ProDave

Start by calling the DNO, tell them about the building in danger of collapse and you want to rebuild but should not build under power lines, tell them about the no wayleave and then say you will grant a wayleave if they move them and underground part of it.

I thoroughly agree we need to stop destroying the planet and stop over populating it. If we solve that, the global warming problem will probably solve itself.

The balcony, now it has it's deck on, does indeed shade the living room below. I now predict in winter we might wish it was not there and might make the room dark.

We have scraped by the last 70 years avoiding a hot war. I don't believe we will manage to avoid that for much longer.

Go on, post a picture, I find it hard to believe a 1995 install does not have a DNO cutout. Lets at least see the bodge someone has done. If it was you, don't admit to doing it.

An issue I see. you are not supposed to build under overhead wires or even within 6 metres of them. Existing buildings are okay because the rules were not in force then. So you really need a pole right at the left hand side of your garden and underground everything from there. Or even if the owner of the agricultural land agrees finish it at the first pole and underground from there. There is a similar case going on here at a farm and SSEPN are refusing to replace a rotten pole in danger of falling over because it has "third party equipment" on it. So I am not sure what extra complication having the telecoms on the same pole might create.

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Mine is only 2 leg, supported from the house but with spacers on the fixing bolts at the house end and set to a very slight fall away from the house to drain rainwater off the outer edge.

Normally something like this is offer them an indemnity policy.

Spelling error corrected.

I have just about finished my balcony, but the weather is not nice enough to sit out there now. If you want a cantilevered design as shown you have to design that in right from the start, no option to add the cantilevered support beams afterwards. A lot cheaper and simpler if you are prepared to accept 2 support legs.

Move the bath towards the tap end so the there is no gap there. That is where the shower is and most of the water. This will make the gap bigger at the foot end and you will have to fill / bridge the gap somehow, but there will be very much less water there. That's the best you will do without fixing it properly as advised above.

Me too. Perhaps that is a Scottish thing? I had a planning condition that the road access onto the site must be formed before any other work commenced (presumably to avoid vehicles parking on the road) and I had to notify the planners when we started. So I notified them when I had started building the site access and they replied in writing saying the development had commenced. That on it's own would have locked in the planning permission.

Just to be clear, I do think we should be reducing use of fossil fuels and moving to truly green renewable energy. I just don't think the present panic mode adoption is quite the way to do it. Policies implemented in haste in panic are rarely the best policies. I would like to see the panic taken out of the present approach and move in a steady and well planned way towards reducing fossil fuel usage. The dash to outlaw FF cars and FF home heating is the low hanging easy fruit, but they are trying to make it happen faster than the grid infrastructure can be upgraded and faster than we can build the renewable generation so a lot of what people think is "green" when they drive their new EV's and turn on their new ASHP's will still be coming from fossil fuels. People are being hoodwinked. And the switch to electric heating for older houses is probably going to be ignoring the real issue, the abysmal lack of insulation and air tightness.

From that: "The most distant period in time for which we have estimated CO2 levels is around the Ordovician period, 500 million years ago. At the time, atmospheric CO2 concentration was at a whopping 3000 to 9000 ppm! The average temperature wasn’t much more than 10 degrees C above today’s, and those of you who have heard of the runaway hothouse Earth scenario may wonder why it didn’t happen then. Major factors were that the Sun was cooler, and the planet’s orbital cycles were different." So we didn't get a thermal runaway last time CO2 levels were way higher because in the intervening time the sun has got hotter and the planets orbital cycle was different. Yet we continue to blame the plants problems on mans activity, not the fact the sun has got hotter and the planets orbit has changed. If that is not selective use of data to probe the MMGW point I don't know what is.

Interesting. When I was going through planning for the house and discussing finer details with the planning officer, it was her that said an ASHP is not PD unless you can meet the 100 metre rule and told me to add it to the planning application. Of course one does not question that a planning officer has got it wrong so I dod not check.

In Scotland the PD planning rules for ASHP's are different, it has to be something like 100 metres from a neighbours boundary to be PD which few would be able to achieve. I was originally planning a GSPH (which are PD) but changed my mind in time to get it added on to the planning application for the house and it was not questioned.

Take a look at this well presented scientific presentation. If you are short on time start at 5 minutes 30 seconds. It shows there are a number of cycles that affect global temperatures all of different periods and when all the cycle peaks coincide we get a warm period and when all the cycle minimums coincide we get an ice age. That data shows all the cycles have just peaked, we are presently at the maximum of a warm period and temperatures are set to decline from now on for 50 years or so. I look forward to well presented arguments why this is not the case. (gets tin hat on for incoming)

Leave it for the professionals, you are building a basement and it is serious engineering.

Simplest way would be on a day you know it is going to be sunny all day, manually turn the boiler off. Or have a summer boiler program, that turns the boiler off during the daytime. This is what I am trialling at the moment, we still need some heating (average about 5 degrees outside today!!!!) so I only have the heating timed to come on for a few hours around mid day when it is likely there might be some good PV generation to power most of the ASHP demand.

Has anyone done a G98 or G99 application recently? The rules were supposed to change about now so most cases the customer does not have to pay for any necessary network upgrades.

Probably not what you want to hear, but before tiling the walls should have been built out so there was NOT that great big gap. I had trouble with "porous" tiles in a previous house (I did not know when I bought them they were porous) that soaked up water around the edges and soaked right through the tile eventually they just fell off and got replaced with something non porous.

Yup I will stop complaining. I was offered a 12KVA single phase supply, expecting a 40A fuse, but I got the same cable size as any other supply and a 100A fuse, so the 12KVA means nothing. If you are worried about earth currents, put a clamp meter on the earth to see if anything is actually flowing that way. At least you have got a circuit breaker, I hear stories from places like Spain where it is a small fuse and you get your diversity wrong and you are off until the supplier comes and replaces it.

Anyone could do the water plumbing of a gas CH system then the gas safe engineer comes along connects the gas, signs it off and everyone is happy. A bit like mu UVC The G3 plumber just made the final water connection checked it all and signed it.

Glad to hear that, thanks.