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  1. ProDave
    That looks too big to comply, in particular It looks to extend more than 3 metres.
  2. ProDave
    A picture and dimensions would show if it meeds the requirements of permitted development or not. If it does not, rebuild it so it does.
  3. ProDave
    The drain connection from the caravan to the mains does not need to be done "properly" for this, as long as you can find a way to get it to go downhill (otherwise you want a pumping chamber) It can even run on the surface or up in the air with supports if the site is awkward.
  4. ProDave
    Personally if you are doing a full refurbishment, I would hold fire on the extra loft insulation just now. It makes it a mare of a job to work in the loft. Stick to what little is there until you have done all the refurb work i.e. plumbing, wiring, mvhr etc and then insulate the loft properly. For this winter just accept a high heating bill.
  5. ProDave
    Who knows what goes on in the minds of the people processing these claims. The impression I get is look for loopholes to disqualify or reduce the claim. My concern is if you withdraw and resubmit on completion certificate, they will join the dots and say there was a previous withdrawn application on this property that showed the building was occupied on.... so we are discounting materials bought after that date. Are you SURE they won't sat that? I think personally I would let the claim run and if the outcome is anything other than full payment, to appeal it. THEN out of sheer spite, use the case @newhome linked to to justify a suplimentary claim on completion for the last materials. I am even considering trying a suplimentary claim myself for the last few materials bought in the last year since I submitted my claim. I have 3 months to collect those last few receipts and see if it is worth the bother.
  6. ProDave
    My concern is they might join the dots, and link your later "completion" claim to this one and still maintain you occupied the building long before the claim. Does your site insurance have any legal cover?
  7. ProDave
    Define your requirements and design to that. Are you intending to buy a timber kit from one of the established suppliers? If so I hit a brick wall as soon as I mentioned taking one of their standard offerings and adding more insulation. They ended the conversation. Instead I got it designed by a competent architectural technician who knew his stuff and stick built by local builders. If you end up over sheeting the inside of the frame, you then batten in line with each frame member, to make your service void.
  8. ProDave
    If you really want a non contact resolution to this, then the only person that can do it is you, through a steep learning curve. Post some pictures, lots of pictures, as best you can of what and where is leaking and all these valves you mention, together with a general view to put the detailed views into some form of context.
  9. ProDave
    If you are really worried at getting someone in to fix it,. then leave the window to that room wide open when he is there and leave the room. Wear your own mask. I am sorry I am not going to live like a hermit in isolation. I have a life to lead and a living to earn. I take it you never go out and live alone?
  10. ProDave
    Yes the normal is get the new supplies connected to the plot. Electricity meter usually in a waterproof enclosure near the plot boundary so not in the way for building. There is no law preventing you getting a mains foul water connection and connecting the caravan to that so are you talking of some physical reason you cannot connect to the mains sewer like it would have to go uphill?
  11. ProDave
    If the rads are only luke warm perhaps there is a blockage or water flow problem so they are not taking heat away from the stove properly. When it is in that state with luke warm rads, is it possible to feel the temperature of the 2 pipes out of the back of the stove? BE CAREFUL they might be VERY hot indeed.
  12. ProDave
    Those small pipes into the hopper will be bath and basin waste pipes.
  13. ProDave
    We are over the worst of the pandemic and there are currently not any restrictions to stop a plumber coming into your house to fix this. So stop putting it off and blaming Covid and get calling the plumbers.
  14. ProDave
    When I say "water" the stove only know about the water that flows in and out of it's back boiler. It does not know where it goes or what it is used for. I only put that forward as a possible reason why it is shutting down that perhaps the water flowing out of it's back boiler has reached and staying at it's maximum temperature.
  15. ProDave
    Or if a joiner can't be found, this is within the capabilities of a good handyman if you have one around your way?
  16. ProDave
    The general principle with a stove is you want air in at the bottom (primary air) when burning coal, and you want air in at the top (secondary air) for burning wood. so once going in your case top vent shut, bottom vent open, and regulate it by opening or closing the bottom vent. This stove has a thermostatic system, presumably (it does not say) it regulates the burn to regulate the water temperature? If so then you need water flowing and the heat from it disappointed somewhere. Otherwise could your problem be the water has reached set temperature, nothing is cooling the water down, so the stove is shutting itself down? Most stoves with boilers like this are optimised for water heating, not room heating.
  17. ProDave
    We liked the look, the mix of wooden rails and relatively slim wooden newels, and the metal spindles and brackets to join them all together. In your case it would make that newel post slimmer, but not eliminate it completely.
  18. ProDave
    I would not have a light fitting that has a fixed lamp. It is now getting harder to buy the humble downlighters with replacable lamps.
  19. ProDave
    I believe all correspondence must now go through the eplanning and ebuilding control websites. I had to use that to apply for my temporary habitation and completion certificates. It is an awful website imho not at all intuitive and hard to navigate.
  20. ProDave
    So standby for a load of greenwash and miss selling about "green" gas boilers. Very much like the daft situation we have with Drax burning wood and claiming to be green.
  21. ProDave
    Well I am against "everywhere you looked" I painted the walls white. I then laid the flooring. Next I cut the skirting to length and oiled it OFF the wall laying flat on it's back, and only then did I fit the finished skirting to the wall, held entirely by adhesive so no fixings to see.
  22. ProDave
    This does seem a case of councils making their own rules. All BC were concerned with were the stove was made to an approved standard, and it was installed according to the manufacturers instructions.
  23. ProDave
    12th post in this thread Sometimes google does a better job of searching than the forums own search feature.
  24. ProDave
    Covid has changed things. I used to get monthly visits from the council fax man, first to see if we had moved into the caravan and then to see if we had moved into the house. The last time I saw him he got his file out that contained loads of photographs and he dropped into the conversation this was his 23rd visit to the site. Since Covid, I have not seen him. And my email to tell him we have moved out of the caravan and into the house and we now need to delete the caravan from the valuation list and add the house to the valuation list has gone unanswered. I don't mind still paying band A council tax but feel sure we will get hit with a bill backdated until completion when they eventually wake up. I remember in Jeremy's case the valuation officer viewed the house and although not finished declared it should only take 3 months to finish if from that stage so that is when they will be billing him from.
  25. ProDave
    Yes, you don't have to own the land to apply for planning. You might want to make a formal offer though, to stop the seller just upping the price and selling to someone else once you have obtained planning. In my case the previous planning had expired 30 years ago. So having agreed the price, I made a formal offer through my solicitor to buy the plot subject to obtaining planning in principle. I then submitted the planning application and when granted the sale proceeded. Had planning been refused the contract would not have been binding and I could have walked away. If you don't own the land there is a standard form you have to fill in to notify the land owner that you have applied for planning.
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