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Warehouse and retail roofs are noisier because they are very shallow slopes, and so every raindrop clatters hard into it. Also the insulation may be minimal, for an unheated or reduced heat building. Plus the cladding is screwed to the structure and may form thousands of direct links to the inside. Not sure about Lidl except that it won't be top spec. On your house you will have a steeper slope for the cladding, then an air gap, then a board then the structure with insulation. So no problem, but rain on skylights will be noisy.

You can't take the risk of not getting access permission. Ask the agents about it. Can't tell from the plans. You need a minimum distance line of sight from an entrance, and it depends on speed limit and any obstructions. If the county doesn't permit it, you simply won't get permission.

I omitted to say that I was referring to fitting doors and windows supplied by the client, and you fitting only, previously unseen I presume. That, to me, would be high risk, but is what the original question was.

What a big IF.

Why can't covenants be written in plain and simple English? Because it is often ambiguous. Because it would require ancient documents to be translated, and that increases the chance of confusion. Because such documents are formulaic and avoid missing or confusing an issue. Most importantly, because commas are in short supply.

As PD says. It is 3.3 You cant spoil the neighbours rights. Plannning and regs define that anyway. Looks ok. Joining the 2 red lined areas, are you looking at taking the combined area? I would continue to research the plot to confitrm your interest but get that covenant looked at profesionally before committing. A conveyancer would likely give free advice on the promise of the following work.

How often do you find a problem that requires a return? And if the doors don't fit. Does your day rate include a proportion of wasted time?

Get a highlighter and mark the important bits, that can then be read as a sentence. Then read it again as a sentencd.

That should be " not" to deny cover. Never discount the effect of daytime television, "have you had a accident". They will go after all parties hoping for a payoff or more. Your insurer should take the argument off your hands. And as I have said umpteen times...keep a project diary of personnel on site, what they are doing, and anything of note.

If anything was to happen on site, it is very likely that you would be involved in any legal proceedings. You must have insurance, then your people can argue with theirs. Your cover must also be comorehensive enough that the insurers first action is to deny cover.

Granolithic. Extremely hard concrete, made with small granite chips. It used to be a specialist business to lay it. Used in areas of very high abrasion as a capping on normal concrete. The companies I knew diversified into general industrial concrete flooring.

I would knock it down, and I try to reuse where at all feasible. Converting agricultural to domestic is tricky. The structure is underdesigned for himsan use (no safety factors) including the foundations. Also it is a pain to connect to concrete frames even if in decent condition, and repairing is expensive. If steel, extra columns can be added but concrete no. Planning issues aside of course.

I'm pretty sure there are screed mixes to which you can add sand and place it thicker. That could go down in one layer. Or fix insulation. Different thicknesses as suits the levels, and screed over. Or use concrete where thick and latex where thin. 2 days? Flooring asphalt sounds expensive.

£40,000?

That's what we did once it was a clear run past connections. On top of a straight 3m timber for an overall check. But you won't get most site or project managers going down a trench to check. So do you trust the groundworker? Good that's OK then. I had a long drain run once, to a soakaway chamber 1.5m wide. The gw ignored 1:100 on his drawing and as instructed , and used 1:60. He didn't have to buy the extra pc ring and didn't understand the fuss: "all drains go in at 1:60". Only later did I wonder how much gravel he would have poured in for his ease. Gws were hard to get at the time.

If it is too high to build above then it has to go, and join the crushed pile, then can go back down again in the new construction. If it can be built on, and high is good in houses esp with any flood risk, then it can probably stay instead of, or as well as, sub base. Too often they are broken out pointlessly.

Why would you be? Actuaally i will answer this myself. We put in 90% of the drains ourselves, at the designed 1:60. This after sacking the groundworker who ignored the spec and did it 'just off the bubble' as they put it. At their slope the 70m runs would have been very deep indeed. Ie 3m instead of 2m. So 1:60 is fine as long as it really is. The first qualification of a groundworker is hard work in wet trenches. Sums and quality are down the list so they need management, usually.

Quite right. Much worse than thighs for most persons.

I don't know about Scotland, but in England they test 1 in 10 (?) on an estate. The developer knows which they will be and they scrape a pass. The rest are porous. These houses were all on large developments.

I've just come down from the Windy City reference? How about Edinburgh?

Summary of the summary. People are preferring warm bedrooms recently. They have high co2 in winter. Mvhr is sometimes appropriate but only if well designed and very easy to control. Lots of new builds don't comply with bldg regs.

It won't be necessarily better (than expensive sub-base) but it will be clean, and you must get it down to a size.. You will certainly need some bed under the new area of slab. Are you retained the existing slab assuming there is one, or breaking out and replacing,?

I think I have seen on housing developments that they sometimes use window templates, so the wall is built against it and a window 20mm smaller is guaranteed to fit, and can be ordered early. This works best with standard size, multiple windows of course. On our project, the kit part was built with care to the squareness and dims, and that didn't look difficult to me. Where fitting into granite openings it was much more difficult to even measure. Some stone had to be nibbled off.

I'm not sure it would even lift the bucket. It will be a very big machine. Handy all round as it can reach high and far to lift or break out the rafters...then squash them. I don't have names for you. Knock up an email to describe the project, including timing. Make it clear you are an individual not a business. With an informal email you can circulate to loads of demo companies without wasting their time, some of which will show interest. Not just local, include medway where the heavy work happens, and Sussex because it is not Sevenoaks. If I remember properly you have to make or extend a driveway. This hardcore will suit being on the bottom. Are you building new on the footprint?

How nice for them that they can deny expertise and risk. It is risky that you have to measure the openings, they don't know how accurately you have done it, and they decide tolerances. On our project we bought the units direct. Even as seasoned experts we made a costly mistake with a window into an irregular opening. Good idea to switch I think.