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Nobody wants floor covering really. But they need it for comfort or warmth or cleanliness. So all 3 of these are top of the list: functionality. After that the rest also depend on circumstances. Except that sustainability probably comes last for most people.

I believe that. Development is allowed without increasing the infrastructure. Rainwater may be held back but is still released at 5/litres per second per hectare, which is a lot more than zero.

Could be done in Scotland though..although I don't know how sewage is charged.

But the water saved is reducing the infrastructure load and cost. A difficult sum.

Hang on. How many days do we get enough rain to fill one or more 100 litre tanks? My garden water butts are seldom full. Hence I put 10,000litres underground. When it rains I catch the lot.

I'm surprised. More info please. How often have you seen this? If it was mainstream then it could easily be economical with a tank above the wc. A pipe in through the wall is better than through the roof. We would stop seeing this as ugly in time. But it isn't. Not round my way anyway.

Agreed. I estimate I've done 300+ projects. Rainwater harvester twice and at least one of these has been turned off. Barrels on rwp, 3 times. Everything on its merits.

Under a flat roof is usually a room. Could fill the bath?

...the tiles or slates overlap enough that they don't leak immediately. Primitive and effective. Modern roofs leak with a single failure.

We appear to agree. I did this with a 10m3 tank, this being twice the recommended size. The water bill was tiny as was the related sewage bill. Payback 5 years, which you don't get anywhere else legally. Well, maybe 8 years after costing the plumbing and management critically. On the latest project I'm thinking of a basic tank in the ground, for gardening only, and a simple pump.

If the gutter happened to be there or conveniently could be designed in, then ok. Maybe. But holes in roofs are to be avoided whatever the purpose. Gutters need overflows too. A usefully big tank also requires stiffening of the structure. So it's not something I would look to do. I will, however, continue to consider a tank in the ground and a pump. To feed that into the house requires a parallel plumbing system feeding only WCs and outside taps, and a link to mains for when the tank runs out.

You need a pipe from outside directly into a purpose made socket in the wbs.

Garage doors are for garages, so the insulation and seals are passable for that. For an office fill the door in with insulated stud and include a window. The remaining surfaces are presumably uninsulated so you will be cold and have damp paperwork, or a huge electric bill.

For commercial reasons they are made small but also the the moulds will wear out and the blocks become bigger over time.

No. Unless the tank was serving the ground floor only, and positioned in a single storey area or a cupboard.

If it is above the eaves it won't get water from the gutters.

Possibly lashed together with lots if timber and without approval. Most such will survive, because we don’t get many hurricanes or deep snow, although we design for it. But it's serious if they don't.

I must have miread that they hadn't been to look. No harm in being wary. But few SEs have been contractors or worked closely (collaboratively) with them. Design involves theory, from the SE, and method, often suggestions of the builder. It seems the ones you have tried all know their limitations so that is a positive. I think you mentioned division walls that would prop up the steel. Are they structural?

In a sealed circuit wbs there is no air intake from the room.

You can get lazy SEs like any other person. And the less you pay, the less input you will get. But you have asked two and got the same answer. I suspect you are asking the wrong question, perhaps looking for free advice, and they haven't seen the house. When one comes to site, and you are paying, it might be different.

You might be cheaper buying new panels with delivery included. 6 months hire= new purchase price. Or buy second hand at £15 for a panel and foot, and rent a Luton for the day.

Good. So why do you need a long beam?

There is a some overstatement here perhaps, that one or the other is pointless. That what people here have decided to do is the only right decision. It will depend so much on the building design, lifestyle and location. The extremes may be a passivhaus in an urban situation, or a conversion in a rural situation. Most of us are in between. For anyone who doesn't know. A modern wbs takes air by duct from outdoors and draws nothing from the room. I think either or both options could be justified for the right circumstances.

Well, then anything over say 1,000 acres? Agreed but: The value is what is left after deducting all costs and profits from the sales price. Thus it varies by location. £10k or £ 0.5M or £1M / acre depending on where your farm happens to be, and where a red line is drawn. I think a high proportion of farms are leased from a huge estate.

CIL isn't paid by the vendor though is it? GGT I'm confident can be lessened by accounts processes. Perhaps others here know more. Nearly all land was taken by the man with the biggest stick. There was always an inherent risk that the community might want it back, or some recompense. So the landowner with 1,000 acres releases 1 acre for £1M and pays 30%. Keeps 700k for the hols.