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The Build - Now on notice !

Redoctober

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Blimey another month on there is a real sense we are getting there. So much so, we have given notice on our rental. We move in on Friday 30th November regardless!

 

The main emphasis this month has been installing the treatment plant and drainage system. The treatment plant was initially installed, somewhat optimistically, without any anchors only for it to pop back out of the ground within 24hrs, despite being filled with water and the pit filled with pea shingle. Needless to say the second time round, it was anchored down and the pit filled with a lot more concrete than the first time.

SEPA – [Scotland] had requested a soak away to be installed along with a 20 metre drainage channel 1.2 metre wide, before connecting to a field drain that eventually discharges into a nearby water course. I then had to register my plant with SEPA at a cost of £137.

 

The local Building Controller arrived on site to test the drains and within 20 minutes or so, both the foul and rainwater systems were passed.

As soon as they had been given the all clear, the landscaper and his team set about back filling the trenches and levelling the site ready for a Hammer Head driveway, boundary hedging and turf across the remaining plot.

 

Landscaping can be one of those often forgotten costs and to assist others here are my quantities and material prices. I haven't included the cost of the turf as it is still uncertain as to whether or not it will be laid this year or next. That decision will be taken during the week.

 

Patio mix slabs & single slabs

2265

Setts

540

MOT 3 x 28 tonnes

448

Sand x 6 tonnes

195

Cement x 40 bags

150

Membrane - 60 metres

150

20mm whin stone x 26 tonnes

650

 

Internally, progress has been frustratingly slow. I had a check of my records and found that the joiner / tiler had only been on site for 11 of the possible past 30 work days!!

 

That said, we now seem to have a momentum building and the floor tiles have started to be laid. This in turn will allow the kitchen units to be fitted this coming week.

The electrician will have completed the second fix installation by the end of this coming week and the plumber is booked in for the following week to complete his second fix installations.

Once the tiles are down, the joiner will turn his attention to cladding the dormers.

 

So, over the next 4 weeks the following needs to happen –

Internally – Floor tile to be laid, grouted and sealed. Kitchen, utility room cabinets to be installed. Fitted furniture in the master bedroom to be fitted. Electrician to complete his second fix and to wire up the pump for the treatment plant. All sanitary ware to be installed. Final bits of internal joinery to be completed.

Externally – The gable end stone work to be completed. The dormers to be clad. The porch to be erected. The chimney to be finished off. The landscaping to be completed. Open Reach to connect us to the BT pole outside the plot.

 

What can possibly go wrong ??

 

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recoveringbuilder

Looking good, I wonder if you get the same response from your tradesmen as we do when we say when we intend to move in- do you really think this will happen? We parted company with our builders last week and are struggling on to get the drains completed, tiling, few bits of joinery work and sanitary ware fitted hopefully to move in a fortnight, I hope it all goes to plan for you

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newhome

Hoping that the rest goes smoothly so that you can move in, worst case that you get a couple of rooms finished that will enable that to happen. 

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ProDave

You are not the first that I have know have a treatment plan float out of the ground. At least it was only water in it!!!!!

 

Ours is concreted in, but even so I would never push our luck and will only get it emptied in the summer after a dry spell when I can be certain the water table is low.

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Redoctober
1 hour ago, Christine Walker said:

Looking good, I wonder if you get the same response from your tradesmen as we do when we say when we intend to move in- do you really think this will happen? We parted company with our builders last week and are struggling on to get the drains completed, tiling, few bits of joinery work and sanitary ware fitted hopefully to move in a fortnight, I hope it all goes to plan for you

 

35 minutes ago, newhome said:

Hoping that the rest goes smoothly so that you can move in, worst case that you get a couple of rooms finished that will enable that to happen. 

Thanks very much. Yes, I am confident that given the time frame and the tradesmen "booked" in, we should comfortably meet our intended moving in date. But as we all know, when does a plan come together?

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Redoctober
17 minutes ago, ProDave said:

You are not the first that I have know have a treatment plan float out of the ground. At least it was only water in it!!!!!

 

Ours is concreted in, but even so I would never push our luck and will only get it emptied in the summer after a dry spell when I can be certain the water table is low.

 

Top tip @ProDave  - I will certainly bear that in mind because we were certainly caught out by the water table. We found it hard to believe that the water table would "force" the tank out like it did. 

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newhome

Hmm tradesmen ‘booked in’ is probably your biggest risk ?. I would concentrate on the jobs needed to give you somewhere to wash and sit / sleep as a priority, even if it’s only the bedroom finished initially. You can work wonders with just a microwave if all else fails ?. 

 

 

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vivienz
4 hours ago, newhome said:

Hmm tradesmen ‘booked in’ is probably your biggest risk ?. I would concentrate on the jobs needed to give you somewhere to wash and sit / sleep as a priority, even if it’s only the bedroom finished initially. You can work wonders with just a microwave if all else fails ?. 

 

 

 

And a slow cooker.  Invaluable for winter meals when the kitchen is out of action.

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newhome
11 minutes ago, vivienz said:

 

And a slow cooker.  Invaluable for winter meals when the kitchen is out of action.

 

In fact with a microwave, slow cooker and single plug in induction zone you barely need a kitchen at all ?. 

 

 

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vivienz
20 minutes ago, Tennentslager said:

Amazing progress @Redoctober

Christmas is a shoe in for your house...can we have glugwine and start drinking at lunchtime ???

 

You can make great mulled wine in a slow cooker, too!

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Tennentslager
Just now, vivienz said:

 

You can make great mulled wine in a slow cooker, too!

Yes it's very good...black cardomon pods and a splash of vodka make it special

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Thedreamer

Great progress.

 

Interestingly our inspection chambers, drainage surface and soil pipes were put in at foundation stage. I was quite surprised at the cost of the materials!

 

Where is your surface water going to?

 

 

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newhome
42 minutes ago, vivienz said:

 

You can make great mulled wine in a slow cooker, too!

 

Oh! Might have to give that a whirl! 

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newhome
7 minutes ago, Thedreamer said:

Interestingly our inspection chambers, drainage surface and soil pipes were put in at foundation stage. 

 

Ours too, in fact apart from the pressure test building control signed off the drains etc before the frame arrived. 

 

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Redoctober
17 hours ago, Thedreamer said:

Great progress.

 

Interestingly our inspection chambers, drainage surface and soil pipes were put in at foundation stage. I was quite surprised at the cost of the materials!

 

Where is your surface water going to?

 

 

 

Yes, I too was surprised the drainage system didn't go in at the foundation stage but was guided by our builder. Not sure there is a right or wrong way but I was concerned that the weather would not hold up by the time they were put in. Guess he was lucky and got away with it!

The surface water runs off to the existing field drain discharging eventually into a nearby water course.

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