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Yea they don’t last. I was warned about this so bought a few extra as I use two as a gate.

Likely two different colours. However, the same grout colour can look very different depending in the tile colour and the way light falls on it. We had exactly that issue in the bathroom so tried different colours to get a match.

What materials are you planning to transport with it. I mostly got everything delivered. I do have a trailer too which has been invaluable. Mine is sized to take a 2.4m x 1.2m sheet. It also has extended sides so has been great for taking waste to the local tip. Saved me a fortune on skips. I bought the trailer new for £1900 and will get most of that back when I sell it. No tax, insurance, MOT, service costs, consumables etc.

https://amzn.eu/d/0eh27wqi I bought mine as a refurb direct from Reolink. Was as new and saved £30.

Working perfectly. None for my use. Been fit and forget. There’s a slight delay (seconds) connecting to it to watch live video and very occasionally it won’t connect but this is due to our poor 4G service.

Reolink do a stand alone 4G camera that’s solar powered. I’ve been using one for a year.

You can get HDbaseT ARC HDMI extenders. Long runs of HDMI cable is similarly problematic as you have found.

Scotland. The size won’t make that much difference. Ours is also on a steep slope but designed to go the least problematic route with no drops. The levelling was all done separately however so there’s some extra cost there but that was a few hours of effort in the digger. Does your price include electrics or is that separate? My cost doesn’t include electrics. I can’t recall how much that was but most of the cost was the long SWA cable.

Depends where you are. However, we were £5k for all of that. That was a Graf One2Clean, remote air blower, drainage field (24m2) plus pipework. That was part of the overall groundwork though so I could have overpaid elsewhere.

Just run it over CAT6 cable. Much easier to route and run longer distances. It’s what I’ve done to all TV points except the cinema room.

I don’t see the need for set top boxes nowadays (maybe if you have sky) or running HDMI to every room. If you need to pause live TV or record something most recent TVs allow you to attach a HDD. It’s what I’ve done for years. I’ve ripped all our DVDs to the NAS. Everything else either uses the built Smart TV features or a Firestick. The only room I ran HDMI to was the cinema room but I kept the runs short. I also ran them in a duct to allow replacing them if ever needed.

Mine was invalidated because the topographical survey didn’t have a scale on it. Returned with a scale the same day and it took another 3 weeks to validate the planning application.

Yes just the other day. It was manky. Full of dust after two months. Our Airy terminals have a removable black circular filter built in. They were very dusty as was the MVHR extract filter so the Airy filters aren’t that effective. Those hoods @JohnMo linked to will be better for sure.

We have this kind of terminal and filter behind the hob.

CITB is a levy paid by builders that’s based on the wage bill of their employees. I didn’t think it was done on a project by project basis. The levy is a % of the total wage bill but it only starts if the wage bill is above a certain amount. It’s the builders levy to pay not yours. As far as getting a QS involved. They aren’t cheap either. However they would be able to estimate how much each stage should have cost in materials and labour. You presumably don’t have the actual cost broken down like that nor is the builder likely to willingly share that with you. What was your final cost per m2 vs what you estimated it to be or how much are you over your planned budget.

She was our neighbour. There is no mains supply here so it was a borehole. Total cost was circa £20k 8 years ago.

I know someone where exactly this happened to them (by her sister) They had to install a borehole at enormous cost.

As legit as any complaint when a building has already achieved planning permission.

My only immediate neighbour. He doesn’t live at the house. Comes up every 6 weeks or so. A couple of other people (passers by who live in the area) were surprised we got planning permission for such a big garage. Several comments about what I’m going to do with it etc

That was 10 months ago. We moved in today. There’s some slack in the cable but not much. I planned out where nearly all our furniture and appliances etc were going etc and 3D rendered it. I also put plenty of sockets in and all double sockets. We won’t need to add any extra in anywhere.

You can buy skirting with a channel cut in it for services. What you can’t see is I also ran a batten horizontally at the bottom to give me something to nail the skirting to.

Looks like this.

My service void has a horizontal run around the walls between two battens. Makes adding extra sockets really easy.

Aesthetics and cost in that order. You look at the finishings for a very long time (the rest of our lives in our case) so it really matters what it looks like. There’s also practicality. We wanted a real stone floor but they are harder to maintain compared to porcelain and good porcelain tiles almost look as good. We never considered anything else for the floor coverings. I did get some samples of bamboo flooring but didn’t like it. We did for some of the other building components but not the finishings.

I’ll dig out what we had to meet in Perth & Kinross. Moving today so will be over the weekend. Eta This was the only condition relating to noise. I had to submit the spec sheet for the ASHP as part of the submission. All plant or equipment shall be so enclosed, attenuated and/or maintained such that any noise therefrom shall not exceed Noise Rating 35 between 0700 and 2300 hours daily, or Noise Rating 20 between 2300 and 0700 hours daily, within any neighbouring residential property, with all windows slightly open, when measured and/ or calculated and plotted on a rating curve chart