ToughButterCup

Revenge is a dish best taken cold. ?

Time to worry? ........... When it's on the inside.

Planners are used to this sort of hiccup. Until you have a written instruction (not advice or a simple request) from the planner instructing you to take some action, do nothing. When you get a valid, legally enforceable instruction to change the roofing material, come back here and talk it through with us. Until then relax, pop down the pub, have a pint - and forget about it. Keep calm, carry on.

Just do it. Ian PS Stupid of me to suggest that given that I know where you live. Apologies. Ask me why I've become so cynical. Dare ya.

For us numbers 1 to 4 were compulsory (2 will be only if in a designated area) : the planners are required by law to consult ecologists. Ask me why I know. Why would anyone not employ a planning specialist for OPP - just why? We are on Made Ground (proper technical term, I am assured) Why would I risk building on Made Ground without reassuring myself that it's OK first? Our Piling specialists would not have quoted had we not had a proper set of cores taken and submitted to the SE for comment. I enjoy risk taking: I enjoy controlling it more, though. Makes the risk fun.

My question could be seen as a little harsh: it isn't meant to be read as such. Why at Outline Planning are you concerned about detailed design? Time you take thinking about a detailed design could be a distraction from the core issue: getting OPP. I ask because through the planning process, we changed our minds about the design. Bit like wine tasting: with experience, taste changes from sweet to dry. Undoubtedly, off the shelf designs will be a good starting point.

Na! Guten Morgen, und herzlich Wilkommen bei uns. Herein spatziert......

Hi, @Tosh. First, I'm not an expert. I'm a user. Hard bitten, and perhaps therefore a little less starry-eyed about the product. I am certain sure that there are some other products which will suit your needs, perhaps better. I assume you are converting an agricultural building to a dwelling - I may be wrong. DIY: perfectly possible But as soon as you talk to other trades, be aware of their possible resistance to anything new. ' .... 'ow dja chase this stuff out 'ven ? ... ' How are you going to cope with the possibility of bursts during a pour? I am probably wrong in thinking that you might be tempted to keep the cladding in place and build up behind the cladding. Have a strategy in place for coping with bursts during a pour. I can suggest a detailed way of coping - from very bitter experience. Below DPC: I can't help here.... sorry. Slip Ties : no experience I am afraid. Is it the right system? I don't know. But I do know you need to get your head round this issue to the extent that you know why you are NOT using other systems. That might be as simple as a cost benefit analysis. I would want to know what is under your floor - more precisely how much insulation is in place. The reason for the question is - why insulated well above ground, and (possibly) not so we'll under your feet? Do feel free to PM me at anytime. Ian

I sent her down for the craik. only there for a few seconds.

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Aaaarghhhhh. I know, what does Gary think? @nod, are you around? How do I dig myself out of this hole? Simply put, the Dursiol hasn't been ' sealed' before the windows went in. So the Compriband wasn't fitted. Is there any way of sealing the reveal such that the Compriband can be fitted? Come on Gary, show us what'cha got......

The clay was dusty: and in today's brisk wind, I almost needed eye protection. So now.... Tomorrow tarting the hole up and popping it in. That should be a laugh.

Yes. For an ostensibly intelligent person, I can be remarkably bloody stupid. Really, seriously bloody thick.

There's experience for ya!

The pipe in the picture is the post-treatment discharge ' line ' , i.e. the final trickle to the stream some 150 yards away. To save us going all the way to the discharge point, I'm putting in a manhole so we can sample the treated discharge. @ProDave I am trying to work out the exact centre of the hole that I should dig for the treatment unit. To do that, I need to work out where to put the sample chamber. The position of the post-treatment pipe is a given: about 1500mm down. So the vertical gap between the tank invert (700ml -ish) and the post-treatment discharge line needs to be '' bridged' with a manhole. My question is; horizontally, how far away from the treatment unit do I put the manhole- (sample chamber). I ask because I know there is a rule about putting treatment tanks at least 7 meters away from a dwelling. I don't want to have to nudge the treatment unit any closer to the house than I have to. PS Just found this schematic diagram. The thing I call a manhole is referred to as a sample chamber

And here it is, much deeper than I thought..... about 1500mm down. Yes, @Declan52, I'll leave the bucket on tomorrow: the back of the bucket acts as a cam. Hadn't thought of that. I need to put in a post-treatment inspection chamber, so how much space do I need to allow for that before I start digging the 2100 mm square hole ( 2440 deep) for the tank? I dimly remember that I need to embed the chamber in pea gravel.....

Will the digger lift the tank - weight's not an issue (250Kg) : but in terms of reach? Yo Sushi! With 300 mm to spare. I am officially pleased Now to find the end of the pipe which we buried this time last year.... and dig down to it......

We have three (one's a door) The whole house design relies on the light harvested by those three windows. Looking at them now (they've only just been installed ) I'm thinking about privacy: you can see straight through our house..... and my relaxed attitude to undress. Hmmmm.

I write to let everyone know that the Manager of Ecowin, Thomas Froelich sadly passed away on Saturday. Ecowin supplies Gaulhofer windows and doors Thomas came to visit us a few times on his frequent trips up and down the M6. He lived up to his name : Froelich translates to Happy in English. He was always cheerful. And I was always glad to chatter to him in German - we could share seriously politically incorrect jokes and compare notes about how in Austria and Germany things were done ' richtig ' (correctly) whereas in other countries (he talked about installs of Gaulhofer windows and doors in other countries), that was not the case. The sales team up in Dalgety Bay (the other side of the Forth opposite Edinburgh) are devastated. Despite that, Craig found the time to ring me and talk our install through this morning. I'm sure we all would want to express our condolences to Lorraine his wife and his children.

I never ever think of that............ Our site has a gentle slope: the tank is going in at almost the lowest point on the site - still some 10 meters higher than the discharge point 150 meters away. Right then, off to have a coffee and take some piccies and then get stage 1 done..... just need to check if the digger really will lift the tank. Its not the weight that's the issue: its the vertical reach.

Right, then, thanks. Obvious case for digging a trial hole today and watching what happens overnight. (Yes, I'll cover the hole, and double check nothing is in it tomorrow morning)

Folks, quick question: how do you define a high water table? How high, relative to a 3 meter deep hole, is a high water table?

And not one of them belongs to a teenager.

Exactly. We're two opposite ends of the spectrum : I clear up shared areas all the time (my office is a tip). That's why it's so important to have properly planned places in which we can store stuff. Which is why @Onoff , you scored a bull's-eye with S-Box. The eye-watering price, though....

@HerbJ's idea and yours has yet to be discussed. Thanks for the plan @HerbJ, you arrangement for steam extraction is very discreet: it is in the ceiling space?.... There's a better than evens chance of me having to be in a wheelchair, I think ; at least for short periods - new hips on order. So the clearance is an issue - quite close to my heart also because my mate is quadriplegic. She's changed her mind. ? We are for EVER charging something. If not the phones or tablets, then the external batteries that we need for the bloody phones. It would be great to hide the damn things while they are charging....... in a shallow drawer maybe?