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I have the option its just an extra £1k do I really need it / want it ?

Hi all, I have never understood electricity. Maybe because I can't see it. 🙂 Do I need single or 3 phase supply ? I'm still at an early stage with planning having just been submitted but I anticipate a delay from my DNO for connection so would like to get on top of this now. A couple of neighbours have offered me power until I get connected so a temporary supply is not really necessary. I don't have a sparky on board yet to advise but have spoke to a few different people and get conflicting information. I have had quotes for both and 3 phase is considerably more than single phase but do I need it ? Basically the house is 192 m2 I will have No gas a 13kw heat pump 1 maybe 2 car chargers 14 x 395W solar panels with either 5kw or maybe even 10kw battery storage. Any help will be very much appreciated.

So the initial outlay would be £1600. Or the equivalent of about 80 m2 of blockwork. Then you will spend 5 times as long as your bricklayer who you are paying £200 + a day to do any of the work. Surely you are better off going to work and paying your Bricky what you earn ? There are a lot of things that can go wrong with brickwork and they can be expensive mistakes that have a knock on effect through your build. Especially in foundation work.

Unless like me you are self building as a stepping stone to the ultimate final house which will be similar to what most of you are building. I need to make some money on my next project so I have to compromise between 'developer built houses' and top notch self build quality.

I’m a Brickie and would also remove brick one and half of brick 2 replace brick 1 then the others all in one go. I use one of these.

If you want to be safe lap the DPM from below the kingspan. What harm can it do ? Double safe tape the top one up against the wall, It will make it easier to finish your concrete. I'm not sure where the trapped water is supposed to come from unless its raining.

We usually do the bottom one but as mark says it doesn't really matter

I moved it with me. It’s not as bad here but still not perfect. In fact the router is more shielded at this house.

I had a ring doorbell in my last house with 9 inch brick walls but the router was about 3 m from the doorbell and the only obstacle was old double glazing. I had a really bad signal on it and after speaking to the technical team several times I eventually gave up with it.

Are they U shaped ?

To be a little bit fair. The lintel had about 450 mm bearing so when they started drilling they wouldn’t have expected that. This highlights the need to have accurate plans on new builds. And the golden phrase ‘every action has a reaction ‘

Anyone off to Swindon in the morning?

Great post and I really couldn’t have worded it better. Exactly that. I think they glued the 2 grills on and ran. 😂😂

In this day and age with so much IT around shouldn’t it be included in a solicitors search ? They search for so much irrelevant shit, but in the current climate the figures for PV are so important for perspective customers.(especially if the government want to go green and meet their climate / carbon reduction targets.) whatever it’s called targets. IIf you come to sell your house your PV array without figures is to the major buying market worthless. Based on the (old) fact that on average everybody moves house every 7 years. To me the system seems wrong. The whole plan needs a better incentive policy for the consumer to make it work. Or can the infrastructure not cope? Causing the delays !

If you are going to take out that base and put new foundations in can you not just leave the ground level down at the same level as the neighbours ?

There was an extractor fan 'fitted' there. I guess whoever tried to core drill for the extractor hit the lintel then decided to fit it anyway.

Sorry I didn't mean to sound sarcastic. I was referring to the following trades who are not used to having blockwork in their service runs and get a bit hammer happy. It depends who we are building for. All of my clients use posi joists and some ask for the gaps to be blocked up and some don't. The ones that do insist that the pipe and cable runs are drilled through the blockwork avoiding damage. As property developers None of them use MVHR and none of them have ever used a wall plate beneath the joists on intermediate walls . I'm not saying it can't be done only that we have never done it. It is just as easy and with the state of timber these days it's more accurate to build them in blockwork.

Bingo !! That worked. The quotes came back today. OK they were incorrect but I told them what they had got wrong and back they came again. Progress at last.

Yes either sun the course of leave 2 courses off and replace with a brick on edge. That should leave you 38 mm down.

On many sites we leave the top course of engineerings off under bifolds and the window fitters sort out a level access threshold.

I'm still waiting so have written a letter of complaint citing the levels of compensation. Lets see if anything happens.

Ruggers you are correct. the other trades just smash them out with a JCB or similar. Some remain some don’t make it.

On 12 m I would use a tingle in the middle measured up from a datum. Joists would usually just rest on the masonry on the intermediate walls and be infilled with block or brickwork. best get your gold Amex card out 😀 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjBjK3nprL5AhWgS0EAHWUuCKAQwqsBegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDjEh1tMC62U&usg=AOvVaw3czXIdAO9jD_VaKaQ73cZs

Let us know how this pans out. In one week last year we had 2 separate sites where the scaffolders from 2 different companies both put the scaffold up about 200 mm above the walls that we had built. F&#k knows what was going on that week. On another timber framed building the scaffold was all over the place leaving us to have to lie down on the scaffolding to lay the last 10 courses under the eaves and having to trestle on top of the scaffold to reach other walls. This despite drawing a detailed plan and marking the lift heights on the walls.