ToughButterCup

No. But whatever they do, it's likely to be overpriced. Here's why

Something is wrong here. Are you still overseas? Many people think self-builders are made of money. Time to tell it like it is: this is all too expensive to the extent that the p!$$ is being taken. £4K + per square meter is pure fantasy - nonsense bollocks piss-takery. Many of us are on under £2k per square meter. @nod is on under 1k ish, I'm on just under 2 with my set of ferkups. Most are are roughly in the 1.5, 1.8 region. Rip it all up, start again. Face to face, sleeves rolled up, and no bloody nonsense. If you are abroad, get yerself over here for 6 months, and put some stick about: save yersel' £100K.

Employing him directly ? Return from injury ..... Burning finger-tips ...... Not even a phased return? Unless there is a compelling reason perhaps?

This is a long shot. Peter Millard did a series of videos about building a door with the corner cut off like those you show above. There might be something on this video series that helps. Hope so Ian

Thats what we (had to) do.

But I love spam. I cut it into minute chunks and drop it into stews and tomato sauces - SWMBO has no idea she's been eating it for the last 30 years or more. Small victories eh.....

Thats not clear: and stipulations need to be clear . What's a majority? What size does the pond have to be? Can the pond size be halved and the other half into a drainage field? Are you in Scotland? Because if you aren't, I'll bet @SteamyTea's best carving knife that the BCOs in England won't give a CockWombles Tadger about those conditions. Ours - looking at my request - at our Inundation Pond said "Oooooo, hmmm " And walked off

... got me interested in what the spam was now.....

To me, this looks like an area where you might save a good deal. How many stairs / stair ways?

Ouch. Thick as mince me......

because ... ?

Initially I thought that heating a house was complicated : often the subject of myth , common practice and the obscure - if not arcane - delights contained in a plumber's van. 'Irons' , tapered threads, olives, compression nuts, 4 bar, 12.5 degree bends (still dunno what thats about) air admittance manifolds washing up liquid (FFS) spanner rash and to go with that, a set of swearwords that would secretly delight the average nun I remember a post of yours from years ago which revealed (to me anyway) the delights of a £40 electric-oil filled room heater: heats the air directly , costs little to run and nothing to maintain. Simplicity in action.

No. The issue is where the discharge (of whatever quality) goes - in this context a drainage field. You appear to me already to have done some thorough research. We had exactly the same problem. Not enough land for a drainage field and one neighbour who refused to consider the issue. Another neighbour actively on the 'over my dead body ' warpath. How tight is space? I ask because I'm keen to have a closer look to see if I (we) can help . An anonymised map perhaps ?

Ring the EA and talk to them. Their response will help formulate your application. It helps (here - BH) to start with a pithy problem statement (the fewer adjectives the better) and an accurate post title. Followed by a broader description with context as necessary. Format the text to aid readability. Use white space to emphasise key issues. Readers skim. They don't read unless the post is relevant to them Finish with a clearly expressed question. A joke helps.

Thank you very much indeed @SteamyTea. Very informative. I'll need to think about your reply a bit, but I'll get there eventually.

Price tables like those in SPONS can't (and so don't) make allowances for highly experienced, highly motivated people like you (us ?) @ProDave. Its a bit like @nod going to an architect, and getting a price for his newbuild from the poor man (or woman) - I'd be able to hear Gary laughing from my place - 25 miles away.

Something's wrong here. And I bet the source of it is that you are abroad: not your fault. I lived in Berlin for years, but had property in the UK. Somehow when I was away, simple things got many orders of magnitude more difficult. A simple instruction to an agent would simply be ignored. The properties I owned were round the corner from the agent concerned: 100 meters or so. To me this 'smells' like the same type of problem. You can't just pop into the office to bollock someone. And they can always lie about their ability to pick up the phone. And, like it or not m Put some stick about: if nothing happens, rip up and start again.

What would happen if you changed the position of the thermometer? I ask because 1.9 seems to me to be well within the range at which a SignificantOther would not notice the difference. Actual temperature and perceived temperature differ in this household.....🙊

The format doesn't matter, as long as it's consistent. It isn't required, but I paginated the document and provided an index. I made sure that the document submitted was as neatly presented as I could manage. They still managed to ferk it oop royally. (Couldn't read and interpret the meaning of the date of letter accurately)

I taught him everything he knows, but not about walk-on glazing.

Vee Tschermans often sit on our medicines too. I learned the song : Pop Goes the Weasel to that routine. It all works so much faster

Our SE never once visited the site. The service excellent, prompt, honest and when warranted humorous. When our SE was asked about stuff he didn't normally cover (ICF lintels) he recommended other SE(s) I point this out because - for many jobs - there is no need for the SE to be local. The ability to communicate well under pressure is important - sometimes people find it easier to reply by email....

This summer-time exercise worked for us. Feed them outside for a week. Then - with the cats inside the house - put their feed outside at the tunnel entrance with both flaps up. Then one flap down .... Then do the same with both down.

Don't let anyone in the food-chain attached to your house know that. The p!$$ will be taken mercilessly. Work on £1800 per square meter or less

It is worth a bit more investigation or Yes it does annoy you .... because....