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Cheers, not entirely sure I understand though. Are you saying you think it should be about 25k?

Morning Got a question about retaining walls for you all. Moved into a new house, and the area behind the garage is a mess (obviously just left when the garage was dug out of the hill); it’s a big slope. A waste of space, and dangerous for the kids. So a retaining wall. It’s about 1.5m...

i can say it's a large amount as it's 25%. And no matter what it is, throwing 25% onto anything at the last moment stinks of bad practice, and a certain amount of underhandness; he knows we'll pay as we've no real choice. But thank you for your time.

Haven't a clue; not my line of work. Like asking him how much an architect would charge to alter a drawing. The materials are virtually inconsequential; the labour and training isn't. And he didn't explain what he was doing before he did it. Mostly I guess as he didn't tell us he was doing it.

okay - the figures are: £640 for the cupboard, and £140 for the priming. The priming is apparently sprayed on, sanded down, sprayed again and then sanded again. Seems a lot to me, but it's quite a big cupboard, and obviously we can't paint some it when it's in place!

That's what I thought; just wanted clarification I'm not the only one! As I say, I don't mind paying a small extra (he'd said the painting would be a 'small premium'), but 25%? It's a ridiculous amount

Got an unusual one here. We were getting some builtin cupboards for the bedroom. All well and good, and then the carpenter suddenly said ' Do you want them primed'. We'd assumed they would be, so were surprised to find it would cost more (about 25% more). We sent an email saying we were...

sorry

Many thanks. Guess we need to find out what's in there before working out what to do!

Thanks for that; realised we couldn't build directly on it; more a "do we need to maintain the ability for access?", if it's obviously been concreted for 20 years. We can just seal it up, or put an open reccess, with a wooden door in front of it. Never come across a concreted manhole before you see!

Morning all We're planning a side extension, and in the bit we want to extend over there is a concreted man hole cover . Looking at it (and we've only been in 6 months), it looks like it's not been touched for about 20 years. The concrete is degrading and the brick work around is falling...

Funnily enough, I did wonder whether if would come under PD, especially with the doubling from 4m to 8m. Guess I'll have to chase/hassle the council. Just to clarify though it is only a single storey; and even from the circular window (our bedroom) you can't see the ground floor Windows next...

Okay, it was more an off the cuff amount; quicker than writing a few quid. Thanks though. Anyone got any information over the planning question? Ta

hi We've a 2.3m piece of decking to the side of the house , which comes off the lounge. As you can see it's way over 30cm off the ground, but it's been there about 15 years (well before we moved in). We'd like to replace it with an 3m extension (apologies for the appalling drawing!), with...