Hecateh

So True

Yes - I understand there are discrepancies and I need to do more work before asking for quotes. The lower floor and entry level are insulated to an extent and I know that I need to make sure that the UFH quote includes, insulation and screeding - or at least be aware if it doesn't. I am practising a mantra suggested earlier in this post. "Does that include everything?" along with "Is there any else I will need for this?" and "Can you do me a detailed breakdown?' where the job is complex. I also intend to make full use of this forum getting all my quotes checked.

Thanks that may be be useful

I think I am going to have to wait on Building Control for this. Fire doors are ok but there is an open plan staircase from lounge/kitchen to entry level corridor )8 treads) and then the and then another 4 treads to bedroom where there is a landing and door. Thanks for the list - that makes it easier to know where to start. Boiler --- hhmmmm. I asked him again to take it off and he agreed. Took off £315. I told him I was surprised at the price and he said he could show me the price online. I guess you can get boilers that cheap but I wouldn't be wanting one in my house and it's certainly not what he was talking of fitting when he still thought he had the whole job. i'm biting my tongue, and not saying anything because he throws his teddy at the slightest thing and I want my roof finished

Thank you. Maybe early May - Electric is being done over weekend of 22 and 29 and I think it wise to be here for that.

That's reassuring. I think a tarmac apron and then gravel may well be the way forward initially. I wonder how likely it is that the planning officer will visit to see if I have met the conditions. I wouldn't think it very likely unless there was a complaint from someone - after all they are so overworked already. It doesn't go through an open plan area, the corridor is just between the spare bedroom and the boot room. However there is an open staircase down to the kitchen also off the corridor. Would a thumb turn on the inside of an external door to the bedroom meet insurance requirements. I think the BC guy is reasonable and I'm sure he'll put my mind at rest - or at least tell me what he expects. That really is what I am planning to do. I am slowly getting my head round it all Thank you very much for the offer of somewhere to stay. It would be a bit far to be able to manage the situation from there but, if the offer stands I would love to come for a weekend in the not too distant future. I think I really would benefit from a total break for a few days and, unfortunately, family - much as I love them - don't fit the bill at the moment

Does anyone know the regulations about fire escape. Specifically - does there need to be an escape route from the bedroom which is only up 4 stairs from the hallway and then 5 metres to front door. If I do need one. Can it be the French Windows. I seem to recall something about it not being lockable, but I cannot leave French Doors permanently unlocked.

I'm not sure on that either. The drive is specified on the plans and in the council's conditions, it's one of the things that I hope to get completed before sign off but not before selling this house and moving into the new one. As far as materials are concerned it specifically states in the conditions that I cannot use loose material. However, I think there may be a case for reducing the size of the drive that is solid bound and using loose fill at ends and sides. I need to get someone in to discuss options with. I am now told that the roof and everything will be finished for Friday and the scaffolding down on Saturday. Then it will be easier for me to get to grips with what is and isn't there. I am going to discuss with with building control.

This is the current situation. - Can anyone point me in the direction of a schedule of work that will tell me what order things need to be done in internally from now. I don't want to get one job done to find that I should have done something else first. PDF finance April.pdf

Selling the old one. That is what I am thinking of doing. The following post summarises where I am now - And what I think I need to do to move in and what can wait until afterwards

I can't get the house signed off until there is some kind of drive. I am thinking though on the lines of getting a solid sub base down and the sub layer of Tarmac and leaving it at that until this house is sold. Whatever I get when this house is sold and all my debts paid is it. There will never be any more money. I have to live on this money until January 2020 and then I will get my state pension. Once the current builders are off site I can see what I really need to have enough drive to turn on (has to be drive on and drive off) and start getting some prices.

Unfortunately not - registration lapses and further training would be needed. I haven't worked as a nurse for. I guess, 30 years.

I have done this in the past. It is possible in the future but not currently as I need this house to sell. I have also thought about fostering in the future. As a registered children's nurse and someone who has worked in private children's homes it is an option. At the moment it is the next 6 (ish) months that is the big issue. I have no money, no income (apart from £93 per month), and a house to finish.

I did make poor pensions choices also BUT not to the extent that it would have caused me real problems if the government hadn't suddenly decided that I couldn't get my peniosn when planned. Equalising pensions is something I totally agree with, although not the way it was done. BUT adding yet another year, one year before retirement was a step too far.

There was another condition somewhere that said it had to be permeable, I do realise that there are many finishes that meet that. Not concrete however. That decision is definitely on the back burner though - thank you

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looks fabulous

Guilty! That's one with which I sometimes struggle.

That's one I sometimes struggle with.

I think it's a semi BUT the for the people I was training, getting them to see that commas did have a use and weren't just there for decoration. I should have asked, place punctuation I guess. There was also the difference between Let's eat Grandma and Let's eat, Grandma and another favourite 'Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse'. and 'Helping your uncle jack off a horse'

Not how I would have done it.

Woman without her man is lost Place the missing comma(s)!

Not sure if I should be worried or not. I didn't have an 'as designed' SAP. Building control accepted the plans and no one has ever mentioned SAP

My thoughts exactly