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No to the first, and yes to the second question. Internal layout is Not a Material Consideration to a planning application.

Firstly welcome! You are understandably concerned. There's nowt like a Planning Application to flush out what people really think - as opposed to what they say to your face. You are in very good company here. At a guess I'd say many of us have had the same issue to deal with. Objections to Planning Apps are nothing new to us or indeed to planners. The vast majority of objections are made on what's called in planning terms 'Non-Material' grounds: they are not relevant to the application. You and I would call the grounds: Nonsense . I have looked at the objections offered; Re: 1 - I think that the Planners can write a condition require the garage to return to its original use when it's no longer required. But I'm not certain. Re 2: make sure the view from the windows is obscured in some way Re 3: non-material consideration (irrelevant) Re 4: non-material consideration ----- " ----- There may be other considerations which are material but we have missed them ...... I'd say your concerns in relation to the objections as stated , while understandable, are unfounded. To lighten the mood a bit, have a read of this ...... yes I was livid at the time I wrote it. The post contains links which should be helpful. On balance, I'd file the objection to your application (referred to in your post) in the waste bin. Ian

If you have to ask the question, then the answer is yes: change address. There are organisations that will do that for you for - in terms of the sums of money spent on a build - peanuts.

Here's authoritative data collated recently the data is available here in full https://www.gov.uk/guidance/appeals-average-timescales-for-arranging-inquiries-and-hearings Downloaded May 2022 Has your application been validated yet?

Dave, I think you are trying too hard. The job's getting them to take the fault seriously..... We had a similar issue - several vans and several blokes later; deadlock. Cue some fairly straight talking - followed by another van and another - new - OR guy. Twenty minutes later he'd found the problem , half a day later all sorted. The 'fault' ? The signal by-passed our house, went half a mile down the road and came back to us - often as not scrambled.

Structural engineer ... we're interested amateurs, well most of us. We decided on the same brief for our architect, and ended up raising the roof of our garden room to be the same level as the rest of the house. Which made the structure easier to build. The Garden Room has turned into what Kevin WhatsHisFace calls a Breeze Corridor. Yes, I milk it more than a bit.

Ahhh, at last, a balanced and thoughtful approach to a subject that - here - is usually an arid slanging match. Thank you.

Now he tells me: two years too late. Typical.

... badly. For a self-builder, it takes a lot of courage and attention to detail to do well. The Devil is always in the detail. I agree entirely with the rest of your post.

Yes, @Mako, I am too. Its easy to conflate two problems: builders' inexperience and product- related issues. If a builder who only ever does Velox installations were to experience 'constant ... problems ' then the builder would either go out of business, or use some other build system. And presumably the manufacturer would value feedback from that builder. Feedback such as described above of boards braced breaking and blowing out as frequently as indicated would mean - if the issue were to become generalised - the end for the product. Where many factors are in a problem description, it's important to control for all variables before drawing a valid conclusion. So, let's see what the size of the evidence-base is please.

Seen this? There are those of us who wouldn't touch a SunAmp ever, not no how, never never never never, and those of us who are happy with ours. It is common to hear the argument that they are overpriced. I have also heard the argument that SunAmp insist that a trained fitter install them, but at the same time allow their units to be sold in outlets where anyone can buy one. If thats the case, then SunAmp need to get their act together. I think that in addition to the answers you get here, it would be an idea to ask the manufacturer the same questions you have above. Mine is the 14kW version, absorbs all the pv I can throw at it (3.8 Kwp, northern England) , and is slowly repaying the outlay as forecast. For us space is at a premium. I have no idea how long it takes to heat up from cold.

I'm about to put up a flat porch canopy stile 'roof' to cover a bike rack. The apex of that canopy roof will be tucked under the gutter and eaves of our piggery. At the top of the rafter, therefore, I won't be able to nail slates - I'll have to fasten them some other way..... How? Stick them ? With.... ? I'm intending to use OSB under the slates instead of battens. Thanks.... (PS I've already thought of fastening the slates to the OSB first, and then raise the 'unit' and fix in place. I'm not strong enough to do that on my own) Damn, got the slates on the wrong way up .... eejit.

