the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

annie123 wrote: »

I was starting to wonder if my instructions were carp!, but pleased you got there in the end. Lovely field by the way.

hehe, I love your fish style way of avoiding the swear monitors :T

rozeepozee

Davesnave wrote: »

Photos can be deceptive, but if you have a natural small valley behind the house, you should be able to put in a drainage ditch on the field boundary and take some of it that way.

On the road side half there may also be some scope for drainage, but I suppose that depends on your piece of land on the other side of the property's drive (which way it slopes, what your plans are for it) and whether you want the hassle of cutting a channel through the drive when there are services buried there! :eek:

The plan is for drainage of the area next to the house to be included in the planned refurb. There's a ditch carrying water right along the front boundary, so I'm kinda hoping it can be drained into there - I'm not very technical so we'll see.

We're currently debating whether we are putting undue pressure on ourselves to find an architect and submit a planning application so that we've done as much work as possible before we have to move out of our rental accommodation by May, or whether we should instead go down the static route and live on site from May onwards.

We didin't want to waste money on a static but it looks like we can pick one up for not too much and then we could live in it from May. Hopefully, the build won't take too much longer... I wouldn't want to spend a Winter in a caravan with 3 small children....

Does any of you have any advice on buying a secondhand static and the logistics of siting it etc. I understand that we can have one to live in for a year if we are doing building work. I'm not sure about the legalities planning wise.
Will need to check that with our architectural adviser...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rozee... i understand you can only have a caravan on site for 28 days after that you will need planning permission, i think what people were doing were buying a 'derelict house' ( cheap) and just living in a static caravan instead of going down the route of doing the house up..

best to speak to your local planning about what the proceedure is regarding the static on your land

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

The plan is for drainage of the area next to the house to be included in the planned refurb. There's a ditch carrying water right along the front boundary, so I'm kinda hoping it can be drained into there - I'm not very technical so we'll see.

We're currently debating whether we are putting undue pressure on ourselves to find an architect and submit a planning application so that we've done as much work as possible before we have to move out of our rental accommodation by May, or whether we should instead go down the static route and live on site from May onwards.

We didin't want to waste money on a static but it looks like we can pick one up for not too much and then we could live in it from May. Hopefully, the build won't take too much longer... I wouldn't want to spend a Winter in a caravan with 3 small children....

Does any of you have any advice on buying a secondhand static and the logistics of siting it etc. I understand that we can have one to live in for a year if we are doing building work. I'm not sure about the legalities planning wise.
Will need to check that with our architectural adviser...

Are you knocking the whole building down, rozee? I got the impression you were extending & adding bits but maybe I got it wrong?

On the PP side. Unless there's been a recent change in the rules, yes you need PP for a static. I've never had to use one but friends have. Often PP for the static goes through together with the PP for the property.

lostinrates

Rozee, I don't know planning rules, but going by what we've learned here I wouldn't finalise any plans till you have lived there. What we have decided has changed so much based on things you just can't see on paper, the way light falls in the mid length days in to the kitchen to be, the room I thought would be a snug, small study, but actually is a dead end room I have barely been in since we moved and now a wall is coming down. The places the cats like, rather than e places I thought they would. Where wild life comes to ...and where as a result you might not want your kids play things outside, and thus, which window you'll want to be looking out of to keep an eye on them in a few years. Even which views I like best have changed...the money view here is not my favourite, but rather, I like the one I least liked or noticed when we moved here.

I know it's harder with kids, but I know this time here in the wreck has changed what we are doing and its in the main things that we need to be here to understand.

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Rozee, I don't know planning rules, but going by what we've learned here I wouldn't finalise any plans till you have lived there. What we have decided has changed so much based on things you just can't see on paper, the way light falls in the mid length days in to the kitchen to be, the room I thought would be a snug, small study, but actually is a dead end room I have barely been in since we moved and now a wall is coming down. The places the cats like, rather than e places I thought they would. Where wild life comes to ...and where as a result you might not want your kids play things outside, and thus, which window you'll want to be looking out of to keep an eye on them in a few years. Even which views I like best have changed...the money view here is not my favourite, but rather, I like the one I least liked or noticed when we moved here.

I know it's harder with kids, but I know this time here in the wreck has changed what we are doing and its in the main things that we need to be here to understand.

Absolutely agree, LIR.
We spent a year here before we started any building work at all & then we didn't start any large-scale work on the house itself for a while longer.
You learn all manner of things which just wouldn't have become obvious without seeing the place through all the seasons & getting the feel of what would be right for the space you want to live in.

lostinrates

Oh, re the Dutch, it should follow round fine, unless you have soak away contribution. If so it might be easier to tackle that at the same time, planners like the system we went for, because the soak away equivalent is clean and can go into a ditch.


Guys I'm sorry nor not replying to pts ATM. I'm really finding it hard to even keep up with thread. I'm so knackered I can't tell you. I have a stupid rash on my face and all I want to do is sleep.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, re the Dutch, it should follow round fine, unless you have soak away contribution. If so it might be easier to tackle that at the same time, planners like the system we went for, because the soak away equivalent is clean and can go into a ditch.


Guys I'm sorry nor not replying to pts ATM. I'm really finding it hard to even keep up with thread. I'm so knackered I can't tell you. I have a stupid rash on my face and all I want to do is sleep.

go to the doctors PLEASE.......

I am worried about our choille, so i would be at my witts end if you i had to worry about you too.......

Make sure animals are all sorted and cuddle up and take care of yourself....

lostinrates

Oh, I meant ditch, not dutch in the last post.

Ctc don't worry about me. It's all related to my health issues. I won't go to the doctor because I have a doctor phobia, but I'll call my old gp who still talks to me over the phone, tomorrow, but doing what I usually do for the skin, Manuka and sleeping for the other stuff, it's all I can do really, they just say that's all I can do...sleep.

choille

Scottish planning different - don't put in planning for a static, just do it. Changing PP laws end of this month AGAIN - taking us to keep up.

Got a docs appointment tomorrow so hopefully will find out why I'm lurching about like a drunk - not doing owt other than concntrating on not falling over.

Hissing down again & can hardly hear the telly - hail, mild but the wind is rocking.

The eggs for sale sound very cheap indeed.
I need to get my breeds, colours seperated soonish. Love the Orps but having more than one breed makes it a wee bit complicated if you're breeding. handy having the fenced pen area, but do like to see them free ranging.
Poor sheep - the ground is a squelchy bog. When I was over at Animal health last week the owner was saying she'd had grown men in crying real tears about the state of the ground. Over on the East is more arable type ground & does tend to flood but some places you could see tops of trees poking out from the water at the sides of fields - horrible. There's been two land slides ( major ones) in Wester Ross. I cannot believe how day after day, week after week it's relentlessly chucking it down day & night. Glad we're on the slope.
BUT it is so mild we'll be getting Denge fever next or summat jungley & tropcal.

rhiwfield if you list on ebay.com usa site you won't have to pay listing fees.