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Tolerance on pile positions is normally 75mm. They like like they are slightly more than that but would most likely pass a design check. it would be good to expand the ground beam locally around the pile with a few L bars to tie the concrete into the rest of the beam. @marcus one thing that...

Electricity is a consumable. Consumables and materials was about a third of the amount of labour. Assume a water company spent £30m on labour and £10m on materials and consumables. Labour costs 10% more and, materials and consumables 100% more on average. Then £33m gets spent on abour and...

The wire is not stainless.

The biggest cost for water companies after depreciation of assets is labour. They spend about a third of the amount of labour on materials and consumables. I would expect labour to increase by close to maybe a bit less than inflation. Materials and consumables will be higher, plastic and steel...

The 200mL of scalding water that is left in my kettle is quite useful for a bit spot weed killing. No worries about weed killer drift and complete safe after a minutes cooling. But you will only get one weed at a time.

The OSB is there to protect the expanded polystyrene from damage when it is walked on and the cage placed. It also seems to be hiding that they have cut up the polystrene into bits rather than putting down one piece.

Looks like a two story extension. It has needed piles to support it. As others have noted more than a shed.

1. That should be on the drawings!. I would assume 40N/mm2 cube design strength by the design engineer. But with site mixing I would go for 50N/mm2 mix design as the quality control will be ****. 2. It will be difficult to control the water content accurately because they will not know how wet...

I would look at the other treads on shed builds here and use this thread to ask questions. to refine your design. Not sire what you mean half insulate it. Do you mean three season so only can use on warm sunny days in the winter.

I have been hit a quite a few times by hand held Stihl cut saw blades disintegrating whilst walking on site. You do not walk too close to someone using a saw unless you want little holes in your clothes from the sparks but normally it is safe 20m away. As soon as you feel something hit you turn...

Doesn't make much difference if you are legally in the wrong. If as you state she is not a nice person what happens if she responds in not nice ways. You glue bits of paper to her door. She scraps it off with a stick without looking at it and kicks the paper out into the street. Then she...

The first post stated this. But it costs money.

There is no evidence that the neigbour who will not answer the door etc is hoarding. What you are suggesting is harassment based on speculation.

That reminds me must get some in case there are power cuts this winter.

The OP does not want to do the works in accordance with the party wall act. The OP may end up having to prove that any damage done to the neigbours property was not caused by his actions. Normally its the other way around but if you fail to carry out the required procedures you could be on the...

The OSB is not a big concern. The polystyrene Claymaster product is designed to to compress when the clay expands. When the clay contracts again it is unlikely to fully expand so a void will be left. It is quite common to to bury shutters.

It certainly does look a bit dubious. Too much cover off the cage running to the right. The corner rebar is buried in the mud. No cover should be 40mm or so. Looks like no spacers under the cages. Should have been fixed before they lifted them in. On the previous picture one of the piles was...

If the shutter is pre made and you try to lower the cage into it, the cage will not fit or you will have to spend a lot of time getting it in. The shutter should be able to quickly erected. I assume none of it will be seen so it only needs to be F1 quality (rough) I doubt that a mixer would be...

Unless you can reach their door from the street you are entering their property. Carrying out works to another persons property, namely sticking stuff to it will be trespassing (only a civil matter). It could also be regarded as criminal damage, you could have the police called on you. The...

Boxes are useful.