed something but the OP does not mention FD, does it? £900 squiddlies for a look-at-my-pretty-door is almost rude. In fact it is rude.

Welcome. What do you mean start : yer half way there lass........ Box hedge needs clipping mind. Get HWMO out there with the clippers? (You can edit the size of images during the post-drafting phase by double clicking on them and altering the parameters given. The first image is a bit .....)

Ohhhh Gaauuuud folks. How long is he going to take over this one? Opening a book - Any advance on 10:1 less than 86 pages?

Hi. Chippies here charge £25 / hour. Say that door is 2 full days of her time / fabricate / paint / laquer/ , £400. Materials £100. Profit 10%, £50 , piss-taking another 20% £110 : £660. And in reality he's going to order one from a local carpentry fabrication shop in the back end of beyond and it'll cost him £300 . Ok, double it. £600 Fiting it £200 £900 +VAT - is the bloody thing gold plated? Take my answer with a pinch of salt - feeling sour about that trade at the meoment. But even with that £900 is too much.

Bodger-In-Chief here. Welcome. Just about to bodge my plasterboarding upstairs. Fancy giving me a hand, you being a new lad and all that? Free tea and cake ... no? Oh well...... ?

Oooooooooffff... Might you mean connect the rainwater overflow to the 110 ? As written it looks like you are running pipe-in-pipe......

But in the process of 'losing' money, presumably in building anew, you will be creating value that could (I understand you don't) be realised..... Dont underestimate the 'value' of building next door to your current house. Its a pain sometimes (you cant take a break - you can always see whats going on) but overall its very useful. Welcome by the way. Ian

Ugh. My instinct is to suggest KISS. Initially that means spending time on design. So, tarp, weights, thinking cap. BH thread. Ian (Toughest Buttercup in the World - just in case @Russell griffithsreads this)

An experienced oldie. Just what's needed. I need help with my insanity. Caused by reading BH too much. ? Got anything that'll help me with that? Welcome ?

Welcome. Your Design Access Statement is one of those very rare things, a document drafted by a team of people who care about both words and images and know how to make them work together well. The whole makes a compelling case for PP. A very good start indeed. Pity about the timing. But delay can always be put to good use. Years of quiet fireside reading on BH await. Again, welcome and ask away.... Ian (PS is there a Blue Plaque up in the town for @SteamyTea yet? )

In addition to the point made by @epsilonGreedy above, site clearance is space-hungry. I've forgotten the volume multiple once soil is dug, but I am still- after four years with my own digger- surprised at how much space spoil takes up. I mention that because you mention space is tight on your site..... We seriously underestimated how much room spoil eats up. And luckily were able to lose some spoil on a sloping garden.