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Well let's hope you get more than a Sir Humphrey response

Without evidence, that is an outrageous comment to make. You are correct @garrymartin, the micropolitics of this application appears to be a confounding factor. You are also correct in pointing at the Catch22 factor: Sustainability . Who knows what it really means? I admire your attack, I rarely read (here) of such a well-organised approach. Could I suggest that you : + wait a bit for the new regime to settle down; + smell the new policy coffee ; + employ a really switched on planner and; + reapply. Reading between the lines, the LPA is grasping at straws. And has the Inspectorate in it's pocket. You need a well- connected professional who - in detail -knows the micropolitics of the area. Good luck.

I thought it was just us that did that kind of thing. Bloody good idea wasn't it. They come back now and again and say things like " You've learned a good deal since we left ", and "How did you cope with three of us, and no grandparents of your own." Light-weights all of them. Lightweights. A mate of mine comes in to visit occasionally and offload on what appears to me to be a very similar issue. At every turn it seems, his efforts are nullified by some external factor. I try to reassure by reminding him that he hasn't given up trying, - and neither will he - and then pointing to the families he knows where, little by little, contact has slipped into silence > christmas and birthdays> facebook follows > the odd comment > deeper silence. And then long breaks. Isolation. I know you well enough to know that you're not going to do that. Open commitment to people - despite what life throws at us is - very hard. And maybe hard enough for now? Don't underestimate your gift of obvious commitment and moral support. And in three or four years ......

Children don't stay at school for ever. Ours flew the nest after we gave them as much money as we could (some would say bribed ?) In any case we're horrible parents - insist on clean rooms no loud sex after midnight, no drugs, limited rock and roll . If we found their booze we stole it, usually by accident. Well one bottle just looks like another. It worked. That meant we could live in a smaller house. Is four or five years too long to wait?

, and that means I have four Russ: one for white, one for red, one for petrol. On many of the smaller machines, the filler tube is placed almost always in such a way as to make the funnel -flop- one way or the other and that means the funnel wobbles. And so spills. Yes bigger machines are more sensibly organised. But smaller ones are a nightmare. @Kelvin - syphon pump.... good idea. Recommendations ? Please! The ones I've seen on Tinternet seem cheap and nasty - or very expensive.

Ah, Dave.... If only that were the case, I have a breathable spout. I have a Jerry can. But last time I didn't notice that the seal in the Jerry can was poorly fitted. Just enough to cause a leak. So I spilled a whole load.

Has anybody found a foolproof way of refuelling a digger without spilling bits of diesel. I don't know how many times I've refuelled Digger on site and I think I've maybe not spilt diesel just once out of all those times. I sometimes think that the last thing any Digger manufacturer thinks about is how difficult it's going to be to refuel their machine. Surely they can come up with an easy, safe way of preventing fuel spills. Anyway, anybody regularly fuel their digger without a drop of diesel being spilt?

I'm really no expert but if you are thinking about the odd few mm over the width of an IC, then set the inspection chamber slightly lower at lower one end. Two or three millimeters is not going to make any difference

Bump. Could I just ask all of you please ...... When a tradesperson comes to your site to do a job where the price has been agreed - and asks - actually asks - you whether they can borrow your tools , as in "Gotta shovel I could borrow mate ?" (and all four of your shovels are stacked in your workshop in plain sight ) - and the next day, he ( yes, 'he' ) goes into your tool store, takes two shovels and then returns them covered in solidified concrete....... What's your reply?

Good point. So if I just put the mesh in contact with the ground and then put mot1 over the top of that?

I'm planning an external workshop - the internal area will be 30 square meters. Following Chapter 10 of the NHBC guidance, I'm going to use this cross-section for the foundation; I have some left over Geogrid from our build - this stuff I have a good deal more than 30 square meters of it. According to the NHBC, I don't need any 393 - I intend to put in a Movement Joint anyway I'm keen to see the back of the roll of Geogrid. It's fine when its underground, but a right pain in the Botticelli anywhere else. Is there any point in putting it in the concrete as reinforcement ?

