ProDave

That's probably the rubbish my dad had. But I see the principle now.

I think I said this in another thread recently. Boy that's a big un. Our present house has 2 glulam beams hidden in the roof. I think if I had known just ho nice they can look, I woudl have asked for the design to be such that part of them was on show. My new house uses Kurto beams, aparently Glulams would have been far too big to get the strength.

If it has a hose, then is it "airless" doesn't that just mean it comes with a compressor? When I was a boy, my dad bought what I regard as a true "airless" sprayer. It was all in one. A hand held thing that had a paint receptacle you filled and screwed on the bottom,and a mains flex. When you pressed the trigger, a motor whirred and it squirted paint out. I don't recall it being very good, and he had to keep dismantling thr nozzle and unblocking it.

thanks. Page duly bookmarked, though I probably only need 10 metres of gas duct.

I know the DNO will not feed a cable through the wrong coloured duct, which is usually black,but some areas it's red. But if I am reading this correctly, if the meter is remote (as ours is) then it will be YOUR cable, not the DNO's in the duct. I uses SWA mostly buried direct in the ground, only using black duct to bring it up through the foundations into the house. I solved the half reel conundrum by looking on ebay and buying some part rolls of blue and black duct, BUT I still need some yellow gas pipe duct if someone wants to split a roll with me?

You know you will come to miss it. When done with for living in, ours will become a 28 square metre garden outbuilding. It will probably then get a bit more insulation and some timber cladding to make it look less like a caravan. I would never otherwise build a shed that large. This will give us a decent amount of work space to compensate for a smaller house. The toilet will remain, every self respecting shed needs a toilet....

Just make sure you stack it above a supporting wall, not mid span (seen that done before then lots of props put underneath to stop the joists sagging)

He had the unfair advantage of having first hand experience with then.

i took a different view. I levelled and grassed most of the site before I sold the digger. So now all I have to do is some paths, some raised decking, and some more sheds. I am the only idiot that now has to mow the lawn around the unfinished house.

My that was a big un.

My gripe with foam guns is why can't you buy small ones? I buy the £4 ones from the likes of Tolstation, usually 750ml but I rarely use a whole can. I tried to use a half can the other day that had been part used about 2 months ago. Completely useless it had all gone solid inside the can. Why does nobody make and sell say a 300ml size for a couple of £ then it could genuinely be use a bit and throw away, which is usally what happens with the bigger ones, but I hate waste.

I wonder if that might at least be a route to pay for the expensive deep foundations needed? There is an interesting one near me. My neighbours garden has the old Dounereay 200KV overhead line running over it on a temporary wayleave. Her son bought half her garden and built a new house. Last year he served them the 1 years notice to remove the line. It hasn't gone yet. I expect they are "negotiating"

And it becomes even more tricky when your floor finish changes in different parts of the house and you want to be able to transition from a tiled area to say a hardwood floored area WITHOUT any step at all.

I share your pain. Although I didn't start with a dud design (I started with a bare plot with no design) I had immense difficulty finding an architect or a designer that would design what I want, and charge a fair fee for doing so. Plenty that wanted to design what they wanted for an extortionate fee.

Late to this thread (must have missed it first time around) I don't like the idea of a rocker switch. To me that means you turn it to boost and then later turn it back to normal. I am planning to have in the kitchen, and next to the bathrooms a timed "boost" switch, probably thinking along the lines of the Horstman immersion heater boost switches where you can typically boost if from 15 minutes to over an hour in steps. This will need a relay or two to interface it with the mvhr. but I like the idea of push the button get in the shower and forget it. Some time later it will switch itself back to normal.

That is conventional wisdom. When I bought a previous 1930's house it had "rising damp" which was caused by the original render bridging the DPC ansd was cured by hacking off the render below DPC and leaving that bare, and forming a bellcast at DPC level. That ws a 9" solid wall. But up here, even on a new build timber framed house, it is common for the roughcast render to extend right down into the ground clearly bridging the DPC. One can only wonder what issues they are storing up for the future, and only the cavity can stop the damp tracking up into the TF.

Well the neighbour has the SEPA document so now know he shouldn't do it. Next move is up to him.

I am worried WHY your blocks are "wobbly" and I hope you mean wobbly as in not level, rather than they wobble?

That is true. I will hand him the SEPA document tonight and see his reaction. Any recorded letter will be from me at the new house. There won't be an official dispute between me at the old house and this neighbour. I have no plan to sell the new one so am not bothered if the new house has a dispute.

Thanks. The recorded letter idea sounds a good one. It does seem very strange to go to the post office 3 miles away to post a letter next door.

I am not contributing anything to my neighbours garden redevelopment fund. I don't have enough for my own build at the moment. 2 small pipes might work out cheaper but still won't comply with the SEPA requirements that require one pipe that is taller than the channel the burn runs in. Any pump would have to be bloody large, who would pay for it, it's maintenance and running costs? The person at the far side is ME. We are in the odd position of being both his neighbour upstream (new house) and downstream (existing house) Whatever he does will affect one or the other. Here are some pictures taken this morning. This is almost the entire length of burn through our plot And this is a closer view of the existing square culvert straddling the boundary (though most of it is next door, there is barely room to walk over the tiny bit our side of the fence) This is next door. You see the existing smaller round pipe. He intends laying this size pipe across his whole garden.

I take it the presence of lamp posts means it's a 30mph speed limit? Our little single track road to nowhere has no speed limit so perhaps that's why we have more stringent entrance details. Assuming all your neighbours have the same visibility splay requirements then they will all need to keep their bit clear so that should be taken care of. I am not sure where you are with planning, but initially they tried to insert a clause asking me to "demonstrate control" over the visibility splay. I could not do that as I don't own all of it. But when I pointed out another approved application in the same street did not have that clause, they removed it from mine.

I am surprised you have no planning conditions re the road access. i.e our plot on a single track no through road serving just half a dozen houses, had the planning condition that the road access onto the plot had to be formed BEFORE any work commenced on site. you will surely have to form a road access with a parking layby again as we have to on our quiet little road.

A few things puzzle me. Where will you be making your site access, and how does that fit with that lamp post, roadside kiosk, and crossing refuge? will any of those need moving? Re separating of soil? are you intending to have your own topsoil "stored" offsite to be brought back later on?

Yes my current plan is not (yet) involving SEPA , I will give him a copy of the document @Stones linked to above and hope that changes his mind. I don't want to open that can of worms of getting every culvert in everyone's garden replaced (including my own) but I have to say if they did ask for mine to be removed, it would be replaced with a bridge instead. I will be taking photo's today before any work has started.