Ferdinand

Welcome to the forum.

You could find an ip45 or ip65 spot fitting on a mount rather than flush. Or tile the back in a dark colour?

@Me111 PS Your terrace would actually be a south-east facing weekend breakfast space. You say that most of them are like that. So your home work is to find out who has faced the same issue and how they did it. People love to explain how clever they have been, so just spend a Saturday knocking on some doors. A supplementary source will be the floorplans comtained in eg Zoopla in their advertised properties archive.Find via road names or postcodes in Google of the sold prices search. Ferdinand

@Me111 To be honest I think that given your constraints it is bloody difficult to create an effective and atttractive layout at a reasonable cost, to the point of being almost impossible as far as I can see without accepting some sort of major compromise for *someone*. Creativity required. So.. What is in the Hall cupboard, and how big an ensuite do you want? I assume that the child in the front bedroom does not need that enlarging. The best option I can currently see is this: 1 Move the extension to the other side, across bedrooom 3 and the lounge. 2 Get te space for your ensuites from the hall cupboard - but that wall might be structural - and by nickIng the bit from bed 3 on te left inside the door. 3 Enlarge bed 3 into the new extension, and sideways by a couple of feet or a metre Into the 14ft 7 wide lounge. A 12 ft wide lounge can be zoned lengthways into eg eating, sitting more easily than a 7 ft wide bedroom. 4 Lengthen the lounge into the rest of the new extension as a sunny sitting space. 5 Patio doors in te master to a secluded south facing terrace. 6 Eventually get rid of the wall between kitchen and lounge that will give you a correctly orientated modern through room. One advantage is that your extension would be away from both boundaries so no Party Wall Agreement pfaffing, at the cost of more messing about with stud walls. Another advantage is that you get three practical double bedrooms, rather than 2doubles and a corridor. Suspect this suggestion needs to be drawn to be appreciated. Ferdinand

OK. Short MALE person. /pendant

Observed comment by a short person on a weekend away last month: I am 5ft 6in, so I will round it up to six feet. Sounds to me like you have finished the first half. Round it up in your head! ?

Welcome. Have you submitted yet - if not there are some things it could be useful to know first. Ferdinand

TBH it is a judgement call, and based on the relationship. You could have a conversation with your PC, who will be able to explain in 15 minutes or so where the "policy" lines are drawn in eg facing windows of habitable rooms. That may give you a better grasp and give you a mental routemap as to what are 'reasonably' expectations. Beyond that it is what your relationship is like. I would say do not compromise on any of your core requirements, and warn in advance as appropriate but do not (usually) be deliberately manipulative (eg applying for PP 3 days before they are away on hols for a month). My first PP was a big one (outline for a housing estate), and I knew I would get some aggro (and we did). We sold at outline so then it was out of our hands, though I still have a property next door, but I did a few things that would help (eg not making a fuss when a neighbour wanted a hedge to become 3m high). Ferdinand

In celebration of @zoothorn being nearly finished, I have found some more Zoot Music. ?

How did you deal with the "plated weight" thing, and decide what the carrying capacity was and being documented in case you were pulled for a check? Or is not being checked n advantage of being more remote? Cheers Ferdinand

Aha. The second law of programming. "The Last n% of a program takes (100-n)% of the time to complete". I have a Plan F for you. Prevent all the echoes thusly, and save the repair time: At this point I think I need to run and hide.

A couple of suggestions for your 3cm bit; you could use a mosaic-on-backing tile, and cut it into strips. This is my kitchen, which the prior owner did by butting these up to each other: And this is is the one from the Little Brown Bungalow, where we used mosaic tiles and a metal edging to sharpen off the corner, around the sink to cover smallish surfaces. You measure the gap and choose the right dimension of sub tile that multiplies up properly to your space. And on the breakfast bar. To to be fair, it is a bit tricky, so perhaps do it with a sheet or board material, and look at revisiting in the future should you wish. It needs an edging or slight overhang as we have done here with the windowsill tiles with slices of 600x600 gloss black porcelain tiles, as flaws show up. This has slight flaws which are not seen from head height. See piccie below. I think we may even have redone the ones below the sill, and reflattened the substrate ... was a renovation not new PB. Ferdinand Apols to mods for murdering the server with full size photos.

I agree it is probably rhetorical in part, but I think they will still be here. And it is a gorgeous sink.

Start a thread and the forum will talk you through what you normally adjust, and that might do it. It helped me a great deal a at the start of this year .. I did not have my ufh circulating pump set properly so heat was not getting round Far enough.

My answer to that would be a bed in 2 independently adjustable halves and 2 duvets... So she can have polar bear hide and you can have a bedsheet. I think they are called a Split King.

DId you ever meet Mrs Recovering Academic?

What is your situation on spares? My tiler said chip out the tile starting at the centre to avoid damaging adjacents when replacing tiles. But I am sure someone will have done it. This chap suggests a Multitool with the diamond faced blade, but that is in "I may be gone sometime" territory.

That's interesting. My MCS installer seemed to think it could be done. We even designed the strings etc and discussed the capacity of the Inverters, and the layout of future wiring, to facilitate it. I am all Solaredge, but do not yet have a veranda on the south side. Any move of panels for me would be large, potentially involving 12 or 16 panels. F

Have you taken the rules of your Council recycling centre into account? It is perhaps technical and honoured in the breech. In many places car + registered trailer is OK, whilst a van is not for a private person. A car version of a van or a people carrier whether 5 seater, 6 seater or 7 seater, swallows a lot of junk. Whilst 4wd tonkas have shorter load decks. On insurance I am not sure what happens for a van insured for social domestic pleasure; ie does self-build count as business? Sweet spots I would point out for secondhand are firstly a carefully selected diesel estate from between about 2015 and March 2017, which meets Euro 6 and will therefore not be banned from activist-towns In the current wave of panic, whilst being grandfathered in at £20 or £30 road tax and doing 50mpg+. Big estate would tow 2 tons. Alternatively a relative banger can be had for very little money with perhaps 100k ok life left in it. There seems to be a slight risk of govt policy treating diesels as one tax band higher. Not clear whether this would be retrospective, so I have left one band of leeway before mine will be jumping to the punishing tax levels. The way it has panned out for me is a new diesel estate - Skoda Superb - to hopefully be my long term car. The current version came in in 2015, But I have ordered options such as a fold down front seat for longer load length, which I think is quite unusual. Someone I know has bought a small diesel people carrier - Vauxhall Meriva - off eBay for under £400, with seats that vanish into the floor, vintage 2004 but only 120k on it. Miscategorised by the seller. That is now his work vehicle, with perhaps 2-3 years of life in it. Ferdinand

What sort of Franke sink is it? They are an excellent brand. Mine came with a 50 year guarantee, and I think they will still be around. On the tap, try turning the water pressure down a little.

You could potentially use something filled with air sacrificially. A couple or inner tubes from a bike with the valves forward of the edge, and snip them off afterwards? Though ice would be a cool way to do it. F

What cross-sectional area of ice cubes does one need to support half a ton?

Elephant? They are excellent for catching your sanding dust, as long as you point it out of the window before it sneezes. Credit

I have found OK people through MyBuilder, though I try to cross-check too. Our County Council has handed their entire Trusted Trader operation to CheckaTrade. CheckaTrade really clobber tradesmen - they charge getting on for £1000 per year. A hell of an overhead. Ferdinand

It would probably be useful to have some more information about your requirements. Do you mean furniture or a house? There is a thread yet with talk and some options: https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/3059-need-quick-to-learn-cad-software-recommendation/ I use Sweet Home 3D, which is good for eg interiors, but not for eg plot surveys. Ferdinand