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Not yet, but soon. It might be.... No. Does '...it... ' above refer to the build method? If so, here's too much information based on our experience

And ours ( United Utilities) told us the colour had to be red. I had two pre-visits (by Gallaghers, the company making the connection) to check I had complied, and the cable was duly connected. Not very far from me - within line of sight- , and about a month later, the same connection crew refused to connect two properties - because they had not supplied the correct specification ducting. The knock-on effect was to keep the road closed for a full week, rather than a couple of hours in our case. It was great.

I wholeheartedly agree with your decision. But your visit would be made so much more useful if people with ICF experience could suggest things to look for.... If I can manage to put up our studding a bit quicker than I had planned today, I'll start a thread for the rest of us ' ICFers ' to contribute to. Ian

And there's the difference

@Weebles, do you want me to translate the guidelines for you? MfG Ian

I'm here now. Are you small or big?

@Russell griffiths, may I suggest you do nothing. ' Leave 'im 'ee aint wurf it Russ !' Unless there are many photos, it'll be an unnecessary distraction for you. @Ian suggests £100. You'll have to work hard for that.

Here's a set of explanatory videos.....

Artfully displayed, yes. All done with the Best-Possible-Taste.

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.

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?

Here be Dragons.

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.

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?

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

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.

@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?

Here's Peter Millards review of a similarly low price tool.

Please God the linen cupboard doesn't need FD30s.....

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.

Ooooohhhh you are awful, Declan. But I like you.

Just Do It.

I bumped into this... and will keep looking. Thanks for the nudge about 2040, hadn't thought of that

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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