Ferdinand

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.)

If you are procrastinating then it is likely there is not much difference. So toss a coin. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar: "The problem is in ourselves."

They can grow a hedge the other side to hide it, or put up a fence they like. ?

Now you wait for N to paint the other side an attractive green, then you turn the panels around. ?

I have no evidence that his weren’t fakes too ?. Certainly I do not have 10k of Eames furniture preserved in my house. Unfortunately. The seven Guy Rogers chairs and 3 settees were genuine however, though those were collected by dint of having an old oversized slowly restored house with frost inside the windows with unfashionable Guy Rogers furniture bought out of the local rag for a pittance or donated, obtained from people with fashionable overstuffed furniture in their fashionable undersized houses. Eventually sold for far less than they would now be worth with all the big brown furniture when mum eventually downsized into .. er .. a 4-5 bed fairly well specced dormer bungalow with approximately practical heating. I have 2 chairs and 1 settee left. None of which quite match. Win some. Lose some. Draw some. F

Piccies?

Is that an Eames side chair, or maybe a Saarinen tulip chair? (Or fake thereof ? ) Jealous - that's what dad used to have in the 1970s and 1980s. F

Is that some sort of diving suit?

Online purchase consumer right to return....

So that’s what the other worktop in your kitchen was .. the one leaning in the breakfast bar. I thought that went with the sumptuous blue pattern like frosties and vinegar. Now understand why.

Are they wooden joists or posi-joists? ? Last time I did this I used this stuff for good bends: https://www.screwfix.com/p/tower-corrugated-conduit-white-20mm-x-10m/38177 F

I will be needing a mortgage on the house I am living in, which I did own 50:50 with a parent. The other half has been willed to a family member. Has anyone done this, and are there any complications? Can I just do a mortgage on the whole thing and have it trigger at the same time as the property buyout? I know I'll need to talk to lenders on this. I'm interested in how anyone who has been through the same thing handled it. Clearly a 50%, or 60% for some money to spend on it, is a far better deal than say 80% on my half plus savings. Cheers Ferdinand