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I am trying to keep my bricks down to < 80p each and I have seen some on Less 2 Build It - Leading UK Brick Supplier but I suspect that most of these are clearance bricks. So there lies the conundrum. Can we literally stipulate that we are going to use a buff brick and provide a range of colours? There is no overarching colour in the other properties and they range from painted white, red and buff colours. Bit of a risk to buy 8500 bricks on clearance and then be told that we cannot use them.

But that's a condition, not a planning submission document. Are documents related to conditions available on the planning portal?

Anything that stops local NIMBY's from collectively colluding and creating enough pointless objections to automatically force a committee hearing would be a start.

The roof is simple. Now I’m wondering who I could contact to get another quote.

Ok, thanks. I'm wondering whether the items listed are what you'd get anyway from a technical architect.

So now our PP has been granted, we have some conditions to discharge and will most likely do this myself. The architects have come back with the below quote for the technical drawing side of things and I wasn’t anticipating it to cost nearly double what our PP cost. Any advice here would be appreciated. Service run is pretty much sorted as I specified the room layouts and associated soil pipe stack design .. Just wondering what half of these items are and whether they are required.

So I have had a quote from Catnic which is coming in at ~ £60 / M2. I was wondering whether anyone has found other offerings that are worth looking at and possible places to purchase it. I recently came across Cladco Greencoat and that appears to be slightly cheaper. Anyone installed either of these and can comment on ease of installation and how it turned out?

I appreciate this is a few years later, but that document was very useful in showing how to install a standing seam roof as a cold roof. My roof is a dual pitch with no hips or valleys and I'm really looking forward to cutting the roof and installing the seam sealed roof myself.

So the architect specified the below as part of the planning submission. They basically failed to consider the following. 1) Drainage field location is where the two eastern trees have been placed. 2) The two trees either side of the entrance will interfere with the visibility splay. I am contemplating handling the discharge of conditions myself and want to know whether this will require an amendment or whether I could simply relocate the two trees either side of the driveway inside the hedge, and add a single tree to the eastern side of the pond. That does mean one less tree. I am in the process of generating the Biodiversity Enhancement & Mitigation Plan.

I have tried and tried, to find a company who will personally carry out a physical site survey to ascertain whether it's possible to get a static onto our site without a crane. I know they'll be able to get it to the site, but the truck will definitely not be able to reverse in. So the only option is for it to be potentially manoeuvred onto the site with a 4x4 When I ring and ask, they all say. If you buy one from us, we'll only charge you if we can deliver it. The trouble is, most trade statics are utter **** for the money compared to those sold privately. The site in in Hampshire and I have no issues paying for an on site survey. If anyone knows of a firm that will do this, without me having to buy one of their units, please can you get in touch.

Absolute bargain. Not!

Maybe I just need to specify that wash out water will be captured in a bund and allowed to settle, before the water is reused for concrete or other washing activities. The sediment will then been disposed of using a certified waste disposal company.

Yes

So I am using ChatGpt to try and come up with a CEMP plan. One of the things that I am struggling to get my head around, is the handling of waste water that is generated from washing out mixers, tools, paint rollers ...our site is off mains drainage and any waste water is either discharged to the ground or when installed, to our sewage treatment plant. There is also a redundant septic tank on the site, which could be used and periodically pumped out. I am maybe overthinking what is required in the report, or what regulations I need to comply with. Anyone had to do one of these reports who was off mains drainage and can maybe provide some advice?

It was more to do with if you ever did need to claim. Would they simply say "Oh, I see it passed LABC, but who was this guy Justin who did the footings? Oh, he's a Software Engineer who is very practical. In that case we are not paying out. You needed to use an 'expert'" Sorry for my cynicism, but I have used a great many trades people in my past, and I can count only 2 out of a dozen who I actually thought were any good. Some of the work was very questionable.

Exactly.

Will this suffice given I want to do a lot of the works myself? For example, I was just reading the LABC technical document and they state that metal roofs have to be installed by a registered installer. I've purposely designed the roof with no hips or valleys so I can attend the Catnic course and install it myself. So based on LABC tech spec, I'd most likely be voiding the warranty and would not be able to do said works. It looks like a small print headache finding a policy for a real self build that doesn't require you to subcontract out most of it to the 'experts'

I am at the stage of applying for self-build finance. Land is bought and paid for, but need to finance the build. I am mainly planning on using contractors on an ad hoc labour only basis and intend on doing as many aspects myself, eg footings, drainage, 1st/2nd fix carpentry, plumbing ... As a result, I am not sure what insurance is the best option. We will need insurance to get financing, but it's the associated insurance if for whatever reason we need to sell. Obviously, as I am planning on doing some of the works myself, how will that work as unlike a trader, I cannot reclaim from them in the event of an issue.

Completely agree. Say that you did have a situation that prevented you walking along the landing and down the stairs to escape through the front door.

Am I correct that window width/placement is very important when using vertical cladding? The vast majority of images I have looked at online look like the window width has been designed around the width of the cladding? Is this something that will have been done for the drawings at planning stage or will the technical design move windows slightly and reduce/increase window width so that you end up with a clean look like the image?

It's always good to ask, as you never know whether someone may come up with a creative tweak that turns a property from looking ok, to looking amazing.

Great idea. Never considered to that. Are you talking soil pipe and push fittings?

This is my redesign and I like the simplicity of it.

That's reassuring. The first quote was from Rationel, so hoping the others might come in more aligned to the estimation. Yes, the did quote for DG and not TG as that quoted by Rationel, but I think it's a 30% uplift in price from DG to TG?