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Is this a type of handsaw? I was going to investigate if there was some form of articulated guide available that would help maintain a right angled cut into a block.

A likely story. Come on admit it you were trying to design the male equivalent of a padded bra.

Point taken, there is probably a reason I could not find ready-made examples of cladding an aircrete outer skin in brick slips 5 meters up to gutter height. Your use-case is much more convincing. I am already thinking ahead post my current self build and considering building a smaller rental property. Thin-joint double skinned aircrete in jumbo blocks still feels like a good diy option providing planning are ok with a lightweight rain screen cladding.

@JSHarris & @TerryE I am listening, the problem is I have spent 5 months going from zero knowledge of self-build to the point where I can lay in bed at night and picture the construction of a brick & block house. Doing a mental reset on all that and starting a learning curve on all things TF feels like a huge step back. Another poster here is documenting his troubles with a Potton homes contracted TF foundation base, what surprised me was how similar things look at this stage except for "pad stones". At what point in the foundation construction does a build become irrevocably committed to construction method (ignoring passiv slabs in this context).

It has been replaced by effervescence on her party decking with a view ?

Woohoo, all it needs now is a nice man with a few sheets of plasterboard and a reel of cable to visit and oh a stairs would be useful.

The driver for Plan-C (slip cladding) is that thin-joint + celcon jumbo blocks looks diy approachable and likewise for slip cladding, this would sidestep the current shortage of brickies and bricks. The 2017 prices in the House Builder's Bible costs thin-joint inner wall at £15 per m2 for material. Fancy heritage bricks are more like £60 m2 plus mortar. I have not found a m2 price for Celcon jumbo's but we could be looking at £7000 (plus cills and lintels and trays) for a diy thin-joint cavity wall masonry structure up to gutter height which is appealing. The joker would be the cost of slip cladding. If was considering a cleansheet design outside a conservation area then thin-joint, jumbo block cavity wall with rendered cladding looks good on paper.

I was thinking the scaffolding would come down after the roof was on, then later a 24 ft run of Kwikstage would do for the slip cladding. I am seeing stock prices in the 40p to £1 range, though the better looking examples are at the top end.

In my calculation I was assuming a full brick 2kg weight which is at the lower end 2kg and hence a per 15mm slip weight of 300g. There is a large margin to such calcs because the basic brick material weigh could be between 2 and 3 kg. Slip thickness are anywhere between 7mm and 20mm.

I have been following your thread because I have to make the same decision soon and face a similar situation with different people proposing an external foul drain route v. direct through foundations (suspended beam & block in my case). I also have to be careful to maintain a minimum viable gradient. I am posting to suggest a small tweak to the through foundation 450mm drop before you calculate your remaining gradient. Page 463 of the Building Services Handbook has a diagram for a collar boss discharge stack which confirms a minimum drop of 450mm from FFL to the top of the horizontal foul drain pipe. However page 461 shows a traditional stack where the minimum radius at the bottom of the stack is 200mm. If your discharge pipe runs vertically through your passive slab will you also have to add 200mm to account for the final bend before the horizontal run starts? I do not know and I am quoting minimum figures from different discharge stack systems.

I have been thinking about side stepping the fancy brick heritage supply problem through a different build technique, see my Plan-C thread. This is only a day old and not looking like a runner at the moment. Got some queries on bricks ongoing at the moment, 10,000 mid September is the best at the moment. How quickly could a 2+1 brickie team get these facing bricks up if the inner thin-joint wall advanced a few courses ahead of them? My thinking is that with an existing inner wall structure established they do not need to be concerned with chimneys, door/window aperture positioning or internal walls.

This was my original thought but the maths is worrying. Say 2kg a brick x 0.15 (15 mm thick slip) x 60 bricks per meter = 18 Kg of slip weight per meter. Well below the 29kg limit quoted by the Celcon tech department today but even so it makes me wonder if Plan-C is a runner.

Think I know him, is he called Rudolf? Apparently he is not available until the 26th of December.

I have been waiting two whole days for the next thrilling installment ? Just picked up my new (very old) transit van for the new build and would offer this but assume the length and bulk of you roofing system needs a longer open truck.

Defo a very strict requirement for a specific brick finish. Some English bond as well which might rule out the backing sheet system used by @PeterStarck. You might be thinking of this thread where @jack explained frustrations encountered.

Having been thoroughly beguiled by thin-joint block work last week but not confident enough to load a finished roof onto such a single skinned structure I am now tempted by the thought of adopting thin-joint blockwork for both inner and exterior walls. The incentive for adopting thin-block completely for all masonry elevations is that it improves my chances of getting to a weather-tight shell before winter weather holds up my build. The schedule I am now contemplating would mean leaving my exterior celcon blockwork exposed to the elements for a whole winter until brick slip cladding in the spring. I will contact H+H for an official technical opinion but would be interested to hear some community opinion. Update: Just spoke to HH who did not offer any standard advice, system or partner product suggestion for hanging brick slips. I did learn that their exposed aircrete block could suffer from winter weather due to surface moisture coupled with freezing. Their recommended cladding hanging limit is 29kg per m2 which is separate to the per fixing pull load limit of 7kn. I got the impression that the typical cladding material on light blocks is modern clapboard or render. The Weatherby cladding people were more switched on but unfortunately their brick slip range is very limited and it looks like they target mundane commercial buildings

Yes a semi retired builder is my wise owl and he also comes with a mini digger.

I was using proof through induction i.e. multiple indirect pointers CIL not in effect in my district council. Time for some proof by deduction as you suggest, there are 100 plus docs uploaded onto the planning web site for my PP so this is going to take some time.

Eek. The £2000 for the warranty is money that could fund a swanky bathroom or MVHR, even so this is not the prime concern. I was talking to another self builder the other day who was stung for £10K additional build costs when the building control inspector and warranty inspector had a dispute about how to build the house properly, poor guy was in the middle of this professional crossfire. And finally there will be additional set up costs for even a small mortgage. Building a house is hard enough without of posse of yapping middle class clipboard huggers steeling one's build budget.

I have found some council meeting notes online where it is stated the council does not view introduction of CIL appropriate for the local house building economy. My PP date was a year earlier than this meeting. Your comment and @Hecateh's web site give me the confidence to ignore applying for exemption from CIL.

This tallies with what I can find about my local district councils i.e. to the west there is confirmation CIL has been recently adopted (yellow on your map) and in my area there is a news article in a local paper quoting some town councilor winging about a huge lost opportunity to fund local community projects,

"All" is open to debate. Savings should get us to a habitable shell of a house. After that I will have to work to finish off each room. I am on the cusp of the generation for whom retirement is a vague distant concept that will never arrive.

Nothing more exotic than slate, wooden sash windows and thin-joint block bonding. The NuLok tiling system appeals but cooling on that due to local agency matters discussed elsewhere here.

I keep postponing this task for some reason, probably due to it been an unfamiliar business environment and I do not yet know all the trade lingo. Yesterday I arranged a long term loan of a beat up transit for my self build which means I can now start to store lighter materials in a secure building at my current address. Going to need a lot of drainage and other underground plastic soon.

Probably though I wonder how much I will need at the end of the day or where to store it on my 0.2 acre plot. I also acquired two or three tons of fire wood recently following a fortuitous set of events, this will need to be stored on site by the start of autumn.