Timber Portal Frame - but stick built

Patrick. Are you doing your own piling ? What about the ringbeam, are you doing that ?

@Big JimboDoing everything BUT the piling . Got cold feet at the end as I dont have any good access. I m not sensitive on insurance and structural reasons, but if i hired a Rig and it tipped over (as i have a little bit of slope) , no chance i would get that ever up again as I can not get heavy machines on site . This was the final nail in the coffin for my DIY piling plan.

Savings are to be made elsewhere now. For example the Ring beam ?

Good on you Patrick. The prob i have down south is that the piling comp want to do piles and ringbeam, at about £35k. When i tell them i'm happy to do the ringbeam and just want a quote for the piles, they are either not interested or start quoting me silly figures £1500 fo drag the plant to my site, and about a grand a pile. I have good ground, but loads of bloody big trees, but i'm a tight sod. I know that in the end i will just end up hiring in a big digger, (I have a mini digger) and doing 3mt deep trenches, and filling them full of concrete. If i do that i thonk i can do the founds for about 12k. £16k if i don't spread the spoil over my garden, and have it carted away.

29 minutes ago, Big Jimbo said:

 I have good ground, but loads of bloody big trees, but i'm a tight sod.

I feel you. I'm the same. I pm you my piling contractor number, give him a bell. You might be a little bit far out for him but worth a try. He certainly will do as much or as little as you want and is Used working with difficult customers (me) Local piling companies always more value then the national ones.

@Big Jimbo why not find another piling company?

all companies will charge you mobilisation plant costs mine was about £1200

i had 29 piles to 8m for £12,000 I asked 2 companies for quotes and both said that the ringbeam was a loss maker as they took to long and made more money from just the piles. 

Patrick, your neighbours are going to love you, 

 

12 minutes ago, Russell griffiths said:

Patrick, your neighbours are going to love you, 

Considering that about 90%of my neighbours are this lot :

 

 

I think I will deal with their complaints in the afterlife.

Read the headline.

 

Thought he had bought a Tesla.

Patrick, your neighbours are going to love you, 

i think after dropping a tree on them and now waking them up your going straight down when your time comes. ????

On 15/11/2019 at 19:18, Patrick said:

Bit of subsidence there.

@SteamyTea

Yep, I'm not piling for no reason. ?

On 15/11/2019 at 20:04, Ferdinand said:

Read the headline.

 

Thought he had bought a Tesla.

I thought I was going to read about a big hole to take a septic tank or treatment plant.

@ProDave

Sorry to disappoint. It s my English. I meant

:" Der Panzer is da"

and that s what Google translated.