Ferdinand

Not mentioned yet - but think about where you are starting and finishing to make sure your shower gubbins is in the right place. What I mean is that Multipanels work superbly for a long time, but what if eg there is a waterleak in a pipe behind the panel? They work well because they are sealed in so thoroughly. If you have the Aqualok joints they also undo tidily iirc from one end only. How will you maintain the shower gubbins? As a landlord role I obsess about maintenance, because it is damned expensive to have empty properties. What I have done in my last 2 bathrooms (Little Brown Bungalow - Panels) and the one I have just written about (Home - tiles), is to put a 100-150mm stud section where the gubbins goes (rather than a shelf at the other end) and also make sure it is behind the last panel in the run. Piccie below of the thing in the Accessible Bathroom which is also about the need for shower cut-offs which the self-builder who did the house deemed unnecessary. It is not ideal, but it will at least be easier. An alternative is accessibility from behind. What do others do? Just another thing to think about ?. It may be that there never is a leak, but you increase (says Murphy) the probability if you do not cater for the possibility ?. Ferdinand

The 8m rear development will require a Local Consultation Scheme with your neighbours or whatever it is called now, of course, to implement. Unless the system has been changed again :-).

Welcome. (Strangles cricket comment at birth, 'cos if England are winning it will only be for 10 of the next 50 years). Presumably building from cob (ie mud) may be appropriate in some of the warmer parts. Just like .. er .. Uzbekistan or Mexico. Ferdinand

Here is the link. https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/search-results?searchTerm=Glamping I would say yes liquidated, but dreamy entrepreneurs rather than manufacturers. Though they could be dreamers setting up a manufacturing business. ?

But we do mainly have parents, changeable requirements, sometimes blended families and boomerang kids. And homeworking. We also move house half as often as 20 years ago, and social care services will be a mess for the next generation .. in all probability. Any ne,w arrangements that come in will take 25 years to bed in. Personally, though single I have a parent living with me in a 50:50 house but future arrangements I have in mind include a possible girlfriend, possibly with her own kids, or potentially up to 2 .. possibly disabled as we are town centre .. lodgers to keep the 5 bed house used and funded as I eventually retire. And some of these could happen in nearly any order. Or I could move ... or even move and be half here and half somewhere else. Or as a diabetic I hav3 to be resilient to going blind. Most of this was in mind when we bought it 7 years ago. Within that we have to navigate compromises ==> As much flexibility as is reasonably practicable. But just what we do is for each of us to reflect. I find Number of Rooms a more flexible concept than Number of Bedrooms. Mine is huge kitchen plus 2 bathrooms plus a conservatory and integral garage and 6 others which can be anything from lounge to office to bedroom. Ferdinand

In your situation I have the electric ufh in the bathroom on a timer, programmed to come on for a couple of hours first thing. For electric only and ease of use, I would put the towel rail on a programmable timer switch such as this concept (not a good precise model .. someone like TLC may have something less expensive). https://heatmyspace.co.uk/product/push-button-timer-switch/ You can then program a fixed period of towel rail for heat at other times on the safe push button, and it switches itself off again. Ours has not needed a stat at all, and seems fine. This is a 2010 regs house roughly. Ferdinand

If it is a requirement, that would be a little moot perhaps? Also, I am told that for a trad house a decent chunk of energy loss is via air leaks. So for a very well insulated house that should be a more significant factor. There may even be a decent payback in lower bills. Ferdinand

My favourite comment on glass sinks. "Save these for bathrooms where people are unlikely to drop things."

The Naymen Chorus of derision is convincing. So the use for the matching taps would be: a - A fixed mixer in a utility, high enough to get a bucket under. b - In a flip not a rental for people who decide on appearance not practicality. c - Possibly with a better type of ink in the bathroom if it works as a design and no splashes. d - For a bidet for footwashes. Cheers all. Ferdinand

Why not name here if you recommend?

The genuinely most interesting offer I have seen on there this AM is 4 x 3mx7m glamping pods that look to actually be portable garden buildings that have an initial bid price of £100 each. Look like 3k or more to actually buy. Because they will cost at least £500 each to transport, could be a right bargain as home offices or site offices, as a lot of bidders will be scared. Would be a Plan B for @iSelfBuild but they are in Herfordshire. There do seem to be a lot of Shepherd Huts and Weirdy Shaped burger vans out there for cheap sale. I blame Small Spaces and Shed of the Year; Burgers at a Festival from an ex-Airstream is the 2010s version of the 1910s "escaping to Paris and drinking coffee with surrealists whilst living like an impressionist until broke". Ferdinand

True. If you read back I have a load of taps etc from here a few days ago. Nearly all bought at Reserve price level, they were still about a third of retail. I am 25 miles away, and when I collected I quizzed them about checking and prep, and they did seem quite thorough. My items are fine.

