ProDave

No I don't think you use that sort of flashing with a twin wall flue pipe. This is what you want https://www.flue-pipes.com/flashing-30-254.html flue-pipes.com is where I got mine from, the cheapest I could find. Depending how air tight and how well insulated you are building, you might want to look for a stove that takes it's combustion air direct from the outside via a duct rather than from the room.

The point is to avoid having to trim anything from the wall boards. The finished height is 2420 so the wall boards stop 20mm above the finished floor and the gap will be covered by the skirting. The exact measure is unimportant as long as there is a small gap that will get covered. The last thing you want is 2400 before you sheet the ceiling, then you will be trimming a slither from each board and cursing.

Yes. If I still had the prescription from the last eye test. It got "filed" which probably means I will never find it again. Perhaps after the next eye test I might look at this.

That is only a little bigger than our kitchen / living room and we have a ceiling height of 2420mm That extra 20mm means you don't have to trim any of the plasterboard when sheeting the walls. This room feels perfectly normal to us. However I don't see a 3M ceiling would be too high either. We have one bedroom with a 3M ceiling and it does not look silly.

My issue is astigmatism. Prescription glasses correct that, and my distance glasses for driving are brilliant. But self select reading glasses can correct focus issues and are adequate for reading a pc screen and general close up work, but are never perfect because the astigmatism is not corrected. My gripe is the self select glasses I am wearing right now are fine for the pc screen and fine even for looking at something the other end of the room. I could wear them around the house all the time if I wanted to. Why can't I have a pair that does that AND corrects the astigmatism without paying £170 for them?

Might try that. My reading glasses were free on the NHS as was the eye test (advantage of being in Scotland) but when I went to complain about my reading glasses not doing what I expected, I was told I needed work glasses and there was no NHS subsidy for those and prices started at £170. I walked out. Trouble is I don't even think the eye test to get a prescription for that would be free.

My reading glasses. About the most useless things I ever got from an optician, because the only focus over a ridiculously short range "reading distance" so are totally useless for the computer for instance as that is too far away (so I just use a cheap pair of self select glasses for that) If I come by something hard to read then I blow the dust off the reading glasses and use them, to try and justify their reason for being on this planet.

The price seems fair to me. Last time I tried approaching an architect I was quoted about £25K for a similar package and they would not negotiate one tiny bit, which is why you will not find me speaking highly about architects.

If it is not a wall hung pan, but a simple floor standing back to wall toilet, then you do you want or need the complication of a frame to mount the cistern in. We just used a simple dual flush concealed cistern with hydraulic flush plate. And here showing the service access

Shouldn't there be battens on which to fix the standing seam roof, and to create an air flow under the SS roof? For insulation type, I would recommend Knauf Earthwool Frametherm 35. It's less nasty to handle than most glass fibre type insulation, and stiff enough to stay put when pushed up between the rafters so it stays there while you board over the underside. I used Protect Barriair as my air tightness / vapour layer.

A lot of these "log cabins" are really little more than a garden shed. Solid timber walls not very thick and no insulation. I have wired a couple as offices or such like and they are cold uninviting places in anything other than summer heat (when they are probably too hot) I think even my humble static caravan is better insulated and would make a better office / work space (exactly what we intend to use it for now)

My plumber friend paid in the order of £10K for supply and fit of an Ecodan system, I am not sure of the size but 8KW rings a bell. I always thought it strange that a plumber should pay someone to fit one.

I can see the re plumb my house with an UVC thread starting soon.....

I read it as removing the macerator (that was presumably put there because you could bot get enough fall on an underground pipe) and replacing it with a direct soil pipe, which to get enough fall would end up above ground, but covered by the deck.

We find just sleeping in our bedroom raises the temperature 1 degree overnight. Never been in a house that does that.

Hi and welcome to the forum. I and many others would be interested to hear about your battery system. Start a new thread in the approprriate section.

Well my sub £500 ebay ASHP is (eventually) working. Can anyone with an RHI system and (inflated?) MCS installer costs really get a system for a net expenditure of £500?

