ProDave

I had that in a previous house. THAT is when I learned NEVER EVER have a common return on 2 heating circuits (seemed a great way to save pipe) as the unused heating system seemed to get a bit of convection flow backwards so 1 rad got warm when it should have been off.

Looks nice, simple and efficient use of space. Probably the only thing I would do different is split the cupboard so there's a "coat and shoe" cupboard next to the entrance door, and a small wardrobe from the bedroom.

Very nice. Now make me a much larger one, then make it the middle pane of a 3G window unit.

This is what Nick is trying to describe If the wall was boarded with plasterboard, then the soil pipe will just be touching the wall. Likewise the cistern screws directly through the plasterboard into a dwang fitted there to catch the screws. A simple cheap bent pan connector fits perfectly. Same will apply to Barney's horizontal run waste pipe.

You write a certificate with a lot on LIM or N/A and they accept it because all they want is a bit of paper that nobody ever reads or understands.

We need to see that pan connector....... All looking good. But that pan would not pass muster with my SWMBO. She has a thing about not having "ledges" for dust to settle on, and that includes not having an exposed U bend. We both had to go into town last week to find one that satisfied my My <£100 budget and her "no ledges" criteria.

Re LV and wiring regs. I once wired a very remote public toilet. It had a 12V battery, a solar panel and small wind turbine to charge it, and it powered a small fan to ventilate a composting toilet, and a small 12V light. Building control still insisted on an Electrical Installation Certificate.

Is that REALLY a flexible pan connector? It looks like that horrible flexible ducting for extract fans to me.

I was thinking of Blocked Pipe.

Is that the one he's going to saw in half for @Crofter ?

A dose of bleach will have that sealant clean and shiny in no time. Forget all your "bathroom cleaning" products,. neat bleach works wonders. I paint it on with a paint brush. leave for a while then rinse off.

It is EE that have submitted the planning application so I assume it will be their mast and service. So you don't use a "phone" and tether it (as I assumed you would) you use a 4G data modem?

Okay I have to ask. but. Can anyone else see a certain irony, in using a mobile phone service, to provide your broadband connection, to use a VOIP service to make a telephone call. I have to ask the very dumb question, why not just use the mobile phone to make the call? I have a serious interest as there is a planning application for an EE 4G mast in line of sight of our plot, so we might actually some time get a decent 4G signal. If I can sort out the technicalities, like a decent BB allowance and the ability to make and receive calls at the same time as using the BB (is that even possible?) I just might ditch the land line.

Was this a new series or an old one? I remember an old one where they did this and it was a good demonstration just how big you can go and still be legally classed as a "caravan" hence exempt from building control.

Two 45 degree single socket bends one into the other might give enough set back.

See my own phone connection thread. I managed to order a new phone line without having my address on the postcode database.

Every bricklayer I have ever seen just rolls the DPC onto bare blocks, than lays the mortar for the next course onto the DPC.

Just write "unheated" on the plans? I have an attached garage. There is no mention on the plans of any heating, i am not expecting anyone to insist on insulation levels or air tightness of the garage, but I will be insulating it for my own benefit. Being a single garage under the limit it does not require any specific ventilation provision, though building regs do say in those conditions you should not attempt to achieve a high level of air tightness.

I believe they took a gamble and bought it as "amenity land" without any planning permission.

That view looks familiar. There was a "building the dream" house I am sure in the recent series on that side of the Forth with an almost identical view. I wonder if you know that house? I suspect it may be closer to the bridges than you are?

I did send that email, and he has tried to help, but to be honest, all he is able to do is keep me informed with what is going on, and from today's episode even he does not know what is going on. He doesn't seem able to do anything to hasten things along.

Based on a recent experience, do NOT do a single thing to a property to sell it. You might as well push boulders up a hill. We had a recent viewing (a rare thing in itself). they seemed to like everything EXCEPT the fact the house has wooden windows and he does not want the maintenance of periodically re painting or varnishing them. They are on good condition and just sanded and re varnished last autumn. If you think I am going to try and predict fickle requirements like that, and pre empt it by ripping out perfectly good windows and fitting plastic ones just so this buyer might have bought it, forget it.

This gets more rediculous So I had previously been told the job has been delayed until WB 27th March Today (remember today was supposed to be my connection day) I had not long got home when SWMBO tells me there's an Open Reach van driving up and down the road. Sure enough he's looking for the new house. He's fitted the socket inside the house. Dug a hole in the grass verge and located the cable we need to join to. He told me it should be a simple job, just enlarge the connection pit and make the connection, then make a connection in the joint box up the road. Then the bombshell. Because the joint box at the top of the road is right next to the road, it needs traffic lights. He will have to put in a request which will need a traffic light permit and that usually takes 2 weeks. FFS the guy that came on 1st March must have known that is where they would have to do the work. Surely it would not have been beyond the whit of man to order the traffic lights in advance? And what happened to all the complications that "delayed" the job? And this is from a "communication" company.

A "loophole" up here means we are not charged for building water. Up here water is charged with your council tax, No house = no council tax = no building water bill.

I don't understand what's going on with our EBICO supply at the moment. I have had three letters now. The first selling me it was transferring to Robin Hod energy and the price was not going up and fixed for 12 months. Then a letter to say it's going up. Then another letter telling me nothing is changing except the name. A bit of a shambles and if I was staying with that I would be phoning them to ask what the b%^$£%$ hell is going on. Ebico served us well when we were using almost no electricity to save paying a standing charge but it's now time to move to a proper arrangement so I will let you know how it goes with IRESA. I suspect all will be well until we get a problem...... We are still in the "cooling off period"