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    Here's some pics that hopefully help - the grey strip is a trim piece for the Epdm to give it a nice edge.... One of my final outstanding jobs is to put some composite decking down in the balcony. Need to measure up and work out what adjustable feet and frame I can use as the overall threshold needs to stay quite low.
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    I ll have to try and find the final detail - essentially it's a flat roof with firrings to give it a fall either side (high point in the middle), and it has been built up with a couple of timbers on the outside edge which the Epdm membrane runs up, across and down. The balcony has then been screwed down with coach bolts through the timbers, and every other screw it is going past the timbers and into a steel section below.
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    Kids toys are now in a couple of large grey outdoor storage boxes so that problems solved for now. Just need to tackle their playroom now as it's rammed full of stuff - downside of grandparents who adore them is too many toys. By the time you find a home for the Xmas stuff, it's their birthday!
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    We did a build a few years back - but it already had detailed plans and we could nt change it much. This one was a complete blank canvas and we managed to get planning for exactly what we wanted. Believe it or not, I don't actually have a stove - we just could nt get the layout to work without the flue going right through the middle of one of upstairs bedrooms!
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    Hi The internal area (excluding attached garage) is 300m2, and the balcony depth about 1.5m.
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    The claddding is pre stained cedar - new age gris from Vincent timber - it was one of big areas of decision/worry on the house in terms of the impact on the final finish but we re pleased with it and think it suits.
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    http://biggreenegg.com/recipes/beer-butt-chicken/
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    Sorry, yes march 2016! We moved in in December - since then have been doing the outside cladding and garden. Did them pretty much side by side.
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    I ll add some of the front just as soon as I finish painting my gate.....
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    Yes, we built the two and sold the second one.
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    Will post some up. Just been christening my big green egg BBQ but would imagine @Nickfromwales would call it criminal to waste a can of beer by shoving it up a chickens ? bum.
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    Yes - we actually bought it for the balcony of our old house and never used it. We only got it out of storage the other day but a new patio set is on the shopping list!
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    Yes - the planning permission was for two houses so I actually built two, and sold the other
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    Well I started my build March 16 with the best intentions of producing a blog for the site. Well, full time work and two children plus the build meant the blog feel by the wayside, so instead of a blog I thought I could at least post some finished pictures, and if anyone has any questions on what I ve done I can answer them. Anyhow here's the back of the house, with the sliding doors opening up to the open plan kitchen/dining/lounge...
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    In my situation it was coming out much more expensive for the passive slab due to the depth of hardcore (muckaway and hardcore cost) that the structural engineer wanted. We have clay soil so I would say the the exact answer depends a lot on this, and if you can lose the soil onsite.
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    Yes - in my instance he outline planning did nt say anything about the size or detail - it was basically outline planning for two dwellings, so the fact that detailed planning was for two 300m2 houses was probably the reason for the jump.
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    Depending upon what the planning permission is for I think detailed planning can add quite a bit of value. In my case I reckon about a 40 percent uplift from what I bought the plot for, compared to what I could have sold it for once I had my full permission.
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    Yes - felt very sorry for that family with damp house and the daughter with cystic fibrosis. I d be down the offices of the house builder until they put me up in suitable rental whilst they sorted the issue.
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    @frogeye ahh I see. I m on a gas boiler but have wondered of the benefits of turning the ufh pumps on to circulate heat in the floor around more evenly.
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    What's cooling your ufh?
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    Mine seems to be running on boost and summer bypass in the daytime at present
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    Well I seem to be around 24 degrees in most rooms. Patio windows are open, as are the bedroom ones. With the blinds down and air circulating through the temperature drops in the bedrooms in the evenings so it's a warm temperature but by no means unbearable. I do have a lot of glazing
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    Make sure you don't pay the vat as if the vats wrong, then the cost of it will will fall on your lap of its turned down on your claim.
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    Hi - I built a contemporary flat roof place in a village just outside Hereford. I ll be publishing the worst house building blog in living memory shortly.....
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    Hi, I m over in Hereford. Have almost completed my build (been painting my fence tonight).
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