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Fixed for you. When we sold, they tried to get us on Planning permission for the conservatory, planning permission for hard standing at the front, both of which I fended off. They got me on mines and minerals, the fact that the rights are not in the deeds and I may have encroached them when I dug the foundations for the extension. Whole faff added about four weeks to the exchange. Indemnity insurance on that was about £150.

Nature Conservation Services, Tree Popper supplier and Invasive non native plants species control and management I don't think they come cheap

+1 One who you can talk to in real life. One who is the same person every time you ring up. Often Commercial property solicitors are better suited on land.

Try this:- Approved Document M: Volume 2 - Buildings other than dwellings - Part M - Access to and use of buildings - Planning Portal The Building Regulations 2010: The Merged Approved Documents (publishing.service.gov.uk) Part M - Page 1190 Sanitary facilities WC facilities - Page 1195 Needs to read in conjunction with "Circulation areas and internal doorways" Page 1194 The above are for none dwellings but similar for dwellings:- Page 19 BR_PDF_AD_M1_2015_with_2016_amendments_V3.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk) Quite a bit of reading.

We paid about £500 for 100m2 of Trad, on top of the scaffold erect / hire for our build. That included moving up to the first floor on completion of the flooring. That took less than 2 hours on each visit.

Ours was knocking on the door of £40k - 2x 100m runs up a couple of roads in the village, one run serving just us, one to uprate a cable. Approx. half was contestable half non-contestable. I tried to get quotes from other utility installation smaller companies, but they are really only interested in Housing estates multiple houses etc. Also if I had subcontracted out the contestable works, I would have [may have] been liable to VAT on that element. Not quite a beans on toast moment, but all our contingency went straight away. Signed on 6th March 2020 just before COVID, and we got connected on 10th Oct that year. It was almost a show stopper given at the time Brexit was threatening House Price falls, but in the end we decided that we couldn't bear to sell the land and someone build a house where we should have. Could have asked for a requote after they installed, but didn't bother as they underestimated the TM, they had to shut the road and set up a diversion, also they had to supply various standby generators to residents on medical grounds, and a local business. We did save a cost of moving from temporary position to final position as they took that long, we had the cabinet in.

RCD protected etc.. Distance between water and power points | BUILD From when we visited, I seem to remember there was regulations about washing machines you couldn't have them in a kitchen or area preparing or eating food. Also the room had to have a sink. Archaic rules, so you didn't use water from the open wash copper to cook your food in. Western Australia, so don't know if it applies all over.

or 18mm Caber/ Krono P5 Chipboard Moisture Resistant Tongue and Groove 2400mm x 1200mm (8′ x 2′) - Sheet Materials Wholesale Slightly more expensive - "moisture resistant" - if that means anything - but less likely to get a large splinter down your fingernail.

"really usefull" brand of boxes are good quality but will cost a bit more, and have good fitting lids.

Shower Seal UK - SEAL185 - Shower Screen Seal - Fits 3-4mm Glass - 90 Deg Join Something like this may suit. They send out a small sample for £1.50 so could get a few different ones.

Can't comment on the timber frame, as we went brick and block, it's just what happens round here, I can see the Forterra brick factory from where I am typing this. We initially got turnkey quotes, which were as much as the house would be completed, and the PC sums were too low. We then PM'd it ourselves, I had been in Engineering Construction project management for 30 odd years, so we went for it, but it's not for everyone. A turnkey contractor will own the risk so he will build that into their price. The client will try to mitigate that by having a retention, but the contractor will just add that on to the final figure. By PMing you need to manage the risk and indeed manage the outcome and take decisions that go against your principle, and will come out of your "risk pot" or the job will never get done. So when you self project manage do you include the following in your scope ? 1)write site induction 2)Give site inductions 3) Write construction phase plan. 4) Organise welfare facilities 5) Organise site security 6) organise site insurance, including public and employers liability. 7) organise warranty - if necessary 8. Write traffic management plan. 9) inform Planning your start date 10) Organise Building control. 11) Carry out Clients duty of care under CDM 12)Award Principal Contractor. 13) sort out first aid kit 14) Send out Drawings to prospective tenderers 15) review quotes 16) negotiate. 17) Organise Services 18) organise temporary services if not available 19) Tell the nice [at the moment] neighbours you are starting the build 20) tell the neighbours, who complained about your planning permission you are starting. Not trying for one moment to put you off, as it will be one of the most rewarding things you do. But the list above is 20 things I just thought of quickly that we had to do before we had put a spade in the ground [or been to screwfix 1000 times]. Good Luck and you'll find a lot of good advice here.

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Absolutely Shocking !

With a tape measure / staff to show depth.

If the price is right it is better to own it rather than someone else. Agricultural land circa £10000 per acre [4046ish m2 ] = £2.50 per m2 Assuming the strip is 20x10 agricultural land = 200 @ £2.50 per = £500 But obviously doesn't work that easily. Is it agricultural or amenity ? you mentioned it would be fenced in - would that be ok if it amenity land ? There is an old discussion here :- A bigger garden will definitely make the house easier to sell in the future.

