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Entitled to refund then have you consulted your conveyancer? Think time limit is 18 months or more

How many hours of free labour did he put into it? Perhaps he wants a wage this time round?!

Glad to hear you took back up the smoking! Pack a day keeps the doctors away!

Either drop the roof windows into the pitched ceiling or just form some boxes coming down to the flat ceiling.

Wouldn't he need a compressible insulation incase of different settlement/heave. Especially if he is not going to dig out between the strip founds and prep as you would for an insulated slab (2/300mm ish hardcore?).

It has just occurred to me why do we commonly sit FFL's 150mm above floor level just because DPC is at this level? Is there a reason we don't use have outside dpc higher than inside especially in cavity wall construction? Is this not what we invariably do anyway around the level access opening? Also is this why bottom of timber frames are not level with FFL so no timber in splash zone at level access? Your never going to get the bottom of a suspended floor anywhere near ground level without house sitting 600mm high once beams insulation and screed is accounted for. Excuse me if i'm being stupid it just occurred to me every house seems to be 6" above ground, even when no local risk of flooding.

My god how bad are the walls you lot are fixing to! I've got some acrow props you can use between walls if they're that bad

Photos be nice!

Maybe planning consultant rather than architect in first instance. Should be able to get free consultation with a few and look at strategies from there

Will it not have weathered more consistently in a year or two?

Sorry to be of no help. How much meterage was this 34k?!

You didn't tell them the nice lady was the one who held you up though! You only have two viable options and this one seems most logical! tbf I can't believe there's a time limit! Do they also forget about taking any vat off me if i wasn't to do a quarterly return

Perhaps one or two friendly suppliers had printed your details wrong on the invoice. Took them awhile to correct the details and even sent you a nice apology letter?

I thought porous tarmac ontop of type 1 was no no? You want no dust. Sorry for deviating just thought if you were topping up you could change the stone order

From my experience the thinner liquid screed performed better in terms of resisting cracking than the thicker concrete. I don't know the science behind it thought perhaps someone else does? Flexibility perhaps?

Was suprised at just how strong these screeds are. The flow is superb aswell. I usually use agilia which is good no nonsense stuff however susceptible to cracking if movement joints not in asap. Lafarge do one of these thin screeds when I worked on a job with it was tuff stuff. Only 50mm thick you'd think it would crack everywhere but very strong.

Didn't work - appendix worked - having it removed! 17 been crap in health and business but few irons in the fire already for next year and feeling good.

Land liability, the world truly has gone mad! enjoying watching vikings and observing a more survival of the fittest approach to civilisation!

Not ideal for new builds but perfect for older tenanted properties as @Ferdinand says

Is it not designed to push air out of trickle vents?

Is the floor a click or glue system? Presume it's floating of underlay been mentioned

Apparently new cars as 2017 been a slow year - sorry that doesn't help your cause! Howdens October sale, but like you say not really sure it's much cheaper

I literally have the CML extract on my computer listing the lenders who accept PCC. Who told you most lenders don't accept it? Did you do any of your own research or just accept that persons word for it? Sold a couple of new with PCC, both mortgaged, both times wasn't an issue.

Unreal that isn't it!

Does make it harder to paint afterwards though! @jamiehamy started reading your blog earlier quite interesting project!