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It always has. Here’s an explanation blog on it. It’s more complicated because there are two standards a council might use depending on the road type. https://www.local-transport-projects.co.uk/did-it-just-get-trickier-to-provide-highway-access/

That’s wrong for visibility splays. They use a specific formula for calculating the stopping sight distance. For 20mph it’s 25m. Here’s the formula: Your local council planning will have a guidance document on this. They are all generally based on the same document though. Get a copy, read it and apply it to your situation. As above don’t second guess what might happen just follow the guidelines. Just because you don’t quite meet the 25m it won’t necessarily stop you as the planning guide may well allow you to mitigate around it. This varies from council to council and will be specific to your situation.

I posted a similar question on here and got great feedback. Consequently I reduced the number of downlights but added some pendant lights. We now have three glass pendant lights over the island plus the ‘task’ downlights and a single glass pendant over the dining table. The pendants create ambience and the downlights are for tasks. The downlights are dimmable and each strip is a separate lighting circuit. We added a recess in the back wall to create a feature wall that has a hidden LED strip. This allows us to create layers of lighting for different purposes. We’ve continued this approach throughout the rest of the house.

This is exactly why we had ours treated with Sioo:X which is expensive. It’s a two coat process and can be applied to older wood. I am hoping it weathers evenly. So far so good but it’s only been a few months.

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My local one is happy to take stuff even if I’ve opened it which surprised me. They also make me a cup if tea if I there when they open 😂

I am a professional complainer and rarely give up largely because I have plenty of time on my hands, it takes very little effort, and I hate the way big companies treat their customers

Either accept the cash and move on or raise a complaint to the Ombudsman. That will take some time but not much effort on your part. I’d also contact the HSE and see what they say.

He isn’t any kind of decision maker. Here’s the board. It won’t be hard to find their email addresses. Email the CEO and copy the customer services guy and the health and safety guy in your email. https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/our-company/meet-our-executive-management-team Here’s a link to their safety advice https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/safety-equipment/advice/living-next-to-electrical-equipment You need to lay it on thick about the health and safety concerns, mention the grand kids etc. Use their words against them (my favourite tactic) by that I mean read their website and all the horse shit companies write and reference this in your email.

Who was the most senior person you spoke with?

Absolutely do not accept their goodwill gesture. If you do, they will breathe a sigh of relief. If it’s compensation you’re after you need to play hardball. After all their mistake could have killed you or someone else in your family. You need to get the email address of the most senior person you can find but I’d aim for the CEO and write to them. By way of comparison. I complained to Greg Jackson of Octopus after their utter shambles of a meter install that dragged on for months. Their total compensation ended up at £250 and I didn’t need to push that hard to get it.

What do you want to happen?

Osmo oil. Are you leaving it exposed? If so don’t make the mistake I did and wait until it’s boarded out 😂

You need a minimum of 25mm above the UFH pipes with Cemfloor which means a minimum depth of 45mm assuming the pipes are stapled to the insulation rather than tracked. It also assumes a flat level slab so 45mm is probably still a bit tight. When I had my mild panic about how much depth I had available for screed I briefly considered anhydride but we ended up at an average depth of 55mm so it was fine.

You can pour a shallower depth of screed using it.

All the advice I got from the supplier, installer, and tiler was it needs to be sanded off. The only reason I was considering it was to do with screed depth but in the end we had 55mm screed depth so went with Cemfloor.

The ideal time is between 7-14 days. A sander will be a lot less effort than scraping it off. Why make the build harder for yourself. Saying that I’ve just sealed our exposed beam using a wobbly ladder that is two rungs too short really

This was why I didn’t go for this type of screed. I thought the recommended method was to use a sander to abrade the surface? When I researched it you keep going until the loose broken up surface becomes stable. The doesn’t isn’t the kind of stuff you want to be breathing in either.

If they have a website check that to see of mentions any warranty terms. Do you know what the rubber roof membrane is? If so, go to the manufacturer’s website as they’ll have a recommended roof build up.

Have you had any quotes yet? There wasn’t difference in cost between zinc and Greencoat plx due to the rise in energy costs. There are loads of houses on the Scottish islands with corrugated steel roofs that look to be weathering fine. It took me more than 3 weeks to get quotes let alone get the roof fitted. I don’t know where you are but the two roofers I used are completely booked up until next year for example.

Which specific product is it.? How do they fit it without walking on it? The guys that fitted ours made a big point that you can walk on it as I’d covered up to allow us access to the other roof. I was more worried about something sharp being dropped onto it. They’re taking piss frankly. They might never have heard the term delaminate before but they can tell if the glue has failed and the membrane has detached from the deck. Was there any warranty provision for it? It’s concerning that the plywood is moving do you have more information about that?

I have to say, it’s a stunning house. Beautifully executed, despite the cost. But the monthly finance costs now given where interest rates are must be horrendous.

I’ve had my own stresses this week. Started fitting the gutters to discover I’ve been supplied with too many of the wrong brackets and too few of the right brackets. Frantic phone calls, 4 hour round trip to Highland Industrial Supplies in Inverness and problem solved. Not sure I could cope with being 100s of thousands in debt and over budget. 😂

Just watching it. Land for next to nothing. Got bequeathed a house. Already budget blown. A death. A pregnancy. No actual obvious source of income to service the loans other than selling sweets on-line. Award winning architects. Contractors that don’t like it. Great start. 😂 The architect sounds like my wife’s departed architect father. He also quoted is the Frank Lloyd Wright line that a home should be off the hill not on the hill. Ours is on the hill although we cut some of it out!

Demolishing is a big hammer to crack a nut. Fine the them the same cost.