Ferdinand

Aside I think this kind of determination will be something in play in future planning policy. perhaps we are headed back to an 8nhabited countryside on a timescale. But that does not help you. Cars will become zero emission, so arguing against their use will be difficult. I note that green arguments wrt cars shifted from ‘emissions’ to ‘congestion’ years ago.

Can I have a reference for that .. I thought it was different to that and it is good to hear. F

That is like the side of a cracker you do not put butter on.

It’s about 3 days since he said he had sold it. How will you enforce this except by getting it In writing followed by instant defenestration? TBF he’s got that well shaft ready for a mafia style burial in concrete.

Have you tried new ones? As a wildcard, Ikea have one called Havsen for about £225. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/havsen-sink-bowl-2-bowls-w-visible-front-white-s79250265/

My upstairs shower has such a chair. This chair has been in our showers for decades ... at the old house the shower / steam room was about 2m x 2m ! Seriously, chairs are a good telltale for places that wobbly people need support. I had at east 2 out of 4 grandparents , and my mum, who used chairs for moving around their houses as being more stable than zimmers and similar, and were also perceived as less embarrassing. Our open plan houses with their shiny floors can be scary if you are unstable. We need to think about the route for people to get places as well as being safe when they get there. I have a couple of rails like the rather dim second pic. This one by the front door was for mum to support herself when opening the door, and I hope it looks stylish enough to keep long term.

You have not got this at all. He will be leaving them there so he has something to tie things down with.

Admit that had passed me by. Though there’s some obvious trickery in the photo editing.

So it looks like you can be somewhat reassured, @Jess27.

Welcome.

Somewhat, yes. So it could be done. I'm now going to leave @Vijay to his thread and find my supper ? .

I couldn't get a textured shower tray without a special order - so it was shower tray plus stick-on ribbed patches, which work well provided you wash and rinse the soles of your feet sitting down. Mine works with a 900 screen and the shower head at the far end, but I would have preferred 1m.

I did a series of blogs on this, and a couple of very detailed conversation threads, which are all linked from this piece. I also identify all products and sources. It covers most questions in detail and worked very well until mum popped her clogs a year ago. It should help you with thinking about 90% of questions, even if to decide what you don't need. The points I would reinforce: 1 - The most important thing I did was to sit mum on the loo lid for about 90 minutes and talk through it all in detail - especially the personal aspects such as position of grab rails, height of shower seat etc. 2 - You need to consider heights for both of them. The shorter one needs to be able eg to touch the floor solidly when sitting on the shower seat, as foot scrabbling will exacerbate risks. Also a consideration for height of loo. If you like I can put some stuff about which aids are available free or you have to buy if they become frail - eg you can borrow a lot from the Red Cross free but unusual loo shapes cause problems for fitting eg 100mm high rise seats versions. Be generous with space so you can eg add a floorstanding frame or a Hitler Trombone (one of those lift up double rails) easily. 3 - With that amount of space consider playing close attention to building regs etc, as they are a good guide. 4 - Everything needs to be operable with one hand (may have to hold on with the other at some point in the future). 5 - Dual shower - overhead and handheld. All operable with one hand. 6 - Shiny grab rails are the spawn of the devil. Use either ribbed plastic or something with a rubberised surface if it must look plush; I used the ribbed Screwfix ones, or the Cassellie ones - also from SF - with the finger grips for the other bathroom. But the latter are a bit thin. 7 - Walk in shower with a minimal lip is a good call, but your planned shower head position will squirt water out. 8 - Door opening outwards in case someone collapses against it? 9 - What about wheelchair accessibility? 10 - Grab rails need to be there to support getting to each aspect of the bathroom as well. ATB. Get it right and they will get an extra 5 years at home. F

I had one that went earlier this year. We just replaced it, paying attention that the new one could use the same holes in the wall. Not worth the risk not to.

excellent. Good to have answers to the likely questions ?.

