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Is your dog vegetarian?

If you’re seriously concerned about the environment, should you really keep pets?

Bit late now

How many hall passes do we each get?

Wouldn't ever go to Chelsea but Tatton is on my doorstep. Might go there one year but until the kids grow out of being kids there’s not much point in actually gardening.

It made no sense. AFAIC the value of the freeholder getting the land back in 900 years is nothing To keep it simple, their valuation is about 1% of the land value - assuming that is 1/3 of the property value. approx. 400k -> approx. 133k -> approx. £1300 -> approx. 100x ground rent. Commiserations @SiBee I'm sure that company you mention owns the freehold to a friend's flat. I've previously owned a freehold flat but it was a relatively young, low rise dev owned by a housing association so their were no nasty surprises.

I don’t have any service charges and I think it’s fixed. It was owned by the original builders but I think the management co have bought it out and now want to make their money selling to us. We’re going to buy it but I don’t want to have the piss taken. 100x ?

It’s not a lot in the grand scheme of things but relative to the ground rent it seems steep

Our house was build in the mid-60s and is leasehold on a 999 year lease. Didn’t seem to be anything weird in the lease, council looks after the cul-de-sac etc. The ground rent is £12 pa and the freeholder is asking for £1300 to buy the freehold. About 20 houses on the street, some to pay less, we’re paying the max sort of figure as they’ve done their homework and know we have a larger than average plot and have built on it. We would obviously like to buy the freehold but 100x ground rent cost seems excessive. Not sure if this is a fair figure or whether we could realistically negotiate. Any thoughts?

? https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/drill-bits/cat12140001?drillbittype=masonry&productdiameter=25_mm#category=cat12140001&drillbittype=masonry&productdiameter=18_mm|20_mm|22_mm|25_mm Even I have a few of these. In my poor quality Titan SDS, the drill tip is like the Aussie Eurovision entry.

So the clear winner is hard work and no reward. Just like marriage ?

Similar experience. Turfed 2 years ago but gets lumpier, patchier, mossier and weedier everyday. Planning to pro-actively weed and moss kill. Some point soon will need a scarifier to work it over. Load of top soil to try and fill some bumps Followed by some over seeding Autumn and Winter - much better leaf control Next spring do all of the above again Repeat for 2 years till a) I'm dead, b) the grass is dead

We can probably do without one of the wall units (for the gas boiler) and are those really 7 decorative end panels? but as it stands that’s coming in at 1800+vat

Might look at that. Likewise Ikea, I don’t mind putting units together to save some money. I can do flat pack myself that’s the easy bit.

There’s no picture but the Howdens quote did come in at over £2k (quoted via a decent trade account as well) as have B@Q direct and someone else she spoke to. No appliances except sink/tap as we have the washer and dryer already. I thought that was expensive for some chipboard. I don’t want high quality value, I want robust and cheap value. Will eventually get round to doing an IKEA quote but expecting the same.

We need some units for our utility room and am shocked by the prices. Do these really start from £2000 now? (B&Q, Howdens, etc) That makes £4000 fitted for Hacker not unreasonable.

Cheers so you’re looking at less than 10% of budget on design? Which seems fair for in those terms. But would you get the same service with a £5k budget?... Maybe it doesn’t but the scheme must surely have a market value of what it would cost someone to pay for it based on the trade norms if you want to compare apples with apples.

Sorry, I meant how much will it cost to actually build the landscape design? (Leaving the house aside)

Im still using a Ryobi One+ Set from the mid 2000s. The ni-cad batteries are toast nowbut I still persevere.

Buy makita. The cost is a rounding error in the scheme of things and everyone else on buildhub can bask in their own smugness.

Specification, specification, specification.

If I may be so rude as to ask, how much is the designers scheme likely to cost? 2x the design? 5x? 10x?

Are you trying to conduct open heart surgery in this shed or just locate a rusty hammer and old tobacco tin of nails?

As well as upgrading the feeds to 22mm he said he had to control the UFH with a room stat to "meet building regs". So it sounds like he does want UFH and Rads to run independently and allow the UFH to only be heated when its below the trigger point rather than as you're suggesting just have it on all the time. He said he could do it but it would cost at least £1000, I'm waiting for the worked out quote which is normally +20% round here. Its not all gravy on the insulation front, detailing is poor, there are bridging issues and the above structure is also poor.

Thanks that's very helpful in putting some of these issues into context. The 50p a day I could easily live with for the added comfort but the UFH will definitely need splitting from the GCH.