Gone West

Sounds like progress has been made, that's good.

Welcome to the forum and good luck with the project.

I banged our Brabantia ground spike into a temporary position twelve years ago and it's still nice and firm. I will move it this year though, to it's permanent position.

Half the price of Internorm.

Possibly, depends what you want and what you're comparing with.

They can be better than wood. We have Rehau Geneo frames which are fibre reinforced plastic which means there is no steel required. The sections are foam filled and they are better than PH requirement.

The chap who did our plastering has given up plastering due to shoulder damage, only in his thirties as well.

The granite worktop supplier/fitter just cut the slots in the underside of the granite and I fitted the sinks. It was straightforward.

They've been in use for over a year now without any problems. Probably fatal saying that though.

@zoothorn How many terraces do you want to create between the top and the stream or do you want a single 3.5m high retaining wall leveling off the garden?

@zoothorn What is the height difference between the flat area outside your door and the water level?

Cementone Cempolay Deep does up to 50mm. Think it's changed it's name. https://www.bostik.com/UK/products/Screedmaster-Deep-floor-levelling-compound

Enphase Micro Inverters have a 20 year warranty and are possibly what we will use if we decide to install PVs.

We can see the pink glow from the glass houses at Thanet Earth at night. They have a contract with a local farm to remove all the unwanted tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers which they turn into liquid fertilizer. They also collect all the bines and compost them.

I ran PHPP for my house design with air leakage results varying between 0.2 to 1.0 and there was very little difference in space heating requirement. I did it for a friend whose result was around 1.0 and was disappointed. I did put them on the AECB forum several years ago but can't find them at the moment.

Strangely ours was exactly the same at 0.47, for both measurements, which surprised me.

@Ralph yes as @oranjeboom said we have fitted a Fontenot Genius 030 modular staircase and are very happy with it. We wanted the look of a free standing staircase and it fitted the bill. There is a section in my blog about it. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/blogs/entry/164-hall-staircase/

Aye.... when I were a lad . The suppliers wanted £600 to fit our two Internorm entrance doors but being penny pinchers we fitted them ourselves.

@oranjeboom On mine it says regen 23 and resin 400. I think yours might be possibly 135 not BS.

I told the supplier the hardness level in my area and had the hardness setting set by them but I don't know how to reset it. I had an old TwinTec that packed up a few years ago and gave it away on Freecycle for someone to play around with, I was too busy doing the house at the time. I did look on Youtube at how to replace the resin but it seemed like too much hassle.

I used Sennocke Insurance and got an unoccupied buildings policy.

Stainless steel screws. Yes

Our old 1920s bungalow had T&G sarking boards covered with roofing felt and slates nailed into the sarking. Our new roof has 15mm OSB3 raking/sarking covered with Protect TF200 thermo membrane then 100 x 50mm rafters with 50mm Rockwool between and Protect A1 tight over the rafters then NuLok roofing.

Shame about the neighbour, but if the new position is further from their site they might be happier. Planners don't usually take that much notice of nimbys so good luck.

Around here a Class Q conversion requires most of the original building to remain and the footprint to not be altered. Also the curtilage can only be the same area as the footprint of the building. A small converted barn next to my property has a very small garden as a result. Mind you if no one dobs you in to planning enforcement they probably won't ever check. Not a risk I would take though.