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We wont have an internal garage and its a 2 storey house so on this basis i dont need any fire doors. I am trying to budget for internal doors so this makes a difference. Need 14 in total. Thanks guys

With the what now? Apologies, i dont understand.

For our new build i am trying to understand which doors if any are required to be fire rated.

My TF company have had Section drawings provided that show face bricks below the DPM. Is this necessary and/or cost efficient? Can the skin be Dense block below DPM?

Do i need a sparky to install and more importantly, sign off, an installation of an extractor fan into the bathroom light switch?

https://www.hisltd.co.uk/ProductDetail/7mm-to-8mm-Spindle-Sleeve-Adaptor/1dca41fbd7724af992b42923981b13e8 Try this

I've posted a number of times on exactly this topic. TF supplier recommends Rationel and to be honest the Alu clad versions look perfectly good. But the options of handles ( one) is holding them back. The wife does not like them so thats the end of that. It looks like we might be going with Timberwindows.com With regard to changing the furniture. The 'peg' that Rationel use is a different size to everyone else if i remember correctly. They use 8mm and the industry norm is 7mm. Good news is that there is a company that make a sleeve/shim to enable the use of other furniture. Imagine a .5mm thick square section tube. Sorry i know that sounds daft but i hope you get the idea. Looking for it right now, will post link if i find it. Believe they are near southend on sea

We would like to provide power into our proposed Kitchen island. For a 2 gang 13A outlet and also a Cooker feed at a higher current rating. Is it acceptable to run the cable under the screed in with the UFH pipework? Thanks in advance as always keith

You may already know this but they have a great 5 house permanent show centre in St Neots. Not too far down the A1 from you

The only little bit i can ofer anything on is with regard to Kingspan. We have permission for one of their traditional cottage style houses via their Potton homes division. They will definately do 'Weathertight only' if you want. This is what we are doing. They will design as large or small a project as you want and then produce everything required to get it through all of the Stages necessary.

This would be my take on it. My thought exactly. The pruning relates to a Walnut tree close to the proposed house. They specified pruning it a little to allow the house to be built. My intention would be to try to leave the tree alone until and unless we needed to prune it. They also mentioned cutting back some leylandii to the neighbours fence line. This is in fact a good idea but i regard it as my call whether or not i do it. I dont understand how or why they would make a statement as though it were a requirement.

We were required to get a number of surveys prior to us getting planning permission. These were all duly submitted along with the application itself and, happily, we got permission 10 weeks later in early 2022. It is my understanding that the surveys formed part of the planning process and would therefore inform the conditions placed upon the subsequent permission. We have 16 in total. Nothing unusual in this of course. The reason for my question here is because i was re reading the Tree survey reports yesterday and noticed a number of things that the arboriculturist expect to happen. Pruning, Root ball observance etc. It is quite prescriptive actually. But, there are no specific conditions within the 16 that form the full planning permission that mention any such thing about the trees. So, if the planning authority have seen the reports and decided not to impose conditions on us then i believe there is 'nothing to see here' and i can safely ignore what the tree survey itself said. Am i at all correct ?

Yeah i used to watch Blue Peter as well. No thanks. Tracy island was enough.

Hi Joe, No of course not. When i was in their office a week ago i was told the patio doors would be £220 extra each. I thought that was bonkers. So i imagined the wider Bi folds would be proportionally a little more again. So about £2k all in. Needless to say, i wont be going with this option. Shame as the rest of their offering is really good.

Or between these two variants

Am i not explaining this correctly? what on earth is that nonsense.

Neither will i. Except that the company i have been speaking to dont offer a 3G option, yet. Its not a change to their standard construction. They offer both from the catologue. I happen to prefer the look of a panel at the bottom. I did not expect there to be a massive premium for the privilige.

I asked for our proposed Patio door pair and the Bi-folds to have the bottom 600mm wood instead of glass. This raised the price by...... £6k !!! The Bi folds are 3.1 metres wide in 4 panels. and the patio doors are 1.8 metres wide. 6 panels total to be altered.

Button flush on both. The cheap B&Q pan and the recently purchased pan have the same cistern with 6 litre water. The B&Q pan flushes perfectly and the recent thing is crap/leaves crap, sorry. This sort of gives the lie to the idea its a low water volume problem.

agamemnon I share your pain, i have exactly the same issue with a new WC pan after refurbing my bathrooom last year. It drives me mad and i will never buy this kind of thing online again. I need to see a view from above which is not what the pictures show when looking online. The cheap £60 WC i bought some years ago from B&Q for another refurb is perfect in this regard. Shame it does not appear to be available anymore.

No. Potton engage an external planning consultancy who did submit the original planning application. There is a reason why this may not be a suitable route to conclusion. It is not for open discussion here though. Prior to me continuing the conversation with the planning department in the new year i had hoped to arm myself with practical knowledge from people that had answered the same questions.

I was told exactly the same thing when ours was granted in early march this year. Although it might not look it the planning dept can spot a frivolous, vindictive or just plain irrelevant objection.

And But.... #4 is Archaeology. It is satisfied.

I did not have the BC drawings when planning was submitted in December 22. I got all of the drawings when i paid Potton a deposit of £8k in October. Yes i did have a Topo' survey done quite some time ago.