You do not say which region you are in. >heard that you need to get then LDC then actually start to dig the foundation trenches before the change of mind and then submit the application for a replacement dwelling This sort of process can work, but it is tactical and can take time. I would probably want a locally-knowledgeable Planning Consultant on board, perhaps partially incentivised. I suspect the pre-App advice could have blown the gaff, because they now may think you are playing silly-buggers. So it may be more interesting getting it through. I have a local example of a chap who turned a single garage into a nearly 1000sqft workshop with storage over by dint of changing different elements in it as minor asides in a serious of adjustments to his main house planning application. And there was a chap on BH who applied for a garage then workshop in his back garden that happened to be the same size as the bungalow he really wanted, then moved from bait to switch and there were no reasons to refuse. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424220429/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/blog/20-a-modern-house-in-the-back-garden/ In the GB it would be more interesting.

Indeed. It is the only one I have seen that does.

Can anyone explain the "no overflow" thing? My own fitter is telling me that such a basin requires a free-flow waste ie no plug, to prevent overflow. I can conceive an "invisible" overflow, but I am not aware of anyone making one. Ferdinand

Countertop wash basins in bathrooms - need some experiences. I am thinking about using these in my main bathroom, and am trying to rack up the pros and cons. The couple of people I have chatted to in the trade are reacting Tee Hee Hee Hoo Hoo Har Har Yar Boo Sucks and falling off stools laughing, whilst pointing out the ones they have taken out again. This could just be north Notts bluntness, or "lets wind him up because it is a day with D in it", or that they are a thing for hotels, Hyacinth Bucket types, Instagrammers, and Cityboys who never use them. Does anyone have any longish term positive or negative experience of these? There does seem to be a lot of popularity for a thing which is useless. The lack of overflow on nearly all of them does not quite compute for me, however I do quite like the most basic version from Bathstore which does have an overflow: https://www.bathstore.com/products/beta-wash-bowl-75.html, and would currently come in at about £30-35 each. Ferdinand

Not an opinion but the auction I just posted on the Discount thread has a Kubota Backhoe Tractor in it. In Perth, I am afraid. But may be worth watching.

Plant and Machinery + Commercial Auction. Mainly in Perth afaics. https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/mlvehicle/catalogue-id-morris1-10019/lot-5649e99d-0620-45f2-b9ee-aa7300bd8845 Loads of things here. Lots of lawncare. Lots of Stihl / Husky chainsaws, hedgetrimmers and long reach, leafblowers, strimmers etc. Honda generators. Various other including a Kubota Backhoe Tractor (Perth, Scotland). Materials - kerbs stones, concrete channels, riven paving by the pallet, granite steps and pillar sections. And a lot of usefully sized trailers, Ifor Williams and Indespension. And I think I saw telescopic forklifts when spelunking through. And a mobile fully equipped site office / welfare in a Peugeot 4.5t Boxer: (Also Perth) https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/mlvehicle/catalogue-id-morris1-10019/lot-5649e99d-0620-45f2-b9ee-aa7300bd8845 Caveat emptor.

Bathroom Clearance auctions, as previous ones. Two more of those soak.com liquidation auctions happening. First starts closing at about lunchtime. https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/william-george-auctions/catalogue-id-wi412604?searchTerm=mixer+valve&whereToSearch=%2Fen-gb%2Fauction-catalogues%2Ftimed%2Fwilliam-george-auctions%2Fcatalogue-id-wi412604 https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/william-george-auctions/catalogue-id-wi412605?searchTerm=mixer&whereToSearch=%2Fen-gb%2Fauction-catalogues%2Ftimed%2Fwilliam-george-auctions%2Fcatalogue-id-wi412605

Remember Bathstore 60-80% off currently. https://www.bathstore.com/products/bathstore-sale/massive-stock-clearance And if you are shopping for showers, there are two more of those soak.com liquidation auctions happening. First starts closing at about lunchtime. https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/william-george-auctions/catalogue-id-wi412604?searchTerm=mixer+valve&whereToSearch=%2Fen-gb%2Fauction-catalogues%2Ftimed%2Fwilliam-george-auctions%2Fcatalogue-id-wi412604 https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/william-george-auctions/catalogue-id-wi412605?searchTerm=mixer&whereToSearch=%2Fen-gb%2Fauction-catalogues%2Ftimed%2Fwilliam-george-auctions%2Fcatalogue-id-wi412605

Surprisingly my older car - Vauxhall Corsa 2009 just about to go, sailed through its MOT on Monday. Really quite shocked. I made the possibly-unwise-in-retrospect decision to eplace the rear bumper due to many scratches from gateposts, and it is fitted well but now I have to paint it. Hmm.

Was working with that. So it turns on whether or not you export more than 50%. At present I have no divert device or convenient sink load if I did. F

So that comes on top of the FiT. Hmmm. Interesting alternative to a divert device.

Do not want to cause trouble (this time) but that only makes 8 hours, not 10. Presumably it is actually 10 real hours such as 3 4 3 or 3 5 2 or something?

I make it about...