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Learn to love the moss: far safer! How would you have got the eyebolts in to tie the ladder as a matter of interest?

Detatched garage <30sqm doesn't need BRA. You'd not normally need PP either unless forward of building line. A raft would be easiest option and no great difficulty to build: you'd need floor anyway.

Steel every time. Mine was made of 2inch steam barrel (pretty much scaffold tube), old bed irons for the corner posts, scaffold board bed and shutter ply sides. Hillman imp wheels, Moggie Minor leaf springs, an old cement mixer motor cover from a hedge bottom split to form mudmusic guards...

My daughters house when bought had quite nice hardwood flooring in the bedroom......except for the bit the bed had sat on. OP make sure you have decent screwdrivers and use them carefully. Mullering screwheads won't help. (and I bet your bed isn't as heavy as the wretched thing I'm currently...

Timber frame?

Your house seems a can of worms that has been subject to some WAG structural work. Is there any legitimate paperwork on the loft: any communication with BC? No SE is going to be able comment on your rambling description but work is work, and I'm sure you'll be able to get someone to design a...

You'll really need to get consent to change the cover if it is public (ie shared) though most peeps would do a straight quick switch of covers without bothering. Step 1 is to confirm private or shared. Then accept that the replacement cover is going to be in the same orientation as the original

I'd just do exactly the same.

I'd pay safe and use Zinser primer bexause that old paint could easily be dusty. Then be prepared to fill again because what looked smooth will now show all manner of roughness. I now use Toupret ready mixed from Toolstation with a good wide knife. It's grand stuff: feathers to nothing then...

Get your SE to do his job and spec a padstone to suit the blocks the steel has to sit on

I broke sweat watching that!

Stick is always the preferred option for site work and all you do is lap the bars as normal and effectively lay fillet welds between them. Something like 25/75 (ie 25 weld/75 gap) in 6mm would likely do the job.. Nothing out the way for a half decent welder and the guys out in the sticks are...

Several points worthy of note;: 1. 40 diameters is the normal minimum for a tension lap but is generally adopted universally 2. Hot rolled high yield steel can be welded with a bit of care 3. Swage on couplings (like mahoosive cable crimps) are available 4. An ordinary masonry drill isn't going...

Go on line: what's your problem??

6x6 for sure if wood, but steel would be better long term.

We have an importer very close to us so after you've looked at samples at the fitters, you can go and see the actual piece you'll get, There is quite a visual difference between a 100 square and a huge slab so worth doing.

PPC is your damp proof course plastic these days but you may see a bituminy felt materia; in older properties. It will usual;ly be at floor level and you want your patio to be 150 below it. If you have 8-10 inches then you could afford to raise your level a bit

LABC issued guidance notes after the 2022 change and this guidance includes 150+150 mineral wool for flat ceilings. This is what BCOs will look for so in the real world this is what you need to provide.

Trust a double glazing guy or an SE? Hmmmm. Nobody on a forum can give you a definitive answer, and at the end of the day the only opinion that matters is BC when they check the proposals

If it's part of the deal then he's right! No bad thing to see if there's evidence of historic movement plus Noseall's points.