Ferdinand

we talked about this one. Barge pole. I have these, which are fine, subject to Ikea spacing etc. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/odensvik-double-wash-basin-00135612/

Welcome. Take care to be accurate with whatever is underneath.

What are their reasons for refusal, or is it all just hot air?

Don’t ever say Franke with a W by mistake. It sticks and you do it again.

Mine is a Franke. The best point is that the order is half-sink sink drainer, which means that mucky stuff in the half sink can be done whilst stuff is draining. My favourite sinks are sit on top, whiach mean there are no joints to go manky and no oles in worktops to cut.

Does 20 years unopposed not establish a ROW?

I think we have been here before, and I think the Council said "do it".

imo that is already a drop kerb.

Isn’t that a plonker-meter which has gone to 100%?

Walk on glazing installed whilst inebriated.

Bit young for you, you randy old coot.

Consider carefully the costs vs benefits of so called ‘green insulation’. Sheep’s wool sounds nice and fluffy, but there are alternatives available which are much more insulating per unit thickness, which means that you are trading off your ability to save future C02 emissions for a trendy material now. And potentially you will need to dig bigger holes in the floor to fit it in for X level of quality, so waste, effort, fuel etc. I would suggest as a start a heat model of the( whole thing, and to include 10-25 years of energy bills and emission in your lifecycle calculations. Ferdinand

I would try and be creative with the space. eg can you put a study Karel, a crow's nest, or a sleeping platform on top of your ensuite reached from the landing?

I think a reinforced slab, which is what these connect to (I think), is also good in tension - and is very dissimilar to a 'mortar joint'.

Can you post a larger plan segment eg with which way round your stairs are etc.

Find out what their plans are - they may want to get rid of the roof stack.

Welcome.

>discussion Ford Prefect on human communication - apropos of not very much, and perhaps irrelevant (but it is Saturday). "One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical."

Is it me or have we crossed into the conservatory thread?

The way I did mine was just to put two isolator valves in the water circuit, and make sure the extra Rad was on its own loop. Which may or may not be officially good enough. But since I did not ask anyone about anything at all, no one complained. F

Surely the measurement will be taken when the room is finished? If I am in a wheelchair I cannot turn around inside the depth of the tiles ? . Unless it is Star Trek and I am slightly out of Phase with my bathroom, but then the shower won't work either as it will go straight through me. Aside: I blogged an accessible bathroom project, which may be helpful.

Bribery might work. Or can you do an aspect of work to get the commencement fixed in, and then consider varying the existing as Plan C. Gateway or soakaway? Presumably you will be on the CIL-exemption before work requirement (?) Ferdinand

This is a good point. I would just do this one, rather than ask. "Running repairs, Guv'nor"

If a conservatory is outside external quality doors and windows, I believe it does not need building regs: https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/10/conservatories/3 That is what I did with one of mine which is really a sun lounge. Reversing what I said on the other thread now that the whole roof is in question, I would consider replacing the roof with an insulated corrugated one. Mine is insulated with 100mm rockwool, which is not really that much (+ 75mm PIR underfloor and 50mm PIR in the dwarf walls). Not that well insulated by BH standards, but the tenant uses it as a lounge for 80-90% of the year. My conservatory at home, which has a glass rood, has 100mm PIR everywhere where there is floor or wall, but is also divided off by UPVC 2G French Doors from any inside rooms. Here you need to find out what insulation you have - are there drawings? A thermal camera may be useful as it is winter. I would investigate the roof and walls. I would do the roof investigation from above or through the side of a skylight, as it may be possible to insulate without getting into replacing the internal ceiling. Done carefully you may even get to reuse the corrugated sheet. For that I would say new corrugated will be £700-1000 for the material if you went for the thicker sheet with Plastisol. For the floor, if you are really on a budget it may be that "skirt" insulation around the outside may be a good idea. ie 200mm EPS down the inside of a French Drain to teh base of your foundations rather than digging huge holes inside. I would heat it tactically as needed with a heat / cool split air con unit, or even radiant wall mounted devices. Ferdinand

I would take out the one in the attic and the stack.