Ferdinand

File under slightly off-topic. I am about to comment on a planning app for a gateway site into a local town centre. Does anyone know a bit of detail about how vehicle spaces with chargers are managed wrt making sure that they are used, stopping blocking, how much money they pay etc. eg Do individuals book them? Are they required to be using the charger all the time they are parked? Do they book in for X kWh etc? Unfortunately the active policy document is a guide written in 2005, so it needs a bit of pressure to get something more appropriate. Ferdinand

In a kitchen I would also consider how you will deal with grease, if any is likely to land on it.

Can you not just give your lift bigger feet? Not tidy but might do it.

In terms of your neighbours, not very ....

Putting the ufh pipes themselves in the the slab is not *that* expensive in the scheme of things. As to maitainability long term, if I have ufh in the slab, I thinnk of the lifetime as one generation, and if it breaks it would be replaced by something else (eg a ufh 18mm mat system, or rads, and a ASHP). As notes, the bits in the raft are like a long hose pipe - very little to go wrong, which would usually be joints and gubbins - which are not buried.

"Not us, Guv - see BCO"

I'd be using one, or paying someone. Don't sit on it and swivel, even if so advised ... you would be stuffed, or even stiffed.

No - I need sine; I don't have any ! Does anyone have any plans if face coverings are to be mandated for shops etc. I think I may just pick up a couple of snoods (neck gaiters) that can be used for cycling later. Like this: Snood Ferdinand

Welcome. Suggest you start with a couple of blogs. Try this one, which came in well and relatively cheaply (for a self-build - 200k buidl cost I think). Though think @simplepimple just just done a build that is both smaller and less costly.

Is this the inside or the outside? For the inside presumably one could use the bendy plasterboard - ie with the slotted back, or an alternative. We used to have a Georgian arched window which was about 3m high and 2m wide. I think the arch on the outside was done with stone, though it may have been too big to need carved stone. I think I agree with 'faceted'. Ferdinand

After you have decided what you want to achieve, then you may get a better hearing by getting your local councillor involved using the threat to your security and (if it is true) woman living alone angles. One option is a fence set slightly back from the pavement with a flower border on the outside, or a lower fence with a taller hedge behind it. But agree that it is a difficult one.

Give them a couple of years and the neighbours usually calm down, as long as the thing is resolved to a stable status quo. Once something cannot be changed, people are usually accepting even if they don't really think it their taste.

X marks the spot where you need to build it... (Sorry ? )

Suave.

Welcome.

Your Home Made Perfect has also been running...

Here is forecast at 9C tomorrow then 12-14 for a few days, It's compensation for being 60 miles from the nearest beach. The local road cycling club even have a 300km route called "Everybody Rides to Skeggie". http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/20-115/ F

On my (nearly - getting there) 10 mile bike yesterday they were playing this in one street, and gave me a socially distanced slice of Victoria Sponge. (But the Vera Lynn version)

Delighted to say I was already in the garden doing something more useful . That would be sitting in my garden chair in the sun, avoiding doing useful things in the garden - the damn weather has turned to summer and I still have a huge list of jobs that have to be done in spring. (Takes computer off hook and runs away)

The only time I left a gap like that was to decouple a conservatory slab from a no-foundations Victorian cottage. So I am no wiser. It would be a little difficult to build like that, maybe. Or can concrete shrink?

Welcome. We specialise in multiple choice advice, so more well thought out options are always welcome ??? .

My parents had acres of ground cover ivy. OK - perhaps half an acre in a 2.5 acre garden. The technique was to lawnmow it, then weedkill the young shoots a few weeks later. It kept it under control. The other way - if it only has a few roots - is to destroy those and leave it to starve.

Much of my icy is from next door - some of it growing right through the wall. They have goes at it, and have agreed that I can too. Will try and see.

Welcome.

I'm in an upwards extended bungalow. I can't comment on solar glazing, but I'm about to put it in my South Facing bay windows, where my office and the spare room run up to 35C too easily - I am also planning one of those through the wall air conditioning units a la Jeremy. I would also like a veranda / breakfast terrace, but it will all wait (except for the glazing) until I have bought family out of the other half of the house. I think this is likely to be issue, such that it should at least be provisioned for, if not implemented. Possibilities include one or more of: (To manage the interior) - A warm / cool unit as suggested. - An underfloor heating application with the capability to reverse and cool it instead (or distribute the heat more evenly). - Through or stack ventilation. This means either windows on windward / leeward side that you can open together, or a roof window that can be opened or partially opened at the same time as something on the cool, shaded side of the house. You want it such that you can do it safely overnight, or ideally whilst you can go out in the day (windows securely ajar, for example). This makes a significant difference to my place. I would suggest making sure that one of your rooflights is no the central landing, and I would consider making it openable into "vent" position from a downstairs switch - mine is easy to reach but I have to go upstairs to open it slightly. (To keep the heat out) - A pergola - A brieze soleil - Window blinds - An anti-solar layer in the glass, as you suggest (which is probably better than a surface film). - Something else similar. F