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OVO man here as we speak fitting a 3 phase meter.

For our selfbuild we bought a cheap shed, cheap toilet and cheap basin. Plumbed it in via a hose pipe [froze a couple of times] , and run it to the sewer. All the trades thought it was luxury compared to the usual Porta Loo. Problem with Porta Loos:- 1) Expensive - you will require it for twice as long as you think. - You don't want random tradesmen christening you nice new porcelain. 2) Hot in summer and smell so much people avoid them and p!$$ behind them. 3) Smell even in winter. 4) Soon get dirty 5) Smell

OVO [ex SSE] are coming to fit my 3 Phase meter on Wednesday next week. They have already been twice before over the last 18 months to fit a smart meter, only to find out it was 3 phase, so didn't fit anything. I will report back on Wednesday.

@Jon C What's the source of the map in the first post ? It isn't the land registry map, it looks like a Planning permission map, with the red boundaries. May also be worth asking for the Highways map as well from the local county, as it may be owned by them.

Search for land and property information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) £6 if you go straight to the source of the information and not an intermediary. In fact they are charging Price: £34.90 for the Title Register and Plan, that costs £6 on .Gov.uk

Rang Today. They confirmed receipt on 17th August 2022. They gave me my reference number. But then continued to say they were currently dealing with claims submitted in March and mine had been sent to secure offsite storage and has a recall time of 3 days. Not quite sure why he had to tell me the last bit, but at least they have confirmed they have it.

Hi @Dave and Helen I used my village insurance broker for Self Build Insurance, for our selfbuild. We're not too far away from you in Measham, so could be worth popping into them. PM me and I can let you have the details. It included public liability, and employer liability, there was a clause that included that we needed a copy of any contractor's insurance. We did not include plant, as plant was supplied by contractors, and cover by their insurance. Don;t scrimp on the expected cost of works, they charge you handsomely for changing this.

If you have any temporary works..........Another Wickes advantage is choosing the worst bent and damaged timber taking it to the till and asking for a discount.. and then presenting discount cards.

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We initially completed this for Building Regs:- The Water Calculator And made it fit, this was suitably accepted for Building Control, Water Connection and the Warranty.

If that works the same, I should be getting a text today 🤔

@JamesP Not a word. I sent mine by UPS, and it was delivered on 15-Aug-22. I may ring them up next week.

We have installed that very system, in our self build, When there is no water used for 3 days, it empties the water from the loft tank, and then refills from the Garden Tank. Ours is 7500l tank, but has attenuation to 1.9l/s.

Looks like a Sentinel Kinetic plus [but check out the model before ordering filters], same as ours. First thing, as others say, Change the filters, they will be clogged up, you've been in there some months, and if previous owner did not change them, a hoover out will not be sufficient. Filtermate.co.uk will supply them [other companies are available :)] about £20 per pair. You tube video here on changing on a similar unit. How to replace the filters on a Vent-Axia MVHR unit - Sentinel Kinetic - YouTube A bit on summer bypass here. Vent Axia Sentinel Kinetic - summer bypass info (greenbuildingforum.co.uk) Might want to sort out a working platform around it as well, something the Builder / Installer should have done,

We started looking at this - although with ASHP, at the start of the build. but never got any real answers.. But the research [not scientific 😀 ] was telling us some day to day facts for living with it., to be effective as a cooling, the floor would have to be considerably cooler than the air temp, so lets say if it was 15 degrees, you may need to wear slippers !. Also cold air will not circulate as hot air does, so you will have cold ankles. The another consideration is potential condensation, which considering you would have nice shiny tiles could cause slipping issues.

Has this now been processed ? I submitted mine a couple of weeks ago, so would be good to know if they keep to their word

As other have said check the condensate drain is working, and is connected in the right place, not sure of your model, but our vent-axia has two outlets one for top mounted inlet / outlet models and a different one for side mounted. Both pipes are there in the unit, but you have to connect the right one. Its easy to connect the wrong one, with a top mounted, as it there straight in front of you when you take the front panel off to get tot the control panel, but you have to take the rear panel off to get to the right one.

