ProDave

What are you looking at in that picture that is "illegal"?

And it is STILL not finished (UFH not working)

Post a picture as detailed as you can and we might be able to suggest how

I have always been very sceptical about any form of cloud based service whether that is just for storing your pictures and music or controlling your house. Sooner or later, some or even eventually all of these are going to stop any free service and expect you to pay up.

First full week of data and I recon just shortening the time this wasteful sky box is on, has saved me about 4kWh per week comparing this weeks "other stuff" usage with long term average.

I would not expect water to penetrate fat into a new drum of cable. cut perhaps a metre off the end as that might corrode and I bet from there it will be bone dry. As above insulation test it at 1000V and if that is okay you are good to go. and also as above de ionised water for cleaning electronics.

Post as many photos of this controller as you can and any other associated controls, valves, etc, with the covers off the controller as well. In principle any standard heating programmer will do it.

Does her phone not have a built in torch?

If the water they were sumberged in dirty, probably better to open them and wash everything inside in clean water, then leave to dry. What about the building structure? We have oak flooring, if the same happened here the flooring and insulation under it not to mention joists etc would be soaked, so it would be a major floor up, dry out with large dehumidifiers and when dry replace probably with new flooring, definitely an insurance job.

But when completed next time it will just spill out of the downstairs WC or if you have a downstairs shower that will be the first to over top. I have known this happen. Not pretty.

Buy SWMBO a head torch.

Re the posts, I use 6" Larch for my balcony. My neighbour made the post bases and these are set onto concrete blocks cemented to the concrete slabs that end below ground level. My posts are 3.3 metres long. Post foot bracket

Temperature is a funny thing. Our room stats are at 20 and that is what the rooms are. But 20, when it is grey, raining and blowing a hoolie outside feels cold, so on goes the stove. A big problem with most houses is no room by room control just a thermal radiator valve if you are lucky, so precise room control is poor and often some rooms are over heated.

Serious question for basement dwellers. I assume you DO have a generator on site always in the event of a power cut? and what if you are away during a prolonged power cut? In the case of our septic tank pump, if the pump failed or a prolonged power cut, your lawn just got some fertiliser.

Ebara (Italian) are good pumps, we use one in the sewage pumping station at our previous house https://www.tradepumps.com/manufacturers/ebara-pumps/ebara-submersible-pumps

I think the indemnity policy would be an option if the time that has expired since BC last looked, is longer than the time period where they can no longer take enforcement action. What were the outstanding actions?

Are you getting confused. Planning once started, never times out, and clearly you started before the planning expired. I think you might me meaning building control who will want to check the work. That will time out, unless you keep on extending the building warrant. They might demand you start a new building warrant before they can issue a completion certificate now, and that might mean having to comply with the current building regs not those in force when you started. How long ago before they last visted?

Glad to help. I find it a great shame that so many electricians and plumber don't understand it and give you nonsense that it will only work from one of the thermostats.

I was speaking to a friend this morning about this broadband checker, that fictionally tells me FTTC and up to 80MBPS is available here. He says the reason it says that, is because of the wireless service we have available which I am now using. My reaction is what cheeky lying (rude word) Open reach are, trying to take credit for something that is nothing to do with them and has only come about because they have not put in the investment needed in the infrastructure to give us proper decent speed wired broadband. It should not be claiming FTTC is available. Fair enough if it mentioned faster broadband was available by another provider on another network.

I hate waste. Another self builder here had bags and bags of glass wool offcuts. I took them. I used them all for insulating the posi joists around the perimiter where I had the tedious task of stuffing the void and the outer posi joist web with all these offcuts of glass wool. I kept the larger pieces and insulated my entire garage walls built up in layers. It did not need to be as perfect as the rest of the house. A lot of landfill avoided and some cost savings to me.

Even if you "accept" the loss of this 1ft of land to enable the remortgage to go ahead, are the "owners" of this 1ft of land going to ask you to move the fence?

The only time I tried dealing with an architect, they estimated a build cost way over anything we expected or could ever have afforded. As it turned out, we built it for half what they estimated.

That is a similar layout to a house we used to own (as a buy to let) Our next door neighbour did just this. You obviously need to add an extra window to the front, and then create a lobby to extend the landing a bit to give a door into each bedroom. Dividing it with a partition wall is the easy bit. When I saw the finished result I was surprised how much the extra lobby took out of the left hand bedroom. You might explore taking a bite out of the rear bedroom instead to create the lobby to allow all of the front bedroom to become the 2 new bedrooms? Cost wise (this was 10 years ago) I think they said about £10K It required planning and building control.

I don't see how this came about. What made someone check the boundary plan, rather than just transfer it? When we bought our plot which was "unregistered" (the deeds were in paper form with a vague hand drawn plan) it went through a process with the land registry to identify it. But even so that threw up 2 plans showing one of the boundaries in slightly different positions, so it was still a bit vague. We resolved the stalemate after discussion with our solicitor to agree to buy it "as fenced" It didn't bother us as the likelihood of a boundary dispute would be minute and the house is nowhere near the boundary so would not matter anyway.

See post #2 A customer once asked me to fit a socket in the bathroom for a washing machine. I refused. A few months later I went back and saw a washing machine sat next to the bath. He had drilled a hole in the wall, passed the flex through, put the plug back on and plugged it into a socket in an adjacent room.