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Need an old old car for when they turn up to site to give quotes - even better an oldish van. Wearing Hi-Viz adds at least 10%. [I am not for one moment advocating not wearing the correct PPE]. Wife wearing Barbour or Dubarry Similar uplift.

Some nice features Special mode for babies: baby mode. When the temperature or humidity exceeds the comfort of the baby, Mijia app automatically reminds you of suggested temperatures and gives you the opportunity to give you and your family a smarter guardian Very accurate: Built-in Swiss feeling, high precision to not miss the temperature of 0.1°C and humidity of 1% relative humidity, to remind you and your family in time

Umm . We have MVHR, it drops down at 10pm til 7.30 to around 20%. And thinking about it now the logger could have been placed to near one of the vents. A lot to start to look at. and maybe need some more logging points. What does anyone else use for logging temps ? I currently have a couple of these:- USB Temperature Data Logger, USB Temperature Monitor Manufacturer (elitechlog.com) can't read them remotely and they warm up when I plug them into the laptop.

Even if this is your forever home, it's a good idea to think about it on the open market. Did your architect/designer visit you in current home establishing what elements you like and what you don't? Probably not. This one is not to far away from us and took years to sell, many different estate agents had a dabble they even tried to raffle it. Hideaway, Barton Road, Market Bosworth 5 bed detached house (onthemarket.com) Admittedly bigger room than yours room at 142m2 [our first 3 bed semi was 83m2 for all the rooms in and people thought it relatively spacious !! ] I happened to speak to one of the estate agents trying to sell it, who I sort of knew [not the on on this advert] and he said viewers / people just couldn't get their head round this size of room in a house, and what to do with it, it was just daunting. Have you thought about a utility/laundry room up in the bedroom block - most people [including us] use their utility room for laundry and it is nowhere near to the main source of the washing [bedrooms] so near the bedrooms / bottom of stairs would a convenient point. The bottom right may need a bit of sorting - the guest loo seems to be building regs minimum size, a bit of sorting and you could have a nice large cloak room [for cloaks and hats] with loo going off from it as, although not a problem now, but you have a single door from the loo to the kitchen, a shame in this size of property. You could even have an extra door from the plant room to the loo so if you want to turn your bike around whist gardening you don't have to traipse through the hall / utility with muddy shoes. or you could make that area into a sort of butler kitchen [a thing I didn't know existed until recently]. A minor thing but you need a stub wall on the wardrobe at the top, just as you go through the door, if you want to claim VAT back on the wardrobe doors. Oh.... remember at all times this is your house, to be built with your money, to live in, not your architects vanity project for his glossy brochure. Hope it all goes well, Good Luck.

To put it in Context we had a quote [early 2020] from "that company" for ASHP including NIBE F2040, and kit etc. for 8.2k [No VAT] We went with another company whose equivalent supply [Aerotherm 7kw plus] and kit . was £6.5k [No Vat] I could have bought the same stuff from City Plumbing for less Inc VAT [even less if we'd shopped around.] , [and claim VAT back later] - but we got sucked into the whole RHI scheme.

Letter back from them today. "Why is your correspondance address different to the NEW BUILD Address." Probably because the first line of the covering letter said "I enclose the planning permission documents and plans, please note some of these have the address of land adjacent to ............. For the avoidance of doubt this is the address of the land prior to the local authority allocating the official address." Our access is in a different street and has a different postcode. On Hold [40 mins and counting] to them now, Edit:- Talked to a real person. I managed to keep my cool and be polite* ...... "Thank you, please write to us and explain the situation" *As my old boss used to say "they have the gold and we want it"

I am thinking that it might be the big black, heat absorbing lump of iron, with a hole up to the roof. 🔥 Even though the stove is air fed from outside, the air baffles will probably not fully shut for safety reasons, when it is not on. Last night no fire:- The peak in the graph with the star is when I moved them to down load them. Lounge = double heat loss. Back to first principles. Check the data source. The two Loggers are now side by side, and will spend 24 hours in the Kitchen and then 24hours in the lounge to see if they are reading the same.

Not really looked at this before, but just downloaded the two Elitech loggers, one in the lounge one in the Kitchen Diner. And besides whats it telling me there seems to be another load of questions. House = self build finished last year, insulation better than building regs air tightness around 3.5 - not as good as we wanted but COVID prevented constant survalence and monitoring. ASHP and UFH. Lounge - We had the Log Burner Going, Kitchen Diner - Residual heat over 21 from Cooking etc. Blue Arrow = heating off Set Back time @ 18 degree Orange Arrow - 11pm to 6pm Trial time Outside temp around -2 Kitchen Diner lounge 17-01-2023 23:02:23 21.5 23.8 18-01-2023 06:02:23 20.4 20.1 Drop in 7 Hours 1.1 3.7 Drop Per Hour 0.157 0.529

They can chew through quite a lot once they get going, They seemed to like the taste of our Armacell pipe lagging. ☹️