Ferdinand

If you get into the Appeal Court you are up for 100s of k of expenses. It' a problem for LLs because all the horribly drafted legislation has to be sorted out by years of Court actions in precedent setting Courts. It took years and years to sort out Deposit Protection schemes.

A present you get a good extra margin if buying as a main residence due to the Stamp Duty holiday, I think.

What will be the return on finishing it at that price?

My dad once made them move a wall that was 18" too close to the boundary as the house design did not fit on the claimed size of plot. If he had not caught it at foundation stage it would have got restrospecive permission.

This is interesting: Bye bye gas boilers? How does a woodstove produce zero emissions at the point of use? By 2024? Good to see the move to total testing for leakage; that may be easier due to more Timberframe in Scotland. That now needs to be total inspection. Now for England to catch up; I don't like being behind. F

One of our former members wrote a series of former posts on a former blog about his borehole saga, which may well have covered that as well as everything else. Access the entries via the link on the right. https://web.archive.org/web/20200815110812/http://www.mayfly.eu/

You could plant a hedge of these: See Salix Viminalis as a shelter crop for what you actually want. You can of course make your fence less prominent without removing it. What about a swimming hole?

Get yourself set up with a trade account and a membership with further 10% off. It helps.

Creative farm diversification by someone with background? Not as if there is much local competition ? .

Oh it's better ;-). It's Preston, Queensferry or Tunbridge Wells. https://www.trycurling.com/play/find-a-rink/ How disgusting.

Photoblog. With Construction Lolcats.

Unfortunately, your closest curling rink is probably somewhere like Gretna Green.

Good to see. With that sweeping action, Curling is indicated.

On boats a Dalek Toaster is compulsory.

Putting them in the floor may be an alternative (?)

Remember that SAP values will shift in favour of electric as the supply is decarbonised over time.

I do not see a problem with the gap.

What about using a winch of the hook where you put your big showy light-fitting?

One another option is to install a suitable lift from the start. If you have (or could) included provision, then just put one in now.

Landlords in England are regulated on it, and it is an offence to rent out a below-required property - subject to certain exceptions etc. It is likely to be D by 2025, and C by 2030. I think Scotland and Wales followed. This was basically a LiBDem initiative from about 2010, pushed by Ed Davey. AIUI Scottish Gov have followed, and are trying to apply an improvement-ratchet to Owner Occupied properties, with an aim of "All C by 2045" or similar. How are they doing?

Welcome. We need photographs to comment usefully here.

Small 3 double bed 1970 semi-detached bungalow I am selling has been valued at £255 per sqft. Renovated to newbuild standard in 2017. Worse area than where I am but the nicest part of that, and a lovely place to live if you want a quiet life. Certainly now is a time to sell not buy without a good reason.

Perhaps a different character of area? We are totally ex-mining, but I think green improvements may be starting to be recognised - and plenty of new housing has been built over the last 15 years, which must help. Here we have hundreds of acres of country parks nearly right round the town now.

It is different by area, and may well fall back a little. The actual price changes seem not to have been much more than the *average* for every year of the whole noughties, which was 8.2% per year nationally. I'll give you "mini boom". Talking to an Estate Agent today, and we agreed that this is perhaps only the third good year here since 2010. But OTOH we need stable house prices into the future, so Rishi *must* start to kill some of the tax subsidies..

TBH that's the same size as a normal 3 person sofa. I'd design in a removable piece of floor, with a hook above.