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Me and a friend have only passed a water supply connection first inspection 1/2 times each. Built over 20 houses between us. They put a new main in for him recently and they were at 600mm. They make it up as they go along

New regs. Got to show something like 3-6 months history. Money laundering regs

Was thinking of buying a new fridge myself last weekend. As you say though it might save me a tenner a year but will be worth half what I paid in a year. Decided to stick with the oldun!

Who moans about energy being too cheap?! Seriously! It's like moaning petrol is too cheap. I'm not hating on your eco houses but i'm fine with cheap energy! Get down the pub and tell everyone its too cheap

looking good btw... Did you have oak linings as well? Were these fitted as part of second fix?

The doors will stick around at the kind of money, howdens do 3 varieties of that style in oak now (3 price points). By the time you 3 coat a standard door vs 1/2 coats of oil on these the price difference isn't so great, and you've got an oak door.

30-70 clean. Type 3 I think 200mm thick and leave around 100mm low not including surfacing. +75mm tarmac. Top the 100mm up with type 1 towards end of build.

keylite have that expanding foam collar as standard

Fake news it's actually a great job. They're all having it done like that now!

Jeremy you do seem to be an extraordinarily helpful bloke though and also passionate about low energy builds!

Shuttering trenches never seems to work very well. Depends how neat machine driver has been. 6mm ply is laughable but feel free to try use this then backfill. You will soon give up! iv found pallets either side wedged with everything pulled out good solution. Pull out props and pallets as Conc rises to be most effective cheap method as usually have loads of pallets. Ive filled lost corners with conc before but think textbook founds should have nice vertical sides so not ideal

The industry is booming. Perhaps in the dark years they'd of tried harder to win your business but their order book might be full regardless

Is there not done confusion here where you are just fixing horizontal battens to your frame and others are assuming you fixing 2 layers of battens?

Seems odd. How many have you tried? Perhaps previous client don't want every potential new customer traipsing thru their door. Understandable I suppose

Recently bought a makita planer and it was no good. Returned under warranty after 4 months and refund taken. Went back to Bosch. I'm not loyal to any manufacturer but didn't give me a good impression

was hoping to get away with vine eyes and staples! Im thinking if i pull taught before knocking the staples home on the posts all should be good?

So thread thru vine eye one end. Twist back on itself to secure. Run to other end, through vine eye again, then how do those nifty pliers pull the wire taught?

Whats the way to fix garden wire to wooden posts to grow a climber up? Posts are every 6ft with a run of around 11m. I want horizontal wires at around 150mm centres I thought vine eyes at each end and staples on the 6 or so intermediate posts. How do i tension the wire or keep it taught while putting it up? Any tips so I don't make a mess of it...

As in out the side underground re your drains? I take it your groundwork people are doing this?

Yes I would of thought 100mm just where the doors are is no major. With regards to cutting a channel into eps is this done with hand saw. Also where is the shuttering added and what does it achieve in @TerryE solution? Any sketches? edit. Think I understand the shuttering lowers the frame Cill below ffl to help with part m

There you go a custom calc well done

My understanding is double eps =pir so rough and ready you'll have 360mm eps. Work your figures on online calc based on that. Sure someone will give you a more precise answer though!

I think the point of permeable paving is that unless it's heavy rain the paving shouldn't be directing the run off anywhere. Therefore the rain should fall where it has always fallen and shouldn't pose any extra risk to your foundations. Obviously it makes sense to put a channel in for surge capacity though.

Boarders are rough. They're too used to being on a price and having to throw them up. Did any of you have to buy a special waster adapter with those frames. The last one I bought didn't come with some kind of adapter I needed as waste was something like 80mm. Ended up ordering one of gerberit from Germany or somewhere on continent.

Look like they're enjoying the inset valley boards! Bit of a pain that job.