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This is the best I can do for the time being…

Yes the second picture of the 3 I attached shows the window which has the cracks below it, but that is as close as I can get. I also think that what might have been visible from the exterior has been masked by repointing?

What I would do now. look for an experienced owner operator who has his own 5 tonne smallest 8 tonne nicer digger, he will have his own transportation or know a company that brings his machine to site. he will probably have a mate who helps. you can find these on a Facebook site called 8 tonne and below. you will need a surveyor or you ( surveyor best ) to set everything out all pegs in the ground ready. you need a 3 tonne dumper minimum. you need 2-3 muck away companies in your phone who you have chatted to. you need building control to have been notified and ready to inspect as soon as you start. you need to have priced concrete and have it all ready just waiting on a phone call you need a concrete line pump for the pour day.

I can see a draw for self builders and one off’s. Was it a grand designs where they had a CNC router in a container on site to produce ply “building blocks”? anybody know if it was built / finished?

I’d be very interested in opinions on this RSJ in a botched half completed renovation which I’m considering? It looks like an old railway line to me? Whilst it appears to be supporting another RSJ which supports the floor above I’m questioning whether it was actually originally intended to tie the gable wall which it attaches to at the other end? But is it actually doing anything…or perhaps doing more harm than good because of its weight?

good morning, do you have any pics of the outside looking at the crack area and what is at ground level.

Pics attached separately…due to space constraints….

vertical dpc plus check reveal

Be interested in experienced opinion re this cracking in the upper floor of a Victorian renovation project I’m considering? Does it look like a serious issue? If so how serious and what remedial measures are required? My worry is the location on the upper corner of the building. It looks straight enough outside from both the ariel and ground view, but it has recently been repointed so maybe exterior cracks have been covered up (see pics). There is also some cracking above the window where the wall joins the ceiling but it has been patched up so not worth attaching the photo.

Digging a hole, pressing the ground with a thumb and referring to a tree table IS design. Btw you have 80m of footing there. So digging 100mm too deep and 100mm too wide will cost you about 8m3 of concrete and 8m3 of muck-away. (£1400?) An SE and skilled builder can save money from the start.

UK technology company Automated Architecture, or AUAR (pronounced “our”) believes it has a solution. It makes portable micro-factories that can produce the wooden framing of a house — the walls, floors and roofs. Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of the building. AUAR has raised £7.7 million ($10.3 million) to date, and is expanding into the US, where a lack of housing and preference for using wood makes it a large potential market https://edition.cnn.com/world/home-building-robots-housing-crisis-auar-spc

You have not seen the price of cod recently, we stopped selling it a while back. Now this is oil prices, let us see how far the go and for how long. Data is up to March 1st Two charts, nominal price and inflation adjusted for WTI crude. Data from here

Yes, but they are not very clear.

Hi folks I was wondering if anyone has any experience of whether HMRC take a Council Tax Completion Notice into consideration when the clock starts ticking for the 6 month VAT reclaim. Our council will start charging us council tax 3 months after the plasterboard has gone up regardless of whether the house is finished (it won't be) and we have a Building Control Completion Certificate. Any information greatly received. Thank you.

Do you have to put a slither of dpc where the pir hits the brickwork? I like the closers tbf think they are neat. Probably a cold bridge though?

Do you need se now for standard strip footings? Back in the day just used to be able to dig and refer to a tree table if needed. I have heard nowadays bco want things designed?

Red flags galore......good advice!

I guess not!!!!!!! #anyone??

Deliciously simple, but this has to always be the absolute last resort. I don't make the man-rules, but I do wish I made headache tablets.

£35 if you buy my welsh crude, and can accept the smell of cod coming from it...........

Wise words, a lot of people forget.

Extend the trough into a deeper sump, and whack some pumps in!?! We've been self-building for a long time people........ You need a rocket firing up the back end Get stuck in and crack on; there's no free lunches, and the sooner you're not sat in the wings 'considering things' the sooner you'll be living in it

10.00 news.... $110 now.

I design stuff like this. There are many options. Best advice I can give you is to get an SE on board now, even if to provide a watching brief. If you don't then you introduce significant cost risk and uncertainty. You know there is a potential issue so the sooner you get that under control the better.