Wrekin1

Ferdinand, thanks and yes I take your point about their reputation.

Everyone, thanks for the welcome and suggested links for the conversions. Re. Wickes or other store calculator - everyone is happy recommending them? It's just a question (I have a lot to learn) but am always wary when businesses are in the business of selling Re. O&G, in my case it's Oil & Gas - apologies for the confusion Re. the long posts going AWOL - thanks for all the advice and I'll try to remember to do the Word/Clipboard trick if I think it's going to be a long post

HI, I was checking this out on the internet as I'm desperately looking for some reliable conversion tables (it's one of the things that led me eventually to this forum) to help cost my build and struggling with the conversion of purchases by weight or quantity to the amounts needed per m3 but there are 4 SPONS books, do you mean this one? http://www.rics.org/uk/shop/Spons-Architects-and-Builders-Price-Book-2016-20211.aspx Thanks

Hi everyone, I'll keep this brief as I just spent an hour with an introduction and lost everything I was wrote. The joys of the internet! My brother and I have a small self build development (3 * 4 bed houses - approx 165m2 each) and as the O&G jobs market (where I have spent most of my career) is pants I'm taking a year out to project manage the development. We have OPP and an architect selected to move to the Detailed Planning Application I am totally new to this and on a steep learning curve! Very steep. No doubt I'm going to make a ton of mistakes but that's why I'm happy to have found this forum. I'll apologize in advance for my 'stupid' questions but I'll be more than happy to receive any help and advice as I go along, and for anyone interested to share my own experiences. We have decided on timber frame and I'll be breaking the major construction phases into lots to send out to bid to prospective contractors. I'm currently using the time while I wait for the detailed drawings to build up detailed cost spreadsheets (no doubt because of my background more detailed than I probably need). I'm using the latest Housebuilder's Bible model house and will update for the actual measurements for the final drawings. Hopefully, if I've got it right, these will feed through all my quantities automatically.... well that's the plan anyway I'm sure this isn't the right place to ask but one thing I am struggling to find is a definitive set of conversion tables to convert items that have to be bought in bulk/volume into m2/m3 (with appropriate wastage %'s) so would appreciate if someone can point me in the direction of the right forum on here. Looking forward to sharing lessons and experiences with everyone Wrekin1 / David