@Jilly's recipe is - from direct personal experience - excellent. Especially the thick curtains. If there an enormous fireplace, put curtains up on the lintel and sit inside the fireplace. Train children to fetch and carry stuff. Pre-heat your night clothes and put hot stones in the bed from late afternoon. Ice makes beautiful patterns on the inside of windows.

And you tread unwarily, followed by an expletive-filled minute or two

Hello, welcome. We aren't competent to answer your question. Talk to the manufacturer. In the meantime, tell us about yourself and your build....

Right. Thats it. Rather than wait for them to ask me, I'm going to tell everyone in the next few days, I'm no longer lending tools. It took your post @Russell griffiths for me to realise that during the entire 8 years of this build, I haven't ever borrowed a tool.

People thinking that it's OK to borrow stuff from our site and then return it - caked in concrete (shovels, trowels, mixer) smashed, but returned in such a way that you don't notice that its (in this case) wheels are missing with the hoover unemptied and the filter jam-packed with soot moaning when I refuse to lend something driving over hose pipes with a digger and then telling me I need to get the hose mended telling me "I wouldn't do it like that , I'd....... [...] ..... much better" smashing through foul drainage pipes when it is clearly marked with a series of brightly coloured 2 by 2 stakes push-rods still smelling and smeared with the contents from their own foul drain - I should feel grateful they were returned at all I suppose Yes, I know I have the privilege of doing nothing but build our house but Das sind alles faule, beschissene Arschloecher What gets you about some folk who visit your site ?

Yes. Any one - any one at all will do. Provided you never ever lend it to anyone else You've hit a raw spot - can you tell?

I've re-read the whole thread. In a similar situation I'd take a break from it for a while, wait for the election to pass and then read and summarise the Appeal Inspectors report accurately compare point for point what the LPA and the Planning Inspector say about each issue they identify in as few words as possible, write a list of all the issues that you think need to be solved and address those issues over which you have some control ask an Independent Planner - (not one recommended by your architect) to review the whole application and give advice and suggest the next steps keep an eye on Planning Policy network among qualified professionals in your neck of the woods research the decisions taken by your LPA Planner - and the outcomes research your Inspector's track record too Summarise what you find. Chew it for a while and then post here. Reading between the lines, some things don't fit: on advice, issues appear to be addressed and then despite that your application is rejected. It might be an idea for you to copy and paste the LPAs feedback and that of the Inspector into a post here - it'll give us all something to chew over. Don't let the bastards get you down. Ian

Really interesting - nudged me into searching for EV Ultra cable - and found this I love the idea. It makes sense. But why isn't it properly approved (yet) ? How might a Part P qualified electrician view the statement above ? And how might an insurer view a claim from me when - through no fault of the cable, a fire destroys my (as yet to be built) workshop ? From bitter experience I have come to know that insurers will climb through the thinnest eye of the thinnest needle to avoid considering any reasonable claim. PS very interesting thread @Russdl

Yes. Whittle / naggle / fettle / pare down / sharpen a piece of kindling to a long rough tube shape. The Scots call that a 'dook' (well my dad did anyway) Whack the dook in the hole with a hammer Whack it sideways with a hammer (dook breaks off) Drill a tiddly pilot hole in the dook Screw the screw Cost? Zilch. Reliability 100%

In other words you'll have permission for something you haven't built ? You've knocked the windows out of the original, (and got rid of them?) But you've taken delivery of the new windows. If all of that is true, then the answer is NO. Because all you'll have done is replace the windows. Get them put in before she complains about the draft.

Hmmm, when SWMBO comes in to my workshop and says something about my new cross-cut saw - and then asks how much it cost - I have learned to ask her to remind me how much the (say) granite worktop cost, or the new Gaggenau this-or-that cost ....

Everybody's got to start somewhere... But just to spite you Mr. Griffiths, I'm going to weld it all myself. So there. Harrumph.

Because everyone in Local Government (and elsewhere) is being instructed to more with less.