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If you want any kind of accuracy then a straight edge is essential. A phone is too small, regardless of the quality of the app.

Also been there done that. And the 2 small old barns currently on the plot also have tin roofs so we got the same response as above, Luckily. But i still have to install a couple of Bat box's and a couple of bird box's. I dont have an issue with these just the fee's for the survey.

Then the entire loop has to be replaced, no brainer. You will never stop worrying about this if its not. Have you got their admission in writing? If so insist that you cannot have a joint in a UFH pipe.

No, it is any request for hot water. Its just that a cold shower is not fun so thats the most annoying. Water pressure is very good. Even if the cross leak thing were true it would not explain the fact that when i need to stand in front of the boiler and press all the buttons i can see a HW temp of 12 degrees C and the boiler light not lit. This is with the shower tap on full by the way. To my mind its a faulty boiler and unless someone from Worcester can come up with some evidence to the contrary i will continue to press them for a replacement.

I think i want these in the new build, but the thomas crapper things are V V V expensive

Now he tells us. But i agree

I have exactly the same issue but i think its the pan thats the issue. We have the same cistern in both the bathroom and downstairs WC. (By the way didn't we have the same thread a couple of weeks ago) Our old cheap B&Q pan is fine. The newer, bought online sight unseen vanity set, uses a pan with a shelf. Complete rubbish. As it happens deciding how to deal with a malfunctioning concelaed cistern is causing me headaches at the mo'. How much do you dismantle ?

I had a boiler engineer come to look at our new combi( hate it) Becuase sometimes it does not fire up and provide hot water for washing. Radiators are fine as far as i can tell. The only way i have found to get around it when i am standing in front of the boiler cursing it for freezing my bits in the shower, is to keep pressing buttons through the display until it notices it needs to heat from 12 degrees C to 55. Never see an error code and last year they replaced the flow switch, no improvement. Engineer has blamed the mixer taps for 'cross leakage' creating a cooler than optimal water supply to my delicate bod' WTF! Also thinks that me pressing every button i can see is evidence of the boiler behaving as it should, because.' you press for heat and it starts the burner'. This ignores the fact that standing in the shower and turning on the tap should elicit some hot water. Can anyone shed light on what appears to be nonsense from this representative of Worcester Bosch please? Thanks in advance keith

When you take into account that increased insulation thickness is a 'diminishing returns' thing. And that airtightness becomes more relevant as the level of insulation increases i think it will be money well spent.

First off i have to say i totally accept that this is true, i just cannot picture it. A membrane can be impervious to the passage of air but allow the passage of water vapour. The size of the molecules is where i cannot see this but hey ho !

I very recently had a price of £2200 for my Potton 200 sq metre project in North Herts. They did say that they would stay and keep spraying until we got the airtight figure we needed/wanted. I think i will be taking them up on this offer.

Agree with the above. double the price for example is no use whatsoever

I had 16 conditions to be discharged. I was a little daunted by this but when i spoke to planning recently they explained that only the ones that contain the line ' written permission from planning' needed to be satisfied before works could start. I too have some that relate to planting, Bats, Newts, Unicorns but none of these stop me from starting work. They just have to be done before anyone moves in. Hope this helps.

£95 to the county council to register the address and they handled the cascading of the relevant info to who ever it needed to be cascaded to. That was last autumn in Hertfordshire if that helps.

I would be very happy with that level of accuracy. But that is wishful thinking if my recent experience is anything to go by. Example: Groundworks for my 200 sq metre project. I have accepted in principle a figure of £42k. All the usual risk mitigations rolled in. Trying to be thorough and as a sanity check on the above figure i have looked at another company. After a long delay they provided a very detailed, itemised breakdown. At £92k + VAT I have no doubt, looking at the way their figures are laid out that they used some software package to prepare the response. What does that tell us? Just to add insult to injury their brickworks figure was also about £100k. For 10000 bricks. Thats £10/brick. The other 3 figures i have been given are £10k, £16.4k and £19.5k I have settled on the middle figure largely becuase the guy is very used to working on the brand of house i have chosen and has experience of loads of them.

I am more than happy with the offers of help and have been corresponding with someone via PM. As well as trying the suggestions above. You might have noticed my offer in my original post. See here....

Thanks dude. But this is the crux of the problem. The planning department dude claims that he can only open and use the settings as they are. So he wont use the scale factor. The consequence of this is that his measure tool reading against the scale bar in the bottom right corner does not match. Pulling my hair out with the guy.

Update: If i now open my document in Adobe acrobat it opens at letter size 8.5" x 11" i think. So if i go to menu-print-page setup and change it to A1 and then do the Measure object-measuring tool option i can set the scale to a figure that gives me exactly what i want. None of the above is preserved after saving the file, as, when i next open the file it is all incorrect again. Apparently it is too much for the planning department to do what i describe above so i keep getting knocked back. Pulling my hair out. How do i get the parameters to save ?

Our proposed build design is a brick clad ground floor and Cedral cladding on the first. I intend to utilise aerobarrier to get as good an airtightness seal as i can. This is as well as taping everything i can. The SIPs panels themselves are pretty good as a barrier. If it turns out i think i need/want even more insulation is the blown in Thermobead solution suitable between a SIP panel & brick skin? Any reason why not. Not sure how i will improve the Cedral clad to the first floor as i think it is open at the bottom. Can that be correct?

They certainly are. If they took a ruler to their PC screen and measured any dimension against the scale bar it is correct. I used as the template a previously accepted drawing from the original planning application so they have actually already had the information i am trying to give them. Discharge of conditions looks for all the world to me like an excuse to extract another £145 from me. Which they have duly done.

Hi George, i have a very kind offer via PM to do the very same thing but thank you. I do suspect that the scenario that you propose is exactly what i did. But as i have made 2 failed attempts to submit already i am clearly not the person to find the error and correct it.

Thats what i did, import-edit-export. The scale bar in the drawing measures correctly against dimensions on the ground (in the drawing of course). I use the width of the drive way as my test. There is also a '1:200 @ A1' annotation on the drawing. I am very reluctant to pay the original planning advisors £500 to submit this very basic info on my behalf. I might have to.

I am lost and need some guidance if possible guys. I have taken a .pdf drawing that was previously accepted at the full planning application stage and tried to modify it to use to satisfy the discharge of two conditions. Not having the correct software or knowledge i converted the .pdf to .jpg imported it into paint and amended it. (As 2 slighly different drawings.) I then re converted it back into .pdf and submitted it. The scale bar on the drawings matches measurements within the drawing. But as you can read below a reply from the planning dude can see an issue. On newly submitted drawings ’22-036-101-LEVELS REV A’ and ’22-036-101-SS REV A’, your scale bar has proved to be inaccurate. Instead of measuring to 9m at the stated scale, it measures to 3.1m. Please can the drawing be revised, so that it scales correctly, and resubmitted at your earliest convenience. If anyone understands the intricacies of .pdf scale I offer a bottle of very good Red wine to anyone that can successfully get me over this hurdle.

Yeah, that's not happening

Agree. First question is/was to understand if liquid screed is good at 75mm. It might be that sand & cement is cheaper and the TF guys have opted for it on that basis. Total ground floor area is 114 square metres. I dont have a cost for either method at the moment so cannot yet make the call.