Ferdinand

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

Is the mare's tail a case for direct injection into the stem ... like Japanese Knotweed?

That it doesn't exist will not stop Oxford City enforcing on you for not having one .

(Yanks thread back from Stovokor) Can anyone advise on the appropriate concentration of Glyphosate for english ivy? I cut it back with shears about 6 weeks ago, and it is now covered in thirsty young leaves. I have my Glyphosate 360, and I can look out mum's dedicated weedkiller sprayer. A normal dilution will be 20ml/l (according to JSH above). What about for ivy - or will I just need to rely on 2 or 3 applications? Cheers Ferdinand

Presumably cost and structural requirements would undermine that. Also perhaps visual appeal and a more varied frontage were required.

But make sure that they are still reasonably easy to clean. (ie buy one box or a couple of samples and test it)

Suggest that you ask a professional or your local authority (rental team or BCO) on this, or your Lettings Agent if you have one and they are competent. These type of things change fairly constantly and (I am not sure) may be able to be adjusted locally like a lot of requirements for rentals, or enforcement may be on the basis of local practice. Alternatively I suggest a more specialist LL site such as propertytribes.com, where someone will be fully up to date. @pocster has a small HMO, I think; I don't. Not sure which bit of Oxfordshire you are in, but iirc from previous reading Oxford City are tartars on rental regulation. Ferdinand

The opening is 2.4-2.5m, but I think they are 3-3.25m inside - which is more than it looks. (Based on 3" width of the lintel bricks).

You can pretty much always get porcelain tiles for £10 a metre. But you may need nearly as much again for glue and grout. I always start with the current Wickes half-price offer inside the door. Though the discounts have recently not been quite half.

I wouldn't think it necessary, but perhaps if you want a dual purpose garage or to practise tiling. I wouldn't necessarily see it as expensive, either - £600-1000 once it is all done, ignoring labour? The only warning I would give is fully butter rather than five-spot your tiles. But we all do that anyway (ahem?).

Cam you test one duct before you commit to the second?

Undoubtedly true, but it may also be the easiest alternative that can be tried in an "easily reversible if it doesn't work" manner. F

I can point you to my local independent, who do deliver nationally and do do things custom. Ron Currie's. Prices are usually OK, but I think that you will struggle for treated PSE, and delivery from NG17 to Manchester may slug it. The way might be to treat it yourself in a dipping bath made from planks and a hunk of DPC polythene. https://roncurrie.co.uk/ F

Welcome. Looks like an excellent project.

Suspect that on this one you will not do well with the common land, and that the remedy is likely to be widening your access by a - Stuffing your neighbour's mouth with gold. That will be slightly expensive. b - A generous land swap if they need more garden. c - Flipping the property, which will cost you are least 3% for Stamp Duty if you can't get a low price - or you could potentially turn it into a rental. Ferdinand

I'm not sure whether I am being way off beam here, but will there be a glut of the filter type products needed for this in a couple of years time - assuming a Covid-19 vaccine?

I see that heating oil prices are below 20p per litre. https://www.boilerjuice.com/heating-oil-prices-england/?utm_term=heating oil prices&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&src=252&gclid=CjwKCAjwwMn1BRAUEiwAZ_jnEkqWEBRhEglSHB2VrX4fLp74-Mw1rJuklg3aUAtrk7JinZ-7b_B-ARoCci0QAvD_BwE

Would there be benefit in simply putting the intake on the reverse slope?

I admit to scratching several corners of several cars on that. The wall itself is probably 1850 or thereabouts and it's actually got a preservation order of sorts on it, as in a planning condition not to demolish when the big garden of an old house was redeveloped :-). My bit hasn't, though. The hawthorn hedge behind the telegraph pole is actually a fragment of original field hedge, which is probably also Victorian or earlier. When I was young the area behind there used to be fields with skylarks,

Buildhub member @NSS is doing a cycle marathon in his bedroom (OK, that's an exaggeration; it's in his shed ... maybe) to raise some money for a favoured cause during lockdown. I have my own slightly mad cycling project, amongst several others. I tried to get a local forum going a few years ago, which went exactly nowhere. So I’m trying again with an FB group whilst there are about 5x as many cyclists around ... many going up and down my lane. In adjacent areas great things have been achieved over the last few years, but not here. Yet. But some bugger has bent one of my driveway safety mirrors - very strange, as it is to prevent accidents and me squashing people walking past with my car.

This may well be affected by the unadopted road and what rights the Council has to apply full planning policy on unadopted / private roads, which may be different to other roads. I recall a debate about this wrt PP for I think dormer windows in bungalows on private roads. Suspect that to look into that might take you down a rabbit hole that would be painfully longwinded to investigate, and it may depend on what access rights are retained by members of the public in their vehicles, and volume of traffic, and the effect on highway safety or whatever is the basis underlying the Council policy.

The version of Manual for Streets that came out in the 1990s included research that suggested that reversing out onto relatively major roads was less of a problem than had been believed previously. Practically, I would take a careful view based on the road you will be living in. Can you reverse out with an acceptable level of safety? If you are happy with that, you will probably need to comply with the policy - at least theoretically, whatever that is. The policy may have an exception clause in it, though you may need to find that yourself. I would perhaps try and talk or email to the Planner directly on that point, phrased to let them explain exactly what it means. Alternatively, could you extend upwards (or downwards) as a Plan B? Ferdinand

Welcome.

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