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Come home to a real fire? Like a holiday home in Wales. Presumably the licensing involved in having an 'airship' makes this idea prohibitively expensive. Just like living on a boat or in a camper van permanently is made difficult.

All those furloughed Mancs doing foreigners

Anybody have experience of these metal fence posts? https://tinyurl.com/y952a9n6 Lightweight and slimline suits the look I'm trying to accomplish (if I can ever get panels)

Looking at pictures on google, actually I think I've missed ceiling material from my estimate, something to add.

Cheers, I know the base and roof structure need planning properly but I'm just looking for the ball park cost using XXXm of wood, I'll drop posts to 12. The base I think I understand, I'd probably use PIR in the end but decided to stick with EPS for the first estimate. My wife would much prefer a concrete base but I'm unsure about ground conditions and it would be a lot of work by hand especially if it needed a thicker edge like a ring beam. Would easily eat up any cost saving. We might want tiles as final flooring (would change OSB to ply) so I'm not too concerned about that at the moment - its a known extra. I think I sort of follow you on the roof, which my interpretation would increase the linear length of 8x2 needed from 100m to about 150m. The base could probably do with the same. I was surprised the about the cost of the EPDM roof but have gone with it. Maybe I should also make the roof 18mm OSB as well, not 11mm. Cladding I've seen at £15/m2 but I'm leaving it at £20/m2 to cover fixings and accessories like corner posts or whatever. For someone to build a comparable spec unit, we're looking at £1k/m2. Nearly £30k for this by the time you've put in a concrete slab for them as well.

As if I didn't have enough part started and not even started stuff to do, I've been asked to work out what a garden room would cost. I said £10k, I wasn't believed so I've made up an estimate for something I don't know how to do and taken my best stab at it. It would be a trapezium (?) shaped building due to the shape of the bottom of the garden, surrounded by trees and about 5m from a stream. It would be 1m from the boundary one each side. It would be approximately 27m2, constructed like a glorified shed and must not be taller than 2.5m. What I am looking for is feedback if there is anything wrong or just missing from my costings. What would different base/foundations cost? I've just proposed this as it is the simplest easiest method to DIY, about 1800mm max between posts. A 100mm concrete slab + ring beam would require a lot of digging and 3-4m3 of concrete and this spot is 30m from the road through my reasonably clean driveway, patio and garden, not a building site. I don't know the details of the joinery and how this will go together without right angled corners but added some extra timber to the estimate. Cladding? I have no idea about but would like a modern contemporary vertical straight wooden look. I know proper Larch or Cedar is expensive but there must be something that works out at £25m2 fitted including consumables and accessories. I have quoted on using EPS insulation throughout as it doesn't need to be great but I wanted to avoid fibre insulation in the floor and lower walls so close to the stream. Cold roof could use fibre insulation instead but walls and floor feel I should use EPS. The roof, I have no idea how to make work for a 6m front to back span. I'm aware that I might need a steel goalpost arrangement halfway back to split the spans. If so, I'll add another £1k to the estimate. I've added £50 in 3 sections to cover fasteners, not sure how close this is. Glazing wise, it doesn't have to be a bi-fold door. An approx. 2m wide french door arrangement with glazed panels either side would be acceptable. I've picked £2k as a round guess. I haven't included any must have tooling for this: I have a cheap mitre saw and circular saw so any necessary tooling (Nail gun?) will need to be bought/hired. About the only thing missing off this is a stove. I would probably only go for something like a tent stove as it wouldn't need to be big and not get used much. As such, I'll put it as £1k job in the back of my mind for looking at when this plan actually starts moving. shed budget.xlsx £8.1k is the estimate if my spreadsheet makes your eyes bleed.

But a tiny house would use less energy... Do they need to meet the same standard as a larger property?

Mega lol that they are unconventional thinking. planning reform should cover relaxation of location and building style. Certainly scope for buildings below a reasonable size to be any style you want providing they meet a broad definition of a suitable building regs standard. Broadly safety and performance maybe even some sort of standardisation but other than that go knock yourself out. Not literally as that would be unsafe.

The UN uses microhomes The issue here is not that people cannot not afford a proper building so must settle for a posh shed, it’s that the land market is (expletive deleted)ed up. The end.

Of course the man from the swimming pool association would say that. Cold tub today, turned it down to 32 degrees Celsius.

The under sink cupboard is full of crap so everything will fit and there’ll be some way to tap in the waste pipe. My concern from looking at the installation guide is that the current tap hole is only 40mm from the edge of the worktop/sink, not the specified 70mm. It can’t be easy fitting it in the 100mm gap behind the sink but that must be the same for any replacement tap.

Cheers. Does that have an above worktop isolator as well? The 3 switch grid I have is for the dishwasher, fridge and extractor fan. But if the Quooker is plug-in then they should already be a suitable rating.

Does a boiling water tap require any specific electrical supply or just off a decent ring main? (I.e. recent install without eleventy-four bodged spurs off it already) Under the sink there is a single socket for the dishwasher on a kitchen ring main. That switched socket is connected to a wall mounted grid switch isolator. Kitchen wise, the monster hob is on its own monster supply and the 2 ovens are on different circuits so maybe there’s 2 rings in here.

They don’t seem to be the best technical solution if you want a low energy home but they have other benefits. And you’d be surprised how often you’d open them. Size is relative as well. A small 3m bifold has a significantly bigger opening than the opening in a 3m slider but once you’re at a 4m+ opening, a 2m wide opener in a slider might well be big enough for you.

One of the leaves just opens as a door. Where that leaf is and how it opens is to be configured. Examples of all in one or split bifolds in fully open.

They're like kids. You: Don't do that Also you 2 seconds later, watching the kid (expletive deleted)ing do that: FFS... Like when you tell your wife those 3 little words. On any given day I never know whether it will be WTF? or FFS. If it's ever I love you, you've probably been drinking.

Probably useless to most people but its freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeceee! (at the moment) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solar-Energy-engineering-photovoltaic-technologies-ebook/dp/B0198VHPHM

This ^ Even better, ask Onoff for a home brew trommel bucket

My top gardening tip for the day is not to live in the white bit ?

Lol. Round here it’s costs a fiver to frickin’ HIRE a hay bale I’d post a link but I wouldn’t want to give the hay bale hiring business the oxygen of publicity. The pets supplies local should be able to do a bale for £10 inc delivery

I’m struggling with the compost at the moment. A *lot* of flies. We generate mountains of green stuff (kitchen scraps) but are short on browns which is Likely to be the problem. I bought a weekend paper for a change so will tear that up (no shredder) and try a good layer of that to quell the worst of the flies. But even the weekend papers are not as thick as they used to be. I may need to change tack and reduce the quantity I’m putting in. The council green recycling is happening again reasonably regularly but i don’t want to risk relying on it again yet with food waste. I don’t want 4 weeks rotten food in the wheelie bin if they miss us. So I think I’ll end up putting whatever is in there in the raised bed next spring. Just dig out 6 inches or so, spread out whatever funk is in the bin and put the topsoil back. Rather than expecting to produce a compost mulch you could lay on top of the topsoil around the garden. The banana peels, mango skin etc are not going to break down.

It’s taken 5 years to get only this far. However this is the first year I’ve actually been able to spend some time out there and think about what to do out there. We’ve planted 20 x 3’ Portuguese Laurels which will take some time and desperately need a fence between us and next door. Raised bed is new, had to get 2 bags of topsoil in.

No need to worry, I only read the product reviews, I don’t write ‘em. edit, Oh, do you mean the avatar? Dress for the job you want, as they say.