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  1. “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”.
  2. Really enjoying your blog. You're clearly doing a great job of the project management. I hesitate to ask, as you already have enough on your plate, but I'd be very interested if at some point when you have a minute to spare (🤣) if you shared some of your knowledge on how to do that well, what tools you use etc.
  3. I was building a flat roof very similar to yours with a parapet around the edge. The DPC was in place and copings had been installed but not yet pointed when we had a couple of days of very heavy rain. I had water dripping through light fittings in the room below. Water was getting past the copings because they hadn't been pointed yet and the DPC had not been installed properly. The builder had to take off the copings and a couple of courses of bricks to install the cavity tray with weep holes and sort out the DPC. It's belt, braces and a piece of string. It's quite likely the pointing will eventually fail so if you don't have the cavity tray, all you've got is the DPC. A cavity tray with weep holes is very cheap and easy to install during the build, not so easy to retrofit.
  4. Should there be a cavity tray below the coping in the parapet?
  5. I've read that rather than fixing micro inverters or optimisers to the PV panel battens, it's better to bring them into the roof space so they are accessible for maintenance. This is because if (when?) they fail, you can access them more easily. If they're on the outside of the roof, you'll have to use a scaffold to get up there and lift panels to get to them. This is straightforward if you have internal roof space behind the panels, but what do you do if the panels are over a vaulted ceiling?
  6. Further information, it looks like they're making an orderly exit. If anyone had an order then they had to have it delivered by the 31st October, if not then a deposit would have been returned. But yes, sad for people who've lost their job.
  7. It's been mentioned on here before, but now confirmed. I got an email today from a Potton sales manager telling me they have ceased trading. Kingspan is pulling out of Potton and as of the 4/8/25 is no longer trading. There is potential for someone or a company to come in and buy it and build it back up, but there are no time lines to this. I think I'm right in saying they sold more self build timber frames than any other company and were the cheapest of the ones I looked at. My thoughts: Relieved I don't have an ongoing project with them. If things had gone faster with our planning application, it is quite possible that we might have. But I wonder what this means for people who do have an ongoing project, paid a deposit etc. They haven't gone into liquidation as far as I know, so perhaps they will stand by existing commitments. It is a reminder of the financial risk with timber frame, with substantial payments required before the frame is delivered. Does it tell us anything new about the need for financial due diligence of timber frame companies or how to do it to avoid getting caught? With Potton's capacity removed from the market, will there be ripples out to other suppliers in terms of price and delivery times?
  8. 3 days for a joiner and a labourer, round here would be about £800 or £900.
  9. Good advice. It's like any project I suppose.
  10. Potton no longer making kits for self-buiders? Where did you hear that? It's not my experience. I'm currently evaluating quotes and they are still engaging with me.
  11. Can anybody recommend a good way to calculate cooling load? There are a few tools on t'internet, but it seems to be more complicated than heat loss.
  12. You've landed on two of the least trustworthy commentators on matters related to climate change. I wouldn't trust The Daily Telegraph journalism on climate change, net zero or heat pumps ... or much else to be honest. They have a well documented anti green track record. See this criticism for example from Desmog. And the Global Warming Policy Foundation are no better. Just look at who their trustees are - founded by the late Nigel Lawson, Tony Abbott, John Redwood ... all renowned climate sceptics. They share real estate at Tufton Street with other right of centre lobby groups. You're better off with the real world and honest advice you get here on Buildhub, for example @JohnMo 's well argued post above 🙂.
  13. I'm not sure if this helps, but we bought kitchen cabinets from these people, TKC which is TK Components Ltd. It worked out well for us but might not work for everybody - they were supply only and would not sell direct to us as the client. We had a loose arrangement with a builder, who had an account with them, and had a joiner who installed the kitchen for us on day rates. TKC invoiced the builder (50% discount), we reimbursed this to him and paid the joiner to do the installation. TKC's design service was pretty basic but fine for what we wanted on that job. There were a couple of mistakes and we were happy we had an excellent joiner who could sort things out. The cabinets are fine for what we wanted. Very happy with the end result and the price. We bought the quartz top elsewhere. P.S. Well done mod @jack for sleuthing the conflict of interest with TKC Kitchens.
  14. I bought glass as well as hardware from F.H. Brundle for a balustrade. Their glass was a good price.
  15. I'm a bit concerned that external Venetian blinds will get dirty and dusty and be difficult to clean. Any issues with this? I looked at these external screens at the NSBRC and they look quite interesting https://www.solar-shield.co.uk/microlouvre-screens. You can see through them but they claim to screen out enough to control solar gain.
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