Where do BHers get their coffee? Personally I don't like Nespresso for green reasons - much prefer ESE pods, which are paper and can go on the compost heap, if I am using pods. In a pinch I can get one in my filter basket. Mine come from a localish artisan / mail order coffee roaster that has been around since the 1920s who charge roughly £5-7.50 for 250g of beans they roast ground however you want and delivered free for £40+ orders. As I have it that aligns roughly with the high end of supermarket brands. Ferdinand

I am gong to disagree slightly here after looking at the app. N has objected to 2 things - can logistics be done safely on a main / side road corner site with double yellows all the way round, and a big pile of junk in your front garden. The first one looks trickier, and I can see the Council asking you to show that it can be done safely. Probably not difficult but it is a big extension, and arrangements could have a cost attached (eg where is the skip going?). The second one is not a planning matter as such, but site tidiness may be an issue if it becomes a nuisance, and were they to complain via the correct route (council, but not planning), you would get a letter about your current pile. But tidying up is not difficult. Councils are usually tolerant of safe piles of stuff for the duration of a project. Not showstoppers, but I think you could get a couple of planning conditions. I think a potential issue is trying to go from a hipped end corner terrace 3.5m or so from the sideroad pavement to a 3 storey with a gable end perhaps 0.5m from the sideroad pavement, bearing in mind that there are 3 or 4 blocks of similar terraces with similar corners and none of the others have been extended. You will need some work to show that that is "in keeping" with the area. That is a planning issue. If you can find one done before similarly in the area it should help. I think there is also a question mark over that driveway access. Is it accepted and established with a proper drop kerb and planning permission? From the photo it looks like a hole in a garden wall, and was clearly not there in 2015, or in Dec 2016 when it was purchased. It is very close to the corner. That is also a planning issue, which could be the showstopper imo. What is Council policy on the minimum distance? I am also not sure about all those parking spaces. But your neighbour is clearly not that good at making relevant objections. I would suggest the key thing to do is to watch for the Planning Officer's report and address any points therein well before the Decision Date if the recommendation is to refuse. You should be able to withdraw the app and reconsider then reapply within a few months without another lot of fees if the project is very similar. And look carefully or the consultee response from Highways. That will have relevant stuff in if they object. Check the website every day for these. Perhaps not what you want to hear, but that is imo any difficulties will lie. Personally I think you may potentially need to hip the end or leave the side extension single storey, and put more parking round the back (which will cost part of your garden). Best of luck, however - and I hope I am not correct here.

Have you checked that you can get one upright in the loft over the hole...

Cavemen live in caves...

What I mean is that if your space where you want your shelf to go is a bit longer than the shelf you have to put on it, you can put a "side" on it with skirting if one end is up against a wall, which will help cover the gap. Just like you are putting skirtings on the "side" of the steps you have just made. Only works if the end of your shelf is running into a corner.

We had a cold snap with autumn arriving about 10-12 days ago - where the high temperatures were below about 10C for 3 or 4 days in a row. Mine went on then, and it took a few days to warm it all up. It is now running at 18-20C. Display on downstairs heating controller seems to have half died, so I am playing jigsaw-deducation games with the segments in the LCD until fixed. Upstairs is off apart from the rad in the downstairs bathroom which is connected to that half of the system - presumably as it is rads upstairs and ufh downstairs, as I am still 95% downstairs including sleeping. F

Interesting,. I had interpreted the Q as whether a legal SLA applied to te( land registry process, not a timescale for the purchaser to meet.

It looks good. What is it made from? It looks to be a higher class more design-lead version of the type of cladding I used from EuroCell when sharpening up a studio bungalow a couple of years ago.

Did the digger survive?

I don't think that is quite what was meant - concrete stores more energy than a timber frame, and will heat up and cool down more slowly if it currently has more energy stored in it. The issue is surely whether that behaviour is useful for what you want from your house. A highly insulated house to say near passive standard may only fall by 1C in a period of 24 or 48 hours with all the heating turned off anyway, even if Timber Frame, so I am not sure what value or functionality is added by large quantities of concrete in that situation. Not sure. How long it stays cooler depends more on how long the heat takes to penetrate to the interior ("decrement delay"), not how much is stored in the heatsink. For a concrete heatsink to be keeping it cooler in hot weather it needs to be diverting energy away from the house interior. I am not clear how it does this. Ferdinand