ToughButterCup

Hello, welcome. I live within sight and sound of a narrowboat mooring - competing aggressive cockerels, woodburning stoves, demented dogs, and very pleasant owners. Each WBS on the mooring produces a significant amount of heat, so much so that they all stain the paintwork on the exterior of the hull. One boat has two such stoves, and a Webastow (sp wrong?) diesel heater. Makes me wonder how many fish congregate under that hull : the local Goosander seems to snack there often.

Well there will be some insulation , so it's a good idea. But I bet the seal all round the edges of the door will help just as much - or more. Drafts work all day every day. Don't believe me? Just ask a woman.

You'll be proud of me, @SteamyTea. I've gone through your post above ( the one with all the numbers and and threatening signs [ like these] )at least half a dozen times and I think I'm fairly close to understanding it ..... sometime later this year. I'm a bit of a slow learner really.

I doubt whether the approval process before being uploaded is standardised across all LPA Content Management Systems ( their Internet 'presence') . So we don't know is the fairest answer to your question. I have a strong feeling - but no evidence - that LPA Planners are not allowed to vary the content of Consultee responses because the LPA Planner is not qualified to do so. I'm sure that the Planner (or a deputy) could delay uploading the Consultee response - or ask for it to be varied in some way. @Bournbrook , many of us here have also been through the mill in which your psyche is currently being ground to dust. The only way I worked through this particular test was to over-occupy myself with other projects and indulge myself in too much sport.

Yes. The manufacturer's guidelines.

We - facing a similar situation - wrote a polite but firm letter to the HoD and copied the relevant Councillor in to the communication. The Councillor did his bit. Wyre Borough (our Council) then outsourced their backlog to a group of Planners (some of them ex- Wyre Borough I understand) who had set up in business working for themselves. It wasn't worth taking things any further (a non-determination claim) because Wyre had taken action to try to reduce the backlog.

Interesting @JohnMo. I have the opposite experience. 8mm gap (which is now 12-14mm : shrinkage ) and not a wasp in sight. That doesn't mean there won't be any, but - to date - none. I asked a local pest-control guy (pub acquaintance) to come and look. He had an interesting take on the issue. If the gap is large enough there will be lots of air circulation - "Wasps don't like living in a gale mate" was his memorable one-liner. Our cladding is Siberian Larch (now contraband: you can't get it for love or money here) set on 2 by 2 battens on top of felt (Vent Pro Matt? £1500 for a 10m by 10m house. The felt is certified for a 30mm gap for about 30 years. Not sure I trust that but hey it's up and it works.) PS the timber was 14mm ( now about 12-13mm)

Thats the trick isn't it John .... self consumption. I have a measly 3.8kWp and a 14kW SunAmp. That sucks up every last drop of solar that I can produce and then I export whatever is left. I'm eyeing up our new wall for potential to use vertical panels : standing there earlier today in bright sun @SteamyTea's point about vertical panels picking up sun at this time of year is driven home. In a Northerly wind, the pieces of stone are already a tiny bit warm to the touch. I have a feeling that there will be competition for that vertical space - I married a gardner. Maybe I can arrange to provide enough power to light our garden pathways.

Hello, You're in good company. What are you building?

Bitte viele Fotos....... Willkommen

None of us here can give you a properly qualified answer. It's above our pay (£0:00) grade How much money is at stake here a few hundred or a few thousand?

As written, it seems that the SE re-designed something without your knowledge, and is charging you for it . Correct? and in addition got agreement from the basement company and said ; put a gun to your head. It seems to me that I have misread / misunderstood something, or there is a distinct lack of Emotional Intelligence in your team. All it would have taken to avoid this is one phone call.

Clear it pronto. If you have fidgety neighbours, clear it early Sunday morning. Standard practice here in West Lancashire : nobody will be able to do anything about it until Monday morning, and nobody'll visit until Tuesday at the earliest. It is common here to kill anything that moves on land prior to making a Planning Application. I do not advocate that strategy, merely point out that it works.

