Happy Valley

I think it is their way of trying to put you off - many companies do not want new customers at the moment.

Well Octopus take 3 months to assist so that's a none starter. British Gas are not taking on new electric only customers. Email sent to EDF - at least their website does not say not taking on new customers

We are hopefully about 6-8 weeks from moving in and need to choose a supplier for the electrics. No solar panels yet but hopefully in a few years. It will run the usual things plus an 8.5kW ASHP. Question is who to use. I hear a lot about Octupus Energy but not sure if its for us.

We have just ordered an infinity glass 4m x 1m balcony from DioMet. They also do glass for juliet balconies. https://diometonline.co.uk/balconies/glass-balconies/stainless-steel-glass-juliet-balcony-modern-style

First quote has come in ...... ..... at a whopping £9000 + for just a 10 meter run. It's the end of a cul-de-sac so hardly needs traffic management.

We finally have approval for our surface water connection and need a qualified contractor who can connect to the road. Any recommendations please in the North West - preferably Manchester/Cheshire East.

Looking good. Luckily we have a friend with a telehandler who lifted our ground floor steels into place. We hired two genie lifts for our steels at the back of the house as can't get the telehandler up due to site restrictions. Luckily we were working off a concrete raft.

We need a 4m wide balcony on a sloping site. Only need 1m depth and don't want any maintenance so I think wood is out of the equation for me. Have looked at these but coming in at over £4000 incl delivery: https://diometonline.co.uk/balconies/walk-out-balconies/walk-out-balcony-glass-balustrade

It was designed prior to planning but we did not know at that time that we would hit solid rock nor that there was an existing combined drain already in place. Ultimately we can connect but just trying to make it easier and less costly. What I am hoping someone knows is whether there is any definite law whereby I have to connect them separately.

Thanks - we have discussed a soakaway and also spoken to BC. We live on a sloping site and a soakaway is not possible as it would waterlog the neighbours land. The land to the side is so steep it would become unstable as it drops down to properties there. We therefore have to connect to the system in some way shape or form. Just seems crazy to have to go to our and their expense of digging things up when there is an existing viable alternative.

We demolished an annex to our home in order to create room for our new build. The annex had a combined roof water and foul drain which connected to a foul only drain within our boundary. Our current house has both foul and surface water drains. We are a cul de sac of 9 properties and the foul for these joins a combined system at the beginning of the cul de sac. Our water utility company have rejected the application to connect both foul and water to the one existing drain. This would mean our digging (through solid rock) and over a neighbours driveway in order to connect a separate surface water drain in the cul de sac. My question is does current legislation mean that I have to connect separately or can I appeal?

Are they paying interest for sitting on your money for all this time?

They say in stock and then call you once you have ordered to say how long the delay is going to be....try to get you on the hook. Our appliances from Appliance City came 5 months after ordering - still a couple of months early but better than the other way around.

I think more people would be sympathetic if there was an alcohol shortage....😄 Anyway we are awaiting a kitchen sink and tap which has been on order for 3 months - the tap is the problem. Nothing fancy just a std modern tap.

Yes it needs to be under the bath- it has a clever system to stop the bath overflowing - there are no other overflows cut into the bath. Sounded great at the time as the bath looks great freestanding with nothing attached to it or holes other than the drain.

It's in the centre.

Just spoken to the manufacturers and there are no alternatives but to raise the bath up off the floor - daft design. We got that bath at such a good price there is no chance of exchanging for one which will work without costing a £1000 or more. So we will raise it up on wood and cover with the flooring material that we have.

It shows how far out the trap is from the bottom of the bath - bath is on it's side in the pic

Unfortunately this bath does not have enough space underneath. Just checked.

This is the waste kit - not your usual: https://www.ukbathrooms.com/products/victoria-and-albert-intelli-waste-kit.html

Can only angle the bath differently away from the wall about 30 degrees to keep it on the same level as everything else. Don't like the look of that at all having tried it. Can't put it any where else due to ducting underneath and foul water runs.

Same as one of these: https://vandabaths.com/en-za/our-range/freestanding-baths/vetralla/

Unfortunately our bath drain is positioned directly over one of a double posi joist. It has some fancy combined overflow and waste trap which means that we need to raise the bath up by about 50 to 70mm. Floor is granite coloured LVT and the bath is white. Suggestions from the plumber/builder so far are for wood to raise it up but purely around the base and clad in LVT or a thick piece of stone/granite (which I think will be too expensive). We want to hide the raised section as much as possible. Any other suggestions please.

1st time self builder here - project managing myself and luckily have the time to do so. Builder is great and knows a lot of the other local trades who he trusts. They do a proper job at a reasonable rate. Some trades have come through him such as groundworkers joiner and sparky and others such as the plumber specialist roofers and windows have sourced myself.

Swimming pools are like a Philippino wife - a seven day wonder....(purely my opinion - no offence to anyone) We knocked our pool annex down to make way for the new build. It hadn't been used in 20 years and cost a fortune to run over 20 years ago. We changed our to posi joists in our ICF build mainly because of the MVHR system ducting rather than the underfloor heating.