Ferdinand

What are the laws about recovering ground? Can you build a mini-polder into the lake if it is your lake? Even 5m on all round would be a huge difference. Flood protection, innit. Serious question.

Seems to be a quite good selection, @JSHarris. Big hollies are beautiful My comment would be to be sure that you have the correct mix of holly trees to get berrys, should you want them. I like the thing about Western Red Cedars that they can have boats made from them by carving planks out of the living tree, due to the self-preservative nature of the wood. Your future purchasers will be able to continue your boat-building tradition if they wait long enough and let the tree go. Ferdinand

TBH I agree with you. In that model the new one looks very dominant. It would be a surprise to me if It helps in that form. However your Planning Consultant is the local expert and their opinion is far more weighty than mine. I think if presented with that as a Councillor on Planning Committee or as a potential local objector, I would be concerned enough to ask some awkward questions. I think you need to communicate that the house is in a far larger context than that shown on this model, so the extra space is really a very very minor overall change. One way to do that might be to have a small scale model of the landscape showing how small it is in the context of your 19 acres and umpteen lakes, then a model showing the detailed house and no landscape, demonstrating the high quality of the design - so the change is de-emphasised and the old size vs new size is not discussed in the same breath. I might be tempted to get the latter one 3D printed and dismantleable by layer. If you have to have one of house plus some landscape, then I would suggest putting enough landscape in to place it properly in context, and I would turn eg all that brown into green. If the lake moves then I would perhaps model it with the water lower eg in high summer. Never show the two side by side in the form imo. If you make sure to call it an "'illustrative" model In the definitive places even if you call it just a "model" elsewhere, then you cannot be formally bound by it. I would use it as a prop to your presentations rather than something you let people take away. Ferdinand

Intestng, I am doing my kitchen splashback and windowsill using sliced up 600x600 porcelain floor tiles in a contrast colour to a fairly monochrome kitchen.

I think you need to look at the two edges, white and brown, then use the colour that will mask the more uneven of them. So you get to create a new straight visual divide with the edge of your perfectly straight silicon bead if necessary using plasterer's tape or your preternaturally excellent silicone skills ! From the piccie, the brown looks less straight, so I would do it in brown to de-emphasise that wavy line and move the perceived colour join to the bottom of the skirting.

What is the windowsill treatment? In my bathroom for the LBB I am running Multipanel up to the pvcu frame using external corners round the opening.

I would probably use clear silicone as flush as possible or a quadrant, or silicone to stick the quadrant in place. Two considerations imo (?) ... airtight and aesthetic.

Or a slightly smaller one in the range, more used, for about £300. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rubi-DC-250-850-Electric-Tile-Cutter-Zero-Dust-110v/162727653896?hash=item25e352f208:g:JXQAAOSwZlZZ82Pa Might be worth it for someone.

Same model. EBay about £550-600 finishing tomorrow. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rubi-dc-250-tile-cuter-wet-saw-very-good-condition/263277528759?hash=item3d4c9046b7:g:MlYAAOSwBp1Z43sR One too far for me this time. I only have a splashback and a windowsill still to do.

I may even have run it to outside, coming out under gravel.

Has anyone done the heat loss math for one of these DMEVs vs a Lo Carbon Tempra, or taken thermal pics from outside? I guess the Centra is really a hitech, well-controlled trickle vent. I install the Tempras as a default in rentals, but not in bathrooms, and I would be interested. Yes, they do look quite phallic in thinner walls, particularly the extended length version the handyman installed in a normal wall the other day as the only one in stock. Ferdinand

Welcome. Are you buying coatings etc? Might it nit be a good idea to wait for at least Outline to be approved? Just in case... Or did you mean costings and got mugged by automisspell? Edit. Just like I did.

Good price ... who was the supplier?

Herb tea or a glass mug.

OT. FOUR hinges on the door? Wow. I am just putting in some of those and have gone for 3 x 3" ball-bearing hinges. My doors are 30kg - how much do those Firedoors weigh? F

Good condition Billy's are often available for a song on Ebay. As ever, the way will probably be to buy somebody else's entire study.

The solution is perhaps an insulated lorry-driver's travel cup.

An appropriate Construction Cocktail would dissolve the concrete into something that would reinforce your teeth and give you a sultry beatific smile . Just like Steptoe.

Presumably for a Campavan you drive it on then declare SORN (?), to save a few hundred £££.

I think the negotiations and checks will take at least a year :-)

And ... are there bats.

I can help here ... have been on PCCs and am a bit of a Church of England nerd. It has water and gas and a drain of some sort, so service access may be possible though it looks like a long approach. Trench Arch systems have been used for loos in churches; no idea whether that would be allowed. 2* listed including aspects of interior so you will be circumscribed, but no tower. Listing entry https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101121876-church-of-st-leonard-wetheral#.WfNoOtHTWhA You need to get to grips with the CofE independent Planning System, to understand the building history and assess your risks, and talk to the Diocese of Cumbria. You may need to talk to the Secretary of the Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) and find out who the Professional Adviser for this church was. This person advises the parish and may have written the periodic reports - see next para. Then talk to that person to explore the maintenance history... it may be worth paying for a couple of hours of their time. The DAC is the body that will have granted PP for past works to the church, but if you get it you will be in the Council Planning system and dealing with English Heritage and / or Conservation Officers. You need to get copies of the last several Quinquiennial Inspection Reports, which are condition reports required every 5 years for churches, and probably have read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested them before your meeting with the architect. For how these reports and the system work explore the Churchcare website, especially these pages http://www.churchcare.co.uk/churches/guidance-advice/looking-after-your-church/quinquennial-inspections/quinquennial-inspections-the-report If you can swing it, it will be of huge benefit to talk to a former Churchwarden, who are responsible for the physical assets and administration of the parish. Be polite to people - they will all love the building and mainly be dedicated volunteers desperate to see it well-restored. They may have been round this loop several times already. The Church authorities are likely to be professional and sympathetic, as they will have explored lots of options and want to get it away. I think you can probably be quite open in your discussions, but they have a legal responsibility to maximise return as consistent with their responsibility for the building. I wonder if you get the right to impose a Chancel Tax on your neighbours :-). Ferdinand

What type of church is it? Age? Materiall? Listed ... what grade? What is listed? Who are you buying it from? What parking?

Indeed. I have updated.

[Edit - Aha having read more carefully i see that it has gone. Sorry. If nephew putting foot through asbestos cement once and no fibres are obvious I think you are okay. Sorry - trigger subject for me since asbestos got my dad.] Ferdinand