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Have you got guttering the garage roof on the boundary? If you do, where does this drain to?

It'll probably be fine now. You could uus expanding foam to fill the gap. Damp it first with some spray water.

Normally soffits go on after. If you're worried about ventilation then drill some holes.

Some joist hangers or nail plates would not go amiss.

Save some bother and it in timber? If you want it rendered you could do cement board and render this otherwise clad it.

Most but definitely not all, you get lots of hand drawn plans both for planning and building regs.

1day per mm if it's standard sand and cement. UFH can be run at about halfway through to speed up drying but only run at low temperatures.

Do you really want a toilet off you living room? You're going to end up with a really dark space.

RdSAP (reduced data SAP (standard assessment procedure)) was introduced for 2 reasons, to make people more aware of the energy efficiency of their homes and to get a cheap survey of all the housing stock in the UK. When a new house is designed it undergoes a full SAP which will detail relevant...

Why do you need to fix it down?

Sticks a solid concrete floor in and be done with it, it may cost you a couple of extra Ks now but it will give you peace of mind and probably save you money on hard scaping later. Having a concrete pond at the bottom of a hill is asking for problems. If your levels are drastic use EPS to keep...

You are glazed on all sides? Sounds very architectural so why has this not been solved in design?

Alkathene :D There will be cast iron before you get to the copper pipe, the copper will last much longer than iron. I would not worry about the copper pipe, i've still see it and it's still going strong. The copper pipe back then was nice and thick.

Glad we got this one sorted.

My suggestion would be to listen to the others and either use wet uf or rads. However it's your house, you sound like you've made your mind up, so go for electric under floor. Then in a year put some radiators in.

Cellotex is not wood fiber. More likely hard board or MDF. This might indicate a bad DIY or boddged job else where. Just over board and skim.

Stick some dpc along with the cavity tray, so your tray only covers the first outerskin then the dpc would sit under this and over the outer skin.

Stick a bit of dpc in.

Your step will be sloped away from your house. If the area floods i would put a drain in front of th steps, a long Arco style one and get a larger door canopy.

Internal works maybe around £500/m² extension 2000/m²