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I wouldn’t rely on Ubakus for anything non-standard. Get a full WUFI analysis done then you can have more confidence in how the building will deal with moisture over the seasons. Wood can rot quite quickly in the right environment. Intello Pro Clima is for air tightness but it’s also a vapour control (check) layer.

I also had a no smoking policy in the house.

I just did all the practical things such as not allowing waste to build up on-site especially sawdust and paper. No battery charging done in the house overnight. Fire extinguishers/blankets in obvious places mounted to the walls. No welding on-site without taking due precautions. No metal cutting in the house. Nothing left switched on. No running extensions plugged into extensions. No running heaters off long extensions. Extension reels to be fully unwound.

So called water rings in marble can actually be etching caused by a chemical reaction and a good marble polishing compound will remove them. I’d contact the supplier and ask them for advice.

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.