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Google suggests that they might be Hepworth product codes.

Yeah, great. The kids love rolling around in thistles and nettles... I think the OP was after a lawn, not a nature reserve.

Normal fridge with a jug of drinking water in it?

Great on paper, but blocked up with crap within a couple of years I reckon. Is it too late to keep the outer leaf up to dpc level as suggested by @George ?

How about moving the soakaways into their gardens? Is there a reason you have to accept their rainwater?

If it's just a bare plot with no construction started, I believe 'non-residential' SDLT rates apply.

Best not to let the soil dry out; put a sheet of polythene over the top to keep the moisture in until they've germinated.

It does indeed! 👍

That's not strictly true... all sorts of agricultural and amenity grassland is established without the benefit of irrigation. I wasn't in a position to water, so just had to time it as best I could to minimise the risk of having to do it again. If you sow in dry weather, the seed will just sit there until there is enough moisture in the soil, assuming temperatures are favourable. Once it germinates, you need to keep it going though, and that's not easy over summer if you have a big area.

I'd leave it till autumn personally, but you can always try if you're able to water regularly. The problem over summer will be weed competition (and you can't spray off weeds for ar least 3 months after sowing...) and the risk of a hot dry spell scorching off the seedlings.

It's a bit late in the season for seeding I think; better to wait until Autumn. If you want a lawn quickly, then turf is the way forward, but as above, watering will be a full time job.

Each to their own of course, but I don't really get what the principle is? Is it a perceived environmental benefit? Don't forget that when you buy your water from your local water supplier, your money is also financing water recycling on a massively more efficient scale, investment in wildlife habitat and biodiversity enhancement, leisure facilities, investment in renewable energy, community support initiatives...

Supply and fit should be zero rated. Nothing dodgy there!

I did ours with a lump hammer and bolster. Hours of fun! English Garden Wall bond though, so not quite so many required.

Me too. Never used them; normal airflow does the job ok, and the internal humidistat sorts out bath/shower steam.

Where does the land drainage pipe go to? If you need a French drain around your house to get surface water away, I'm not sure it sounds like a good idea to dump all of your roof water into it too...

Sorry, just read up on the 10yr rule; I now understand that hmrc view 'conversion' and '10 Yr rule' renovation as effectively the same thing. Every day's a school day!

Not if it was previously a residential dwelling as the OP suggests, surely? I thought that applied for converting old offices/commercial buildings etc into dwellings?

A sketch or photo will help someone come up with a workable solution 😉

Zambelli galvanised guttering here. Easy to fit with a hacksaw, and tin snips for fitting the hoppers. Very pleased with it.

Someone better qualified to comment will surely be along soon, but the lead should be dressed down to match the profile of the tile I think, to stop rain blowing in.

That doesn't apply to purpose-built tractors, combines, sprayers etc when being used for agricultural/forestry work though. They can still use red with no specific distance limits, as can agricultural contractors.

Hmm. I assume this is front of the house, and that's a garage below? If so, can you take the central downpipe straight down vertically to the point you can get it through the wall into the garage, do the diagonal bit out of site, then bring it back out into the right hand downpipe? Still not ideal, but a bit more symmetrical. You could do you internal bit with soil pipe fittings to sort out any problems with angles. On second thoughts, maybe do the right hand and central downpipes the same way, and run them internally to the left hand downpipe.

Our house and garage was on one Buildings Regs application. BC signed the house off before the garage was built without a problem, suggesting that I'd have to submit another application when the garage was complete. When the certificate came through however, it was as per the original application and included the non-existent garage. When I do get round to building the garage, I don't think I'll need to trouble them any further 🙂

Yes; think about this early. Some appliances are too deep to run a waste pipe behind them, so they'll stick out if you try. Depending on how your waste runs, it might dictate which side of the sink the dishwasher goes, and what else can fit in the same run.