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  1. joe90
    Quite, my not putting heating in upstairs was a “leap of faith” and occasionally during very cold weather it requires a little heat from a portable heater, but on the whole still not worth the effort or cost. (Especially in your case @Thorfun with the mesh already down).
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    as far as I know permitted development rights (if you still have them) are only allowed after completion. I was surprised after my successful planning fight/appeal that my permitted development rights were not removed. Then again the appeal officers comments about the local planners not abiding about their own policies was so scathing perhaps they thought better of it!!,!
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    I used wickes once, the customers choice, but quite a few items were missing or wrong, took them ages to replace (took the customer quite a few phone calls/not a stock item!). Howdens kept everything in stock and never questioned mistakes/damage and prompt replacement. They did the same fir me in another town, perhaps I was lucky, can only speak as I find! I did a mates kitchen in Hereford last year (as a favour as I am retired), when I unwrapped the fridge it had a little dent in the door, I rang the depot, they had to get one from another town but it was delivered the next day. Young chap was taking the old one away, I offered to help and pointed out I had cut the box/straps , as he picked it up it fell out of the box onto the concrete drive breaking the door hinges and an even a bigger set of dents ?. Oops
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    But only within the EU, they would still control our ability to do trade deals with the rest of the world, especially the Eastern countries that are expanding faster than the west. It’s all about control (IMO).
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    Oh yes, my local branch was really good to me, I used another once as it was nearer my customer and they could not give a sh1t!!!
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    What I don’t understand about Brexit and NI, We didn’t want a border and wanted to continue trading as we did before but it’s made out that it’s our responsibility to provide one or find an alternative, if the EU wants to not trade as we did before why don’t they come up with one or find an alternative.
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    Another vote fir JFDI!
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    Howdens prices are always high to start with (I used them a lot when working), go get quotes from others (b&q etc) and they usually will match or beat their price, it’s all a game.
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    In my opinion it’s because the majority of us consider the United Kingdom to be our country and don’t want it split up.
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    I think it will be a shame to break up the United Kingdom, but if that’s what they really want then it will save us subsidising them.
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    Personally I would expose the frame all the way round and measure the hole the new window has to fit in, then re plaster the 4 sides to the new window.
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    You need to hack a small hole on the plaster to see how deep the frame is
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    Also it’s easier to patch up afterwards, render/dash can be hard to match. (You finished that porch yet ?, tiling all finished ?)
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    From a look at your pics, the upstand in the middle could be removed and it looks like the lead work towards the house could be raised to take “their” water down their gulley, it “appears “ the slates might not even need to be removed ?
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    then a conversation is needed, let us know how it goes ?
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    This all depends if whatever you build gives you enough head height inside. I would get your rough plan drawn up of what you want and see if it will fit with the existing drainage, if not talk to your neighbour pointing out that running their rainwater onto your property is not acceptable (and it never should have happened).Perhaps get a roofer or your builder to quote separately for modifying their roof fall to make them take their rainwater, which I believe is not rocket science (I could do it) and whilst you are building extend that parapet wall back to your house wall. The response from your neighbour could vary from ‘feck off’ to “yes we will change our roof”. Hopefully the latter ?.
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    I would rather hack off plaster to fit a window than hack off render!.
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    Having laid UFH pipes I don’t think it would be possible to thread pipes as you want. How difficult would it be to take that top mesh up then put it down again? (I recon faster and easier than trying to thread UFH pipe under it ?)
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    What an odd setup and difficult. Why would they create an upstand half way along their gulley?. I suppose you could insist they alter their roof to take their own rain away. IMO that party wall should have extended back to the house rear wall (but it’s not ?‍♂️). With your extension would you have a similar gulley but discharging to the rear of your new build? If that’s the case you could accept (in the vein of neighbourly love!) to accept the small amount of rain from that rear area!. Depends how strong arm you want to be with your neighbours?
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    Rather than route pipes through crowded doorways I drilled holes through block walls, lined with slightly bigger pipe 300mm long. I don’t see the point In all pipes being through doorways, no point loading will be on the pipes.
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    In my design I did not like the pipes all bunched through the hallway so drilled holes in some internal walls, with sleeves and ran the UFH pipes through them, the pipes in the hallway going elsewhere i spaced at the normal spacing (150mm in my case). I did have UFH in the hallway as I have none upstairs and as heat rises it helps upstairs (my theory which does work). Mine is all one zone controlled by a room stat in the hallway which is central. The house is always 20’-21’.
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    Until you dig that hole you cannot move on, we are dealing with unknowns, it depends on soil type, slope etc etc. Once you know the depth of their foundation and the soil type at that depth even an architect, builder or BC officer cannot say. Get diggin ?
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    I paid £900 to get rid of the clay from my foundations, 4 grab lorry loads ?, no one wants clay.
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    Well I had my front door and frame made by the same company that made my windows and conservatory. It’s oak, insulated, multi point locking and much cheaper than on line “posh” door suppliers. If not DIY try to find a local wood shop and see what they can do!
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    I have seen loads of houses built closer than 600mm, if 600mm was a minimum then surely each party should be 300mm from the boundary. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2751782/Couple-s-fury-4ft-gap-houses-completely-swallowed-building-work-door.html psss, you dug that hole yet? ?
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