Ferdinand

Check your insurance policy and leave them to it. Be out of earshot. Others may have a different view.

I've used Dulux Easycare. One thing to watch for is that they also have bathroom and kitchen versions, and about 29 (ish) shades of white, but that not all their umpteen shades of white are available in all ranges. So if you plan to match, choose carefully, and do it all at once - next year they may have a different selection of whites. Also watch out for discounts - the last lot I had for a whole bungalow was about 30% off overall - Wickes 3 for 2 plus some wheer i needed less or not on discount.. Something like £110 not £160. But I would never by Dulux for spraying, as it bungs up my machine. Ferdinand

JFDI is tempting.

Is there any indication of land you own on the plans in your Land Registry docs? Sometimes these are to the road centre.

"Subtle" and "nuanced" are the words you are looking for. Seeing that contraption down in Bristol makes me think that you are actually Wallace who has escaped from Aardman. ?

So how can it make a din? Take it back. Disfunctional.

Would there actually be much of a cost saving with the smaller construction after the new paperwork costs? Could you find a use for the rest of it, such as a garden store?

So what is the point of quieter fans if you are installing a din rail?

You could make your path to the garage slabs on a loose gravel base, and run it in the gravel.

Just to wrap up my contribution here, here is a piccie of what he back of one of the wooden post bolted to fencing spur fences looks like. Ths is in my own garden. The neighbour has the good side here; I’m not worried because it is at the end of the garden behind a fruit frame with a blackberry. Not especially happy tat he stained his side mind, but it was paid for 50:50.

There was a TV programme that had a chap who built an industrial style barn for himself with a bit round the corner for his cars a couple of years ago on a former timberyard or scrapyard, I think. He was around 65-70, so built it with a 2 bed living wing, and such that the car-barn could be made into more accommodation for his family next generation when he had popped his clogs. Might have some insights but I will not be able to find it easily.

Their contact details should be on the Registration details you can get from the Land Registry for £3. Or ask the tenant, or the agent if they use one. Of course, they will have been consulted in the statutory process when the PP was put through, but it only gives a few weeks and there is no guarantee it made it to the LL within the period or at all. I have a huge extension for next door on the boundary of one of my rentals because the docs did not get through, and I was not sufficiently on the ball then. He tried to do some unacceptable things such as a balanced flue over my garden, and it was a hell of a performance to get them changed. Ferdinand

I think I've said everything I have on this subject - so best of luck Margaret.

Sorry about that. I was thinking about building one inside it.

Not what I expected, but there are quite a few on Ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=portal+frame&_sacat=1269 Google, or am I missing something? https://www.google.com/search?q=top+suppliers+of+portal+frame+buildings&oq=top+suppliers+of+portal+frame+buildings&aqs=chrome..69i57.13534j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 eg https://www.atlanticsteelbuildings.co.uk/ F

ANLA is to do with maintenance of existing structures.

My numbers were very much estimates, so may be well off, and are several years old. But ask in the right places and numbers should be relatively easy to find.

That needs some proper research - like getting a few quotes :-). Buggers to insulate.

In this case drivers on the decision for panels was speed / uniformity, but also there is a path down the RHS past the leanto for rear garden access, which is 1.2m to allow a digger through. So for machinery access at useful-digger (as opposed to toy digger) size I can just take one panel down. That would not be doable with a bespoke fence, and I did not want the complication of a second gate (the fence is set forward of the house with a foot gate at right angles). Also the logical destination for the house is to have a big extension where that fence is, but that won't be for some years - so a fence like this can be dismantled and taken away to use somewhere else except for the concrete repair spurs. F

That one is ugly, but it is where the idea came from. Here is one of mine from Streetview. These are on display so I overspaced the posts by about 25-50mm for the bolt, which leaves a gap between the panels which I can then cover with a cosmetic batten which matches the fence panel slats - so the concrete fence repair spur is completely hidden from the good side. And still get to both ends of the bolt if necessary, easily. The panels were done 25-50mm clear of the ground, and then extra depth of gravel was added to cover the gap. These are hit and miss panels to allow the wind to blow through. The post heights were trimmed, and the posts capped later. The offset one to the right is because the neighbour has reinforced foundations over the boundary, and was then trimmed to just below the panel height. (Just in case you think of those sort of panels - they were bloody heavy. With two of us moving them I had to have rests because my fingers wilted. But the fence was built by my handyman; a very good job.) Update: thinking about it we may even have used threaded rod and two nuts. F

My ballpark guestimate for a portal frame industrial type building is £500-600 per sqm plus or minus 20%. I haven't built one, but I looked into them when my gym was looking for a home. Some of our building contractors on here may have a better idea. Ferdinand

Remembering, just having been out in the garden and looking at them, you can use 1.2m fence repair spurs (they come with bolt holes) and bolt wooden posts to them clear of the ground. Which solves all the rot problems and will give you a 25 year fence. This is a pub car park and uses wooden posts bolted onto fencing repair spurs. I do the similar thing with 1.8m posts, but cannot find the pics at present. That would solve all of your weight handling problems. F

You can make it a bit easier by digging a wedge out on one side of the hole and slide the post down that - it saves you lifting it the full 9ft. Then wedge a brick or two or a plank in whilst the Postcrete sets, then backfill. IIRC that's how Ug built stonehenge. Ferdinand

I would suggest having a look at parallel parking across the bottom of your garden. You would need a dug out width of approx 2-3m, and the width if your garden (~18ft) is nearly as long as the recommended length of a streetside lengthways parking space. You would need to check the Council's attitude, though. And - as before - it will probably cost about £1000-1250 for a dropped kerb and pavement crossing. Though - as I said and linked above - there may be a grant available if you talk to them. Ferdinand

Make sure you are clear about the end point plus a washup included. Mine was up to the Planning App decision notice, though I got some feedback at the end. I had agreed that an Appeal would also be handled, which we needed and won. I would place hourly rates as incredibly variable, depending on whether the PC is in Short Trousers or really wants the job, or is more like a Senior Consultant / PMer of a team. I would say anything between £30 and hour and £250 an hour. Mine was at a level where he routinely testified in High Court hearings, so chosen to be able to make a complex argument successfully, from experience in winning similar apps in the same area. I would expect any professional to do an initial meeting / assessment in order to be able to quote. I got a phone call plus digesting documents plus an hour of conversation from mine before we made a decision. What you get depends on what you ask for, and how well prepared you are. You should probably get digesting whatever matrial and questions you send through plus a meeting, at which you get to ask more. Plus possibly a followup phone call. Mine had standard terms which included a "x% of the value uplift" (x <5) success fee as a standard feature. Also was amenable to a degree of risk sharing which would reduce his fee, which was one of my day 1 queries - I did not use that in the end. The total fee was 10k+, plus the bonus. That does not include the fees for all the other 7 or 8 consultants, from SUDS draft design to a chap who did a Visual Impact study (perambulate around the horizon and viewpoints taking photos then report). However, you need to appreciate that my project was to get Outline Permission on a smallholding to sell to a developer. The PC provided contacts for the team to do all the aspects of the project, as used on previous projects, and PMed all of the application submission -s o it would be a number of weeks of work. Ferdinand