Quite the opposite of minor. I say that because I sense your starting point was - Never-Done-This-Before-Lets-Give-It-A-Go If thats correct, the job took hours and hours more than you thought it would take (twice as long maybe ? ) The verticals are staggered - and so stronger, less likely to bend. (PS, the second design could be improved by staggering the verticals too) You've realised that modular design is helpful - cuts down the number of cuts needed. All the more creditable therefore. Ermm, I've got some spare MDF - could you build me some .......🫠

What was your cost-control strategy? I ask because I think it reasonable to suggest that all relevant parties are responsible for managing communication about significant change. Or, maybe you had a Quantity Surveyor? In which case ...

The thing is, exposing your thinking here (in the form of a post) is both challenging and valuable. But the final decision is still the responsibility of the OP. At least the guy was courageous enough to post about his heat pump here - and obviously prepared to put the effort in. In @Jeremy Harris terms the '... ignorant disregard for failed ideas ... ' could well be seen as optimism bias.

Well there's force majeure in action for you (here)

Excellent points Gary and @SteamyTea Could I just add one further aspect for potential self-builders to consider : optimism bias. A few years ago @Jeremy Harris ( the self-builders self builder ) wrote ( in a post started by @SteamyTea ) about the notion of optimism bias here He goes on to argue ( in the same thread) I would add that not only are we self-builders - that is people who are actually working on their build - likely to be optimistic by nature (?), but we also tend to solve problems by Doubling Down . And doesn't every self build have a good few times when gritting your teeth and JustBloodyDoingIt is what's needed. Doubling Down is not the only strategy we use. But I accept that that it's in some other contexts an over-worked term these days Doubling Down on effort and commitment has served many of us well : O Levels > A Levels > Trade Qualifications > Degrees > Professional qualifications > Doing More with Less > looking after parents > grandchildren > Nothing's Too Much Trouble .... until suddenly it is. Doubling Down doesn't work any more - because you just can't. Force Majeure. The point I want to make is that the self-build pathway is not only financial. It's not just about cost. And the problem solving strategy that you've developed in your professional career (Doubling Down) won't necessarily serve you well in a self-build. Which is another reason why BuildHub is such an excellent resource. The ability to share a FooKoop with interested committed online colleagues is invaluable

Loads of help on YT and Instagram.

Welcome. Your application has been turned down. Join tje club. Loads of us have been through the same mill. In good company here....

By buying the property to which it was joined (with the flying freehold)

Welcome. I see you're an apprentice joiner : excellent. I need one to finish the trickier bits of our cladding. You can hold the ladders. M6, Lancaster, left and then first left, I'll put the kettle on. Whets your Day Rate by the way? Ian 😄

Send them a photo: ask them what they are going to do about it. Something similar happened to me recently and I told them. In the ensuing kerfuffle, [x] blamed [y] blamed [z]. Whassat godda do wiv me I asked? Its your problem. Own it. A complete new ( in this case) set of shelves was cut and built from scratch - and more carefully packed (this time). We were told to keep the original set of shelves. If you need a spare shelf, 'Oim yer man'. Talking to a mate who's in the 'trade' - many companies are insured against this kind thing. Polite, persistent insistence is what's needed here: if you can get someone involved in the mess to laugh about the process, all the better.. Make them own the problem.

It's the simplicity I like best. I'm building a south facing stone wall at the moment 4 feet high by 25 meters long. Debbie is planting herbs that do well in full sun on the bank next to the wall. I wonder how many panels I can get in there just like you've done ? And shunt the power generated there to a largish battery in her potting shed nearby : that should secure Senior Management Team buy in. Then we can get all those damn plants off the south facing kitchen window sill. 'Nother sleepless planning night ahead then Ian...... Thansk very much for the post @JohnMo

Jesus @SteamyTea, T shirt and flip flops yet?