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If it is a "quote" there is a time limit to accept - ours was 3 months if I remember right, after that they can requote and the chances are it will be more.

Does The price include VAT? if it does it should not as it is connection to new property. What is the split between Non-contestable and contestable ? You will only be able to get a contractor to do the contestable element yourself. To dig up a road, you will need a permit from the council (££), and use one of their approved contractors (££). You may need to provide a design of traffic management (££) , you will need to provide traffic management (££) , and there will be further cost is the road needs closing. - this equated to about £3500 - in 2020 for our water meter in a lane as it had to be closed as it was less than 5m wide. Also there is a chance that if you do it yourself it will VAT rated, as it is works outside "the site". With only the final non-contestable connection being VAT free. Our electric was almost £40k :-

Have you changed the filters? When started to commission ours we found a big difference once we changed them, it had been running for about 6 months so the filters were quite a site. + 1 :- The filters , here look like the ones in out Vent Axia, we have 4 set of frames lots and get the sewing machine out every so often, large sheet of about 2x1m for about a tenner from RS.

Try yellow pages [yell.com] Look for "home type addresses", this will usually let you know that they are a one man/woman/other band. With SE's you can then check they are real by using their registered body. Quick search [not by any means recommended by me]:- Just Beams, Newport | Structural Engineers - Yell ring up and get a name and check here Members Directory - The Institution of Structural Engineers (istructe.org)

Sorry to raise and old thread. But did you get very far on this as it is something I'm looking at producing for our system.

Doors might be "wood" but aren't "solid timber" ...from their website "Construction: Solid ash frame, with MDF ash, veneered centre panel". If you are thinking about buying a kitchen from an expensive place like M.gnet, who's main business is selling and then stripping and then painting it, it would be best just to go to somewhere that sprays to any colour. May even be cheaper to go to a cabinet maker who does system type work and get them to make one, Ludlow is a Shaker design that all suppliers do.

Don't forget your penetrations 😜 Plenty of fireproofing solutions here:- Envirograf – The passive fire protection experts since 1983

Can you not extend the build insurance ? We had to do this monthly for a few months until we got a completion certificate [not cheap though] , and once we had one we could get normal household insurance, and then we moved our official place of residence to the new house, ensuring its was never unoccupied for the terms of the insurance, and left our son as sole occupant on the old house.

if your after 400mm thickness you will struggle with 2 x 200mm, as the measurement is at its most fluffiest - if you get what I mean, and the bottom layer will crush. We used 3x 200mm layers to get to 500mm and still had to do a bit of "filling", you loose a bit in the width when you push it together, also the eaves seem to eat it when you stuff it in there. The price has increased phenomenally, I've just had a look back in my notes, and we were paying £16.50 a roll at the beginning of April 21, and it went up to £21 middle of April.21

Wickes + 10% trade discount, - if you don't have a card one of your subby's will. + if you are employed by a fairly large company there may be a "perks" discount scheme - I can get another 6% on gift cards. You can buy at the service desk and collect round back, but you need the email address of the "trade card holder" and not just the bar code As @JohnMo says the price varies, and they have discounts as well. Oh and you will need more than you think.

We used local farmer with telehandler, seemed expensive at £40 per hour, but a lot lot cheaper overall than hiring one, as really its only need a few hours per week. Also he could drive it well, and no problem with it getting nicked.

You have a small bit of mortar slipped here, worth getting it fixed. If those are fabricated arches, it could pop the slips off, worth fixing even if they are real arches. Stitch in time

if your doing a big project needing lots of different sizes get case full like TurboGold PZ Double-Countersunk Woodscrews Expert Trade Case 2800 Pcs - Screwfix And fill up when you're short. Single boxes have a habit of hiding, and only show their face when you have bought a replacement, just like tape measures.

With the vent axia make sure you have the remote control - this replicates the display on the machine, this link is for the kinetic but there should be one for the high flow version. Sentinel Kinetic Wired Remote Controller | Vent-Axia We put ours on the landing - saves going up to the loft when messing around with it. And wire in your boost to your light switches as the vent as the vent axia wireless ones look very 1980's See if they will price match this- Vent Axia 408449 Lo Carbon Sentinel Kinetic High Flow MVHR Heat Recovery Unit Right Hand Flow (powerdiscount.co.uk) save £26.40 - every little helps

Looks a bit tight, here's our 3 phase box which is 780mm x 550mm x 225m, with smart meter and various 8 legged creatures.

Don't forget you can claim for things that you may well be installing after the builder has completed [must be in the 3 months after "completion"] such as blinds to windows, hard flooring such as laminate / engineered wood [not carpet], toilet rolls holders [as long as they are attached to the wall], curtain rails [but not curtains]. We did have several invoices in the names of trades, but which we paid by credit card, but made it clear in the covering letter, noting the invoice numbers, that the merchants would only deal with account holders, and we'd paid them ourselves and credit card bills / bank statements were available should they be needed to show we had paid for the items ourselves.

