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  1. Ferdinand
    Or you could have a stove top toaster. Tennis racket toast if it as Aga or Ceramic. Is there an induction version of a tennis racket toaster? Or if aallly dedicated to a smooth worktop you could have Dalek Toast if it is a gas hob. Like camping. Found while briefly researching toast: Jamie Oliver Guardian Footnote: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/how-to-make-toast-the-jamie-oliver-way
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    I think the way to manage crumbs may be to continue the worktop into the roller-shutter cupboard, either my using an insert if it faces forward (offcut), or orientating the cupboard sideways at the end of the worktop. Ferdinand
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    One technique is to turn a design based argument into a use or practicality based argument. "I prefer wooden windows" "Will you paint them every 6 years?"
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    Welcome back. Full marks for supplying all the information . But that may take *some* digesting to comment sensibly. Can I make 2 3 4 comments / suggestions having just dipped in (very busy for the next 2-3 weeks). 1 - Like the way you are using an awkward N/S orientation. 2 - I might want to move that shed and deck in a little from the bottom boundary (2-3 feet), so you can get behind to maintain them and have somewhere to store things you don't want seen. We all need an untidy corner. 3 - Is it worth considering moving the rear garage door to the back wall so you have an absolutely straight path through when required? This becomes a dead letter if you have a suitable path down the side or alternative, I would want it to let me get a sufficiently large minidigger down the side for any projects I may do in future - how would you get ten bulk bags of sand to the back if needed in future? I would work on a metre wide or a little more (1.5 tonne digger = 980mm usually). 4 - I would also say do the floor of the garage such that you can convert it later to an office or grannexe if required. Insulation to domestic standards, capped off water in the corner, perhaps capped off gas, route in, maybe ufh if you are doing it, even enough extra foundations so it will support a second storey. And a question: I see your architect refers to a "covered way" in the Title of the Proposed Development: "Proposal: Erection of a single storey side extension and covered way. Erection of a single storey rear extension following the demolition of the existing conservatory." Can you tell me which bit is the "covered way", and what your architect knows about them? There seems to be no definition in Planning Law, and we are trying to find out what one is in this other thread: A Covered Way is exempt from Building Regs and potentially Planning, so it could be a useful concept to use for making small additions less expensive wrt paperwork. Cheers Ferdinand
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    Can you concrete galvanised scaffold poles into the ground and go off those? If concerned about the thing moving I might incorporate something adjustable that can be relevelled without major trouble. Can I put another word in for Wallbarn Adjustable Support Pads even on one slab each... which can be obtained in varieties up to 400mm tall, or as heavy duty. http://www.wallbarn.com/products/roof-and-terrace-finishes/asp-adjustable-support-pads/ The normal ones ones cost a fiver and support just under half a tonne each. Wish I had them as I am going to have to jack my shed up this year because my fence post base has moved.
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    @Onoff @TheMitchells This was a hotel room in London at the Tower Bridge Doubletree.
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    Aside. Given the measures you have taken to increase light, have you considered a window in the gable wall? Tall and thin or wide and flat might work well if translucent. Or put a door sized mirror at the bottom of the stairs eventually.
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    Ask somebody else's wife how she deals with such and act accordingly. Or try this.
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    I have just received my reply from the Royal Town Planning Institute on the definition of "Covered Way" and "Covered Yard"; they think there isn't one. That will be non-binding however and just opinion, so don't punt 10k on the basis of it without knowing you are responsible. Which is very interesting indeed. If accurate, that looks as if you can prove it isn't anything else (eg opaque roof so not a conservatory, no door to inside so not a porch), the LPA cannot show that it *isn't* a Covered Yard or Covered Way, which means that if you are within the list of general rules for Permitted Development, you don't need Building Regs OR Planning Permission for building a very wide range of potentially quite useful structures and vexatious enforcement would be tricky. Suspect "It is an Extension" may be the fly in the ointment, in that I am not sure how to show that something is *not* an extension. An "Extension" (unlike a Covered Way/Yard which come under the Class VII Exemption) is not automatically exempt from Building Regulations. However, some things may best be termed Extensions built under PD. Ferdinand
  10. Ferdinand
    If you want to look posher than vinyl, in case Hyacinth Bucket or Lady Nugee stay , then vinyl tiles are a more-perceived-upmarket option. OTOH Roll Vinyl is effective nearly-tanking if in one piece and siliconed round the edge if somebody washes their souvenir rocks in your whb and it leaks. F
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    I refer you to the GPDO song, @PeterW. I may be confident enough to try mine, as it goes from the front to the back down the side of the dwelling and I do have a couple of plan Bs available if I get it wrong, but I have not read a lot of cases to understand how this really works. I would like to see some professional advice and a couple of Legal Cases, ideally.
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    (Aside and diversion) I love Planning Law. Apparently if your small detached building under 30sqm is a robust shed Air Raid Shelter it can contain sleeping accommodation. https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/living-in-lincoln/planning-and-building/building-control/building-control-advice-and-guidance/exempt-buildings-and-structures/ "No planning officer, it is not a shed from B&Q it is in case the Russians Bomb is and that gentleman is sleeping in it". Add: Hmm. Appears to be a Building Regs exemption, not Planning.
