Owning your own home

As others have said, make sure you have the under sink space to fit all the gubbins. Ohh and the sockets to power it all.

Its not in my house, its for a client. They already have a instant hot water tap fitted so there is space but I need to go look at it this week. Id never heard of them, some money for a tap I will say.

Who’s buying?
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbndrswas070302

Can't remember off the top of my head will look into tomorrow and get back to you.

Edit - Someones already answered.

Too much initial outlay for doing up ‘golf club’ chit chat..

That said , give this forum another 13 years and you never know.

Had a look on quooker for a rough price and its like 2.6, gonna call one of the independents on monday to see what trade price is on it, hopefully a bit off it so i can make something for the running about.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1-5-billion-green-homes-grant-faces-axe-after-a-year-v8fr799vc

Green homes grant now being axed.

Under £100m of awards granted. Brilliant.

garage would add £10k to the flat easily now, maybe £15k.

Missed the garage chat. But regardless of resale value have you factored in the value to you?

Isn't >50% of your desire to move based on wanting a double garage?

What's the cost of moving? Divide that by 2 and you've got your man-maths premium over market value.

Not what I would spend £4 mm on

I could keep the garage totally separate from the flat, and keep it if we move.

This happens with every govt green scheme, same with when they were funding boiler upgrades and with insulation.

Become garage king

How much 'space' does a window fitter need?

Context - ends of scaffolding sited about 6-12 inches from existing window pane. New window frame and pane due to be installed whilst scaffolding is in place.

Optimistically, I'm hoping that as everything is fitted from the inside of the house, it shouldn't matter as the new frame won't need to project outside of the confines of the brick frame. Is that right?!

Our sash windows were fitted from the inside.

We used some thermoguard paint for ours (intumescent layer plus top coat) - you use their form to state the size of the beam, they email you a spec, you send them a copy of a receipt and they issue a certificate. I then gave that to building control (private not council) and they signed it off.

I guess you 'have to' remove the non-intumescent first, but once you've painted over it, i'm not sure anyone could say otherwise...

Can't get at the text of that but, the Green Homes Grant has been an utter shitshow (from someone hoping to make use of it, and also someone more generally interested in how we make existing building stock significantly more energy efficient). Originally such a short time period that lots of potential installers didn't bother getting trained, lots of homeowners thought it unrealistic (work had to be completed by end of March 2021 to qualify). Then extended for a year to March 2022 - great but with notification at end of Nov that's still not a long time for getting trained, getting jobs finished.

Would have been obvious to have it longer from the start, pandemic or no pandemic, it's almost like the gov have no clue how long it takes to get thousands of people trained and individual homeowner scale projects agreed and delivered.

And now the scheme continues in name only, without the promised funding behind it (because that was only promised for 2020-21 year). What a fucking joke.

Well, if the poltergeist wasn't happy before, it'll be properly fucked off now. The steel for the main breast is still there. The sticky out steels were for a wooden beam (that had twisted like a proper bastard) that was holding up the outer skin, which is now gone. Going to get it tidied up, made secure and boxed in leaving a more normal sized fireplace opening for a decorative mantle piece, or something.

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From the government who binned the FiT as it was successfully leading to solar power adoption comes the eagerly anticipated sequel

twisted like a proper bastard

I think the lesson here is if you build a big fancy fireplace make it non-structural

It had twisted along its length rather than bowed under the weight. Which mean it wasn't actually hold the bricks up anyway.

You'll fit a nice big wood-burner in there now, good work.

You could always speak to the manufacturers technical advice people to be sure - all manufacturers of specialist construction products (and most of the non-specialist product manufacturers) employ experts to give advice to end users. Rather than y'know basing assumptions on a hunch and 5 minutes of experience.

Ok.