Big Neil

ope, although i will take a peak at them. I think @PeterStarck mentioned them on a thread of mine. CAn't for the life of me find it right now. ahhhhh - it all started with mention of Perlight I think

Purely anecdotal this one so I'm not expecting anyone too care too much, but i went to see a Jackon Thermomur build in Gatley last Friday. Fascinating. Confirmed a lot of what i've read on here and seen on youtube and the like, but great to see up close. Even came away with a couple of off cut bits which were quite interesting as reference material. Just discovered all my photos didn't work though so waiting for the project manager to send me some. Interestingly, no bracing on the outside AT ALL, all on the inside and each leg secured with a single masonry screw into the slab. Had a good walk around and couldn't see any sign of bulging. I arrived just after the last concrete lorry had been. I suppose the one thing of note was that currently no UFH but that is going in on those tessellated sheets straight to the slab and then liquid screed over.

I've seen circa 300 watt all black panels for about £100 recently. Someone on here recommended the site, which i'll post link to when I can find it. I assume that a lot of roofers have experience laying them if not connecting them to mains etc. Would lots of roofers be able to just price their job based on them already being supplied but requiring fitment?

No problem. Maybe there is a cheaper option such as something like a go-pro style knock off - you know some sort of 50 quid option, which might suit. Obviously picture quality won't be as good, but you could potentially put several around the site and get more angles. COuld make for some interesting footage. Of course if you've the bunce for a handful of bcc100s then all the better

Totally up for that.

Quick thought. Where you put the joists sat on top of the pole plate, would you only ever do it with an extended top cord sat atop said plate, or the whole joist? In the case of the first do you make up any difference between joist and plate lower edge (for purposes of plasterboarding primarily) with counter battens? IN the case of the second where you have a whacking great difference, do you batten the walls and then take advantage ot that by using the gap as a service voidd as well?

mmmmmmmm

Guesstimate question. How much a 1MW grid tied battery installed and ready to go? based on the Tesla one in Australia a simple division puts it somewhere around £450 grand. What think we?

In space terms i suppose it would be a better bet quantity wise, but just in terms of overall reduction on central production i'd still go with the house option

I watched the Pamela Anderson scene from Barb Wire and fell asleep like a baby.

right - there's a challenge. Can I include quotes?

Is that a record for this forum???????

Ahhh - you've a curve on the icing there - that means an end piece - they're the best. building cock up or not, that has to level things out for the day. (see what i did at the end there?)

Amendment to building regs to require each new house to have a minimum of 2 solar panels in roof. Maybe not JOB DONE, but its a start at least. How many of us have been given a DVD or VHS for Christmas and ended up buying the series. Same habit would apply i reckon.

sorry for the rant by the way........I'm not really angry, just Impassioned...

I think the government focus, the thing which obviously drives regulations through various schemes and what not, is completely wrong. IT is skewed far too much in favour of bolstering industry and has nothing (in our reality not that of the political arena) to do with actually getting homes built or first time buyers into homes. It seems like these are likely the things immediately affecting the housing market as a whole, albeit not the only things of course. Take first time buying as an example. So obviously it's not impossible to save and buy a place. Some people have the good fortune financially speaking of having an inheritance or family who give them money as well. So we'll ignore them for now because they'll be fine one way or another. What you then have is those people who 'generally' are struggling to find a deposit because of rising rental prices amongst other factors. So then our leaders in Westminster instigate various schemes. First time buyer ISAs, part ownership, Help to buy etc. none of these really solve the issue. What you then have are houses built by volume builders such as Wimpy etc, which are frequently either below the normal free-market requirements of Janet and John who have their nice pile of cash, and are often more expensive anyway. But it's fine because enough pressure has been brought to bear on some banks and building societies to provide financial services to buy part of these but where the rates are sometimes nothing like as good as if you were buying a full house. So now Janet and John's poorer friends Beth and Bob are off the statistics list of people who want to buy their own house but can't afford it, and own their own house. Never-mind that they only own 25 percent of it, still have to pay rent on the rest and will have an horrific interest rate rise after 2 or three years, effectively putting them in the same position as they were before they bought. In addition to this the subsidy is also given to people who in reality could afford a house, just not where they WANT. Help to buy is available i think on houses up to about half a mill. even at the 20% loan level that means buyers using this option have 400 grand to spend. Simply ridiculous! Now consider all the government subsidised regeneration and sell offs. For example there was an area in Salford just off Langworthy Road which some years ago was rows and rows of two up two down terraces. Mostly boarded over with that metal sheeting, the odd one kept like a palace. They were all sold off to Urban Splash, renovated, and flogged off for something in excess i think of 130k. So now there's all those houses at prices un-affordable for a lot in the area, in an area which although being regenerated still isn't the nicest. So people who do buy them are more likely to find themselves in negative equity if they aren't quite careful. Now consider if instead of making Messrs Wimpy, Redrow and Persimmon make 10% of their stock (or whatever the number actually is)available to 'affordable (a joke term in it's current form) housing schemes', they were just told that they had to give 10% of their land to a local self-build scheme and provide services to the plots. Now I, the first time home buyer and excited self builder can have my first time home, build it myself so i get what i want, and am then building the equity for myself instead of paying an industry it's profit margins. Then in however long it may be I can go buy another house or build another one, with less of a mortgage burden. Likewise lets think of all these houses Salford City council sold to a developer... Sell them for a quid to a first time buyer. Then say to that first timer here you go, there's 10 grand's worth of vouchers you can ONLY go and spend at local builders merchants and DIY type suppliers registered on this list, but you can only have this money of you match it with your own be that through a loan or whatever. Now you have people who are renovating those houses for a fraction of what a developer is selling them for. Yet again, better equity growth. And there are so many things a local authority could do to help this. For example you might get the local constructions colleges involved so the things like brickwork, plastering, electrical etc etc get done at a fractional rate for the owner, to a verified quality and standard. So here you have educated people, you've given them future prospects for their careers and homes and you've given them a viable opportunity to own the roofs over their heads. Now i'm not saying i've addressed all of the areas that need addressing, but there's no way that the options i've outlined above aren't better than what we have available already. And yes yes, there's lots to consider but this post is long enough already, and i don't have the time to compile a research document with the whole A-Z of requirements. there has to be a better way. and I think we can demonstrate it ourselves.

bloody quick that. I suppose if you can use that as programmed downtime during a project, it makes sense.

oooo - righteeeo - thanks. Do you know roughly how much more for the plus block, or the cost of the inserts?

anyone gone for internal walls in ICF. It seems like ive mostly seen Block or timber stud. Downstairs that is..

so is the need for movement of moisture the reason for double battening even when a roof has sarking boards on it? Otherwise why not just horizontal battens as I see on most new roofs (although admittedly volume built)?

@Alexphd1. What sort of delivery time did you get on the joists following order. Are we talking more like 2 weeks or 10?

didn't think anyone else wou;d notice. WHat do you think - 997?

what is the cost of nudura - roughly speaking. Yet again i can#t find that thread of the cost of various ICF types.

That's super stuff that - thanks. I know it's not normal, just helps my understanding. I know i's more money, just started thinking about various options.

Sorry Russell. What i mean is if you have a passive slab COULD you not put the pipes in the slab but just lay them on top in the sawe way as you would with a beam and block floor. Irrespective this not being normal just wonder if it is an option