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Can you expand on that? I'm working on a project at the moment that is supposed to be lined with insualted PB in the next few months, so if there's a better way I'd like to understand it. What's the benefit compared with the cost of having to fix insulation, mark stud locations, then fix...

Sounds like they're letting you build it under Permitted Development, so long as it matches the existing. Worth checking that the Conservation Area hasn't removed you Permitted Development rights, because often they do and if so, that advice is incorrect. Personally I'd aim to build it to...

This construction is pretty much identical to mine, though I have a brick wall supporting the King Truss in the centre. Without the spine wall, the forces in the two triangles of the King Truss will resolve differently, but essentially the top elements of the King Truss are resisting the sag...

I think his point is that it's a fairly straightforward system generally.

My neighbour has the same condition, though his is a must rather than a shall. His permission also says breaking the condition invalidates the permission. He's broken that condition and several others, including varying levels within root protection zones, digging out roots of protected trees...

It was the bat issue that was the major spanner really though, if you need an emergent survey they can't be done between the bats going into hibernation and May and there's inevitably demand for them to be done immediately in May, so unless you're lucky the qualified people are already booked up...

I meant the whole process, not just the application and decision. We started working with an Architect in July 2017 and we were almost ready to submit in the January, but had to wait for a bat survey until May, but by then the Architect had gone AWOL and getting the last few bits sorted and...

There is some risk in the planning process in doing both together, the join application may trigger a threshold where it goes to Committee rather than being dealt with under delegated powers and the planners may delay a decision that would have been a refusal while they resolve things they don't...

We have been in broadly the same situation and put both through as one application. We did it that way because we didn't want to get permission for a large alteration to the roof volume and then have a kitchen extension refused on the grounds of over-development. We'd have preferred to...

I actually wonder how people got anything done before electricity, I suppose you'd use nails for most of the stuff I screw together these days. Not sure about these metric lengths though, it's odd as I'm 100% post metrification, but I can't understand those numbers, I'm fully imperial when it...

Yeah, but even if you just smash screws in it doesn't actually snap that many heads off!

They're fairly cheap and it's annoying when you run out of the right screws mid-job, so I have a box of most sizes, must be 25 boxes or so. When a box gets low I add it to the list and next time I'm in screwfix I pick up replacements. Can't think there's many sizes that don't get used. I'm...

There's no minimum width for loft stairs.

You can run the new floor either way, front to back or side to side, whichever is best will depend on the dimensions and whether you have suitable intermidary support at a spine wall. It's unlikely that the deciding factor will be the cost of a Party Wall Surveyor, so I wouldnt set out trying to...

Everywhere. Those numbers are insane. You could start by not having the roof gilded, I presume that's how you've ended up at over £60k for the roof? And nearly £20k insulation. WTF.

I'm building up the framework for a dormer shortly and could do with some input into how the structure is usually built up for a lead covering for the face and cheeks. I have a target width to build to, so I can't just build the frame and let my roofer sort out the details, I need to take...

Timely thread, I was about to ask a question and this reminded me that I always buy these books and forget I have them, so I'm going to check those first. I have The Construction of Houses 5th Edition by Duncan Marshall etc, The COmplete Loft Conversion Book by Julian Owen and Housebuilder's...

I've changed my number pretty much every couple of years, when you keep you number you've got no chance of getting a good deal on your next contract and porting your number is a pain unless you change networks. For example if I upgrade my £30 a month contract, Vodafone want £40 a month and £100...

I know the rules allow anyone with the knowledge to do notifiable works, isn't the issue whether you can prove that? In the event of a fatal electrical fire, you would need to be able to show that you have the level of knowledge required to justify whatever you put on whatever form. If all you...

That's completely wrong, they don't cause interference. You would have a digital signal for the audio right up until the point it leaves the DAC in the amplifier, so you're only talking about interference being possible at the amplifier. You'll be doing really well to generate any...