Ferdinand

But we love toys.

Welcome.

hope you are insured. What is that worth ... 60k or so?

Was that one post? Consider me awed.

I think I can help with this one. I think the BBC are being somewhat trolled, or perhaps lazy. I have already answered some of this elsewhere a couple of days ago. I wonder if they read the site? We have MPs and at least one member of SAGE who read it, so they may. The linkage about "Brexit VAT Changes" is not real afaics - those are to do with preventing VAT fraud on Ebay / Amazon etc by Chinese suppliers. Professor Murph said back in 2018 in an EU Parl enquiry that it was of the order of billions a year, and he was about right imo. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/06/28/the-scale-of-eu-tax-fraud/ I believe the EU themselves will be following suit on this. No idea what overall implications would be when it pans out. Dutch Bike Bits is a garden shed firm run by a very good UK expat bike blogger David Hembrow (A View from the Cycle Path), who is also viscerally passionate on the politics. I think he'll find a way, since much of his custom is here. Major bike sites (eg bike24.de) seem to be up and running with things like a one euro surcharge on delivery, which is sensible. On the VAT for microbusinesses I think HMRC need a separate VAT threshold of say 10k for small importers. Note sure on the beer site. So yes potential issue, but other stuff going on. F

Someone jumped the shark. Having to warn people he's not stirring. Happy Days.

The various ones are different in eg weight and quality though, so choose an appropriate one.

Wickes call them Geneva. Others Cottage Oak. They are not far off being the default. Though most are a lighter oak rather than brown. If you are patent and work at it, imo you could be a little below £100 for each door and all the fittings, without fitting. Depending on very recent price rises. Or if you have a heavy, post handle like that one ?. The last lot I did came out at £85-90 or so, but it was 3-4 years ago.

Here, for example, is a Siemens $£""%$£^$^$^$&&^%*&(*)_()&*&%^%%$£%$£%* with a Flexinduction Zone from Appliances Direct at £750, at 15% (already taken) off. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/77641460%2f1%2fex879fvc1e/siemens-776414601ex879fvc1e-iq700-5-zone-induction-hob-hob F

Swap it for a bigger sink so you need a bigger hole, and do it with the proper gloop ?. What you need is to be really concerned about something that won't totally fit to wash in the current one (eg oven shelf, stove trivet, BBQ something). It is for the boss's benefit.

Mr NIMBY needs to learn from Teddy Roosevelt: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." I think if you had decided on the spot that you were not going to speak, they would not have been able to either.

I obviously watched too much Trumpton...

Um. To me that looks like a scale model of The Bishops Avenue, with a bit more space in between. No likee. But then much of gorgeous desirable Georgian London was poor quality thrown up speculator boxes, anyway.

Paragraph 55 is now Paragraph 79 ?. They should have called it Appendix 1, then it wouldn't get changed every time the NPPF is redone. Planning to do a short blog piece about the planning factors that aligned to get it through - a lot of them.

Dunno. It's in Bristol - does it?

It was posted at Christmas - Buildhub's answer to Die Hard. ?

Thought this was your house.

Having checked - I was wrong. The piccies above do seem to be the finished thing. The extension on the RHS is a garage, and I expect that the stone does have to dry out. It is built in ICF with the sandstone as a cladding.

Not sure. I think it will end up white (or offwhite) render and stone.

Congratulations. Looks very good.

The detail of MVHR is not my knowledge area, but contingency planning may be slightly. I think the large airing cupboard provides you with a space reserve, into which you can expand if you find you need more space for the MVHR. If the airing cupboard is for drying not storing linen and clothes, then you have a Plan B available in the form of eg a Pulley Maid in the body of the utility area, which is what a lot here do and find it very satisfactory. If you provisioning for a pulley maid you probably want an MVHR outlet directly above it to suck out the humidity. If that is all inn one room, I would have a think about noise from the MVHR. One of our members currently on furlough, @Jeremy Harris, also spoke well of the benefit of placing an MVHR outlet in the ceiling just outside the door from the kitchen to the hallway as a way of controlling permeation of kitchen smells. ATB Ferdinand

(Puts on highbrow helmet) Ask a dentist...

Was reflecting on what changes I might like to see in the planning / building control setup in law, and thinking about that as a possible for the list of top 5. Cheers

So that's looks like "does not apply to things with planning before the law came in", which is the normal legal position in planning. And it will be perhaps 2023 or 24 before it is universal? F

Fire Sprinkler systems are compulsory in New Build houses in Wales. Can anyone explain how this works in developer houses - eg is it just not mentioned, and assumed? For example, this £290k new build by St Modwen does not, as far as I can see, even mention Fire Sprinklers: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/100030979?premiumA=true#/ Ferdinand