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    Under English Law in my opinion you should be able to do a 'Covered Yard' up to 30sqm without a need for either PP or Building Regs approval, subject to the other categories of restriction (height, distance from boundary etc). A covered yard may need PP if it extends beyong the side of the house. http://www.tameside.gov.uk/Planning/Planning-and-Building-Control-Frequently-Asked-Que#_constructacoveredyard_ Attention needs paying to Electrical Installations and Building Regs etc. However, in my case there is an external double IP66 socket there already, which I assume can stay. By my reading above a Covered Yard could be enclosed. To be a Covered Way it would need imo the capability of someone going somewhere through it. TO ME, the definition of Car Port sounds like a bastardisation of the older definition of Covered Yard or Covered Way. But your back door couldn't go into it, or it becomes a Porch and you would need Planning if over 3sqm. So you need to walk at least two feet sideways off the path through the rain wearing a hat to keep dry. That is General Advice only. I have put in a request to find the formal definition of these in Planning Law. Ferdinand
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    So I think what I am heading towards is building the fence first, behind which I will construct Covered Way, which at some point may turn into a porch. That means that I can use plastisol corrugated rather than translucent corrugated, which will mean that it will be more private and in keeping with the house, and I can meet any "substantially non flammable materials" requirement for being with 2m of the neighbours brick wall. I have not got the foggiest idea :-). But I think that a "porch" engages planning permission if it is more than 3sqm if attached to *any* door, not just one at the front. Or that is the view of my Planning Dept, though they were a little reluctant to have that conversation without a specific property being identified. Nor have I worked out whether there are any volume based restrictions. F
  15. Ferdinand
    Useful summary from Slough Council: Ferdinand
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    My BCO has just introduced me to the concept of "Covered Way". It is apparently defined by having a door at the front and back, and no access to the house. But if one added an access to the house later, it then becomes a "porch", but doesn't need permissions by dint of already being there. However, a new opening into a dwelling *does* need permission of some sort. Apparently. Also, apparently those lean-to half sheds you get from B&Q are technically extensions to the dwelling so need some form of Building Regs permission, but apparently no one asks and it is not expedient to enforce.
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    A porch over 3sqm is not Permitted Development. Add: but apparently there are differences if it is one the side of the house !
  18. Ferdinand
    Here is a Roughneck one of the type I mentioned. Hinged in opposition and good reviews @ £35 from Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roughneck-68250-Post-Hole-Digger/dp/B003CT4DE0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1500276350&sr=8-6&keywords=post+hole+auger
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    @PeterW Darn. So you haven't got one I can finagle . At a risk of thread diversion, looking into those they seem to be either rather wimpy (ie good soil only, may struggle with packed clay - that has a 52cc motor, £117 inc 3 borer sizes) or of the type that could bodily throw both Popeye and Bluto into a gorse bush 20 feet away when it hit a stone (2 man 190cc Briggs and Stratton motor sold on Ebay last night for £117 but £45 carriage. £550-ish new.). I think Stihl 2 man versions had a reputation for kickback. I don't know enough to take a flyer. If you can guarantee decent ground conditions a buy/sell on the wimpy version would be justified by one day of use. I can't guarantee such conditions. I could not find anything convincingly in between eg something torquey with better dampening. Hire charges per day for Day 1 seem to be 25-35% of new price, which is high enough that it makes me want to buy one instead. Ferdinand
  20. Ferdinand
    I think the problem here is the "need it now". I spent an hour two hours last night looking into post hole borers when I counted up how many fences I am likely to build, and may turn into one myself. Just saving two men half a day would justify spending £100 or more, and I have 10-20 substantial concrete posts to do in the next 3 weeks. To answer your question, I think you want one of those pairs of grabbers but with a mechanism which prevents you having to open the handles wide. One tip: if it doesn't have them mark 6 inch increments on the handle so you can see the depth with no tape measure. This chap has the type I am talking about, which would need extension handles, and also demonstrates using a wet and dry hoover: I have no idea where to get such at a couple of hours notice. Personally I am thinking about ordering a Boston Post Hole digger (one blade is fixed). F
  21. Ferdinand
    Insurance claim?
  22. Ferdinand
    What about lean to sheds? I do not know about this one.
  23. Ferdinand
    It has been suggested (see the other thread) that a traditional "lean to" might be a better option than a Garden Room (sigh). And I was ready to push the button. What we are talking about is an unheated lean to on the side area of a house against a blank wall with, perhaps, a roof of corrugated polycarbonate or 2/3 layer polycarb as is used on some conservatories. It will be dry but unheated. If you think of a car port with the walls enclosed you get the idea. There will be a door to the back, and probably will not be a door to the front. There may be a door leading into the house, which would be an external quality upvc door - I may need a door there later anyway, so that is not an issue. I can add the door later if that will simplify matters. The floor will probably be slabbed. Cladding (including the roof) could be transparent, translucent, or even opaque. I know that Planning will not apply, as the area under 15sqm, never mind 30sqm, it is on the side of the house behind the line of the principal elevation, and we are not "designated" in any way, and PD rights have not been removed. This is in England. Max height will be under whatever is the PD limit - 3m? Which leaves me stroking my non-existent whiskers about how Building Regulations would apply. The objective is probably that they should *not* apply for reasons of simplicity. I will call up the BCO tomorrow for a chat. In Building Regs terms is it a shed, an extension, a garage or a conservatory? And which are subject to building regs in that situation? In one sense it is almost like a small yard with a roof. I may even be able to make it into whichever I need by mixing my cladding. Although the lean to will be concealed behind a 2m attractive fence, I need to be able to defend my position if someone complains. Any comments are welcome. Ferdinand
  24. Ferdinand
    I am crestfallen. I thought "Home Brew" was Beer.
  25. Ferdinand
    "The issue we have is that the mortgage company require these easements to be in place to release the money which we now are in desperate need of as the roof is due to go on next week and our personal funds are now low."
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