This plasterboard waste thing. Perhaps it is just me, but doing my own boarding, I keep all the offcuts lined up, and when I need a small piece, I look FIRST at the stack of offcuts, and even work out if I lay it out slightly differently can I make it so I can use an offcut. Result is after boarding 3/4 of the house, the stack of offcuts ammounts to less than 2 full sheets, and what is eventually left over might just gradually make it's way into the bottom of that green thing on wheels. The other day I visited a neighbour who had just had a conservatory built. I ended up skip diving and recovering some sizeable offcuts of 50mm PIR insulation, a whole sheet of reinforcing mesh, and some useful bits of timber. Also in the skip was a bag full of left over brand new drainpipe fittings which I only left there as I don't have brown drainpipe. The sheer waste of some professionals (paid for by the customer) is astounding. Our local tip will allow you to take waste in a van or trailer IF you fill in a form to declare it is personal waste not trade waste. But of course it would be far too helpful for them to keep a supply of the forms actually at the tip.

Mind me asking how much it cost (for a comparison with say tarmac)

That is what I was told on the MSE site. I too was worried that I might accumulate a CGT liability by renting it, but it seems you would have to rent it quite a long time before that is the case if it has been your primary residence for a long time first. The exact wording of what I was told is here Perversely, it looks like if a property that has been your primary residence, is going to be left empty for more than 18 months, you can reduce or eliminate your CGT liability by letting it and claiming the letting relief (only available if it has at some time been your primary residence) In my case it looks like I will be liable only for the letting gain less the final 18 months. And when you take into account TWO CGT allowances, that would need to be in excess of £22K gain before we would have to pay anything. Which unless prices suddenly rocket before we actually sell it, would be about another 4 years of rental. If the tenant has not bought it by then he would be out and it would be back on the market anyway before that.

My BIL had a run in at his local tip. He had a pick up truck and in the back he had a 1 ton builders bag full of garden waste. He dragged it out of the truck and started unloading it. Immediately an operative came over and said you can't tip that much. My BIL eventually won the argument when he pointed to the sign saying "garden waste, 1 car, 1 bag" and he pointed out he only had 1 car, and he only had 1 bag of garden waste. TIP: (cough) the bottom half of a domestic wheelie bin is "very useful"

The Primary Residence relief covers the period you occupy the house as your primary residence AND the last 18 months of ownership regardless of use. So as long as you can prove it was your primary residence until no earlier than 18 months ago, then you should not have any capital gains tax to pay, even if you were letting it for that last 18 months. Our old house is currently under that, having now been let for 15 months. Even after the 18 months is up, there will then be a letting relief figure to apply (a more complicated "lesser of 3" calculation) and if that calculation shows some taxable gain, then there are two personal capital gains tax allowances to use up before you become liable to pay anything. So unless we rent our old house for many many years, there should be no CGT to pay,. If CGT is due, they take the purchase price and sale price (including all expenses) and assume a linear gain throughout the ownership and apportion it monthly for any period where CGT may be due.

I (as an electrician) generally leave all the waste from a job with the customer. If there is space, it is left in their own wheelie bin, which as their waste is legal. I must admit I do this mostly because there is not often space in my own wheelie bin for it. On the few occasions I do keep things removed from a job, they will be for re use or sale, so as far as I am concerned they are not "waste" but "stock" I quite often bring wood home for the stove. That is most definitely NOT "waste" but "firewood" On the very few occasions when for various reasons I so have to remove some waste from a job, I now stop at the first available public roadside bin and put it in there. I do agree the present system is bonkers. That, and the restrictions on what a householder can take to their local tip recycling center does indeed in my mind encourage fly tipping.

May I suggest we keep this to the topic of the house sale. If you want to talk BREXIT go and start a new thread in the general discussion forum please. Mods.

That sounds hopeful and the rest of the process can now proceed. So Octopus have something like the estimated 4 weeks to exchange to come up with an account number for you. Then let the buyer have the "fun" of switching if they wish. Were you also with IRESA at the new house?