ToughButterCup

Typical ? just keep yer nerve, do as asked, and keep busy with other stuff. Distract yourself.

You are right. It feels dreadful: we've all been through it - some more than once, and a good few through Appeal. Its a horrible process, but its the only one we have. I mean this in the kindest possible way. Grow a thicker skin. There are people with whom I am in regular contact who, when we applied for PP, were just about as rude as you could get in public - and now smile, wave and pass the time of day. There's something about the application process which brings out the very worst in people. Your post reads to me to be very close to the average kind of feedback that we've all had. And we, all of us, looked for the very worst interpretation of all the feedback we got. We are just like you. Welcome Deuce to the club. One of us. What can you do about it? Read widely. Read every decision made by your planner. Attend Committee meetings. Listen to County Councillors. Talk to your neighbours (if you can). Talk to the local Councillors. Accept some level of compromise. Be patient.

I'll try reading, and summarising, this today. Want something done? Ask a busy person. Pete, I think the army did us both proud in terms of injecting energy into difficult situations - wouldn't mind some more of that now.

Mine is holed -badly- below the water-line. So, a la @epsilonGreedy its DIYMax (but without his careful analytical approach), and TBH I go to work everyday needing to grit my teeth because I know SodAll about almost everything. But, slowly, too slowly, I'm getting more confident. In the NW @K78 ? I'll come and help with the Durisol if I can. PM me if you like. Ian

How much can you tolerate - of which type and what volume for how long? I suffer from Tinnitus, and have had to learn to tune that noise out - works mostly. But I love the sound of rain and hail on glass, but can't stand the noise of turbulent easterly winds (caused our wall to collapse in mid July a couple of years ago). I lived in Berlin, right next to a main road - couldn't sleep properly for the first week - by the end of the next I'd learned to ignore it. Noise tolerance is an each-to-their-own thing.

How about; a row of piles 120mm 'out' - (allowed tolerance 130mm) meaning our front wall needing some creative thinking later this year [surveyor error] ICF blocks laid - over a few meters - more than 20mm out of line causing significant expense and aggro extending the first floor joists walls built and left without concrete in them for 5 weeks, blowing down in a turbulent easterly gale in July ( cost several thousand ) wall blocks hammered into line (rather than being relaid) thus causing fractures in the ICF and a huge blow-out - ( cost a few thousand ) steels manufactured 300 ish out of line at one end, correct at the other, meaning several weeks delay and about £1500 of remedial work concrete slab laid to 25mm below FFL - GOK how to sort that - posts to follow Getting out of bed in the morning feeling cheerful. BIG mistake. (PS, apologies Ferdinand ...)

Until lawyers are forced to draft T+Cs in a legible, readable form, your assumption will be wrong 99.9999999% of the time.

Jungs, ich bin doch 'n Deutscher. Bosch tool fanatic too. It fits dunnit?

Geberit are driving me mad at the moment. So I am very grateful for this thread. They make the purchase process so difficult; it's almost as if they don't want to sell their products. If only their sales effort was as strong as their production and support.

My God they make it hard. Geberit that is. Hard to find. Try using their online Retail Partner finder. Use it at your peril. There are many differences between the offer and reality. The website claims that stockists actually stock the stuff. On the basis of what the website says, you jump in the car and visit. "Sorry, we only stock the flush-plates" That response bit me once to often. Ring the company: "Can you tell me which of your retailers actually stock what your website says it stocks, please?" "Managerial Gobbledegook" "Are you struggling to tell me that you don't know?" "Managerial Gobbledegook" "Are you trying -but failing- to say Correct, we don't know?" Long-ish silence. Dig around on the website - find the reps number. "To be honest, you aren't the first person to point this out to us" But it gets better. Postie came today ... this'll keep her quiet for a bit : I hope.

Can they really... are they allowed kick off in the light of the H&S's Fall Prevention Hierarchy?

Vielen Dank Dave! Ich hab's gefunden. Viel billiger - muss ja 10 Stuck bestellen, aber das geht in Ordnung. Aber £11 Versandkosten. Hmmm. Na ja. Spitze, Mensch! Thanks Dave. Found it. , much cheaper - need to order 10 but that's OK. But £11 postal charges. Ah well.... Tops! Ian

Theres a large price range in the offers online for tape that seals the gap between PIR insulation boards . Screwfix £3 or so, Toolstation more than double that. What's the story here? Are some tapes air-tight (and so more expensive) and others not?

Fall prevention should be considered before fall restraint. How much might be without Prevention Measures? None? Problem disappears.

Thanks very much @Cpd. Very helpful.

Not what you want to hear, sending him to the doctors was the best thing you ever did - in lots of ways.

J33 M6. Anyone can come and take mine down, polish it, and put it back up again. I'll buy a deckchair so I can watch in comfort.

Got it in one!

What a way to start the week! First thing this morning I re-read one of @JSHarris 's pearls of wisdom and realised that I should have read and remembered it a year ago because ..... Our roof has two 100mm layers of PIR between the rafters. First layer of foam put in between the rafters - all tickety boo - installed before the first floor was fitted. Second layer put in over that stonkingly hot summer, and foamed - and forgotten about. Tiles put on - thank God for that. Walk into the house, look up with relief to see the new roof keeping the rain out. Pause, look closer and swear gently. The foam had pushed the bottom layer downwards in half a dozen places. So, I've had to trim it back before underboarding with another 80mm of PIR. Low expansion foam. Who knew eh?

Perfect. The core of Durisol is a concrete lattice and a block of PIR. The rebar goes in before or during the pour. All that is surrounded by minced up wood which has been boiled, dried and covered with Portland cement. Baked, bashed into shape, dried. To all intents and purposes you can treat Durisol as a piece of wood: cut it with any saw, or chisel or angle grinder. The 'woodcrete' former (as some refer to it) is 86% air.

Waiting for experienced people like you to remind me I need to think about it.... Ermmmmm, metal back boxes, Ed ? So, if I'm having 12.5mm of plaster, and the wood bit of the Durisol is 20mm or so thick, when do I fix the box? How deep's a back box? Theres no excuse for sleep at the moment.....

Watched it last night. The editorial bias was close to obscene. Doubt we'll watch GD again. I can stand on a bridge over the M6 and watch cars crash any day.

My tortured finger configuration ? ..... 8 left, of which about 6 have feeling in them (varies a bit each day). I have heard the argument that there is more space in those metal ones....

How do I know what I want until I hear what you, @Onoff @JSHarris @Bitpipe, @jamiehamy, and others whose technical competence I have come to know and trust say? (Not forgetting SWMBO ? ) I'm sure you mean the word ' ... considered ... ' respectfully Dave. But in my case, anything electrical is a known unknown as well as an unknown unknown. This is the guy who merrily drills into a wall and wonders - months later - why a light no longer works.

Yes. Whats more clear than it was before, I have to plan as much as I can: there's no excuse for sleep anymore.