Thanks for making the effort. Where to you delight in radiative models, I delight in learning to be a better carpenter. I can see sawdust and shavings . But heat, temperature, warmth, joules, kWh, Ergs, pv .... I'm with @Jilly

Deliberately, I feel. It just can't be kept simple because it's not in the sector's interest to be so. You really can disappear down soooo many rabbit holes, and for your troubles, be pulled this way that way (... over the Irish sea ...) by one charlatan after the other. Read @TerryE's posts and blog. At first, go for a percentage of understanding, and work up from there. I think I've re-read his stuff more than anyone else's. He sticks to facts, and keeps it simple....ish. You can read this board about heating until your eyes bleed, cross themselves and die. And still not know what the 'king hell to do Bitter? Me? Know why you are choosing the heating design that you want : and - more importantly - why you are not choosing any other from all the designs available.

There are more qualified people than I to answer your plumbing question. I wish merely to pass on a conclusion drawn by one member ( well regarded, technically ueber-confident, not so active on this board these days) who remarked that he wish he'd kept it simple(r) ... in terms of costs and diminishing returns from time and effort invested.

No ghosts then?

Welcome. Keep hold of the dream. It took us 30+ years from dream to reality. Kids, life, mess-ups got in the way. If we'd had buildhub in the early 2000s, we'd have [....] Help? - persistence . Self building tests persistence. A lot.

Sounds like some of you are starting your second childhood.......

soon as we get a bit 'to spare', I'll have a peek .....

Exactly..... The above and this ... ... make the point so much more powerfully than I could ever have done. Had you both lived in Germany, you would have had the opportunity to move schools (as of right) at the end of the academic year to one more suited to your skills, attitudes and abilities. But, as it is as a result of your own efforts , you've both turned out fine ... I think

Change might above for is and I agree with you. And - to me - the cause is simple. The English education system is the root cause. Young people in the Secondary Education system are locked into schooling in one of two (or three if you count Private schools) types - academic or not academic. That divide causes an almost irrevocable split between people who, until 12 years of age, went to the same school. Suddenly one group is told they are 'better' than the other group. Between the groups, globally there is no parity of esteem. Success is going to (locally) a grammar school. And few seem to recognise that (also locally) that there are excellent secondary schools. I know I bang this drum an awful lot, but the German Secondary Education system has a lot to offer. Young people can swap school type (academic, practical, practical-theoretical) at the end of each academic year. That leads to parity of esteem between the groups. Young people with A Levels (Abitur) are held in the same regard as those with practical qualifications.

On advice from @Stones, I bought two. The evidence from one saved me paying an invoice for £8500. Interval ? 30 seconds. Downloading and organising the images can become an annoying job - because its easy to miss a day and then the next day have double the data to transfer and file so that the images are meaningful to you. And by that I mean, do you want the images as a general record, or do you want to know whether company [x] delivered what they said the did, or do you want to know if employee [y] is just taking the pees while you are off site? Or in my case, was an employee deliberately smashing blocks just sufficiently so they burst on a pour..... in that case 30 seconds was fine.

Declan, you can just see it in the middle tile of the top image and the left hand one of the lower image ....

Looks exactly like mine, except the gaps between the ridge tiles seem to be larger than I would have liked..... but I don't think they are going anywhere. Your question is about water-tightness. That isn't provided by the ridge tiles (in this case) Its the membrane under those tiles that acts as the waterproof layer. And we can't see how well (or otherwise) thats been been fitted. Short of taking the ridge tiles off and looking at that , we can't (I think) be of much help. The other thing you can do is ask another (local) roofer for an opinion. But you'll likely have to pay for that. What concerns me a bit is why did the ridge tiles fall off at all? Is your roof in an exposed position - open to locally strong winds?

Morning..... Welcome A photo would help us help you, please.