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Tanners - did a superb job for us.

Indeed you have. And deliberately, politely we ignored it. We have about 16 square meters of glass facing south west. And every single person who visits us comments on the large expanse of light, the views, the engagement with the colours and shapes in the garden, the easily visible bird life, the sudden but brief shaft of golden sunlight at the end of a depressingly grizzly, grey day. I'll pay a few extra quid for that. Houses are for living in.

Metal gutters. The noise the rain makes on the roof is lovely - soothing. But the the piddle, the tinkle, the widdle, the weewee, the Jimmy Riddle sound..

There is no such thing as a bad builder, only a builder who has not met expectations - yet. Christ, did I just write that ? Bloody Lefty Liberal. Just sack 'im ( her)

Morning. Advice it is eh? Well ask @Pocster for a biscuit. Just see what happens.... just for sheets and giggles..... go on, dare ya.

Very trendy in Germany. 😑

The Enforcement Officer who worked on an Enforcement issue with our neighbour dropped in at our place to have a chat last week. He had recently retired. Over a coffee we talked through exactly the issue you raise above. The picture is messy. But broadly he sees colleagues in our LPA and in East Lancashire (where he has friends and ex- colleagues) being expected to be more productive with less resource. To an extent that has been achieved. But our area is booming: the A6 Development Corridor. Planners are running to stand still. Lancaster itself (neighbouring authority) is fizzing with development. The picture is indeed muddied by (as you hint) some poor practice, and - in my direct experience - sheer unexplainable laziness. But the bigger picture is one where everyone has to do more with less. That's now the norm. If as has undeniably happened, LPAs budgets have been cut so much that they fail, it is easier to argue for privatisation. I have in mind the leaked video of Sunak addressing Conservative Party activists talking with pride about deliberately withholding funding from Labour controlled areas. Behaviour like that is inexcusable from any political party.

Used the site search facility yet? Or Google or any other search engine - as in google [....other search engine...] search> G98 g99 site: buildhub.org.uk

In our case, the location was chosen by the Planner. We have the same 'issue' as you have withour Piggery. The easiest place for the Planner to measure the height was right where he got out of the car. There, it was a few cm too high. Everywhere else, the eaves height was below what was required. Man I was cross for a bit. If I had the same challenge again, I'd change the ground level all round the building to make the problem disappear. The consequences of not doing that are expensive.

Just incase anyone would like a bit of support with ratchet-strap-wrangling, here's an online resource I found https://www.instagram.com/spanngurtcoach/profilecard/?igsh=MWFleWtoYjJwaWdrbg== Yes it's in German, but a ratchet strap in the UK is the same as one in Germany.

in which case the price of the house becomes more flexible too 😉

Because?

We're all doomed to be in your Shadow mate. Doomed

Not really: 83.995 % is more like it.

@BotusBuild - that's the one..... Thanks so much. @G and J highly likely to be correct. Add that to me needing to get something strapped quickly, doing it up a ladder, cross and tired at the same time, sure I'm going to mess it up...

Yes. Exactly. Invariably I'm fiddling about up a ladder, loose end in hand but drop the standing end - (or some other variant of that) , swearing under my breath . I'll try putting it on the ground first, take up a bit of the strap first and then hook up. Thanks Ian

Ok, but - which way up?

I really feel for you. I have no experience of rectifying the issue, but it occurs to me that if you use double threaded screws (that is a secondary thread at the screw head as well as the normal shank), then that might go someway to alleviating the problem in the meantime. Good luck with your search.

... ratchet strap 9 years in and I still have to work out how -quickly- to lead the loose end into the ratchet so that the loose end can be tightened easily (doesn't double-up or get in the way of the ratchet handle) stowed neatly loosened easily. I take good care of the ratchet mechanisms. I stow the strapping out of the sun and weather. I've watched God knows how many YT videos.... I still can't do it quiclkly and easily. And this morning a lad who works for us gardening on Saturday mornings asked me to teach him how to use one. Got myself into a bit of a lather getting it wrong - as usual. Told him I'd show him next week. Most of the year they stay in their dry store, packed away neatly. But when you need one - you really need it. And I feel more of a plonker than usual when it takes about 6 goes to get it right. First Time . Anyone have a fail-safe way of threading the strap through the ratchet correctly? First time?

Quibbling. Fermented foods do that to a bloke. How much carbon is locked up in my barrel of sauerkraut then? I can give you a fairly good estimate of the methane volume generated, but that's not the issue these days is it... No , really I wanna know - how much carbon is locked up in one cabbage? And does the fermentation process involved in making sauerkraut increase or decrease the carbon volume? Answers quickly please before the pubs open tonight. For my pub quiz questions you see....

We had exactly your issue. Exactly.... Answer? Micropolitics and experience. Our architect knows (knew) almost all the Planners (until they were outsourced a couple of years ago). Not good mates, but he knew our Planning Officer because they had workd toether in Lancaster. Our place is Scandi writ large on the end of a 'chocolate box' row of local cottages - but Passivhaus Quite similar to your set up it would appear.... We needed to set the house back - negociated with the Planner - and we needed to lose the planned bit of the house above the flat roof at the front - again negociated with the Planner. I love both your designs. Eye on the main prize - Permission. Adapt, talk, improve. Good luck!

No good in our place : proper candles needed in a Haus that consumes large amounts of sauerkraut.😒 We need a proper flame

Ah, that's the one we have. The 437th best.... (A prime nothing nevertheless)

Hey: brilliant! I can wheel her round Log Burner shops. I can just feel the heat floodin' into me old bones : sittin' in 't livin room, the pair of us stripped down to the unmentionables, sweating like piglets, all doors open all windows open, MVHR coughing like an knackered over-retarded Austin Allegro, belching smoke : and the doorbell goes.... "Amazon Delivery mate .... I just need to take a photogrpah... oh, on second thoughts - no - it'll do .... byeeeeee" Perfect.

Your post did me almost as much good as a log burner cackling away to itself quietly in the corner. I have a new fantasy (Down @Pocster, DOWN)..... The minute we have sign off, we fit a small log burner. I can see where to fit it. I can see how to do it. I can see.....the Promised Land. A happy wife and a happy life. As opposed to that hoary Land Rover dictum: One wife. Livid.