joe90

I got EXACTLY what I wanted in the first place after numerous applications and an appeal to the Secretary of State. Apart from a planning consultant (in my case not worth the money) I did it all myself so costs were minimal but several years delay.

Yes cheap sliding doors are awful, consider a bifold door? Takes up less room 🤷‍♂️

Just spotted locally unleaded and diesel the same price £1.44 🤷‍♂️

And after that come to the Forest to shift x tons of gravel for my garage 👍

Well my brick layer was not convinced about full fill with batts but they do have a bba certificate. The outer wall was brick and one wall faced west and it was near the coast in Cornwall and after a very wet winter the bricks were sodden. I then installed the ASHP which meant I had to core drill that wall and when I put my hand in the hole the inner face of the bricks were sodden but the batts had absorbed no water vat all, to protect the bricks on the face (possible spalling) I coated the wall in water proofed and the rain then rolled off it like glass. I would suggest the cold bridging is minimal, the soil temp at depth is quite stable and above air temp in cold weather, like the wall ties ( I decided the cost of special wall ties was not worth their minimal effect) suffice to say that over the 6 years I lived there the heating from my 4Kw ASHP only came on in Dec and Jan for short periods .

+1 for GRP but not in this weather.

Similar to this…..

Yes my brick layer was great at this and installed the batts as he went (inner skin already built) and he could reach to retrieve any that fell onto the batts. Mine did. Below DPC my cavity was filled with XPS rather than weak mix to avoid a thermal bridge.

I keep thinking of the film “I robot” 🤷‍♂️

Blame the judge, not what I wanted at all……however my little cottage was renovated ten years ago with all new insulation, double glazing, fairly draught proof and small to heat 👍 (and a small wood stove and as a resident of the Forest I am allowed to collect fallen wood to burn (as it’s no thicker than my arm) 🤔.

I now have one of those 😳.

Yes, a friend of mine was going to do it till I explained it was bullocks.

Well I installed an ASHP in a well insulated house and it performed well, but I get what you are saying about installation and commissioning, instal gas with the infrastructure to change to ASHP, feet in both camps. I concur with what you say about air tightness. (And I am positively ancient 😳).

Well done, looks really good 👍

No, if you read that properly it said “you are one of those that” … manage to successfully walk the line between commercial presence and unacceptable business promotion. a compliment 🤷‍♂️

In a previous house I hand made the kitchen and the kickboard I made from ply and covered it in black floor Lino, you could join/ make your own plinth and glue something you like over it.

Welcome, it’s always good to have professional advice from experts here.

I have just discovered two manhole covers under the gravel on my drive, easy to sweep away the gravel and get access and push it back afterwards.

Well you have tried your best, as long as the flooding does not come back into your place, I would crack on 👍

Let’s hope @Big Jimbo has similar in his area 🙏

That’s a new one on me?

Oh bugger, thought I would try the tinternet…….. Common law imposes a duty on the owner of land adjoining a highway to maintain these ditches that provide natural drainage for both the land and highway. In the majority of cases the responsibility for ditch maintenance rests with the adjacent landowner. and A roadside ditch which conveys water away from the adopted highway is classified as a watercourse and as such remains the responsibility of the riparian owner. so, thinking logically (fir a change) if you are maintaining your section of the ditch but others are not perhaps the environment agency will give you a lead on this 🤞

Seems like a good move, where do they think the rain that falls on your plot goes naturally 🤔

I was on clay and when the building inspector came around he said “where are you going to put the soakaway?” To which I replied “ you mean pond!” Then I explained the water in a hole in solid yellow clay would just stay there and be a waste of time, so he asked me what I was going to do, I suggested I pipe it directly to a ditch on the boundary which is where all the rain went anyway and he agreed 🥳 to add, if the ditch is outside you property it is the responsibility of the council to clear it downhill surely and you have riparian rights over it 🤷‍♂️

I already got rid of my junk when I moved house (but I know what you mean 😱) I gave my old cement mixer away and now had to rent one for a week 🤷‍♂️.