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I’ve been to a few Birmingham is the best I have visited and the largest We plan to visit the NEC again in a few weeks time

I’ve heard the add BG guarentee the work for twelve months Sounds much better than all the others

I’ve a good friend who is an electrician He described them as a Dutch auction He showed me reviews of so called electrical contractors that also tidy gardens and paint your house

5am Just about to set off upto the house for a days plasterboarding My hearts in my mouth each time I go up We are surrounded by trees and with gale force winds I exspect one to be on the house each time I go up As already stated It’s easy to think the worse More likelikely everything will be as you left it Like ours ⛄️

I think for how busy your going to be Russell The diy route isn’t practical

I paid £200 and a further 50 to make a few changes

Small victory it a relief

I always use LTP Middle range price and really good Put it on with a sponge

Not wanting to hijack Peter's post This just landed on the mat What a lot of hassle to get to this

There will be plenty of them At least with all the studs up you will be able to clearly see your layout and so will all the trades Its easy to get thing in the wrong place when you have walls missing

I would build all stud walls regardless of load baring I guessing the ones marked as load baring will only be clad on one side with OSB It would be much simpler to for first fix plumbing and electrical if all walls were in place

Polished concrete looks great It’s ideally used instead of screed on top of a concrete slab or block and beam floor You can poerfloat The slab But would look quite industrial

Try Pasquill They are one of the biggest truss manufacturers and pretty competitive

I’d hold off for this week Ian - 6 forecast in the evenings Even a slurry coat will lift or not harden properly

I think most of it is imported now In my case it had to be hot dipped galvanised Which nearly always has to be sent off Two lots of carriage I found a local company that sends off all of there steel So the cost was much less If you are struggling for a way to offload You could contact a steel fabricator who would supply and fit your steel for not a great deal more If you use a builders merchants They will simply contact a steel supplier and add there bit on Tge advantage of this would be that they could bring it on a grab wagon and then can offload it for you Ive used both options in the past

Steel is very cheap at the moment Try several steel suppliers Quote can vary by as much as 100 %

Yes he’s someone Ives used in the past Hes really good Also the local authority turn to him for consultant work So BC don’t question anything that he proposes

Mine charged 280 plus for the foundation drawings and a further 60 for Steels and lintels Robert Sparks (RSE). Preston

I can understand howfrustrated You Both are When someone agrees to do something they should do it I was contacted today by a good of ours He’s serious damp problems in a basement flat He can’t get anyone to do the tanking So him and I will spend the next two weekends sorting it out I was hoping to start plasterboardibg next weekend But as Deborah said The plasterboard will still be there in three weeks time The annoying thing is that everyone on here feels duty bound to pay the bills on time Can be a bit of a one way street Ive just started an apartment block for a company who hasn’t paid since October But have assured us they will have a cheque for us on the 15th of March Yiu will both feel a lot better once the house is water tight give me a call if you need anything Gary

Viz helmet Walk on ok with housing Strugle with town centre Turnstyle

I would get your floor in first Unless you have anough scaffold to cover the whole perimeter as well As you will definitely need a perimeter scaffold to put the roof on

I find it incredible that company’s will hire out a telehabdler without an operators ticket I wanted to hire a cherry picker Found that my log book was upto date But I’m due a refresher course Speedy won’t hire it till I’ve got my paperwork in order I needed a telehabdler for half a day Aproached a guy on a local site £150 for Saturday morning and a Greggs breakfast Ian it may be worth trying one of the numerous sites on the a6 near you They normally set the Brickies up first thing on a Saturday morning and have very little to do after that

I use the snickers floor laying trousers They have tough waterproof gauze on the knees to keep the pad dry

Hi Russel ive B&B Not through choice But due to the likely Heave I had to put one in Now that it is screeded you wouldn’t notice the difference between slab I know that most engineers seem to prefer B&B

Not good Ian Im on thirty days with two weeks grace I would be made up to get paid straight away