Ferdinand

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

And just for the record, that squirly mark on the kitchen floor where someone missed a bit is on the camera. It's all Apple's fault. All the other marks match the tile pattern, but that one got through. ????

The other one is, though. *innocent face* But obviously, being me it is in the space sideways.

Do you perhaps want something practical and reusable rather than bespoke if the kitchen is being redone? This is what I have in the corner of my kitchen. It is an Ikea ‘mobile island’ with 2 lockable wheels and 2 legs, which is sized to fit snugly into a single 600 unit space and fit just below the worktop. Dimensions are 50x58cm on plan x85cm high. It has a couple of wicker baskets on it, which I think are also iKea. Not expensive, but not charity shop prices either. They do several sizes and versions of these, and you could repurpose it as a ‘trolley’, mobile workbench etc later. Looking at this page, it is probably a Bekvam which costs £40. This has been in my kitchen for at least 15 years. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/kitchen-islands-trolleys-10471/ There’s another one called a Forhoja (same page, get Bill and Ben to pronounce it for you in flobadob), which would fill both your unit spaces. that is 100 x 43 x 90, but the legs should be trimmable go under the worktop. That has a pair of biggish drawers (cutlery drawers). Another type of basket to look at are the IKEA ones for their Kallax grid-shelves, which are around 30cm x 30cm x 30cm where you can get a fairly floppy but useable fabric one for about £3 up to a nice wickerwork one for say £10-12. Bottom of this page for the varieties https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/search/products/?q=kallax (Yes I know you all hate the rug but it refuses to die. Bought from IKEA in 2000, and was so inexpensive that a spare was purchased. The spare is still wrapped up in the cupboard.) I think all of these can be ordered on line. probably flat pack. delivery charges but probably not outrageous. F

I have occasionally done things by going to visit the regional office near me - especially where I want to have particular things explained, and reference several docs. But I have not done LR stuff since 2017 or so, and COVID has affected it in god-knows-what ways. It all helps to short circuit the thing that always worry me most about LR - which is getting something not quite right on a form and being told much later to go back and start again.

I don't think so. Depending what you are doing it could be a couple of months to quite a lot of months. I have always found their helpline to be very informative, so a phone call may help you get to grips. If you really need to expedite it your solicitor may have access to their online 'trade' system and that may be quicker than doing it yourself with paper forms (if that is what you are doing).

We are all 21, in our heads.

Sorry. Latin Group 3 verb TYP-IRE - "typo, typiss, typit etc - to make a typo". "... covering what I perceive to be all the issues, and with details of all the kit I used ..." F

I can help there. Being the forum cheapskate, they are already in pots growing for a couple of years time. The aim is blueberries from late June to mid September, different foliage colours and varied flowers. There is also a box, a blackberry and my previously neglected Fuschia which is kindly giving me a new flush of flowers after I apologised to it and extracted it from its sulking corner behind the bamboo.

There are a couple of threads on the forum about different options. An aquatron is like a composting attach,ent on the end of a conventional system plumbing. It separates solids and liquids in a fixed spiral separator. Solids fall into a smell free worm composter which needs emptying every several years. Liquids go into a leach field or soakaway. we had ours about 30m from the house. very economical option.

if you are doing this I would say do a fan as a matter of course. I wrote a series of 6 posts about the conversion of my downstairs bathroom for my mum two years ago, covering what. Perceive t9 be all the issues that details of all the kit I used Here is the index article

My thoughts: ? Looking at the plan, I wonder whether it might be easier to just hinge the door the other way which would save hacking around with the frame - a 762mm door should hinge fine into 830mm. I would possibly put a "catch and hold" door holder-opener on it, like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CLWN3CS/ For the loo, I think I would put it under the window facing along the bathroom, as even with the Sani Compact the 400mm clearance to the bath is still really tight - I think they like 750, and 510 is the required minimum (though no one is going to jump on you for it unless it is subject to rental regulation in one of the more tickboxy places). And I think I would fit a pedestal basin to give for leg clearance when sitting on the loo, and then a carefully chosen wall cabinet for storage. And perhaps a shower over the bath, plus a screen. Is there somewhere to hang a towel, and a radiator? (Might be an argument for outward-hinged door). How are you ventilating? One of my hobby horses is fans with a backdraft shutter. Ferdinand

@Mr Punter develops niche housing projects. Quite a lot of types of people on BH ? .

If you are on a slope, why not consider something like an Aquatron, which needs no power.

I'd agree that it is a more recognised problem, but I would argue that it is a change that is still becoming known. In another say 20 years it will be part of design practice, but the art of building develops slowly. One favourite quote I always liked: The answer to wrong use is not disuse, but right use. We still have people fitting trickle vents to solve condensation ? . And presumably other people still use concrete pointing. Pneumatic tyres were invented just after the Penny Black, but I still had childhood friends with solid tyres on their bikes, and I'm really young. Allegedly. I'm planning a deep loggia or arcade across the S side of my house (which is unfortunately the road side but I can't bodily move it across the road, 'cos there's a house fthere already) for sun sitting, and breakfast, for my blueberry grove, some solar panels on the roof, and to keep more sun out of my study and no 2 lounge to stop them badly overheating occasionally. I don't get a view of the Firth of Wotsit, however. F