bassanclan

660l TS, provides plenty heat for radiators and ufh. Hot water for 5 showers. Allows it to be heated from solar (via Immersion) or wood burning stove or gas. What's not to like?

Acceptable and desireable subject to it meeting the correct IP rating

I've put in antislip shower trays. They have a texture a bit like sandpaper. They take some keeping clean, but better a dirty shower tray than a broken leg...

It is 100mm cavity build, hence my concern about whether the lean mix might have expanded and pushed out those few courses. Some blocks are below the blues because they won't be seen after surrounding path it built. They are dense 7n blocks, some are laid flat, to make up for a bit of unevennesses of mass concrete footings. Different soil levels around the site mean there is 10 course of blue engineering in some areas and only 4 in others.

Yes the building inspector did inspect the trenches, he missed his initial appointment meaning the concrete pour had to be cancelled and another slot was booked, so the trenches left open for 4/5 days. I wasn't there when it was poured, so I don't know how soggy it was underfoot, but there is no cracking in the foundation concrete

I'm building a garage. The foundations were 1.5-2m deep mass fill gen3 concrete, no trees nearby. Left hand wall outside course has significant cracking appeared since Christmas. The wall below dpc has also bellied out. No cracks on the inside course, or visible foundation concrete I've got two theories, One being that water is undermining it causing one side to drop or slide away. (This area is very wet with a lot of standing water having to be pumped off) The other being that the lean mix cavity fill has expanded and pushed out the brickwork. (The mix was full of all sorts of rubbish and old cement, slc, dot and dab adhesive, skim etc) My thought is to try and fix it with helical bar and replace the worst of the broken blue bricks?

Looks like real slate. You need to know the measurement of the required slate before you can go ahead and buy replacements.

If you are wanting to put the exact same flooring throughout then A. If you are using different flooring in bedroom to landing you could make an argument for B/C, but it might look too busy

I will have a look and see how far out it is

Does anyone have a recent copy of pdf SPONS they could let me have? I have one from a few years ago, but prices of labour and materials have changed a lot, especially in the past year

It took me a while to realise that it is my job as the builder to prove to the building inspector that my work complied with building regs, rather than assuming that the inspector can see that the work meets the regs.

Just to addthat even if you can get away with 225, you need the depth of the fully open door as a minimum, just for practicalities

Some lenders won't lend on properties with flying freeholds. Therefore they may ask you to repay the loan in a worst case scenario. If you are keeping the properties for the long term and are happy to renew the mortgage deal with Birmingham Midshires then you probably don't need to rock the boat until you are financially able to repay the loan if required

There have been situations recently of private inspection firms going bust, then having to revert to LABC anyway. Personally I have used both and happy with either. LABC probably do more jobs so more likely to know your ground conditions etc if that might be an issue

Way easier to hire a digger+driver combo. When you look at hire prices you are basically paying a £100 a day for the driver. Look on Facebook marketplace etc. As the driver will know their machine inside and out they will get that dug out and footings dug in a week or less