Ferdinand

if you want one there is a 2 Ha site down the road for sale with PP ready to build... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-66993055.html

They have my sympathy on this one. The EPC seems slightly strange in the handling of the GSHP .. no star rating. The price is £415 per square foot. interesting . Ferdinand

What a glorious site, even though it a bit rainy up there; you should be able to grow champion marrows in your field. I would consider that *very* carefully, unless you know exactly what you want and that it will never be anything involving weights. An extended garage with a thick slab, or other building with such a floor, is a far better option for a gym. (Writing as part owner of a gym that started out upstairs). It looks like a dream project. Ferdinand

Depends how hot they need to get I suspect. Our UFH rarely ever gets the floor more than 1°C above room temperature, so we can't actually feel that the floor is warm at all. If we had skirting rads instead they would need to run a bit warmer, but I'd guess they'd not need to run at more than around 30°C or so. That is very possibly the case. As someone with no experience of self-building passive houses (yet), and a bandaged finger, I need you to come and live in my garden for 3 years and build me one. ? I can supply a slightly leaky 8x8 shed for weekday accommodation and storage, which includes a complimentary (non-passive) cat-flap for potential companionship.

Why would you want to do that? Because at weekends I am Delusional Dan, the Multitasking Man.

At the moment I only have bad experiences of skirting rads; they seem to click interminably. I think we may need to differentiate between those "inside skirting" rads, and the ankle-height ones mounted at skirting level. The installation I have in a tenanted property were supposed to be the former but were ordered as the latter by mistake. F

Also worth a note that ufh is excellent at frying washing and shoes if you need it done quickly - either spread out or on a drying frame. One trick is to have a warm spot or room - my own inner downstairs bathroom gets seriously warm. F

Personally I would lie down on the ufh. ?

That's quite funny. Dismantling someone's scaffolding even slightly is the most effective way of stopping their build dead, 'cos it instantly invalidates their H&S environment. All it takes is removal of one brace. Started doing that once when a bloke who had built his scaffolding on my garden without permission wouldn't talk to me about removing it (despite written notice), and was trying to create facts on the ground in violation of planning rules (things like abalanced flue straight over my garden, gutter overhand etc) to create a 'do not change it' balance in his favour when enforced upon, rather than rectify his design. PP had been passed and these items missed. Scaffolder and the police were there in about 15 minutes. That was quite a worrying one, as there had been after physical threats in the gloaming a couple of days before, and I needed quite a bit of moral support. My fault was not watching the rented property closely enough beforehand to catch it early. It was at nearly 1st flr level before I noticed, and he could have had a roof on it before the Council would have processed any paperwork - at which point forcing a change from an exposed to a hidden gutter becomes more complex. Not something I would enjoy doing often. F

They actually all had carrying slots, so that should be possible with a little enlargement of the slots if oriented outwards. I suppose the insulation could be fitted before they went into the wall. And could the "boxing in" be used to hold the wall together (maybe not)? I thought that they did OK, and that the problem was the lack of an advisory HOG. The main issue seemed to be the initial overoptimistic forecast, and inexperience. To my eye they skimped on the screw quality, and it was strange that they had non-collated screwdrivers. 28,000 high quality screws would only be about £100 extra over cheap ones. Ferdinand

Perhaps they found a pipeline and had to move it ?

Cheers.

I think it was in part cockup, and in part an attempt to achieve some unidentifiable worthy objective which would stop people pulling fast-ones on LPAs (in the opinion of the LPA). OTOH it would allow @JamesHopeful to build a 20ft shark diving into his roof because it was an Objet D’Art. But what one would do in such circumstances is perhaps to Appeal the Enforcement Notice, which would then no longer be in force pro-tem,and the PA would then be obliged to process the Retrospective PP / CLEUD (Cert of Lawful Existing Use Or Development .. I think). ** There’s an article about this and other nuances here, if anyone needs a catnap generator: https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/regulatory-and-enforcement/190-regulatory-features/36207-planning-applications-enforcement-notices-and-certificates-of-lawfulness There may be a bodged fix in place by now. Ferdinand ** Planning is to a small extent a cross between Poker and Pelmanism (“where the fook was that card I was planning to play?”), and why you sometimes need a planning consultant.

Thanks. I am still learning at 36. (/liar)

IIRC my O level chemistry, rust requires all 3 of water and air and iron, with water as the facilitator. F

I think that is also the shortcuts of every Windows machine since at least 1990 to my knowledge. Although I am impressed with youngsters who know about it; driving a laptop from a keyboard with alt and windows-key codes rather than flubbing about with mouse pads, and semi-colons, are established ways of intimidating non-nerds aged under about 35. Though I am entirely baffled by people who type on mobile phones with their thumbs; Generation Millenial must have Trump-hands.

I am not sure that I would win a conversation like that, and I am not sure how I would argue it. It would be interesting to see what happened in such a case taken to Appeal. F

That is useful comment, Jeremy. Though according one Industry Assoc the limit in 10,000l per day as of right. http://www.ukwta.org/technology-areas/private-water-supplies/ Thanks,

GD did one of the plywood box houses in 2012 for Celia and Diana. https://vimeo.com/53932758

Perhaps also a little regulatory risk analysis https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/norfolk-villagers-and-farms-hit-in-first-water-war-r5f9wmhwn The village that has lost its aquifer supply has 1300 people.

One thing that you can do is maintain good comms with your Planning Officer throughout, and you may be able to nudge the PO in the direction of removing that condition if you are in a position to ask, and - so to speak - nobble it early. Ferdinand

Well, that was quite some perambulation around the possibilities, before coming back to what someone said in post three. ? However, that is the very best way to learn of all, so great stuff for exploring all the options until you were satisfied you had the best answer.

Perhaps they read BH and bought/sold the scaffolding. That would rather effectively put a bomb under any notion of modern Arts & Crafts ... integrity of practise right down to the basic materials. Ferdinand (who once again forgot that it was Thursday)

This is Planning; definitive answers do not exist. ? More seriously, there is a lot of local autonomy - and the huge flexibility that is available is the flipside of it sometimes feeling like a random number generator. One of the features of our system compared to others is that you get to do lots things you want if you make a convincing argument for it. There are downsides too - aiui in some countries it is handled more like "we will build in this zone, and you can do it without individual permission" (which may be why whole swathes of some countries look like a big suburb). We have taken a step to such an idea with eg Local Development Orders linked to a Masterplan, as at Gravenhill (for one). I am not sure how other places handle permitted developent ideas - do you need permission for a Garden Office in Holland or Germany? When guessing at such restrictions I tend to read across from jay-walking to measure the Degree of Pettyfogging-ness in a country (Sydney is a nightmare), though that is variable too. Ferdinand

Thanks, both.