Yes - As soon as she tells us about the Notice of making a New Entry to the Valuation List. Son moves in "Your property is ‘exempt’ from council tax if it’s only occupied by full-time university or college students.

I am in a similar situation, I have mine commissioned - According to the Website you need 1) Bank account details] 2) an EPC certificate [number], and 3) the MCS Certificate. I am assured you do not need a completion certificate from BC. But will let you know when I apply, shortly.

Our GI showed we had clay to at least 5m, and there was no possibility of soak away. Also no surface drains in the vicinity. Local water board, allowed me less than 2l per second attenuation. Our SE charged me to design a storage and hydrobrake, which was complicated and expensive and also hydro brakes apparently are more for developments of more than one house. We ended up speaking to rainwater harvesting.co.uk, and had a attenuated system with rainwater harvesting for toilets and attenuation to suit the waterboard. Not cheap either.

We got it designed as we were going down the turnkey contract route originally. Also the warranty people want a design.

Not necessarily over engineered - we got a SE to design our foundations to take into account the known trees, and soil. [we had to have GI due to historic landfill, that was on the council records but they had no idea where it was, so it may have been on our plot. His design measured in at 29 cubes of concrete. We found some old roots so we went deeper, Also smoothed out some of the steps. BCO wanted more out. We also didn't leave the indefeasibly small island of soil for the chimney. Also he had an array of different widths that we didn't have buckets for, so we had to use wider ones. By the time we'd finished we had put 69 cubes in ! Luckily the ground worker [who I'd know for 20+ years] was on T&M so it only cost me what is cost. Best thing is to get a price from the SE, or a couple,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I always thought I needed a completion certificate to move in, but thinking about it we lived in the current house with a gaping hole in the side when we did extension ! so the new house is in a better state than that was. So I am now thinking the current plan is - [which history has told us will not be adhered to] 1) Tell the wife we can move in 2) Crack as we are on till Christmas. 3) after Christmas tell the Council Tax Lady we are ready for completion. 4) as soon as she sends the notification - Put old house on Market, and finalising the VAT return 5) play the trump card:- let her know the house is now occupied by our Son [who is a Full time Student], and if she asks Me and Mrs will be moving in when we sell the existing house. Which we will. 6) Son Moves all his addresses to the house. 7) Me and Mrs move stuff in gradually as we always had planned, 8 ) Move in officially just before completion of old house or sometime to suit us. 9) Sort out Insurance when the site insurance runs out in Feb

We have standard mortgage on our current house [offset with Scottish widows] , and a self build on the self build with Loughbourgh BS. for the standard mortgage we used a broker, easier as he knew the market. For the self build we went straight to the Loughborough - the Loughborough seem to have the business model, that you dont need to go through a broker and they would rather take the fees. They used to only offer the Self Build through one of the Brokers, but now [since early last year] offer it direct -

Hi sorry to Hijack this thread [didn't really know where to post, but this discussion was heading the right direction] We are approaching finishing [I wont use the term completion] our self build house. We are essentially complete. We need to complete the drive, fencing, garage door, and a few bits of electrical work in integral garage. I am fending off the council tax lady by saying it is inhabitable and not complete, luckily she does not visit site, and she accepts that the council [albeit the county council] still have not completed my Drop Kerb after their initial visit in April. The building control, want the garage door on [not coming till Feb or some other time, when people stop using COVID as excuse] to offer a completion certificate. Mrs won't let us put our existing house [mostly owned by the Bank) which we are living in on the market until it is legal to "move into the new house". So my question is who supplies a habittal certificate - BCO or Council Tax People ? The big Hitters left [drive and garage door] will VAT 0% invoiced as they have already said this, so I can prep the VAT Return. I also need to move the Site Insurance over to buildings insurance, so could that be done on the Council Tax Valuation entry Thanks in advance, and sorry for the hijack.