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  1. Dave Jones
    get on the phone to the local trades, one of them will give you a weeks shot.
  2. Dave Jones
    your SE elevation looks close to the boundary, you can only have 1m2 of windows in that entire elevation if you are 1m from the boundary. Fire regs.
  3. Dave Jones
    wouldnt bother with CSCS unless your intending working for persimmons, taylor wimpy etc not needed on normal sites.
  4. Dave Jones
    The sparky 1st fixing for us had an apprentice with him, he lasted 2 months. Always late, always on phone. If you got a work ethic you will breeze it, offer a week trial if you don't let them down they will snap you up.
  5. Dave Jones
    paintable DPC confirms to building regs https://www.permagard.co.uk/damp-proof-paint
  6. Dave Jones
    dont forget the VAT, you can reclaim on a new build. Big chunk.
  7. Dave Jones
    ring up a firm who fits them and see if they want a labourer to learn on cheap-ish wages.
  8. Dave Jones
    all of the trades are flat out, labour for a sparky/plumber (plumbers earn more) whist your doing your gas tickets. Specialise in heatpumps as there seems to be a massive shortage of plumbers who can do them.
  9. Dave Jones
    yes some sort of thermal store arrangement. Problem is each plumber has a different solution, may go direct to Worcester boche and see what they recommend .
  10. Dave Jones
    get the VAT back on a demo as well.
  11. Dave Jones
    do the math to see if its worth dropping. sale price now, + cost of extension = new sale price. is this a positive number. If it is may be cheaper to drop the whole thing.
  12. Dave Jones
    do this.
  13. Dave Jones
    sorry but that looks crap. When something isnt broken etc...
  14. Dave Jones
    looks like they have lapped the felt wrong as well. higher up should overlap the ones below not the other way round as water can get in.
  15. Dave Jones
    Best best is to drop a few thousand on a proper planning consultant.
  16. Dave Jones
    looking at similar, its looking like dual combi boilers and a couple of tanks feeding the bathrooms with various pumps. The combi's can keep the tanks red hot irrespective of demand.
  17. Dave Jones
    these people walk among us! Freeze the family as they too tight to put the heating on. How your mrs hasn't kicked you into touch by now is amazing!
  18. Dave Jones
    stables and horses are not classed as agricultural in law.
  19. Dave Jones
    This is the problem with ASHP. I've decided not to use them anymore as they are expensive crap compared to a combi. I wont compromise on limitless proper hot water, not the luke warm stuff that comes out a ASHP, and a combi doesn't play up when you really need them when its bloody freeezing outside. They are the betamax video equivalent of the heating market and a better solution needs to be found, I believe Worcester boche are working on one.
  20. Dave Jones
    get a gas combi pronto!
  21. Dave Jones
    buy a scanner and a shredder.
  22. Dave Jones
    concrete posts give it the council sink estate feel, allways wood for me. Back to your original plan for slatted as this does look smart, I'm looking to do the same. I'm thinking of using marine ply staining the whole sheet whatever wood colour her indoors requires then ripping it down into 50mm strips. Put all the strips on edge and stain them in 1 go both sides. Wont tell the difference once its all up. Secret pin it to vertical treated roofing batten painted black (shadow gap style).
  23. Dave Jones
    ask for copies of the supplier invoices for whats on site and pay them. Apart from the timber frame what else is done, are you able to have a tot up ? Builder probably has many jobs like yours not finished and needs cash so your likely to be easiest to tap.
  24. Dave Jones
    disagree. Rest bends are designed for the foot of a stack. I'm sure using a 90 will be fine but still a bodge.
  25. Dave Jones
    a length of pipe jutting out the slab is fine. The plumber will cut it to size when first fixing. There will be plenty of room for a coupler to go on it even if its direct coupled to a toilet.
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