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I have just recieved an estimate from a tree surgeon to remove trees from site prior to soil survey. It obviously has a VAT element, I just need to clarify that even at this early stage I do not have to pay the VAT. I have kept all receipts for items that I have purchased so far. TIA

Something like this?

I'm following this and what concerns me is the quality, reliability and noise levels of the cheaper ones. I mean from £500 to £2000 makes you think? On the siemens site it shows the fans used, better than the ones in my current Bosch hood

Good luck from me to............pics and blog would be very nice to see and read. I'm very interested as after reading so much good stuff about MBC I am now undecided between SIPS and TF. Still going to be at least another year before I get started.

I toooooooo enjoyed the comments. Have you got this in 3D so you can do a walk through. With my plans I drew a rough plan (Chief Architect), passed it to my architect and after he finished with them re-drew it up again in Chief Architect and done a walk through then went back with my concerns and amended them...Just a thought

Many thanks

Any chance of posting a link, having trouble navigating the site. Not being lazy honest.

I made reference to Polish windows in another topic. This may be of Interest if not stumbled across before http://www.windownews.co.uk/benefits-of-importing-windows-from-poland/ https://www.aikondistribution.com/

I haven't.........I also have speakers in the bathroom ceilings and they have not suffered from the occasional hostile environment but I do have MVHR. As I said in an earlier post I installed the speakers in 2010.

Mine are the same as @JSHarris although a different name and I checked back and they came from http://www.bkelec.com/ They sadly no longer list them but that price from tech4homes is good. If my memory, LOL serves me right I paid about £18 per pair buying 12 pairs albeit 2010. They are on at least 5 hours a day and more at weekends and have given no bother. I would/am going to use them in the new house. As I said in an earlier post I have individual volume controls, chrome in bathroom and whit MK double blanks elsewhere

Well I think they sound really good, they are well made and heavy (loads of copper windings (I could pop one out and post a pic if needed) They were not that expensive. I will try and remember where exactly I got them. I have each pair connected to it's own volume control which fits inside a double gang patress.

These are mine....I put them in the ceilings and walls, got them from a place in Southend,I got a good price because I bought enough to do mine and son in laws house.

OK my first contribution to this site............... I had in my last house (long before Sonos etc.) multi room audio and video, my kids were the envy of all. When I moved into my present house (thank god for plasterboard) I put in multi room using a Rotel amp, 8 way, 2 input AV Link to ceiling speakers all hard wired. After years of collecting and working in the music industry I have my music on a server and Sonos etc just doesn't work for me. I am going to build, as you can see from my Intro recently, so done a load of looking around and physically looking and listening, so the way I am going is the Ras-pi route and this is what I am going to use/do albeit not my idea, so kudos to Cédric Locqueneux ............https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/articles/205699981-How-to-build-a-multiroom-audio-system-based-on-Raspberry-Pi-and-Hifiberry Hope this helps

TBH I don't know why they have a green dot but all bar T6, T9, T12 I want to remove. I have had an arboricultural report done and virtually all the trees were in poor condition apart from the ones that screen the road I need to form a ramp to get equipment down and also to make room for the retaining walls, I don't want to tank and backfill. The main road runs downhill N>S and where the service road joins is not much higher than the plot. When I first viewed the plot I brought that up to a builder who looked at it with me and he felt that I would be able to join the sewer a bit further down. I have got my fingers crossed but if I can't well so be it.

like this? The Bit sticking out of the roof between the velux on the east side is a flat roof dormer which is the stair well and the outside will be glass, virtually floor to roof to get as much light in as possible.

1st pic is east to west 2nd pic is west to east and as you can see a private service road is already there with gas, electicity, telephone and water sadly no sewer but that is in the main road. 3rd pic is south to north and as the plot is in the ground somebody has already built a sandstone retaining wall to the neibouring property. 4th pic wall is more visible and a few misc ones

Hello to everybody.........first thing is have to put me 'ands up to being a lurker! for quite some time. My nick is a joke as one of my friends is a plumber. This place is so informative so many thanks to the posters. I do have a plot which is in a conservation area and several TPO's. It's an ancient sandstone quarry approx 800 sq mtr, a bowl so not all the land is usable. It is taking quite a long time (I have had the plot for 16 months) because I live 300 miles away. I have planning for a two and a half storey house which does not conform to the local surroundings, (the council OKed it as it is obscured by trees along the boundry with the road) I am trying to get my application for tree removal within the plot passed so I get a soil/ground survey carried out. I have a structural engineer onboard so as soon as I can get a survey done I can get cracking with organising foundations etc.. I am going down the SIPs route, not passive but energy efficient etc. I hope to do a lot myself to save some loot. Well that's all for now folks....abuse gladly accepted