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  1. ToughButterCup
    Artfully displayed, yes. All done with the Best-Possible-Taste.
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    Thats what our Winter Garden is about: shading a huge Gaulhofer 4 meter window. Kevin of TV fame calls arrangements like this a Breeze Corridor. My tame retired roofer calls it a patio wi' a screen.
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    Got my copy of Passive House mag today. So instead of lining up the head plate of my studding..... An article / advertorial about Passive Purple on page 77. Truth to be told, working on my own, I haven't had the courage to focus much on airtightness. So sticking a coat of paint on the inside of my ICF appeals. Here's the website. Anyone know anything about them?
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    Here be Dragons.
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    How long is a piece of string? Without detailed knowledge of the local micropolitics and recent local decisions, all anyone can do is give general guidance: of limited value, therefore. 2 meters may well not make any difference. Locally, a recent similar decision where the increase was three meters passed without comment. But you could be poking a hornet's nest. Yes. Maybe not formally, but there's nothing to stop the commenter popping into his mates office (the planning Officer) to give an update. The scenario you describe is in my limited experience, highly unlikely to be problematic. If the gap between you both is 150 meters, there are all sorts of things that can be done to mitigate perceived negative impact.
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    Help us out a bit, please..... How many people will be living here? How many visitors 'always' come to stay? Any 'yoof' around? Anyone in a wheelchair? How do you get the shopping from the car into the kitchen - without ruining your carpet? Where do you kick off muddy shoes when you have two arms full of haggis (that you've just shot)? Can you get to the garage from the house without getting soaked?
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    Your local council is the place - their Naming and Shaming Department. Guessing (from your screen name) here's Folkestone's DC's Street Naming Department And this is the search string (search terms) I put into Google (plenty of other search engines available) to find it change house name kent.gov.uk Good luck Ian
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    Look at Peter Millard's reviews (link above). Key points: the paint needs to be very thoroughly mixed (nay lumps Jimmie) cleanliness is next to godliness.
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    @lizzie, try it out on series of other things first. Get the feel of it. You could try @Nickfromwales 's new van for example . When he comes round, see how much you can take off it before he notices...... Taps - annoying things - maybe a bit later?
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    Here's Peter Millards review of a similarly low price tool.
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    Please God the linen cupboard doesn't need FD30s.....
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    Is it me, or does the requirement to fit fire rated doors upstairs (in our case FD30) mean we can't have MVHR? (Because of the gap under the door for the MVHR). Please tell me I'm wrong. Please tell me I'm overthinking! Reviewing current threads on and around the subject of fire doors, nobody seems to have pointed out that MVHR and FD30 doors are incompatible. Yet common sense says they ought to have door auto closers on them (but that requirement has been removed @PeterW here ) , but it seems obvious to me that a fire door with a gap under it is about as useful, well, as a chocolate fire door. I've reviewed Approved Document B, and the table on page 64 seems to suggest we could use an FD20. Both our bedrooms have a suicide door in them, (with a Juliet) so I suppose it might not be too bad.
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    Ooooohhhh you are awful, Declan. But I like you.
  14. ToughButterCup
    Just Do It.
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    I bumped into this... and will keep looking. Thanks for the nudge about 2040, hadn't thought of that
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    Oh, sheeeet. @Bitpipe and @jamiehamy, you did warn me that First Fit is a pain. I'm going to the NEC this Thursday. Any key names I should look for in terms of internal FD30 doors? (Going through the list of NEC exhibitors now)
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    So 826 it is, then. Final door opening - 4mm (2mm either side) wider - ie. 830.... ?
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    'Nother click. ?
  20. ToughButterCup
    Click! A light goes on in what passes for a brain these days. Thanks.
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    Yes, I appreciate that. That's why we have designed the downstairs such that a small area off our downstairs sitting room can be sectioned off to create a bedroom - right next to the downstairs wet room. I know it's a bit morbid - but I intend to snuff it in our house, and I don't want the paramedics to skin their knuckles - hence no internal doors downstairs.
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    Ahhhh, downstairs consideration only then? (We have no internal doors downstairs......)
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    Why not go the whole hog mate.....
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    102mm, well done. Pass Go, collect £100. Its not a deliberately stupid question. Everywhere we go , I've recently been surreptitiously measuring door widths. I try hard not to let Debbie see me do so - not entirely successfully. Door widths are important - but 102mm difference? Does so little make so much difference? Why not 964? Thinking about bedrooms upstairs, why would I choose 864 over 762? Yep, I'm of a certain age, yep, the usual is happening.
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    Deeply uncomfortable - bit too close to the bone for me. But a very useful reminder indeed. I'm paranoid about scaffolding safety now. Paranoid. Even worse - got @TerryE on my case... That's worse than the HSE ...
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