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That’s my point I’ve been categorically told no delivery No pick While there are people there We are Closed But it seems like the big builders are able to collect I spend about 150 k with this company Which is peanuts compared to what the builder spends

Yep it’s how things stand at the moment The plumbers and Electricians I assumed would be on the government 80 % Which in turn would have brought us to a halt later next week But it sounds like they have all put themselves on self isolating for two weeks £92 Many of the lads that are onsite that are self employed are only that in name and get an hourly rate of £22.50 Time and a half on Saturday These guys can’t wait til June for some money

We had a visit from the commercial director of a company that we do a lot of work for He was asking for a progress report on two sites I told him some materials are becoming a problem as our insulation and metal supplier had closed down He said make a list and I will send a lorry down there He also told me that the plumbers and Electricians (All Cards In ) Have been told to come back to work on Monday As there two weeks isolation is now up When the next lockdown is introduced at the end of next week the government needs to be firm and close down nearly all building sites He also mentioned another big job (Carrot) A new cinema I’m amazed they are carrying on with that one Many of these sites have standard penalty clauses These haven’t been relaxed

If your boards span edge to edge you don’t need to stagger for the sake of it But if they don’t Then stagger You will be surprised how solid the walls feel once they have tiles on

When I’m adding strength to MF Bathrooms or otherwise I just have a pack of 12.5 delivered to site direct from the saw mil Usually works out around £8 a sheet If the water was to get as far as the ply You are stuffed even if it is marine ply Once over most our jobs involved MP Wouldn’t like to think what price it is now

We came in at £830m2 On wry good spec 283m2 two story traditional build As already pointed out you will need to do a lot yourself to keep under a £1000 m2

We are still working on site each day Deliveries seem to be back on with many We had insulation delivered Monday With more MF booked for Wednesday Sheffield insulation and TP are delivering While the branches are closed though Trades just need to be sensible Four of us are first fixing nine properties and working in one each and a tea break separately Its just a case of being sensible ie Book your roofers and maybe a plumber and wait till they are out of the way before bringing in another trade we normally have an electrician in with us while we are framing But they are working differently

Better to be watertight With talks of the lockdown being extended till June It May be worth contacting your builders Quite a few sites locally are locking the gates behind them and carrying on as normal

It doesn’t make any difference for tiles Though most commercial jobs that I price are including Ditra matting in the spec

One of the Eletricians would know but I know all the commercial buildings have the cabling run in baskets

Excellent point If you are working The right thing to do would be not to claim I’d said in a previous post that I’d waved a months rent for four of our long term tenants Two have informed me that they are getting paid off there employers and will be fine The other two have offered to make the month up in June Lots if good people out there

It does look like you are getting penalised for starting your own business Our sons partner started up on her own two and a half years ago Jubilant when she found out self employed are going to be helped I don’t think she has realised that she won’t be within the criteria

I get paid a directors salary so it doesn’t really effect me But there will be many that will carry on going to site and wave the future payout Simply because they can’t manage that long We have four out of five sites still open and are under pressure to keep up with the work

It was local planners I thought we where going to have to dig some test holes also I pointed out that we couldn’t dig these by hand They said bring heavy equipment on to do this Then take it off We cut more than thirty large trees down also Prior to commencement BC don’t care about any of this

Could I just add We had a one and a half story building to demolish We asked if we could strip the slates off prior to demolition He just said you can nick the whole building down as long as you do it by hand

Yes it’s a real pain looking at the jobs you could be doing

I think you pretty much stuck with clearing trees and fencing off Outs was pretty clear Don’t break ground n No heavy equipment on site

It’s a tricky one Many are self employed in name only So won’t have much backup Though if this drags on for months paying the employed may have to be revised

I feel very sorry for the self employed While they will get something They won’t get anything until June at the earliest If the lockdown is extended it could be a long time without any income

We went to the largest warrantee companies prior to starting our build They asked for a main contractor Even his qualifications and references I told them the clue is in the title There will be no main contractor They didn’t seem to get it So I went elsewhere

I would perhaps try another lender As a self builder you should be able to cost the project for them With many self builders wanting to do some or most of the work themselves what they are asking for wouldn’t be possible for most self builders

I wish Regulations onsite mean we have to encase the gas pipe Usually in the longe or kitchen These are never channeled in and are 22 mil I think 30 mil dabs Often on a wall that run the full length of the property

While you have only a bit of pipe coming out of the floor you still need about a 18 mil void behind the board Much neater than in the past I can remember the days when copper pipe for run down the finished walls and a cover clipped over on all new builds The ones that had central heating

You are as well checking But I was in a similar position when I started I wanted to take the slates off a building to be demolished and cut 30 trees down I was told ok But no heavy machinery He then added Obviously if you need to bore for ground tests that will be ok But you must remove the machinery as soon as the holes have been bored