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No. Every single one of my receipts or invoices were printed out at home from the online accounts I held with merchants. The HMRC Inspector did not question any of the invoices, though for fun it appears, he decided to have a brain-fart and confuse the Date of Entry In The Valuation List with the Date of the document telling us our property had been added to the Valuation List. It appears he needs 6 months (and counting) at least to finish organising his paper clips and sharpening his pencils before giving us a decision. For the sake of completeness, here's the link to our on-going saga. Fore-warned is fore-armed. Good luck; we'll be re-using teabags soon too. You're in good company here. Ian P.S. I very rarely disagree with Gary, above ( @nod ), but our Inspector thinks that '...catching [us] out ...' is his job. I really would not have minded if the Inspector had been correct.

I came to value delays in the building process. Because it gives time to plan. What? Everything. Changes in the design because we hadn't thought about [...] are the one thing that has caused increased stress and cost.

Videography, the one essential service for every single self build. A time lapse camera will do: costs £100 and a bit of effort. 2 cameras are even better. Just one saved us £8000. Unless the owner is onsite every day, knows and understands whats going on, it's madness not to record what's happening day to day.

I doubt it ... but I can see @Onoff designing the automatic turnbuckle to jack it up and down, and the app that helps the owner decide when to raise or lower it Then when he's done that, the tracking for orientating the whole array will be a breeze ..... what could go wrong?

In Germany , Atomkraft Nein Danke! Nuclear Power No Thanks has been running for at least 50 years. Its campaign has a much higher profile than its equivalent in the UK. Some might call the campaign relentless - I certainly do.

No. However, what's the point of not having a Part P qualified person installing? If your area is anything like ours, finding a sparky to sign off somebody else's work is like looking for the proverbial. As round by us, there will likely be informal networks of people who - while unqualified - have arrangements with Part P lads who routinely sign off their mates work. They'll be drinking in the same pubs if you understand me.....

Exactly. The fewer moving parts the better. Your question is quite common on BH. Have a quick read of relevant threads. I am sure many are perfectly happy with their bio-disc machines. I wouldn't use one.

Mind me asking what you are burning on the stove? Our next door neighbour burns any old thing (not saying you do) and in a gentle southerly, it honks.

Our local (Morecambe) lads at TS (well, one or two of them) bend over backwards to get you signed up . I didn't signed up - can't remember why now ....

I second @Russell griffiths comment above. Brick colour varies, bricks weather. Every build, large or small is an almost endless series of small compromises between plans and actual build. You have bricks and you have brick layers. Friday night - pub - relax, move on. Good luck Ian

This set of threads will help you. Our car-crash in the making is still being made , as it were. Here's the start of it. More Adventure of TinTin to follow, I suspect. Read every word - every one of them - written by @newhome about VAT Oh, and a direct answer to the question: there is no limit on how early you can 'move in' . I suspect that your partner will be the best indicator - or even better a 14 or 15 year old daughter. They're good at that sort of stuff .....

We have aluminium clad windows where there's greater exposure to wind and rain (North, West and East). The 4 meter slider and two picture windows (2m square) that sit under cover in our Winter Garden (which is open to the elements) are plain wood.

Help us to help you. Give us a design brief: for example you mention 4 children, a snug, mud, countryside. But what else do you want out of a house? What was the design brief you gave the architect? If you give us that, then commenters can evaluate the plan in the light of your brief.

Missed off a Condition or two ... hmmm. I am not qualified to give legal advice. (yet ?) I think the answer is , yes, they can, (here's chapter and verse; section 97) but you would likely be able to claim compensation. Here is what I regard as a probably authoritative source about an issue close to the one you cite. Your post intrigues: which conditions are missing in this hypothetical Planning Permission oversight?

£600 for us And they do (did) their best to avoid coming to see us. Perfik innit?

I asked our roofer at the time: yes was his instant reply (with Alutrix). But then - I subsequently found out - he only ever used FG35.

Thank you @Dan G very much indeed for your summary. So many threads need someone to make the effort to summarise (in this case 24) the arguments presented over many pages. It takes a lot of mental effort and time.

Sister the joint with OSB. (As Russ suggests above) This is how it should have been done . Skip the first three minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SUtoKKNKHQ

We went with Gaulhofer. If its any help, I lost more sleep about windows than any other single issue. Glad its all over TBH.

Quick update: Promat Supalux 6mm ordered: minimum order 3 sheets, + VAT, + delivery = £456. Bit of a gulp. Think of England, Harry and St George. Anyway, thanks @Mr Punter, you dug me out of hole.

Ours (broadly comparable build up) £4600 for 20 m sq all in three years ago. Yours 8 times bigger, projected to be £34000. Certainly not a thief ...

In our case 16mm would be just under half the chord of some of our POSIs. And thats a lot. I'm not an SE, but out of caution may I suggest you consider sistering or perhaps some other form of stiffening or support where you have cut part way through the POSI ?

When you have decided which bits you might want to keep, build a store for them in advance. A quick scaffolding framework (KwikStage?) is fine The wood will need to be dryish and open to the air (i.e. out of the wind). Other bits will need to be kept dry. Thats not easy. Local practice is to kill any wild-life - in an industrial way. Load of pig slurry in the ponds, bat roosts sprayed. All about a year before any documentation hits the paper trail. I'm not suggesting you do that, merely reporting common practice.

Hmmmm, two drams then.......