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I was referring to there MF in general Quite flimsy compared to BG But does the same job once boarded We never stand studs up and leave them un boarded Where as BG we often stand a couple of hundred metres of studs up before we board You get what you pay for

Our Architecht charged £1800 for 188m2 Five years ago and has just quoted £2200 for 210m2

You don’t need a wall plate for and they will sit directly on the inner leaf of the block work You don’t want any of the joist lapping into the cavity

Yep All the time Some of our jobs spec BG The ones that don’t We use tradeline Or Gtec About a third cheaper

I’m not a big fan of dry verge Though I may have to use them on the next build if we use a clay tile I love the look of slates hanging over the facia board

I left ours

No experience of Antico But the screed needs to be fully dry before ceramic tiling or they will blow I would think Vinyl would be the same

I tile on lots of both Liquid is more expensive But flatter Traditional needs a day per mil to dry out 75 days typical Liquid is good to go after a week You will needs membrane under both So damp won’t be an issue with either

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Our previous plot had a recently built garage 8x8 metres with two rooms above So the size of a bungalow We did exactly what you are intending to do My wife and myself striped the slates and recycled the rafters and floor joists Hired a digger and lifted the steels off All to be used in the new build later a friend isolated the electrics and we burnt all the scrap timber and felt The walls came down in no time We simply flattened theses out in the plot entrance to give the muck away lorries somewhere to park Your estimate for a contractor seems quite reasonable I would guess the high quotes you are receiving are more a reflection of how busy contractors are Rather than the difficulty of the task

Laurel 300 mil plants to this in two year We’ve kept cutting the height to thicken them out

We have a similar setup on one of our builds I’ll form the front in either oak or steel To stop the rafters spreading

Pasquils are one of the largest truss manufacturers

No 18 with nice big washers

I would use 18 mil bolts 600 apart Mark out where your joists are going to make sure the hangers don’t clash You can lift the hangers or even add a timber wall plate to the top

I normally bolt a timber inside the bean Then nail joist hangers to the timber

Mostly in winter Vijay The gas freezes and the batteries don’t charge well when it’s cold

Good luck Great time to start looking for a plot Whilst plots are selling quicker Prices arnt rising as quick as house prices

We looked at a plot 25 years ago for 100 k We bought a new four bed detached near by on a similar plot for 105 k It didn’t make sense at the time Now mass produced boxes on an estate are making half a million Not sure where all the buyers come from

We looked for seven years for ours 12 months looking for our second Then two plots and a field fell in to my lap

So true We bought the plot and built for 420k The finished house is valued at 750k Quite a difference

Apologies Heres some context While I own a business we used labour from our business for six man days only Extra pair of hands with the render for three days and one man to help me get the slates up onto the roof The footings and brickwork I did myself Even though I’m not a Brickie Then brought five Brickies in to build the rest I did all the joinery I’m not a joiner Most of the plumbing and electrical With the guidance of a sparks who did all the checks and terminations as did a heating engineer with the boiler and helped me with the UFH which I had no clue of to start with I’d never slater a roof before but learned With several hundred m2 of Italian tiles three German bathrooms and a expensive German kitchen We could have easily cut costs The clues in the title Self Build If you are looking at turn key The M2 price will be high While people need to be realistic with there budget I don’t think shooting there self build dream down before they start is encouraging Anyone needing context from posts on here only need to look at previous posts I’m sure I’ve put a spreadsheet on when we did our vat claim Or they can always Ask ?

We completed our first self build two years ago for £815 m2 and had hoped that our next one would be und £1000m2 But it’s difficult to put a figure on it with what seems like daily price rices labour price increases don’t look like coming down anytime soon either

That isn’t going to go anywhere Theres very little weight above it Personally I think you will really piss your builder off if you ask him to alter it