Dave Jones

check insurance, wont be able to use normal buildings and contents without a completion cert.

you could also move the mechanical fix off the frame by using frame straps, added bonus of no holes visible from the inside. The ilbrook foam is very good.

must be great breathing in all those particles of perished rubber around the lid. Crazy to bodge and skimp on a couple hundred quid manifold ...

£50k min.

use a normal gulley, 90 out the side into your 1m deep pipe.

go in loft take a picture of the trusses.

then you have his goodwill and nothing else.

if an insurers SE says the footing has failed then any 'resin' is literally paving over the cracks. It sounds like your looking for an easy out to justify the price and have latched onto this. Underpinning is not a massive job and will fix the root cause. Webuyanyhouse wont touch it with a bargepole as they wont be able to flip it with subsidence which is all they do. stick by your guns there is always another place.

actually the opposite. DPC course is irrelevant.

builder you employed or finished house bought off a developer ?

37k not enough. buyers market with the recession. I'd want double that at a minimum.

we actually are in a similar position, solid 9" wall no insulation. Im going to put 100mm celotex internally then board on top. no dab using megastick with some thermally broken fixing to help the celtex stick. its quite labour intensive having to cut 125mm around all the windows to get insulation to all the reveals. Only has to be done once though right.

make a cheap wooden ramp. get completion cert. burn ramp and do patio as you like.

overhead pump is peanuts. crazy to try and cheap it.

its actually none of that... payback in 1.5 years.

they wont know unless you tell them anyway.

Classic example of modern planning laws protecting a property built when no planning laws were needed.

Klober have new closers to go with the dry vallys, very nice they are too. https://www.roofgiant.com/grp-valley-troughs/dry-valley-closure/

have you looked on land registry to confirm its 'unregistered' all unregistered means is it hasn't been sold since the land reg system was modernized. It will still be owned.

here https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/937931/ADB_Vol1_Dwellings_2019_edition_inc_2020_amendments.pdf

no. It specifies them in the regs

put one of these heat recovery units under the bath, cheap and easy SAP points, save you money as well. https://recoupwwhrs.co.uk/products/easyfit/

EPC are largely meaningless anyway, legoland new builds easily get 'B' and are thrown up. The system used in Belgium is much better in my opinion, the KW/h m2 are used instead. Was in Bruges earlier in the year and nosed around the agents windows as you do, some placed were 500 kwh /m2 some 20! https://www.vlaanderen.be/en/epc-for-a-dwelling You can directly translate this into a £££ value when looking to buy a place. Not easy to do with an EPC of B-

all depends on your ground conditions, if its clay then pointless. You should have been asked to do a percolation test to see if your ground is suitable, it may be the previous BCO knew it would be ok based on his experience. https://www.jdpipes.co.uk/knowledge/sewage-treatment/how-to-perform-a-percolation-test.html either way its fine, dumping it into the sewer helps alleviate the shortage of water/hosepipe ban as well !

the wife has seen this style of sink and is very keen that we fit one. Can't seem to find a supplier at a reasonable price. anyone came across one ?