Hi, welcome to my Blog, it is based on reality living in a Passivhaus within the UK. Built by Beatty Passive Norse in conjunction with Great Yarmouth Borough Council, I will plot the highs and lows truthfully in plain easy to understand language. If you are thinking of building a Passive/Eco house or renting from a Social Housing Landlord, I hope to be able to give you useful information to consider prior to finalising, or questions to ask. As always questions and suggestions taken.
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Well it was a good start - Unfortunately did not last...
... work started on the car park and although progress was made ie the two tanks buried, the second week work ground to a definite halt. This seems to be around communications I suspect, anyway it is now really hard to back out of drive yesterday it was impossible with next door neighbour parked in their drive and yes I crunched the back of new car into the metal pole sticking out of ground. Parking sensors will only go so far. Needless to say that has now been removed at least the gigantic mud mole hill should do no actual damage to the vehicle. All this simply adds to the fact I am going to find it very difficult to reverse out of my drive, swing my nose round to miss metal support post of carport to pull forward and turn. The bungalows are supposed to be built with disabled in mind, how is this then? I am already catching my wheelchair base on the lip of the front door as its not flush and yes the specific disabled doors purposed for wheelchairs are flush as my parents paid a fortune for theirs to be fitted so I could gain access to their house. This is something that would be builders with similar needs should look out for, it seems I am going to have to go back to ramps totally unnecessary. To add to this the cheap drain guard covers put down across drive way are all poking up at angles again. This means I catch the wheels of chair and again the underneath which can do real damage to the chair - someone is going to trip and its not going to be pleasant. This has already been put in the snagging list along with several other items, not all of these being the builders fault for example I still have a set of keys missing. I am going to enquire with Insurance company to see how that stands, suspect they will want locks changed which could work out very expensive. I am off later to meet with Minister for Disabled which I am sure we will both get a lot out of.
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