If a tradesman says "I can get it cheaper" they probably can't. So if you are in a position, ask for labour only price, order the stuff yourself and ensure its on site when they get there. A lot of the one person companies prefer it as it keeps them under the VAT registration limit. And if new build you can claim the VAT back, but if an unregistered company buys the stuff, they will charge you the VAT, and you can't claim it back.

We had ProActive self build insurance. Bought through the Insurance broker in our village. I think we started out with 1 year (Feb 20, pre COVID), then extended 6 month, and again 6 months, and then had to extend monthly for 4 months. about £1k a year, We did get stung when we had to increase the sum insured on the buildings when we took out our self build mortgage and they came up with a rebuild figure higher than we originally had insured for. The Selfbuild mortgage lender, wanted employers liability, public liability, and buildings, all of which we had in the self build insurance policy anyway.

We went to W__n Kitchens, sat through their spiel, drank their coffee, ate their biscuits, had a walk round our VR Kitchen Diner, walked out. Without a physical house built you can easily avoid the "site visit" and say we'll see you in 2 years.

As others have said:- The last supply section adds up to £87k inc £17% Overhead and profit. That's £12.5k overhead and profit !!!!! can you not source and order this [you will be searching and choosing this after all] or at least - what's the PM doing ? he could be sourcing and ordering this. 500 quid for ordering 60sqm of tiles when there is a PM on site? Wooden flooring - 70.44m2 Fit - 2222.09 + 2516 = 4738.09 = £67.24 per m2 to fit Supply £4944.88 = £70.20 per m2 Total £137.46 per m2. I know the streets of London are paved with gold but no need to pave your floors. To put it in perspective one weekend [1 1/2 days] we laid 50m2 - That was removing skirting boards, [as SHMBO changed her mind from carpets to wooden flooring 🤦‍♂️]. Laying underlay underlay. fitting the floor and refitting skiting boards [inc removing old caulking]. Team was :- Me, my lad, SHMBO and our joiner. Me and lad prepped & laid and taped underlay & generally made sure the joiner had plenty of boards available, so he could concentrate on joinery type things. Mrs, generally cracking the whip, providing refreshments, and ensuring we kept a clean ship. So one Tradesman & 3 skivvies at your rates is £3362, for a day and half work. Give us ring when you are ready to fit

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Paid this morning Via BACS, I can now chase up my landscaper to complete the bits of the drive and fencing, so he will send me a final bill. and maybe he will stop using our house as his stockyard

@Nick1c We have the Fakro ones as well, and the motor is slow, however the manual for the motor does suggest there is a programmable parameter to change the speed. NC 814-GB_ZWS12_19.08.06_FAKRO mobile (gofakro.com) manuals-backend.z-wave.info/make.php?lang=en&sku=ZWS12 RU&cert=ZC10-18036065 Tried to sort this out when we installed, but never really got on with sorting out programming the controllers, only adding the blinds, as we had other jobs to do like... finishing a house !! Maybe I will take another look. Stuff I don't understand from another forum Indigo Domotics • View topic - Fakro Roof Windows - Zwave Function

Found mine driving around by chance. Just before shutdown. A renovator in the next village was taking some down, so pulled up and asked him. £50 for farmer with trailer [and tractor !] to bring them to site. They're always on Facebook eBay, etc. I would go with buying, if you don't know how long you need them, and can be assured they will be returned in the same condition. Maybe worth ringing up the demo contractor to see if he / he knows anyone with some that they want to sell. They will come in useful at various stages of the build. If searching on eBay / Facebook. don't just search for "Heras Fencing" Harras Fencing 32 panels Feet and clamps | eBay 3 X Harris Fencing Panels In Good Condition | eBay Used Hera Steel Wire Site & Farm Fencing Building Gardening chickens horse | eBay

So today got our box of 4 lever arch files back from HRMC, with a letter saying they agreed with everything except one invoice, which was ironically receipt number 1, for tree removal, that shouldn't had been charged VAT on. We did have a conversation at the time, Back in the summer of 2019!. But we did not have the conditions fully discharged at the time, so he didn't want to upset the VAT man, and before I discovered here. So 500 odd receipts:- There were lots of Shop type receipts [Wickes / Screwfix even 1 B&M] Which I stapled to A4 paper. I used my own numbering system, which I printed sequential numbers on small labels, and stuck them on each invoice. I used my own Excel Sheet instead of theirs. I had material invoices in the names of my tradesmen, which I had paid via credit card, due to them having accounts at suppliers and the not supplying direct to me. This I explained in the covering letter, with the numbers of invoices, and explained that Credit card statements could be provided to verify if necessary. I had invoices with the old home address on as they were delivered there, and again explained this in the covering letter. I had lots of invoices that were printed off PDF's. I had invoices with the word's copy water marked across them. They accepted the internal blinds. The invoice for the venting hob got through ! The bit I was most worried about was the bulk buildings materials that had to come through my ground worker due to not having access to builders merchant. I crossed things out of receipts that were not claimable. I crossed delivery out if not applicable, and I remembered. So all in all happy, they say it will paid by BACS in 10 days [watch this space].