Nickfromwales

What about close-cutting shy first with a circular so the router is only taking off 1-2mm passes at a time to clean up?

Nothing better than looking for your mobile, whilst talking on it. Or my other favourite which is looking for my van keys whilst holding them and getting irate with people who then say "They're in your hand you dopy tw*t!" 44 yesterday, so it could be age related

You been smoking crack ( again ) fella ? Deffo izzy whizzy. Sootys a legend.

We have an über-quick mechanism for dealing with that trust me. I call it the Paul Daniels button. Makes anything vanish right before your very eyes.

Why is the doorway set into the sloped part of the wall? WC where the basin is so your sat under the slope, door where the WC is ( still to entrance hall not room ) and basin opposite the WC. Pocket door if you can get away with it. In the first pic, id go for slight 45 degree chamfers on the walls instead of the sharp corners. Will soften that choke point nicely for pennies and make the room look more spacious.

A simple map from the Bristan site

Yup lol. Been stood there screaming at it for 5 mins and then realise im trying to send the screws in anti-clockwise

@Fredd See the patio slabs in that pic? How much compo do you think it took to lay those ? They're huge !

Don't let @Onoff see that ! He'll be off making the knife and fork to go with it.

Think of the overtime for all the £££ spent on mastic, foam and tape.

You take that back this minute !!!!!!!!! Its medium grade ok

Nothing wrong with a bit of sport

You may want it for the roots

I'm assuming he means £40k over time, not for a single build ? @Fredd, your turn.

We are trying my old mukka .

My screeder lays floors for me and I can paint them green and rack up a game of snooker. I wouldn't pay him if that wasn't delivered. If your paying a guy to concrete the floor for you and it's not level then your using the wrong guy. Simple. That's ok. You've just chucked yourself in at the deep end I'm afraid. . A forum full of house building builders would have given you an easier ride, but folk here are mostly building a dream home, or even their 5th or 6th dream home, so it's just better that you sooner understand this particular forum, and the way members HERE are building, before leaping in off the high spring board . Fwiw, I'd never buy a chuck-me-up house off a small builder as I'll know they're just about the profit and my money would be better spent elsewhere.

@Fredd I think you should stop making such random and deeply unfounded comments in order to be taken seriously. . @JSHarris's "slab" is a passive raft on 300mm of eps. Your preferred method using block and beam has a ventilated cold underside so is inherantly flawed from birth, yet you seem to champion it. . I sincerely hope you take some time out to read up on the threads / members blogs here and then maybe you can come back with some educated comments. Assuming ( incorrectly ) what people have done here is quite disrespectful in my opinion, and a little embarrassing for you I'm afraid, so please only refer to individual cases if your able to state the FACTS that reinforce what you write here. I suggest a new approach for you. Ask a member what the spec of their build is, rather than assume that they made "a wrong choice", as many who have built here have had the opportunity to examine different build methods, choose from real life case studies, and have had years to decide accordingly. Youll find members and staff here very patient and accommodating, but it won't last for long if you keep making such assumptions. FYI the member who has in your opinion chosen the wrong floor method is one member who's house would be overheated by said hairdryer, and the build was delivered with guarantees of how the house would be delivered to the client. Guaranteed airtightness to 0.6 ach, and thermal qualities that would make a chuck-me up brick / block colander look like Swiss cheese. I just don't think you'll sell your POV here I'm afraid, as your preaching the wrong sermon in the wrong church me thinks.

About £1.5k for the boiler and about £1-1.2k on the TS depending on spec. With pumps and valves etc you'll buy it all for change of £3k most probably.

Hi Fredd. Speed building to maximise profit, by turning out houses built to current regs ( or usually worse ) isn't really the ethos of this forum. Typically I'd expect someone like yourself to have joined in order to compare performance / build quality and ASK for figures on which to base your arguments for either method. Here folks have designed, built and are now living in their homes, and have been kind enough to give a warts-n-all account of how things did or didn't work out. Best of all though are the performance figures, some of which are incredible. Could you heat any of your builds with a hairdryer ? Folk here could. Not fiction or speculation.....Fact. Chucking up an EPC cert isnt really good enough for your particular argument to be taken seriously TBH. EPCs are based on assumptions. Most 'express' builds don't get properly inspected mid build and often are found to have had poorer quality insulation and airtightness, mostly due to contractors being on, or given, tight budgets. Self builders WANT a thorough inspection, WANT to pay for superior work quality ( and ethics ), rather than maximise profit and focus on turnaround times. For this forum, we're apples and your oranges I'm afraid. Stick around and have a read of a few of the blogs. I'm an old dog that's learned a few new tricks here .

Grant boiler is fine, they're what I recommend. The size needs to be spot on, and 46kw in a system boiler would do a small nursing home. 26kw tops for a regular domestic dwelling, and deffo a TS not an UVC. Heat needs to be pulsed into the house, rather than trickle in as heat is consumed, plus you can then dictate the flow and return temp then too ( to maximise condensing ) when you pulse the heat in. Heating and DHW come direct from the TS, and the boiler goes direct to the TS with the boiler demand controlled via the cylinder stat on the TS.

The boiler is huge. You really need to run a smaller boiler harder with oil. 46kw is WAY big for an oil boiler. Is the house 8 bed 6 bath?

Anyone interested please use the PM service for exchanging particulars. The thread can be kept for general comments. Thanks. Mods.

Not the cheapest, but for example.... This kind of thing or this one

Don't shoot the messenger ?

you can get the trap to do that. Ill add to that later.