ProDave

Perhaps not good on a septic tank or treatment plant? I actively minimise what goes down the sink, use the sink strainer to catch all solids to go in the bin, and if there is a lot of food / cooking fat, I pour that into a used vessel e.g. old jam jar and it goes in the bin not the treatment plant.

Total bodge. My opinion, you need a new plumber, one not wearing spurs. You didn't answer the context, has this just been put in in your house or is this a house you bought like this? That gate valve at the manifold needs replacing with an automatic bypass valve.

As well as a gap under the door I left a gap above the door, and no door stop bead at the top, just down the two sides.

Who installed it and when? I am one that believe a proper system needs a blending valve to regulate the temperature, but like others here i have seen several where that has been omitted, whether to save money or from ignorance I don't know. If it is fed from a buffer tank where the temperature of water in the buffer is regulated it might be okay, and it might be okay from a heat pump that can set a low flow temperature, but otherwise I suggest getting the correct blending valve for your manifold.

Even if you succeed in getting the application declared invalid is another valid one will follow in 21 days. Concentrate on studying the plans and trying to find a valid planning reason to object.

Including them means you can do them first if you want the storage space while building. If you don't include them, you don't officially get permitted development rights until the house is complete.

I am now in the odd position of currently paying less for our electricity than I was 2 years ago.

I have just checked and yes they have done that to me. I am not happy. Earlier in the year I had worked out for myself a plan, and I reduced my monthly payments, with agreement with Octopus to spread my £400 over the whole year. My reduced payment covers summer use and the reduced payment plus £67 from the government will cover winter bills. and I would review it again in the spring. They appear to have scuppered that. Looks like I will have to go and put it back up again, but probably not until December when the additional winter usage kicks in.

Open Reach free issued a coil of steel wire armoured 6 pair phone cable and a length of grey Duct 52 for the purpose. Only the section under the road crossing was under the duct, the rest was direct burried. Some areas don't use the SWA cable and use a soft cable and duct the whole lot.

Only if you tell anyone

Build it as a permitted development building after completion.

Why do you think the sand / cement pug mix needs to be 100mm thick? Mine is just 25mm thick. That is a lot of dead weight your floor would have to be designed to support.

Also worth noting the Impey Waterguard membrane is also a decoupling membrane so you can just tile onto it.

Yes P5 chipboard and shower former Tanking membrane Tiles

When I set up wifi in the static caravan, with the phone connection in the house, I used an old BT Home hub 3 router which I had spare. Turn off all the DHCP functions etc and it just connected to the ethernet. If you don't have one, you can possibly get one on freecycle or not a lot on ebay.

1) we were never "registered" with a supplier. Each year when it needed filling we phoned them all and whoever was cheapest got the order. 2) Watch out now for the scams that I am sure will appear "we have identified you as eligible for the oil grant scheme, click here to register"

Yes. We did two. We used the Impey wet room shower formers that are 22mm thick and match standard P5 chipboard flooring and the Impey Water Guard tanking system. Others are available.

If you want the full 4M ridge height under permitted development, then you have to move the building. It probably needs planning permission, and it won't help you now, but the advice would have been apply for PP for the replacement workshop BEFORE you dismantle the old one.

I would be surprised if you can get a roof pitch steep enough for slate and still remain in the permitted development ridge height limit.

Tackle the problem a different way. Make your current "temporary" supply permanent. Leave it there in a box on the boundary. When the house is built, connect your own cable from there to the house. Several of us here have done that. Otherwise try Octopus. I would recommend them as a supplier anyway. Oh and PM me if you want a referall code to get £50 credit if they will take you on.

If your build has not been signed off, then 0% is the correct rate. As soon as our supplier visited the house it was obvious it was a new build that was not yet finished and they did not contest it and zero rated the supply and fit. Show them a copy of the planning permission as a starting point if they contest it further.

The Scottish system they are supposed to pick the drawings to bits right at the start and only when they are happy with all the details do they issue the building warrant and you start. as long as you pay the fee whenever requested to renew the building warrant on a slow build (the time seems discretionary) then whatever version of regs was in force at the start remains, e.g we were building to the 2013 version of the regs. To avoid argument, I would just complete without the greenhouse. The greenhouse is not necessary to meet building regs. If they are really going to be jobsworths, they could ask you to submit an amendment to remove the greenhouse from the drawings, they talked about that with me and I more or less told the BC officer that it would be impossible to update the drawings now as the architect firm had gone out of business, so they did not enforce that. My case was the plans showed 2 stoves and i had only installed one.

Have you started building, not quite following? Once BCO has approved drawings you then build to what is approved. If they are questioning it, it sounds like building warrant not yet issued and you have not started building. In which case if you really really want a greenhouse, delete it from the plans, get building, and add it after completion certificate is issued.

If it was agreed on the building warrant drawing tell the BCO that is what you must build to to comply with the building warrant. Or if not already built, get it signed off and then add the greenhouse to save the argument.

It's neutral not negative. Yes you do need a proper 2 pole changeover switch, that will be your problem.