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Rag-tops, always the weakest link in any Landy. Never quite had the courage to fit one on mine.

I'd be extremely interested in reading that advice - or reading round that advice. The lifting force local to that corner of the house is directly proportional to the wind direction. In this case anything North of North West really 'gets it'. My little bit of aerodynamics understanding makes me wonder if I have - in creating the slots - merely created three or four turbulators that would be likely to puncture any drag bubble (downward pressure) there might be above the boards - thus increasing the lift acting on the boards. 'Nother sleepless night in store, it seems.

Sufferin' scaffold boards Batman! Them boards is a flyin' ! Where to Robin? Off the scaffold and onto the roof Batman And there indeed they sat sneering at us. This one is quite artfully placed... This one was angrier and smashed a few more tiles than the first one And now for the good news. The tiles are Nulok tiles. Theres already quite a bit written about them - here if you want to follow it up The good thing about them is that they are very easy to replace : I mean even a doddery old codger like me can do it First, throw the broken tiles off the roof (yes I checked to see if Debbie was out of range) and and then replace the tiles. I haven't done that yet...... because For once I obeyed SWMBO, and came down off the scaffold because it was quite lively up there. But not before I had attached the scaffold boards to the scaffold with 3 tonne straps and not before I had thrown one scaffold board per bay down off the scaffold. I wanted to allow the pressure from tonight's gusts to dissipate rather than lift. So now, from the ground the scaffold looks like this; Replacing the tiles? Easy. Slide a new one under the clips. Job done. Had our roof been a normally slated roof, couldn'a done that now could I? Well - I'll do it when the wind dies down; have to do what SWMBO says (occasionally).

I cannot remember the excuse. The reason was the normal one. Insufficient production capacity. Spun as ' ... a success - related problem ...'

Ditto on ours.... Craig'll be along in a bit to confirm.

18 weeks eh? Only 18 weeks. DURISOL, ordered November 2016, delivered end of April 2017. Just sayin' ..... Oh, and by the way, if you now break / lose / otherwise mislay / under order / have a meat head on the team who couldn't give a toss and so breaks a few / you'll have a similar wait. I learned to use the enforced wait to plan: wish I'd done more.

DURISOL finds communication difficult . Now where have we heard that before? Properly used the product is excellent. Why allow your incautiously phrased website content to threaten that?

I've still not recovered from this little wind-related incident 2 years go. And that came from the East (the opposite of the prevailing wind direction), and was turbulent as Hell .... in July. I still ' hear ' the collapsing empty Durisol blocks. And Durisol still - STILL - haven't amended the false claims on their website that you can build without props. (retrieved March 2019) I already know won't get any sleep tonight - Salamander Cottage is effectively a concrete bunker. How stupid is that?

Focus on up-wind stuff first. Wind shadow stuff not too important. Can't praise windy.com enough. Switch all the bells and whistles except wind and gust off. Best use of JavaScript and CSS3 I have seen so far.

A few thousand? What are you planning? An estate? A garage? Do some due diligence locally. Read through all the local planning applications, at least those that are in situations close to yours. Network. Done well, it's hard work. Read. All the recent applications for similar developments to yours. Pick four or five local planners: listen / read all you can about them: don't forget their contributions to Planning Committee Meetings Make a shortlist. Talk to them. Get prices Listen. Get references. Attention to detail matters. Most women are better at that than most men. (Yes, I know - couldn't care less). Planning consultants aren't short of work.

Apologies @PeterStarck here she is - all yours for 3 minutes and 8 seconds.

But, since I was six, I've been trained to do the opposite. Cos Carly Simon told me I'd be abducted by the bears (1.07). 4 tiles later, I unlearned the habit. Funny that innit?

If anyone has any doubts, pick up the phone, talk and ask for references. I did. My main concern was about payment: the company is not (was not at the time) set up for credit card payments . We agreed payment should be made on delivery.

I'm with Russell on this one; top hung, nailed. But get a quote for both designs, then you'll be able to make an informed decision.

I dealt with Nulok in June of last year: here's the address on the invoice Lilyash Limited 83 Rathkeel Road, Broughshane, Ballymena, Northern Ireland, BT42 4QE

Yes, the in roof solar was placed on counter-battens. Really simple. (Thank God)

@Big Neil, yes. The subject of good deal of merriment and tooth sucking here.....

Hello @Big Jimbo. Here is the relevant section of our Planning Application arguing why we should be given permission: Wyre Borough Council (our LPA) did not have a Local Plan at the the time. ' ... It is pertinent here to consider the reasons for approval in terms of how this materially affects the development’s design to be considered in the reserved matters application. ... Paragraph 49 of the NPPF requires that housing applications should be considered in the context of the presumption in favour of sustainable development. [...] as the Council is unable to identify a 5 year supply of deliverable housing sites, NPPF paragraph 49 states that, "relevant policies for the supply of housing should not be considered up-to-date if the Local Planning Authority cannot demonstrate a 5 year supply of deliverable housing sites." Development that assists in meeting housing needs is in accordance with the requisite policies of the NPPF and as such the Local Plan policies can, in this case, be given significant weight. In this instance, it is considered that the benefit of providing housing towards the 5 year supply can outweigh the lack of connectivity especially as the site is very close to the A6 and there roads are not particularly narrow. ... ' More simply put: if an LPA can't demonstrate a five year supply of housing (evidenced by a Local Plan) then permission should be given because we contend that our house will help with the housing supply. Here is the full documentation (called a Planning Statement) , and for the sake of completeness here's all the other online documentation. I am not quite sure about the extent to which a draft plan or a plan that is under review allows the same general argument to be made. My guess is that an unadopted plan, or one that is under review does not have the same status as a Local Plan. Best of luck.

And sometimes you can find ' second hand ' culvert piping : you'll need to ask around and pick it up with your own trailer .... How deep's the ditch?

Aaah ha! Thanks very much indeed @lizzie. Tell me, what do you if a 'bulb' blows? Can you just remove the diffuser?

FFS ! 96mm? Oh I geddit - you ordered the wrong size joists dinya? ?

If you are doing the pulling, get a BRAKED pulley, @epsilonGreedy. Debbie had to haul hundreds of DURISOL blocks up to the third lift. Bless her, she wouldn't give in: on the odd occasion the brake in the pulley saved her. And me - from a lot of form filling. Mind you when the rope was wet and there was 25kg of concrete in the container being lifted, despite the brake, it did go back down again quite smartly. Still wince at the memory.

Thanks. I'm starting to enjoy it all a bit more now. And just as I'm getting reasonably competent, and frankly a good deal less worried about guidelines and authority, I'll have finished....

We've met. ...... You know I'm a meat-head