Ferdinand

If you dont’t have anything In it to antagonise neighbours eg overlooking you may well get away with it. They do not want you suddenly being able to stand on your decking and looking into their garden casually. F

Just brief comments. 1 - There will need to be some detail reworked I think. One might be if you have to have wallspace at the bottom of the stairs to allow for a stairlift .. though you may not need that if you have a bedroom downstairs. 2 - You might want to reconsider your relationship of master bed to window to view to door into the dressing room. Personally I would want a window opposite the bed and the door not down one side of it. 3 - Think about your baths and showers. If mum is downstairs she will want a shower not a bath. My house had this shower room up bathroom down and it is not logical that you should have to climb stairs to get to the accessible one. 4 - If you are being efficient that downstairs shower room might fit under the stairs, depending what you want and hw you arrange it, with maybe a small loss of just from a bedroom. Have a look at my accessible shower room thread here. The space is under the stairs and roughly a 1.2m space at the side. A series of pieces. it may work depending, but you will get an extra room or to make one of them much larger. The detail will need to be right, as will the upstairs layout. 5 - I am not convinced that the kitchen-sitting room is generous enough. I think you would get major perceived and actual benefit from a terrace over the porch with an awning over it, and a pair of patio doors in the middle of that wall for access. I might even go for a portico up there. F

With glyphosate.This is my ivy after a fortnight post-spray. The method was trim in March, wait for regrowth and spray after 6-8 weeks.

I'd say that will be a helluva problem. Personally: don't without a test. I would spray the first coats then roller, unless you are in boy with toy mode. Read the megathread though. The paints I have sprayed OK: Leyland Trade, Armstead (sp?), Valspar. Who's the ugly chap in the photo?

This is the current lot of micro crops being grown. About 10 of them. Mizuma. Watercress. Spicy leaves. Chives. Coriander. Mixed Rocket. 2 x parsley. 2 x lettuce (Little Gem and Lamb's Lettuce). The photo is after about 5-6 days. Apart from the middle top which is an old one on its 4th harvest. One problem with this setup is slightly uneven lift, so I am turning the big trays every day. People still seem to be a gun trouble getting compost .. gave a bag to my cleaner who started again today. The gym coach's GF, who is fully sheltered, has had a 25% portion of nearly all my packets of seeds to get her going with some indoor gardening and some stuff for outdoors too, which is gratifying. 14 types of seeds supplied in one of those fortnight pillboxes, with an admonition driven in with a cluebat to be very careful about tipping it upside down ‘cos the doors are cr*p and will all open together of their own accord.

TBH I think performance needs a huge priority over cost in this case. Unless it is absolutely horribly horribly expensive. It needs to be right. Saving £100 or £200 on boarding is likely to be a false economy unless you know the product is as good.

Welcome. Many of us here have used a product called Multipanel rather than tiles for the shower, or for the whole bathroom. It is one of these 'bathroom panel' products with a marine ply core. Personally I would use it again, having done several bathrooms with it. It is very water resistant, and lasts a long time still looking mint. You also need to pay very careful attention to your ventilation. For thinking about general questions, I did a very detailed set of articles about bathrooms I had redone at home last year. These were tiles because they were not total guttings. It is flagged accessible but contains a lot of thinking. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/blogs/entry/622-adapting-a-house-for-people-who-are-frail-elderly-or-disabled/

Your own personal Walkie-Talkie tower. Can you fry eggs on your Jag, then?

We used to have a peacock. We lived in the old manor house, and someone turned up with one and said "we found this in our back garden - is it yours?". Dad (fool) said "yes" and spent the next years bringing it back when it kept flying away.

I think it was @Thorfun who was looking for this, which came with my hedge cutter. You will need to click through.

You run a bead of high quality silicone in the several mm vertical gap you have left below the panels. Whether you fill it to the point where the silicone is proud and profile it using one of those oojie-boojie silicone profiling tools is I think up to you. I would. F

Good guidance above.

Welcome.

Shropshire have an online "working" copy, which seems to be very up to date - Feb this year. https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/outdoor-partnerships/countryside-access-and-public-rights-of-way/the-definitive-map/ It says Public Rights of Way, so it should cover roads. There's even a phone number.

I have one on my downstairs shower, because when I added a bath and new shower to the bathroom upstairs last year I started getting some washback into the downstairs shower. F

I think the only other issue is whether anyone owns the verge - when you will need permission to go across it. Though it is unlikely that anyone owns it, or would notice if they did - short of a neighbour getting the hump. I wish I'd picked this up sooner, as I could have semi confirmed your finding. I had an embarrassed council chap tell me that he couldn't stop me opening up the front of a house in town as a driveway because the road was unclassified for a length of approx 4 houses. But he could make me put a proper pavement crossing in. Presumably the defiinitive map is the same one for public footpaths, bridleways etc. If it is online you are furtunate as not all are. (This is in England, but the system is ancient so I would expect them all to be approx. the same.) F

Welcome to the madhouse.

Ai Caramba ! A discount from B&Q that actually landed at the till...

When I looked, there was no shortage of suitable offcuts on eBay.

Corian and similar can be carefully routed.

The best I have been able to do is that my Wickes has an I pillar next to the studding so I can compare every one both ways. Still moves, mind.

Welcome.

Planning depends on where you are. Councils are doing different things eg whether Planning Committee is meeting virtually. F

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Welcome. At least you aren't a squirrel, then you would have to break into the roof space and live there whilst doing the work . Wishing you all the best. Do ask any questions - there are others around who have installed ufh upstairs. I think the best immediate advice I have is from Pooh: "Rivers know this - we will get there in the end". Ferdinand (Nearly avoids saying "Fenton, Fenton, Fenton, Fentoooooonnnnnnn. Jesus Christ, Fenton".)