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Folks, which type of court hears planning issues?

@newhome: what a friggin good idea. Can't beat them? Join in.

Exactly. Not sure about the hammer, though.?

I need to do a bit of research. I want to find out which cases my LPA has presented for consideration in a court. The Head Of Planning locally responded to a recent request of mine (to prevent someone using a caravan as a domicile rather than a worksite hut) saying simply, based on a similar local case, that it would be difficult to do and cost too much to enforce. I'd like to find out whether the analogy the Planning Officer draws is correct. To do that I'd like to find out which Planning issues have been presented for consideration at court by our Local Planning Authority.

'S wot wimmin are for innit? Nagglin' an' ferretin' stuff out innit? Come to think of it, 's 'ow she found me.

Try doing multivariate analysis for either of those disciplines and then tell us it isnt.

I've almost given up trying Gary.... November for a roofer, 10 weeks for my next door neighbour chippy ; ask at the pub where all the trades drink - polite smiles and ; I'll get back to ya mate....

Make sure you create a pit for waste concrete. A shallow trench, a few pegs and four boards will do. Get the driver to flush the concrete into the pit; hey presto, a level, firm work surface - almost free of charge.

You can't . You need to know the people involved. Here Be Dragons. Lots of them. Get a contractor you can trust.

Ask them by email. Keep a copy. 5 working days' silence means get on with it. When they try and charge you, send them a copy of the email.

And there's the trap. There are so many ways of accounting for (kidding oneself about) the true cost of a self-build. Everyone has their own idea of what constitutes a cost, and what doesn't. And yet everyone wants to know. Of all the people who visit us, everyone, and I mean everyone always wants to talk about cost. The only fair, consistent and publicly available models of costing a build are given by the the RICS, or SPONS. Those models don't work very well for self build (they weren't designed for that). I stopped listing mine (on BH) because of some consistently tactless comment. So people tend to keep schtum. Just in case they might be seen as having overpaid I suspect. You will get a close a figure as possible asking on BH. But local variations always apply. The thing is, once you are hooked into a new-build, there's no going back. No reserve parachute. You just dig in and get the job done.

I found an exact one meter error (in the placing of one marker) Its a bugger when you pay people to make mistakes for you and then have to check for yourself. But that's this self-building game. A snagging retainer works well too. So far I have (on the basis of evidence) retained £9600. And not a peep from the contractors whose work has needed remediation.

It's part of the game. The antidote is networking. With the emphasise on working.

and Don't even think of it where piling is concerned. The consequences of putting piles in the wrong place (as a result of inaccurate setting out) are substantial. A surveyor with a Total Station will get it right to within 3mm. The first thing the piling company will want to see is an accurate plan and soil profile. The risks associated with errors at this stage are significant. Check the survey yourself by Pythagoras by all means. PS our piler had it's own GPS equipment: they double checked our setting out.

Heart in mouth, I always try to get Debbie to use power tools, with me hovering in the background. Sometimes, there's flat refusal, others incomprehension (cam-ing out in an impact driver) . But she tries. I kind of wish she didn't want to.....

Our windows people, Gaulhofer, take the opposite view. They disappear into mm level detail. We'll see when they come and fit them.... Ian

Thought I'd bump this thread to show progress (only interesting in terms of how to solve this problem with Durisol ) and to ask a question: Do I need to put a bit of underboarding under the in-fill pieces of Durisol? This is progress so far.... (have a look at the original image of the same area above) ( the top of the block is now 28mm or so below the top of the rafter verge so I can cap it off with 25mm of PIR and then felt and batten) What interest me though is this gap.... The wall will be clad: the cladding sits on 50 by 50 battens and then there will be some standard cladding outside that: in other words the gap will disappear. But the gap won't be sealed (I suppose), so wouldn't it be a good idea to put some underboarding on top of the wall that's already built, but under the in-fill that I am about to fix into place with concrete? Once that's in there, that's it.

Thats what worries me. .....

Its like the perennial question we all get asked ' ....When are you planning to start / be finished / get the roof on / I suppose half of it (for me) is that I now have a uniform: cheap knee padded work trousers, expensive trainers, one of three T shirts all worn to buggery, a battered waterproof and a 1000 yard stare. We went out last night and everyone commented about me looking different once I'd had a bit of scrub..... : and I counter that my mates are looked like pasties office-palour, I now have a fairly good tan. As to Naturism and building @Onoff, not when I have an angle grinder or welder on the go . But, safely tucked away up on the roof where only a select few can see me - well - there's not much to make a fuss about.

Its the only thing that doesn't stink.....

Pulling on my hi-viz and safety trainers this morning, it suddenly hit me. This is never going to stop is it? There'll always be more to do won't there: a tweak here, a new this or that to buy and fit. A new product to try out, thingamajig to replace

Glad it's not just me that suffers like that - in my case it's about everything to do with building. The latest discovery is that rafters have tails, and they in turn have underboards which should be struck and pointed at the same time.

I know the NHBC is not to everyone's taste. So please bear with me when I link to the NHBC Standards documentation. I linked to it because, for Know-Nothings like me the illustrations are very helpful. (accessed May 2018) For example, I now know what the overlap for my roofing membrane should be. Before now, I didn't know that was an issue I should think about. I dunno wot I dunno Full Reference: http://www.nhbc.co.uk/cms/publish/consumer/Search/?cx=001053047772510740247%3Aogiwepchq-a&cof=FORID%3A11&q=standards&sa=Submit

Our ground workers didn't..... one reason why part of his bill will remain unpaid until he sorts it out.

@MikeGrahamT21 : thanks. No: because I had no idea Multiboard or Wedi board existed. Posts like yours are why I keep coming back to BH. Thanks very much indeed