bassanclan

Me too!

Two separate lintels would be cheaper, you can probably find an off the shelf 4500 box sections for internal and L shape single leaf lintel external, rather than a "cavity lintel" which at that length will be made to order. Ig lintels, birtlet lintels, catnic and I'm sure many others

Do you mean turf...

Why not go: MOT Sand Insulation Structural Liquid concrete 65-75mm

I would actually rather NOT have any architectural input, if I had the IT skills to draw it up myself I would rather do that. On a previous property I spent a considerable amount of money and time getting an architect to design an extension only to end up drawing something myself and telling him to draw it to scale... "Yes that would work nicely" he said. In terms of the design I don't need design input, i know exactly what the layout and elevations need to look like and what architectural features need to be included. So a skilled architect or technician isn't needed, just someone with the relevant CAD skills

When we moved into our current house there was bath like your original plan. It was crazy and got ditched straight away!

Reduce the right hand side of the door from 225 to 73mm or less and you are sorted. You could turn the bath through 90 degrees and put it on the left hand wall so you dont have a window over the bath.

Ive had a chap come with a quote of £300 to draw it for planning and a further £300 for building regs, but I need to provide him with a measured building survey. He will allow for one revision, but after that extra charges. Next best is £590 + £450 and others are well into the thousands.

A sliding pocket door would work

Just looking for reccomendations for a super cheap draftsman. I want to build a two storey side extension, I know the design I want, I know the measurements. I just need the technical drawing skills rather than the architectural skills. Anyone used something similar and recommend them to save me getting my box of pencils and set square out!

Any chance he can lift some floor tiles, use them on the wall and then only has to re-do the floor?

The flexible ducting are all easy to use. Generally the kits you buy come with wrapstraps to attach to the fans. The more expensive ones use large metal jubilee type clips.

You can try GAP they do a lot of upvc, the only place I could find what i wanted at the time.

My mum and dads house is on clay, it was built on raft foundations

If you find such a thing let me know! I don't think its going to happen. He might get close, but that will look even worse.

With 30k to play with, fit radiators, forget ufh and save your money for more insulation!

Yes there is thermal bridging, but you can insulate around it to mitigate that to some extent, joists have been fitted into pockets for 100s of years. If you were starting with new joists then you would avoid thermal bridges etc, but you have to take a pragmatic approach and go for the easy cheap big wins rather than expensive marginal gains. I doubt the cost of the works will ever be recouped by the savings you make on your heating bills in your lifetime.

Not sure how you are getting triple glazed at the same price as double glazed. I went to get a quote on the back of this discussion and its about 50% more for triple glazed using their website

Check with your mortgage that they will lend on a property with no central heating

I would leave the timbers in the pockets and insulate around them. The cost of doing the work will far outweigh the benefits

Its definitely high concentration bleach, just not sure on the brand name

For headstones use high concentration bleach. I think a brand of it is HCL

A good solicitor will be able to find covenant protection insurance, to pay costs if it was ever enforced. Therefore if your garage falls under permitted development, then you could likely build it and nobody would bat an eyelid. The agent probably doesn't realise it has the covenant. If its very visible to the agent, or you have already approached them you will struggle to get covenant insurance.

Sounds like a large estate, landed gentry, owned the land you are looking to buy. Let me guess, the estate sold off the land for a single house, who is now selling his garden to you to build a house?

Remember that when you submit a planning application you can withdraw it and resubmit for free