Building Surveyor

MRICS | MAPM | NECReg Chartered Building Surveyor providing professional advice in property & construction, specialising in building pathology & refurbishment.

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A reason modern house builders get a bad reputation is because some of them deserve it. This roof space didn’t have an access hatch, so I made one. No wonder the bedroom below is cold, they only insulated 450mm behind the knee wall 🤠

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@HMRCcustomers I have had two rejected SA1 online forms, no idea why as both were fully completed. I called your 0300 200 3310 help line three times, each time it’s hung up on me. How to I speak to someone, as I can’t file me return without registering first?

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@HMRCcustomers So is it hanging up because the queue is too long? It takes 10 minutes each time, as the Q&As to get on the queue need answers. I’ve tried to file the registration, but can’t see what I’m doing wrong!

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@LudoCReid Suburban oasis 🏝️

Looks like it was originally a semi or end of terrace. Road infrastructure suggests other development nearby, possibly opposite.

Would need to see the street scene for context, but maybe built for farm workers or the end of a ribbon development.

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Happy new year to you all.

First day back at work* and 1st item on the agenda was how to climb to the top of the email mountain 😳 2nd was ‘estimating and inflation’ 😕 Not sure how I’m going to successfully tackle either.

*It took me until noon to realise it wasn’t Monday.

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@darren_oldfield @SustainableTall Seen plenty of examples of where national house builders have gained BRegs approval years before actually building the houses. Lived in two myself, both built between 1996 and 2002 and no insulation in the cavity walls, just brick / cavity / thermal block.

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@SustainableTall Sadly this is quite common.

Quality control in house building is largely overlooked, yet tightly regulated this would save the exchequer, lower emissions and protect building users from energy market fluctuations.

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@court_college @HarryHamishGray Doubt that it’s a tile, mechanical fixings on the face would point to a HPL panel or a SGL ‘Tespa’ type product. Incorrectly specified, these panels can weather badly in certain situations and some manufacturers products are better than others.

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I should add that it’s going to cost an eye watering £10.9m. Surely they have some brownfield sites that can be used, it’s such a waste (pardon the pun) to put needless development in the countryside.

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I’ve seen some epic fails before, but is this council really going to build a commercial recycling centre in flood zone 3, open countryside, adjacent to a huge housing estate on a busy road? This goes against their own local plan too, so it’s a NO from me! https://t.co/nGsDlX1yna