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That's naughty. Mole Valley seem to have stolen a doc from the Membership Area of Planning Jungle and stuck it on their own website. First para of doc:

You do not say where you are. Between those two, and assuming he still has PD rights ie have not been removed, it is likely not to clash. However, they may have gone beyond PD rights in detail, but TBH if it is marginal at this stage they would be likely imo to get retrospective permission anyway especially if it is an area where these are common. If they have driven a double decker bus through rules in eg a conservation area then that would be more serious. You could take a piccie and email the Planners for an opinion and the actual rules for that property. I would say first just enquire, and do not automatically ask them to enforce. It could upset relationships for many years. https://ecab.planningportal.co.uk/uploads/miniguides/lofts/lofts.pdf F

That's useful.

I would not buy this one without getting planning first. Which would require a lock-in agreement. I think your chances are low without some special factors. Parking requirements are be one obvious issue.

I would also carefully consider that garden wall as an acoustic barrier. There is a lot that can be achieved looking eg at systems used for barriers between estates and dual carriageways, plus you have a little elevation to play with.

(Reads thread) (Thinks .... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.) (Goes for walk)

The double socket in the meter box is a very good idea. Glad it is going well.

Pay them?

Glad you found us. We keep very quiet and make you work for it ?.

Typically they would be easy to break and expensive to repair. You can't expect them to work with no maintenance for 5 years. And as for larder units ... ? (Writing from the LL side)

You can also either put a stick-on rubber nipple or two on the point where it connects with door. eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/6040143746/ or a buffered door stop if it could mount on the plinth. These are spring buffered and magnetic so they hold it open until you jerk the door. I have them on all my commonly used doors. You can calibrate the strength by putting it closer to the hinge. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CLWN3CS/ or a sleeve of some sort on the handle of the latch, as you say. Thoughts are the sponge tape you get for table tennis bats or tennis rackets, or perhaps even a piece of cable heat-shrink. Or can you just make a door stop? eg material sown around one of your leftover bricks.

I think it will depend more on the precise product you buy. And the sophistication will change over time. My (I assume) midrange larder cupboards have been in since 2010, an they do not open with a pinky, despite running on runners and rollers. F

Dear Lord. Giving pocket doors to a tenant ... risky ! That landlord owns a pocket-door manufacturing company. ?

Yes.

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/02/did-jackie-weaver-have-the-authority-the-law-and-policy-of-that-handforth-parish-council-meeting/ And Anna Soubry is fun at 2:22 on the Today Programme. Especially on the former bouncer with the red camo meeting David Cameron. At 2:22: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rww3

Is there value in creating your own "house model", and running it through one of the online price check services? They are only low hundreds or so aiui.

Land Registry HPI index is a good tool. eg https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/browse?from=2010-10-01&location=http%3A%2F%2Flandregistry.data.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fregion%2Funited-kingdom&to=2020-12-01&lang=en if you take 10 years, the increases are not that much different to inflation, or for that matter to average wages. HP inflation is much lower, perhaps even 2/3 lower, for 2010s over 2000s. But general squeeze has gone with it, ie 'austerity'. It might be useful to get a secondhand version of SPONS and the current one to compare. Or say 2010 and 2018 to be cheapskate. Also newbuild premium has perhaps shrunk, and some things are cheaper. Suspect posh 3g windows are disproportionally up, whilst very good 2g are relatively cheaper.

Saw a photo of a shower on another thread of a shower cubicle that had so many bits and pieces on all the walls that there was no blank section left. Ergo impossible to have sex in. Strikes me that I have never seen anyone have this in their shower spec. Wanted to check that you had not done the same thing. Would not be able to cope with an even more frustrated @pocster than you are already. But you (and subsequently the rest of us) are OK. Good job. F

That's quite appropriate.

Nothing. (Apart from all the things mentioned before.)

Thanks. That answers it.

Is 100mm enough roof insulation? F

Time for a bigger window. @pocster Wake up again. Do you have an overall photo of your shower interior? I have a question.

I was askingOnoff. Quiet. Grownups are talking.