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Oh, if you have a Child who is a student in full time education, this is your trump card. Move them in as a sole resident, and it's 100% discount on council tax, there is a certificate they can get from Uni.

Are you living in it? If yes - you will have to pay. If no - ring them up. be prepared, read your original Planning Permission documents, there may be a statement that says, "...xyz......... must be completed before occupation". Explain to them you cannot possibly move in because xyz is not complete and they told you that you cannot. We used the lack of hard standing on the drive for that.

We have Tiles fully downstairs [light stone Coloured - Limestone coloured mortar] [Ar$e to keep clean - should have gone with grey like everyone else]. Tiles in bathrooms, Engineered wood in the bedrooms, with small sheepskin rugs. Runner carpet on the stairs [did not want to go flying after slipping] with carpet on the landing. Definitely more echoey with hard floors, especially with the trend of hard window coverings, maybe something to consider if you have kids.

You also need to review the bottoms [oh matron!] - Cheaper pans are not necessarily finished to a high standard, initiating scratches to the Hob Surface. Expensive pans have a better smoother finishing. Of course this scratching intensifies, if you shake the pan in an Ainsley Harriot fashion.

Have a similar problem. My idea was 1) to get some Rothley White Plastic Angle 2000mm x 10mm x 10mm - Screwfix 2) Got the RAL colour from the kitchen supplier and painted them the correct colour, having got paint mixed at Crown. 3) Fit to the wall - There is enough bend in it to take it up to the wall. I got as far as 2 a couple of years ago - but never got to 3, they are awaiting fitting.

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As @George too many variables. Living in a mining area. We viewed a house with a capped off bell pit in the garden that was inspected by the coal authority. Advised by the building society they would not favourable on lending as it was a certain it was there, but not how big it was. Our second house, developer built in 1998, on land that had been surface strip mined of clay in the 1940's and top of under ground coal workings. The estate had random bits of "amenity land" left landscaped, where there were known vent shafts. Also left where they did not know what was was below, [old underground maps for coal workings do not necessarily line up precisely to what is at ground level] The houses were built on reinforced raft foundations. In simple terms [thats me ] is there is subsidence ,the whole house will shift, without breaking it's back, and you get Roger Bullivant [other companies are available] to jack the house back into position and stabilise. - A an excess [£1000 ?] is added to house insurance for subsidence]. House is still standing 26 years later. Vertical and no cracks. My mate self built a house just down the road from the place in the photo in this village, in the 90's The day the earth caught fire underneath a Leicestershire village - Leicestershire Live (leicestermercury.co.uk) (Sorry about the amount of Ads on the page.) The BCO came to view the [deep] foundations, she said something like, "These are ok now, as we are down to natural" my mate had to correct her telling her there was a 50ft deep excavation there 10 years ago, so they are no where near "natural". Same place now [see below] with builds on the place with the digger. Not really answered your question, but puts some context into what can be done.

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With Vent Axia do you have the wired remote ? Sentinel Kinetic Wired Remote Controller | Vent-Axia This replicates the the control panel on the unit. Ours is on the landing. And one press is boost 30 mins, 2 presses boost 60 mins, long press purge. We hardly ever use the boost, the normal circulation is more than suitable, and is far, far superior than a fan and trickle vents. Vent axia also have a wireless board that can be fitted into the unit, with wireless boost buttons. They do however look like they were designed in the 1980's. Vent Axia Wireless Transmitter Controller (fastlec.co.uk) We have a set and have never fitted them. They are in the garage somewhere I think. Boost comes on when we have a shower with the humidity,

Good Afternoon, Hope you enjoy the experience. Lots of good advise on here.. I'l start Set up an separate email for the project like GrszHome @ something.com - use this for contacting suppliers and anything, this keeping all the junk mail trying to sell you stuff for the next 10 years and beyond separate. Try to get a trade card from Wickes [10%] if you are not in a trade, you may be able to gat a bar code from someone and put it into stocard app. Sometimes through work [blue light or perks at work or similar] you can get an extra 3-7% of by buying a prepaid charge card. If a subby says he can get the stuff cheaper, they more than likely can't. A couple of hours googling at night and a few phone call, can save ££££. All the best

Let me check again, things go into the ceiling, so loose track... but by closing and opening valves should be able to work our what is what. Another job for the weekend. 🤔

Thanks for your replies. Spoke to him this morning. So he changing from Ground source to Air source because, for a variety of reasons - "he is building an extension, does not know the size of the loops, he's moving the pump, pump is old, cannot install more loops" He is chasing up the Tesla and solar supplier. He is now stalling the install of the new ASHP's until he has spoke to DNO [officially]. Oh, his "mate in the DNO" says the property is not on the DNO network plans, as although it only 20 years old, it was a bungalow demolish and rebuild . Keep you informed.....

We used Air-testing Staffordshire New Build Airtight Testing And More | Airtight Testing Staffordshire Airtight Testing Staffordshire | Newbuild Airtight Testing and More | Airtight Testing Staffordshire From Stoke so may not be worth them traveling to Bristol £200 [Nov 2021] so will be more than that now. [no VAT then as they had just started out on their own]

We put a temporary starcase in. [got it free as the supplier of the final staircase was ripping one out the next day, after he came round to measure up. Our final one is Oak [oak veneered MDF in places], but we have a runner up the centre. We fitted almost at the end [it sat in the lounge wrapped up for over a year.], tiled most of the floor, then fitted the stairs [the bottom stair is delivered loose], finished tiling and then fitted the bottom step. Ours is still one the website. See below. I think they now do installation, which I would recommend as our joiner, me and the mrs lugging the oak stair case about was not a pretty site .

Asking for a friend [honestly]. Situation, this is how he explains it. My mate built his own house in the sticks, 20 years ago, complete with GSHP. He does not know if the DNO was informed or even had to be informed at the time. Since then. Has had Solar installed, which he believes the DNO have been informed. Has 3x Tesla Batteries, which he believes the DNO have been informed. Has a car charger, which he thinks [knows] the DNO have not been informed. He is currently charging his Tesla batteries at night from the grid on cheap electric and car in parallel. [i assume this will change in summer] The car stops charging due to "Voltage drop" error, so something is amiss. He is now in the process of changing the GSHP with ASHP. [2x 11kw]. [not told the DNO, as he thought it was a direct replacement] He has spoken on the QT to "someone he knows" in the DNO, who says although there is 3 phase in the street, but there may not be capacity to upgrade from single to 3 phase. He now does not know what to do about informing the DNO. His problem is that when we built our self build [no where near his] we got stung for circa £40k to install the new 3 phase supply, as they had to dig up half the village. I did explain somethings have changed with charging for upgrades [we were 2020], but did not know the details. Advise and comments would be gratefully received.