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We have a problem for nurses now though. As there are no bursaries any more, there is a real dearth of newly trained UK nurses. Many, many wards are understaffed, and my own wife who works nights is sometimes the only nurse on an entire ward at night - 12 hour shift, 20+ post op patients who may...

I'd second that. I'm looking for windows for a new house and the big firms are shocking. One very well known national one said they couldn't possibly supply windows for a new build as they might be the wrong size! I explained that if I gave them the sizes and they turned out wrong, that would...

As long as the humidity in the conservatory is low, your stuff should still dry, albeit slowly. If there is a good seal between your house and the conservatory (and there is meant to be nowadays), why not open the conservatory windows a bit even on a cool day and get airflow through to dry the...

I've made a "fly grenade before" that should work on wasps too ! :) I've lived in 2 houses now where flies also hibernated in the loft somehow (presumably come in from outside rather than via the house as there were literally thousands of them!) 1st time I was in the loft in winter and noticed...

Clays are supplying and erecting the SIPs, but its things like foundations walls and roof we need builders to do. Here we are another month on and still no one quoting for the work! Only in Britain do firms turn money down (then moan about business conditions no doubt!) when it's being waved at...

Grubbing out a fallen down dry stone wall ready for it to be rebuilt from scratch. Weirdly this system has decide to stop letting me upload media for some reason, but I gather you can click on this.

Delays. Well, it's taken 3 years to get to this point (thanks to the National park just completely ignoring the statutory time limits on planning, solicitors trying to hold out to screw extra money out of us (failed) and on and on). But here we are with Planning Permission and Building Regs...

Yes, Clays. I sent out to several, but Clays use Kingspan and as it turned out where actually the most competitive quote on top of that. I've seen a few of their jobs and they were top notch, and as one of the biggest I was expecting them to be dearest, but was pleasantly surprised.

That sounds perfect! Thanks.

Hi, no, the SAP doesn't specify the boiler size, that's the issue really. They just tell you the amount of energy the house will "consume" for DHW & heating and boiler size is one of the things I had quite conflicting advice on - how that converts to boiler size. One seemed way too big (and...

Well after 3 years of to-ing and fro-ing, we now have both full planning permission (more complicated because it's in a National Park with a very strong restriction now on who can build a new house, and of course, what it must look like) and building Regs Clearance to start. Finalising the...

Working with wildlife all I can say is your stuck with the bats I'm afraid. You are probably looking at mitigation, which means either finding a way to incorporate them as they are in the build, (making alterations outside of their breeding & hibernating periods) or making somewhere else for...

Definitely my biggest ever project, we are about to start a self build. Unlike the Grand Designs stuff, and not being rich, a lot of this really will be a self build, ( a term often misused to describe custom build I feel) though with working full time and not being an expert by any means...

I'm building my own 3 bedroom (204 m2 floor space total / volume 518m3) house with very high insulation levels (SIPs + 100mm K3 insulation, mechanical heat recovery ventilation, airtightness and so on). There's no mains gas, and for reasons too involved to go into, Air Source Heat Pumps are not...

Remember anyway, a civil matter works on a balance - so proportion/percentaqe of blame. If you did the wrong thing and he/she missed it then you'd find a big whack (or possibly all) of it could be attributed to you. You could end up 90% your fault 10% theirs... or worse... and guess whose going...

Yes, it's all a pricy learning curve isn't it! :rolleyes: If the bricks don't fall down when the windows are taken out (which I'd be amazed if they did looking at the standard of the work in the photos) then clearly they aren't putting a load on the window. There looks to be no cracking of the...

Lintel1 by Curlewhouse posted 23 Sep 2016 at 7:18 PMSo it sounds very like your internal is your load bearing wall. I'm guessing you had concrete showing on the end of your drill? Or could you have hit metal? Either way, I can't see it being an issue for the window fitters at all as it's not as...