Gone West

You can only buy online from Burncoose, although they do have some gardens you can visit.

We had regular visits throughout the build from the local Council Tax office. We started the build in 2010 and moved in 2018. In January 2018 the Council Tax Officer deemed that the house would be habitable in three months. In March 2018 we received notification from the VOA that it would be in Band 'F'. In May 2018 we appealed against the VOA valuation and suggested it should be in Band 'D'. We negotiated with the VOA and in July 2018 we came to an agreement with the VOA that it should be in Band 'E'. We sold the property last year and it is still in Band 'E'.

We lived in our bungalow, band B, while we built our new house in the garden. The VOA banded the new house as an F which we appealed asking for a D and it ended up being an E. The bungalow was demolished after we moved into the new house, and removed from the register and while both properties existed the new house was called New Property at 'old property name'.

We used Hedges Direct at our last house and this one. Good quality and choice. https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/ Burncoose Nurseries in Cornwall also a good supplier. https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/index.cfm

Swallows generally build their nests on shelves such as beams inside buildings such as barns. They are completely different to house martins that build their nests from mud which is usually stuck to the wall and soffit.

Not my sandstone end either.

@pocster Wendy has spotted this thread and would like to know what make the cupboard doors are and where they came from. I can see another job on the horizon for me.

I had the three bathrooms Venetian Plastered back in 2016 and I was charged £62/m2. The team that did it were excellent and the finish was superb.

It's always subjective because the policies are written in such an ambiguous way that the planners can use them as they want. The Head of Planning told me one Planning Officer might refuse an application and another officer in the same office permit it. We went to the Planning Committee and won unanimously much to the planners annoyance. The planners themselves told me they didn't have anyone with design qualifications and asked the Conservation Officer to look at my application.

Yes, in my experience tossers with a limited vocabulary of - massing, bulk, form, scale, incongruous and discordant used for refusing applications.

Ideally the window frames would be installed inline with the insulation layer. Presumably the aluminium frames have a thermal break in them. What is the RH value near the windows. We have single glazing in one window and an air temperature of 23C and RH 50% near it and we dont get much condensation on that window.

Don't know what the annual average for Cornwall is but annual average for SW England & S Wales is 1277mm. Annual average for NW England and N Wales is 1338mm. Nearest station to us is Bude and it's 905mm, always seems to be dreich when I go to Toolstation. Ambleside is 2103mm and on the dry side Manson is 613mm.

We cleaned all the bricks, it was only soft lime mortar, and Freegled them along with the timber. I put a bit on here about it.

At Faversham the average annual rainfall is 675mm but I much prefer Cornwall to the South East and won't be moving back.

Are you staying put? I overheard a woman in the local post office, when I lived in East Kent, say that she had moved back from Cornwall because it rained too much. Must have been a waste of money to move 300 miles for a year or so and then move back.

We've got an Apollo wireless oil tank gauge that seems pretty accurate.

We installed a WPL Diamond system which ran faultlessly for eleven years except for the Secoh air pump which packed up after ten years and was replaced with a more efficient Secoh pump. The local farmer had a large Biodisc system and he was forever 'fixing' it.

I'm not sure if I understand the problem completely but the house we've recently moved into has a Mira Event XS shower which has a pump built into it and runs off a low pressure hot and cold supply. https://www.mirashowers.co.uk/showers/power-showers/mira-event-xs-thermostatic/

I don't know if this will be of any help. https://www.tileandstonejournal.com/featured-articles/green-screeds-what-we-should-know-before-tiling-them/ https://www.bal-adhesives.com/products/new-floor/

The only things I remember for sure that were branded were the Nikles showers. The taps may have been Crosswater but the ceramics etc weren't labelled as far as I can remember. I'm sorry I can't check as we moved house a few months ago.

We bought everything for the bathrooms from Bathstore around five years ago. The quality was good.

You know what you're doing though ?.

I guess you could use something like this if you use a S/S flue. https://www.riversidesheetmetal.net/chimney-caps/5.html

I wonder if it's something to do with the coating on the surface of the Caberdek which is making them apprehensive about gluing to it.

It's looking good, smart ensuite and that's going to be some shed.