Dave Jones

Why are you bothering with either for a square box that you wont be living in ?

lovely

getting trades will be a problem, all the decent ones round these parts are full next year already.

this is quite correct. Even with a builder managing the lot you will be lucky to get it done in a year.

dpm under the celotex sitting on the sand, its why you blind it. dont have another above the pipes how would the screed flow into all the gaps ? If you intend to lay flooring on the screed it needs to be put in with a laser, if they spin you a yarn about it being self levelling just know it wont be.

there is no RHI for solar anymore

haha no. it has a mains gas combi. i want to get rid of gas and go all electric.

looks awesome.

I have a small flat I rent out which has a combi in the kitchen. I'd like to get rid of it but there is nowhere to put a cyllinder. Are there mini ones that could fit into a kitchen cupboard ?

battery / powerwall may be a better option than solar. It allows you to timeshift your grid demand to cheap rate so you allways pay cheap rate whatever time of day it is.

bet the tilers will love that treble handling everything. There goes the bill doubled!!!

its hard to see from the photo, is the laminate and tiles the same height ? What I did in our utility as the engineered oak and tiles were pretty much same height I got a tube of silicone colour matched to the grout and ran a thin bead. It looks seamless and hasnt caused any issued the last 9 months.

oh he will be getting paid twice. If you look at the warranty cost breakdown it includes site monitoring fees.

your not paying for extra checks they are the same as BC, just happens many BC firms are in bed with certain warranty companies so do both otherwise you would have 2 blokes come out to check. I believe buildstore dont use any BC so you get 2 visits.

its to cover the risk to the bank. They are only structural so really its all about the foortings. BC never hang around to see them fully dug and filled and even if they did whos to say they wont move and cause subsidence depite you doing them exactly right to the drawing. The bank now has a loan on a worthless house, the BC company could no way afford to pay out and would go bust leaving you back at square 1. Too much risk for the banks so they make you pay to cover their asses. My second self build i was very very lucky with warranty, I used a company called CRL who were recommended to me by building control. The went bust the month after I sold the property. If I hadn't completed when I did I would have had to have paid for another one as well. BC told me he had sites where there were 20 houses not finished that the builder had to pay out for again.

someone has pinched half your roof and covered the first floor with floorboards!!! How long the build been going on ?

come back in a year/18 months and let us know! Been there done that never again, at the risk of repeating myself waste of £££££, hassle and grief. You will have plenty of all three on the build anyway wouldnt choose to have more for no reason.

15k on a caravan that will be lucky to be worth 5 after a 12/18 months. crackers !!!!!

not for me was the same bloke who did the BC inspections and he didnt stay twice as long!

no telehandler on site ? How you getting the roof tiles up ?

because building cert isnt worth the paper its printed on. I think they were on site for total 20 mins during the entire build.

dont do it. trust me they are horrendous. They sell for peanuts after couple years. total waste of time, money and sanity!!!!! Save the cash and rent the cheapest place you can.

lovely location.

other option is an Architects certificate.

i think quicker and easier to staple the pipes direct to the celotex.