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Surely it would be more wrong for you to build yours to 2.1m, when your plans show quite clearly it's 2.3m. I would ask your architect what approach they are going to take with the Council and ask for details of his Professional Indemnity Insurance as you'll need to claim against it in the...

It's not a temporary structure.

If it's temporary and the shower tray is being replaced anyway I wouldn't worry about protecting the shower tray. My bath has wood bonded into the resin/fibreglass under the lip and just used L brackets to fix it to the wall, so it should be simple enough to lash the bath up. For the drain I...

The advantage of the spray insulation is that he can send his partner roofing company round in 10 years time to quote for the new roof after all your rafters have rotten through.

Why is bolting the beams together prohibited? Genuine question, I presume that means that bolting together is worse than now, but can't work out why. Thanks!

Looks like the issue is that they buy something in and then fit it to a fascia that it's not designed for, but does it not have two additional connections on the side to get around the issue?

Original boundary, or the boundary as it existed in 1948.

That's broadly correct, but there isn't a nuisance from the rainwater entering, it's caused by the lack of drainage off the property. The neighbour uphill has an established right to drain across his downhill neighbour and has done it without causing a nuisance. It's not the case that changes...

If you have 2.1m to the underside of the existing timber at the ridge as your diagram indicates then even if you bring the stairs bang under the centre of the the roof, I don't think you're going to have the required 2.0m at the edge of the stairs once you've fitted insulation and plasterboard...

I used an architectural technician for a loft conversion and extension, planning permission and building regs full plans, so essentially what you have there. Paid £1300 and worked through maybe 4 design ideas before getting to a final design, so that quote sounds quite expensive to me.

Torpenhow (pronounced trupena) in Cumbria breaks down to Tor Pen How, all mean Hill in Viking, Roman, Saxon or something like that. Conquer, rename without bothering to learn the local language. It definitely helps to avoid names that Google can use as context when you name the devices. I had...

I have one too. I have a spine wall between my rooms front and back that supports the floor joists running front to back. The spine wall is broken by the landing, so this beam is doing the job of shortening the floor joist spans.

Christ, just tell him why you think both of them are wrong. I know at least one of those methods that has been specified by an engineer and accepted by Building Control.

Ha ha, that's quite odd as I have several, including my phone that respond when I speak. They work out between them which one is nearest to me and that one responds, it even uses the devices when my phone is nearer and how it works with my phone when I'm asking for things like directions, where...

If it's playing then it's as simple as saying Stop, Pause, Skip etc. That said, if you've connected to the speaker via Bluetooth or using Cast then you can't use voice control on what's playing. For your heating I suspect you need to use a different word other than turn and heating. I use...

I would just buy a sacrificial length of tubing to match a foam gun or nozzle and get some expanding foam in through that.

Quite. I've got two young children and have managed mine on my own in about 11 months just working weekends and holidays. If the conversion is simple then most of the work is internal and indistinguishable from normal DIY tasks if the Council ask. Just tell them you were putting up some...

You'll never really know. If the garage is too cold you won't know if it's because of the insulation or simply because you're asking too small a heater to heat too big a space over too short a time. On that basis better to go for the Celotex, but like I said if you're patient you'll get enough...

There's no void.

Sure, I wouldn't recommend it, just another perspective. I think worse-case you'll not make so much mess of your ceiling that you can't fill the holes and have it disappear into the character of the ceiling. Though I'm more inclined towards the screwing into the subdeck suggestion, you don't...