Ferdinand

Shiny side of hardboard (either way up - lack of friction may be best against the floor). Or a bit of chequer-plate. Make it deeper than the washer, and perhaps cut a "handle" in it. Or perhaps something with a "spring up lever" at the back? Problem there is if it sticks you won't get it back out ! Once it is out you may have the space to fit a 600 x 600 x 8mm floor tile in the space to make it slippery. eg in white https://www.tiletown.co.uk/en/alaska-white-floor-tile Can be expensive per sqm but you only need one tile, which I get for about £12 from the tile shop. Also under fridges.

Make sure that your tap is high enough to fill the biggest thing you may want to fill. Do you need a tall cupboard for brooms and things? (Could do that by moving sink slightly to right and having a shorter worktop on the left). Think about lighting under worktop if you will be doing close work there (eg topping and tailing gooseberries or gutting fish etc). Make sure that the washer and dryer doors open to the outside so you don't have to troll your items round the end of a door to dry them. Are you having a wash-pulley in it, or drying washing? If so you need an MVHR outlet. F

So your audience to convince is surveyors.

In which case I would probably tidy up the joint (and perhaps apply some dust to the mortar ... think hidden tunnel entrances and Colditz ?), and have a clear explanation ready for when anyone asks. Including that piccie showing where the extra building used to be, plus any maps etc. My usual source for old maps is https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/ there are others. F

Invent a Ripping Yarn about it ?.

Is there another one on the other end of the terrace? I would say it looks like a small terrace or barn that was extended for growth 150 years ago reusing the structure, and for some reason the bit on the end was removed afterwards. May have been a former house or some sort of barn. To make a road? There may be foundations under that bit of the path / side track. The mortar came out over time and someone bodged it with goo. IMO a surveyor should mention that as it is obvious. F

You can use a wooden "Godfather post" or a concrete "Fence Post Repair Spur" - 1.2m metre concrete post with boltholes ?. If there is a hunk of concrete in the ground you get 400mm or so of fence post and use it as a spacer so the Repair Spur is say 100mm away and use long bolts through all 3 elements to miss the concrete in the ground with the repair spur. Alternatively you can try and put the new one in the same hole like this: Ferdinand

I'm just keeping quiet. There are others who know more about tiling.

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Your house is too traditional for one of those. You want one of these. £75 if you come and collect. Solid oak. 1.8m high. ES bulbs. Comes with luminaire glass covers. The support is in 2 sections, so can be 1m high.

If you want minimal beams you could try curtain wall suppliers.

Big Council self-build site near Bicester. Nearly 2000 serviced plots in toto.

TI agree 1 is better. Remember that in your dressing room you really want space for a full length mirror and room to stand back very slightly to admire your outfit. I would treat it as 2 sides with the end of the walkway as a mirror. Or alternative provision. F

Really depends on quantity of cutting you have to do. I use a scalloped breadknife outside for room scale projects, but you can get special saws for little money. if you take that route spend about £8 on a garden steel sharpener and learn how to use it on a scalloped edge. EG https://www.screwfix.com/p/bahco-wttpi-insulation-insulation-saw-22-560mm-/7498K?tc=KT68 Well worth it if you have any quantity to do. Ferdinand

The sensible, but perhaps not doable, thing would be to wait to see if it dries out - which will inform what you can do. In the absence of that possibility, there are things you could do such as install something which works not, and will allow it to continue to dry out. But for a start, what sort of wall is it - internal / external and what material? I'm guessing solid block and external? What is behind that curved corner. For an external wall one thing I have done is dry line including an insulating membrane, allowing it to dry outwards in the future. Then the new DPC in the floor wraps up into the new drylined wall. Alternatively, can you inject a DPC? May not be perfect, but it would be a vast improvement. F

It is safety affecting so we would need much more info, and you would need a check from a pro on site in addition. I'm sure someone will comment on generalities, though. F

I had composite doors put in a couple of student houses a few years ago for their increased robustness /security over upvc, and I have not heard of any problems from the agent since. F

Celotex is part of Saint Gobain, who also Jewson. Huge company - 180k people. Kingspan are an Irish Co that are very big in the UK with a London listing, but about 10% of the size. I think we could end up with a Royal Commission. Presumably an enquiry will not recommend a whole new building regs system in detail. The piece linked also draws in NHBC, as has been mentioned, and the BRE man making suggestions about how they could pass the test, which changes were then not mentioned in presentations and policy within Celotex. So there's going to be stuff about separation of regulation / certification and commercial. Private Building Inspectors will be pulled into that imo. Could there be a pivot away from PIR as an insulator? F

If you look around there are several at Gravenhill already here. @DarrenA and @Visti and @tommac86 are three. @Visti should have just moved in. Have a dig via Google or the site search. And try some PMs. Google on "buildhub gravenhill site:forum.buildhub.org.uk" Now you take a photo of your hair so you can look back and remember what it used to be like before it all turned grey and fell out ? ,

As far as I know it is also true, from the original use of perforated blocks to allow breezes in hot climes whilst providing a screen. I'm coot anyway, but not so hairy. I would not inflict a photo on you; during lockdown working through a bit of mum's flyaway hair shampoo - mine has all suddenly flown away standing on end and I look like a teasel.

Call it a Breeze Block, then. Them there are called breeze blocks 'cos they leak so badly ? .

How do you start to dig a large pond without planning permission? "Engineering operation" When they were doing the large house I enjoyed that, though I admit I was waiting for the Only Fools and Horses Chandelier trick.

Would the solution not be a small shelter belt or large bush to windward?

There are certainly outdoor showers available .. perhaps try looking at swimming pool kit suppliers and outlets?

Apparently he had a pond, a hypocaust, and a garden divided into three parts. So no electric required at all. His dog was called Dai and when he had thrown it into the pond for a good scrub he used to declaim “Alea iacta est.” Best I can do after dinner and beer .. sorry. Unless you want a thirty minute Pink Panther cartoon about arguments over a shower. (What was this thread about? I am sure it was probably something else.)