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And wrap the heras panels in scaffold debris netting.

I can't quite understand some planning decisions. ie. Let's demolish all the street's of back to back terraced houses as they are not environmental or socially good. Instead we'll build 15 story high flat's and apartment blocks in their place. 🤔

Go for £3000, then hopefully you won't have a nasty surprise. Have you purchased the plot yet ? If you've purchased a plot, what build construction do you want, style of building, number of bedrooms That's where part of your 100k contingency fund comes in. Stay in your static caravan for another year while you work that one out.🤣🤔 Depends on your mortgage terms and conditions. Also depends on how much money you are borrowing, and if a lender could recover ALL THEIR MONEY if the unit is auctioned off. Lot's of self builders, build vast houses if they've got a plot big enough to take it. ( I'm guilty) Rattling around in a big shell is not very pleasant. Then you need large item's of furniture to fill the room's. The average mass build 4 bed estate detached house has a foot print of 10m x 12m, go round some show homes and see how much space you really need. The whole self build game comes down to money. How much capital and assets you have, and how much you would comfortable with borrowing on a mortgage if you had too, with out bankrupting yourself and family. First job is to get rid of the rose tinted glasses and do a reality check, as this journey WILL be stressful.

IBC Tank on a trailer

You need to use a plumb line and not a spirit level to show how out of square it is, if you go down the legal route also employ a building surveyor.

Did there used to be a fireplace and chimney in the room that has since been removed?

Labour have just given the go ahead for a 2.500 acre solar farm in East Anglia. So they've just take away prime food production land for solar production. In the 1980's we we're 81% food self sufficient. This has declined year on year and now stands at 64%. So why are we destroying good agricultural land for another vanity project. HS2 has already taken out thousands of acres of land out of production. Any one have any information on the nutritional value and a recipe for a solar panel.? Someone will start bleating on about factory farming. Is there another option for feeding a growing population.?

Got any photos of the gable, inside and out just so we know what we're commenting on. Thank you.

The last time we built that many homes in the country was in the late 70's it was promptly followed by a recession in the housing market 2 years later. I can see this property spirt heading in the same direction unless labour are going to do a compulsory purchase from the developer's when it all falls out of bed. We've got site's in the Shires that are mothballed because the lack of buyers. Estate agents are knocking 20k off the price of other properties on their books just to try and shift them. So the outlook doesn't look that Good.

Owner operators are falling over themselves to get work as many of them have machines on finance and that needs paying. Which makes their rates cheaper than hire companies if you take into consideration insurance, delivery, diesel, and speed and knowledge of the operator.

Is that on a road junction or just a corner?

You may need a few coats but it dries fast. Apply with a medium pile radiator roller

This Indian sandstone in the photo has been down a few years that was repointed using easy joint on Sunday. Who ever laid your slabs hasn't got a clue. They never should have been jointed with a strong cement mix as they have been, which looks like it was applied wet, via a watering can and has ruined lot's of the slabs, as sandstone is porous. Two options to joint up sandstone are: Easy joint or A mix of 1 cement and 2 sharp sand is brushed into the joints as a dry mix and pushed down using a jointing iron or a length of blue water pipe depending on the size of the joints. The patio can then be sprayed with a fine mist nozzle or if rain is forecast in the near future. Let nature take it course, and that will set mix. Can't expand your photo, but have they constructed a step from cut slabs?

Big labour and skill shortage in the building and associated trades, same as there is for mechanic's. Mugs game when you can earn more money pushing a mouse around, than doing hard labour.

All steel tarmac rake, but you may need extra bracing welded from the head to the handle. Raking type one is no easy job

True cost would come in at around £1800 sqm using contractors, and the owner project manager.

Buy a 12 foot trailer or a long bed transit type pick-up, or Luton box van. I found the luton box was best, as I've owned all three. If your doing a self build (yourself) you will need one, unless your getting builders merchants and sub contractors to supply everything.

Does the father pay maintenance? Will this stop when the children are out of full time education? Will any of the children go on to university to continue their education? Will the family member take on another partner next year, 5 year's, 10 year's? It's your savings and your the only person that will know if your going to need the money later in life. Life and circumstances can change overnight. We helped all our children get on the property ladder with large handouts and kicking them out! we discuss now if it was the most sensible thing to have done with a chunk of our savings now we're getting older.

Not a bad price if that is muck away and all materials included.

Garden center's sell potting grit of different grades which is ground granite. If this is mixed in with your sharp sand / cement in equal quantities and swept into the joints and tamp down, this will definitely withstand pressure washing. If you treat the patio with Algon that will help to retain the colour. Easy grout is £27.30 landscape supplies upto £43 in B&Q.if you go down that route. Buy yourself a Nilfisk pressure washer that comes with a rotating patio brush.

Why didn't they hire in a JCB hydraulic breaker in the first place? the sound like a bunch of amateurs

Not if its back filled with compacted clay layers, it will not compromise the footings as it is only holding back the sides of the excavated trench. The depth of the dig will be stipulated by building control and your architect and results from the soil survey. The stump root ball even in clay will not go down more than two meters in depth, probably a lot less than that once the top soil around it has been scraped back and saved separately.

Couple of points. The 1.5 ton digger quoted for is not going to dig a 2.4m deep footing (if required) on the whole plot Muck away should be by grab loader and not skips, for speed and cost. I removed large stumps and back filled the holes with clay that was removed from drainage runs on the site. This was compacted down and re excavated for footings. That gave me the same ground make up through out the plot.

Welcome to the forum. There's lots of us on here that have done barn conversions of different types of constructions. Certainly a challenge of the unknown doing barns. What's your anticipated timescale ?