nod
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Welcome we are also from Lancs
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Controlling Air blower for waste water treatment system
nod replied to mfmcdonagh's topic in Waste & Sewerage
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She if Office manager Slater joiner Renderer The list goes on
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No my wife did them all and pinched a couple o rolls of render tape from me and sealed everything
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No problem at all Overload of pics But shows the process
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Here’s some I took for BC
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You would normally lay a membrane over the whole floor taping any joints and Attaching the edges to the high load dpc hanging from the block work Then the insulation is laid with another membrane (slip) on the top Pipes clipped through that Some clip the pipes directly to the insulation
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No difference Ian We have done both We've just one 20000 sq foot home in the lake district He had them ever were Including square ones on the walls When we built the cielings and walls We just needed a full wiring layout so as to put a pattress in for every one
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Yep lots They look really cool The Electrian normally attaches a string to the wires Then tapes it to the internal No chance of getting your hand in afterwards The ones I’ve plastered had a magnetic bulb holder
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Our boiler was flagged as needing replacing on the sale of our house 18 year old Gas engineer that serviced it each year said But there’s nothing wrong with it
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Agreed with above I wouldn’t put them on if I was thinking of selling Surveyors hate them Unknown
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Ply lining walls in attached garage
nod replied to j_s's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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One one there They over estimated ours also Its Rey difficult to guess Which in effect is what they are doing
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I would have been happy with a Howdens kitchen But my wife had other ideas While the German kitchen and bathrooms look good three times as good I’m not convinced Deciding finishes and fittings up front would have made things much easier Had we brought contractors or a company in They would have walked off the job Several times
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We have just finished our build of 284 m2 We came in at 830m2 complete We allowed for a 1000 m2 If we had been looking like exceeding the 1000 We could have lowered the spec and still finished with a nice house
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Heave is the same on piles or masonry You still fight the same forces
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Yes Nogs will be fine
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I joists are plenty strong enough to support a tray As long as you don’t cut or birch the top or bottom rails if you need to go through them it worth fixing 18 mi ply on the face of the osb that you have cut
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No planners wanted piles it SE said he would specify deep strip footings I bought 1200 x 600 sheets and cut them down the centre Filled the 1800 deep fittings with a mtre of concrete and sat the clay board around the edge and filled the rest
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I put clay boarding in to help with heave caused by the nearby trees
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Great post I was watching building the dream yesterday and there TF supplier went bust without warning
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Groundwork company’s that will do a fixed price will load there prices As costs can easily rocket From the slab up can be priced fairly accurately
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I thought that Very flare plot doest always equal cheap excavation Spons is just a ball park figure at best The problem with Spons is most builders haven’t heard of it Yet alone used it to base there quotes on Ive been in the building trade forty years and running my own company for 35 and had never heard of Spons till coming on the forum
