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  1. I’ve used Grohe throughout Taps showers Really impressed with the price and quality Not so impressed with the £1000 we spent Ona quooker hot water tap Poor backup and guarantee
  2. Plasterboard it then attach galvenised mesh Then two coat render Or mesh directly onto the stud Two scratch coats One top coat Three seperate days
  3. There’s very little you can do if it is there land The roots shouldn’t bother your drains in the near future
  4. It is 900 is the industry standard
  5. Any estimate is exactly that A rough guide You can pay more and go to a QS Or do it yourself All will give you a rough idea But any estimate will rely on you knowing exactly what you need 150 quid isn’t a fortune if it saves you costing the material yourself
  6. 12.5 on 400 Centres is fine
  7. Couldn’t see the original post so assumed you where asking about ceiling's If you are asking about walls No need for nogs on 600 or 400 centres Foilback boards are generally used for a ceiling with a roof void above Or a rafter slope
  8. Yes 12.5 skimmed is fine 400 centres unsupported 600 centres have to be nogged 15 mil PB doesn’t need supporting with either centre ?
  9. I laid a traditional 75 screed in our 158m2 20 ton I could hardly get out of bed The following morning Still thought I was 25 Originally I was going to let someone else do it and go with the flow screed Great for tilling You can tile on it the following week Like you mine would be stood so not a lot of gain At least a third more expensive than getting someone in To do a traditional screed We have had a couple of problems with flow screed when tiling UFH pipes on the surface or clips showing I also worked on one job recently and they had had difficulties with the flow burying through the insulation and finished with a 9 mtr ridge down the centre of the room I think the flow can be a bit hit and miss
  10. I’ve had van insurance that covered hand tools Quite expensive We stopped including tools as more conditions where added The two main ones where Must not be parked more than a 100 mtrs from where you are working Must in sight of where you are working We have a van vault in each van now Site insurance starts to get expensive when you start including tools and plant
  11. The number I used was based on anything other than measuring the ones used on sites and assuming that mass built houses will use the minimum allowed Thing is they are cheap to buy Quick to instal I think I spent about five minutes on each More importantly they can’t be put in retrospectively if you find the airflow isn’t good enough once your house is built
  12. Normally every 1800 BC will be fine if you have them set out to look ok to the eye say 3 bricks out from the corners one either side of patio doors etc I used 34 on a 158 m2 slab You will also need lintels and slots in your barer walls under your block and beam
  13. Periscope vents go directly below dpc
  14. I sited my Gledhill cylinder on the ground floor For the same reason as you
  15. Can you not start above dpc with yours ties
  16. You’ve not done to badly if you have only had trouble with the paint finish I was called to one of our sites as the electricians feared we had pierced there wires It turned out the had been spotted no putting a metal plate between the wire and gypliner where it crossed the two steels The electrician is in his 30s Either he didn’t know or couldn’t be bothered
  17. You normally coordinate together Even if it means just getting the pipe work in or ductings and connecting at a later date
  18. Normally they will offer you a list of contractors You even find that your groundwork company has a water gas license that would allow them to apply to close the road while they dug and filled a trench As above it can be quite expensive once you start closing roads I would try your groundwork contractor first If he hasn’t the license he’s sure to know someone who has My experience dealing directly with utility companies is that the speak to you as if you already know all of this
  19. Yes Some counsels will keep you hanging for your start date Sorry ALL Counsels
  20. Though it did work for a company many years ago that knocked the tops of the walls off when they where paying for plasterboard and skim ceilings Makes sense if you have a hundred houses It used to cause some arguments though
  21. Gross floor area is correct
  22. Just chatting with my brother He used ICF in W Germany some 40 years ago Though he did point out that while in the U.K. we had hod carriers They had Tele handlers Not a god carrier in site
  23. We used Adrien Flux Broker We had it in place two weeks before moving in Everything covered except luxury items Tv Jewellery When we moved in they didn’t care about sig off as long as the interior was at least 75% finished
  24. We have clay and trees of all kinds surrounding us We used deep strip as SE doesn’t like mini piles Though 20 metres sounds deep
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