Nickfromwales

I'd squeeze these lot for every once of blood I could get from them. Time to go at them to get what you expected to receive, or to ask for an adjustment in their fees to reflect your dissapontment.

I've not long got off a Teams meeting, with my new clients and the newly-appointed AT. It was a great meeting, ideas shared, bad ones guffawed at, and a high-value next step for the clients self-build adventure. At NO point, none whatsoever, should this be so fecking difficult!!

It's what happens, unfortunately, when unscrupulous companies see their client as subordinates. I've instantly dismissed more than 80% of the architects I've been asked to work with, based on easily demonstrable incompetence (and worse, over-charging).

Nothing would give me greater pleasure. For one previous client, the architect was a family fried, who said he would support on "mates rates". I got brought in when the wheels were starting to fall off the project (YAY!!!) and immediately confronted this individual for his dispondence. "I'm doing this as a favour so they'll just have to wait, I explained this to them". Tosser. I said it wasn't a problem as I had the clients agreement that we should lose this bell-end and introduce some new blood. All I wanted was the .DWG's converted to PDF's, and some stupid faux-pas corrected before hand. Not the world, and the sky and the chuffing moon. After embarrassing him sufficiently, low and behold, the requisite information started flowing. Prior to my employment, the clients had waited months for this muppet to get his thumb out of his (overpaid btw) ass.

Be honest. You must get a bee in your bonnet, as do I, watching these barely-qualified pricks take good money, in good faith, and deliver disappointing sack-full's of dog turds?

Respectfully, I am going to shut this dialogue down. That's quite enough. Please rest assured, that from BH's inception, to date, we have survived on our own framework and principles. We shall continue to do so as a successful, accidentally formed entity, run solely by like-minded folk, for all the right reasons. In the unlikely event that lost souls discontinue to arrive at our doors, we will close down and call it a day. Until then......."play ball". End transmission.

This.

@Jammy5, excuse Gus, he's old and grumpy, but is well intentioned. As am I....well, old-ish. @Gus Potter, kinder words, softly spoken..... Go at these lazy pricks with some gusto. Go call them out. If you need a professional confidante to support I'll help you out. These kind of architects piss me soooooooooooo badly off, bunch of pretentious wankers most of them. I've chewed so many up, and spat them out, and my qualifications allow me to drive a vehicle on UK roads.

I pinned this thread, as it's defo a keeper.

Nobody has, and nobody will Any such details would be shared by the staff here in total confidence.

When I was treasurer, we took it down when we had say ~12 months of running costs in the coffers. The plan then being that when we're at <25% we'd raise the flag again, and so on. Ergo, the banner / tab went up and down according to demand; the thought was that we didn't want to flood the coffers unecessarily.

@Spinny Was it you being over-zealous with the FR plasterboard or your BCO? I had to sober one such BCO up recently for exactly the same thing, and plenty more before him, about that being absolutely NOT a requirement. He said "it needs to be there", and I said "prove it". It did not go in. Too many dicks out there with red pens afaic.

That sounds like you may avoid the place for the next 20 years 😆😆😆 Glad you got sorted.

400mm roof / 300mm wall hi-performance offering almost every single time, with only 1 project ever going for the next cost level down from that; the PIR + rockwool option, which I didn't like much because of the inherent (and annoying) acoustic transparency. You do pay a lot, but you get a lot, and you will get to enjoy the relaxed processes and the joy of a turnkey frame & founds package from a company (MBC) who consistently deliver excellent standards. As you stare into this section of roof, where the fink trusses are, you should expect to see the airtight membrane and battens, then 400mm of insulation, and some additional timber to create the 400mm void. Dead simple. If you have a triangular void, then I assure you it's not getting pumped full to the brim with cellulose!! And no cellulose can escape, by definition, as it's all (100% of it) pumped in behind the airtight layer. Something has been lost in translation here methinks!! As said, if I can see a sectional drawing I could comment more robustly, but if we're talking about a space where you could just about fit the Xmas decorations then that's a different story. I've not enough info to go on sorry.

I've been holding off as it's taken a while to digest, between the other things I have to do to keep 6 people alive lol. The black (XPS?) is friable, so cannot be bonded to the way you have tried, as the surface area just isn't sufficient for any decent kind of permanent purchase. @Spinny I see (and assume) you've tried to thermally disconnect the Habito from the frame, but this just isn't robust. Instead, I would mask the frame off (Frog tape or PVC electricians tape) so the surface of the frame doesn't get damaged, and pump a load of clear CT1 in the gap between the black XPS and the frame; I'd open the gap with some packers, then pump the goop in, and then push the XPS back towards the frame to encourage them to form a "Spice Girls" connection (two become one). The ideal would be to have the Habito cut and ready, and to fit it into the then still wet CT1, and brace it with a length of 4x2 to maintain its form during the curing process. As it'll be screwed top the inboard timber batten one side, the 4x2 should only need to offer a little restraint overnight. You'll need to work pretty quickly though, and control the excess amount of goop and it's subsequent displacement onto the masking tape. You will need to clean this away with some stout cardboard and some baby wipes, and then use the excess to coat the surface of the XPS, by spreading the displaced goop instead of binning it. Once you have a boded XPS board, and that and the frame are stuck together forever, whilst this is still all wet you then remove the masking tape, slowly and carefully, and dispose of. Then you apply a nice fat bead of CT1 all the way from top to bottom, at the outboard edge of the XPS where it meets the frame. Press the Habito into place, put the screws in the far end, and set the 4x2 in place and leave for 12hrs minimum to cure. Each of the side reveals can be done in the same sitting if you want, be left to cure, and then the head if that needs sorting (but would be a different situation with the lintel obvs). Take 2 of those and call me in the morning