Gone West

Hi and welcome to the forum @Simon R. As has already been stated we have a Genvex Combi 185LS which provides the DHW and backup space heating. The LS version is the larger of the two types of Combi 185. Our main space heating is provided by an electric towel rail in each of the three bathrooms. This form of heating is only possible in our house because the space heating requirement is extremely low and the house is small. Unless you are planning to insulate your house to substantially higher levels than the minimum PH level I would use a different primary space heating method. Good luck with your project.

That's exactly our experience with our cedar cladding. Where the rain blows under the verandah there is a diagonal line of faded cladding below and original colour above. This is the north side before and after with about four years between.

Depends on the width of the chord. My spacing and chord width varies depending on the span and load.

SIPS or slips?

Hi and welcome to the forum. Good luck with the build. IIRC there have been others on here looking into a group build.

You could use high level windows between the bedroom and extended hall with a glass door at the end of the hall into the garden. Another option would be a light tube.

Hi and welcome to the forum. You could knock the two rear bedrooms into one and the extension could be another bedroom. Extend the hall to the rear for access to the bedroom and outside.

Yes we had no trouble from anyone living locally with our application. We only had a complaint when they said we weren't demolishing the old bungalow fast enough.

Hi and welcome to the forum. Good luck with your project.

Our's was L shaped and had single storey and double storey parts. It takes them only a little longer to go around the L so it shouldn't be too high a quote.

It took three or four days to do our borehole.

I don't know what all the others bits would cost but I had a 47m deep borehole drilled through clay in 2010 and it cost £3000 all in.

Have I missed the next installment or has the main event taken over? We're starting to plan our shed made from the usable timber from dismantling the bungalow. Did your idea of using the thinner narrower slats to cover the joins work at keeping the rain out or did they cup? We've got most of a roll of Tyvek Housewrap somewhere which we were thinking of putting around the frame before cladding with the floorboards from the bungalow so would we need the cover pieces?

We just sent out drawings and went with a company that was recommended.

Ours went up in October 2010 and was taken down in December 2011 and cost £2500 all in. It was for fours sides, two lifts and two hop ups with one side being an oversail of a single storey part of the build.

Would it be possible to mould one in glassfibre, would help with the thermal bridging?

@JSHarris Is it possible to publish a detailed set of plans without contravening any regulations?

Congratulations, it's a good feeling.

@newhome Apparently we weren't charged VAT for the asbestos removal. Wendy has looked after the accounting side of the build, she's better organised than me with paperwork. So potentially still quite a wait for us .

We're just coming to the end of the dismantling of our timber framed bungalow. It had a 30 degree roof so working on that was easy for removing slates and sarking boards. We were lucky that it was constructed largely of 4x2 and Freecycling that was easy. The old 1920s bricks from the chimney found a home via Freegle. So far the only cost has been for asbestos removal and electricity disconnection. We hope to crush the blockwork and concrete floor from the kitchen/bathroom extension and reuse it. You'll have no trouble.

@oldkettle when the planners initially refused our application, making incorrect statements about the plans, I complained to the Council CEO and when that didn't have the desired effect I complained to the Ombudsman. That didn't work either, and wound them up a treat, but made me feel better. Probably the reason the Head of Planning got so annoyed when the Planning Committee overruled him .

No, because our demolition is taking place after we submitted out VAT refund. We had been living in the bungalow up to completion of the house. The VAT refund application is now at 13 weeks since submission

We recently had Chrysotile boards removed from the walls and ceilings of our 1920s bungalow. We also removed all the Chrysotile roof slates ourselves and had them taken away. We had several quotes which varied between £4400 and £9500. We accepted the lowest and made sure they denailed and provided all the necessary documentation.

We had 22mm CaberDek laid on our first floor while the frame was being constructed. It comes covered in plastic and the joins on ours were taped as well. It survived out in the open.

@oldkettle Stick with it and don't give up. You can beat the buggers.