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Well they are wrong. Doesn't matter if faced or not, it is close cell and airtight. You still use a dpm though for the joints. I wonder what else they don't know.

That is exactly what they have. Personal opinion is not their remit, so they interpret the national criteria and the local plan as if affects each application. Of course sometimes that is debatable and either decision for or against may annoy someone. The most important advice is not to buy a plot in the hope of approval.

There are plans in progress to put in more overhead lines heading south from the Highlands. The cost though will be borne by the locals who's power will be sent away, and are already paying as if in London. I would hope, but haven't researched, that spare power is aready being used to pump up into the hydro pumped storage systems....that must be quite a pump. Perhaps they need to time this to aid the problem discussed. Please charge your cars tonight and it will be free. Please turn your ovens on and turn the air source heating off for 2 hours? It reminds me of a remote house with a generator. If you turned a light on, the generator kicked in, and it was essential immediately to turn on a powerful electric fire or the generator would fail. I never understood the science of this.

he said, adding that it was “absolutely outrageous... [that] at the times we are turning the wind farms off in Scotland, we are importing electricity from Norway This is crazy and seemingly is easily sorted.. Too much power so they turn them off. Meanwhile charging users as if it was gas. Article here BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj509yg9n3qo

The opposite is the case as I understand it. If the price of timber drops, they can let them grow another year. A finnish timber company manager told me this is a fundamental benefit of owning both forests and timber mills. They would not fell it and give it away. Found this: We grow-to-size, harvest to order, and replant to replenish. We use the whole of the log – even sawdust, shavings, chips and bark, which supply the pulp and paper, chipboard, horticultural sectors. sister company, also makes use of our timber co-products, manufacturing clean, renewable wood fuel solutions to power everything from biomass plants to stoves and barbeques.

Wood mills buy wood. For money. If they didn't want it they wouldn't buy it. Not the whole story here. Perhaps it is site clearance. Orchards are closing down as they are non-viable. I don't know the real reason but have heard variously : Fuel cost, lack of seasonal labour, grants gone?

I wrote this ages ago re speeding up challenges, and forgot to post it. Too lazy to check if it is all still relevant..... I could organise it, as could several on BH I feel, with government authority. Materials.There are lots of trees and cutting 2 years sooner is easy. Nails could be found. Cement? Yes there will be a premium. Add 2% to build cost. Stone? Open up old quarries, easy. There are hundreds. Blocks are very low-tech to make. Bricks are not necessary but some overtime in UK and Belgium would sort it. Terraces and flats instead of detached will save time and money. Build leisure and social facilities alongside. Skilled labour though??? Pay enough and reverse the uk's brexit barriers and the Eastern Europeans will return. That is the biggest issue: not organising it but the resistance of many to foreigners, especially brown ones. There was talk of an industry professional to be in charge. Another minister who is not an mp, with skill and knowledge in technical matters. I'm not volunteering. John Armitt would be the one. Channel Tunnel. London Olympics infrastructure. Not bad. Now housing supply. To be fair he may have done enough already, but he may know someone.

In my opinion drainage fields are oversized under the building regs. They are designed to treat sewage but only allow 25% reduction when it is already fully (98%) treated. All it really needs is a soakaway for the small amount of liquid. We hired a jcb and digger fof the big hole, gravel and hoisting in the tank. The driver said he had put in maybe 30, and always with a 1m3 ish rubble soakaway. We divided our complying drainage field into phases 1 and 2. Bco accepted phase 1. On our next project I will discuss it with the bco and propose a French drain of the right design for the quantity and porosity. I suggest you try that. Marsh are good. You order through a builders merchant but Marsh deliver and offload. About £3k. £5k all up? If you diy you will need a digger or a lot of manpower/ barrows.

But it is a cost. And this is cost plus.

Because of the price? Developers know what they are doing. In this case presumably they would need to discount but are choosing not to. If prices stop rising as supply increases, then they will adjust their offers on the land to suit. Big landowners generally don't need to sell and may hold tight. Then comes the government dilemma of subsidy ( to people who don't need it) or compulsory purchase. Interesting.

You don't say how deep the step is. Do you plan to raise the whole area or to grade it? None of the above will compact. You have options. 1.Cut the pir along the step. It will all sit solidly on the slab. The screed will fill it all to the finished level. 2. Screed a ramp or the whole lower area. 3.put thicker insulation in the lower area.

I suspect your planning officers are not expert in the subject and have come up with this rather random stipulation in one project then stuck with it. Memory tells me that bldg regs says 5m, but that is a starting point too. I've only seen conditions that a suitable suds scheme is put in place. I guess that is sensible for a professionally designed scheme. But for a diy proposal perhaps the 10m idea is fair...it's not going to upset the foundations and doesn't need a consultant. I'm sure that they must accept alternatives from an expert. If they refused that from me I would get really heavy on them.

They stop the wall falling over from the weight of water.

Brief given to the cheapest tenderer. Housing developer gets final decision / casting vote. Developer can hold onto the land as long as they like. No problems there.

What is the construction? Screed type, thickness. Dpm? Insulation Dpm . Sub base?

The 10m rule is too simplistic. Ask again next project.

Does the ditch flow to anywhere? If it simply holds water then it is acting as a very long soakaway plus there is evaporation . If it does flow, then where? Maybe flooding somewhere. You could dig a parallel ditch as a new retention system plus soakaway. Or dig a pond. Ponds hold back storm water, have large areas for petvolation and evaliration, plus plants will drink it.

Don't agree. It all adds up. Plus it is easy to do and so an easy win for society.

I've often had suds requirements. I can't remember ever having feedback or queries from a planner or bco... EA yes but it was for proposed building in a flood plain....they were right. I think it is a question of knowledge kevel and ducking the responsibility.

8% more than heating the air? I accept the theory, but in practice the pir stops warming up at some depth, and the ground is barely affected. Then a lot depends on the distance to the outside, where the ground is weather affected. Whereas, the warmer the air in the room, the more is lost in all planes, and through air movement. Slso allow fif whether this is 60mm of screed or 150mm concrete being heated.

I took a close up to show the texture. These work quite well at keeping solar heat out, then cooling again at night. That logic does not apply for keeping heat indoors in a UK winter. About half the weight of a solid block.

I missed that one. All these words is just not what I do. Engineers edit and edit again. Architects get taught this from year one, how to sell themselves and their proposal.

Not a lot if there is good insulation. Also we tend to feel warmer if the floor is warm, (warm feet) so the air temp can be lower, in theory.

The last builder covered over them so should now reform them. Politelh ask dod they not know how important it is to leave these holes. Then tell them they are about to be discussed nationally so please do this. It won't take long.

You're being ironic i hope. ? It was a fabricated fuss which was sexist and elitist. No politics zone.