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It does Bathrooms are a real no no A lot of the problems Particularly in the 80s was that it was put in without properly understanding what they where trying to achieve Ive striped PB back after what appeared to be a leaking roof Only to find the wool inside was soaked due to condensation Our Architecht has put it on the drawing for ours

September isn’t that far off Screeding like plastering is more difficult than it looks and expensive to put right Not a job for the inexperienced

We bought a warm-up kit on our last one

Bit of hand digging this afternoon 28c was not ideal BC asks me if I’ve installed the flood valve every time he visits Quite strange The things BC get hung up on The valve is 75 meter's from the house and a 1300 lower than the house

Perfect 🤩

Yes Its Hitachi re branded Excellent value Half the price of pasloda Same nails and gas

He self employed not a jobber If it was your home you would be happy to pay him again ? and if you didn’t you understand when he came back and destoyed your property I don’t know if you have ever run a business Certainly not a building business You can not pay for bad work You give the guys a chance to put it right Or pay someone else to put it and give them what is left over If anything In this case it wasn’t possible The house builders agent wanted them off If your doing a build you will have to toughen up

He’s more than eighty Brickies working for him Between three of them they should be able to follow a simple set out drawing He checks the work and count once per week He doesn’t even have the addresses for most of his Brickies The house builder doesn’t want the police involved My friend can’t let it go or it will become a regular thing The three Brickies are young They will learn from this

No Him and his two mates did a weeks work and put doors and windows in the wrong places and put ripped dpc in the perimeter tray He didn’t pay them because he would have to put a gang on it for a week When he came back to do the damage I don’t think he had thought it through

I think he’s going to get what’s coming to him on Monday

My mate started a new Brickie Whist his work was ok His setting out was terrible He sacked him without paying him Saturday morning he came back to site and damaged all of his work including a 6000 brick curved wall that he didn’t build

Yes I would

I’ve been installing and REMOVING vapor barriers for the last 40 years I wouldn’t instal polythene on my own build But I do install both breathable and poletdhene on a weekly basis I would prefer to use a foil backed board or no vapor barrier Polethene does sweat and I’ve stripped out 100 m2 over the years Mostly with poor or no airflow Opinion amongst designers seems to be split 50 50

No builder in there right mind would agree to time penalties With a massive shortage of labour still Companies are struggling to keep hold of there best trades Especially bricklayers Redrow and co are all paying the brick Barons on a weekly basis A friend has over 80 bricklayers working for him with a weekly wage bill of up to 150k He doesn’t supply PPE tools materials He doesn’t even own a van It really is desperate out there Your builder will rely on subcontractors and May through no fault of his find that he can’t get a trade when needed At least lead times on materials have come down

As above I’ve just lifted this one in this morning Hit and miss welded plate to a box section that my mate had over in his yard

You can line one side prior to elec-plumb fist fix and simply hold a patress against The board and drive a few screws in The side that isn’t boarded turn the c studs facing each other and slip the patres in and drive four screws through Or set a piece of roof baton 18 mil in on the flat side of the stud

I didn’t get that far There ridiculous quote put me off 59k Its not costing me that to build the house 😂

Mapei is probably the most popular and best

Formers are used on most sites now From enquiries I’ve made It tends to be the budget windows that do the formers If your window company do these You can push on

Ask them politely Is there any chance you can clear YOUR mess up each day before you leave If you don’t say anything They will assume it’s not bothering you and clear up at the end of the job

When you put your boards back on Don’t forget to stager either side ie Start with a full board on one side Then start with a half board on the other side A layer of gyproc plank laid on horizontally will dramatically reduce noise

I’ve a meeting on Monday to discuss rising costs on a site that we are doing the plastering Framing and Render Two years work We have the usual 5% material and 3% labour increases built into the contract Whilst the Labour is no longer a problem Materials and transport are The contracts where signed before the pandemic Started The site is on week 99 and with only 8 homes out of 205 complete 20 staff in the onsite offices the builder must be hemorrhaging money The point of the post is Ive agreed a price and they can either hold me to it and force me in to administration Or cover the extra costs The same choice will face many on here that get a fixed price Has a fixed price build become a thing of the past All new quotes have agreed to cover material price rises But also when materials drop as some already have They benefit from the reduction

3m respirator

I haven’t But use The Ardex tile products all the time Very reliable brand

Natural is probably better if budget isn’t a consideration