Moggaman

Yes I hear them too but it’s not them . Definitely… 3 1/2 years now … remarkable

Maybe it was a bad detail.? The beams are 203x102x23 UB. Span from wall to wall -12m with - few intermediate supports. The end of the beams bear on the inner leaf of the block wall. These were mortared in before the roof went on. There are 2 beams and they are continuous ie no splicing half way. I’ll post some photos for context. Also for context 9 roof windows, 4 at front and 5 at back and all rafters are 175x44 C16 Timber - doubled up at each roof light .

Thanks for that. When I say bangs…. The sound is more flatter like the sound of hitting a wooden mallet off tree trunk …it’s not someone hitting a wooden malett of the tree trunk outside just in case people suggest that…. Last night for instance it happened maybe 15 times during the night

Hi all, I am 3 years in my new house. Double leaf block on edge with 150mm cavity. Wall plate and timber A roof. simple design. Outside it looks like a bungalow but inside there is 3 bedrooms upstairs and bathroom etc . So there is 9 roof lights in the roof ..5 at the back and 4 at the front . The roof rafters are 200mm depth , there is a lot of double rafters due to the the roof lights .. so I guess there is a lot of timber in the roof. The rafters are also supported by steel purlins/I beams 12m long which span from gable to gable. So here is my query. For the last 3 years , mostly in summer conditions , there appears to be a loud bang from the roof. Loud enough to wake us . It is way less obvious in winter but does happen. I insulated between the rafters myself and left no prisoners ie the insulation was tight. I know it is not any water pipes or anything like that. my theory is that the timber is expanding and contracting in hot weather and the bang is coming from that..,. But it is very strange…any ideas…moved in July 22… roof built since December 21 Do timber frame houses have this issue

Thanks. When you talk of earthing … I will be getting solar contractors to do the work whenever I can afford it so I presume all the earthing that you talk of will be taken care of by them. my mains is on a different duct altogether .

Thanks for reply. Currently on cable goes into the duct to do my internet and as far as I’m aware I have fibre. It’s a black cable. There is some left over so if I check the cable and it’s says STP, it’s shielded and I’m good to put the Cat 5 and. SWA cable into the same duct ?. To be clear, I rang a solar company and asked them what cables would I need to have in the ground ahead of any solar install… they came back and said with the reply attached . I don’t want to bother with the ducting if there will be interference beteeen cables

Hi. My internet cable(fibre) comes from the road to a manhole at my back door, it then continues from the manholes into my mains box through a 50mm duct. now I am think about solar and I need to connect the solar on the roof to the mains with a CAT5 cable and a 6 sq SWA cable. I cannot get those cables to the mains box through the house and I don’t want them to drill into the house because of Airtightness, so I was going to run the CAT 5 and SWA out the gable of the house from the attic and down into a duct , which will bring them to the aforementioned manhole at the back door. Was then going to send the SWA and Cat5 up the same duct as the existing fiber to the mains box. The run from the manhole to the mains is about 10feet. Is there any risk that one cable interferes with the workings of the other cable? Thanks in advance

Black slates on timber latts

If the thumping is the roof, will that eventually stop?..in general ?

Thank you for that advice. I realise I shouldn’t be examining it so much. I do have one hollow section upstairs on a non load bearing wall. Hollow section is about 300mm x 300mm. What drives me bananas is moderate to loud bangs/ thumps I hear most nights from what I perceive to be the wall upstairs. Makes me think something is giving !

I am getting very paranoid worried about this as I have a lot of this around the house. The cracks in the photo are new. I’m in the house 10 months. Other cracks upstairs are there 6 months and extending ? Both cracks shown below are same size… no cracks are wider than 1mm. Appreciate ur input…

Block.. this one is on edge with precast slab on it . The chase for wires is roughly speaking running up there also

Hi. The picture attached shows the type of cracks around my new build 10 months after moving in. this one is on a finished mortar wall.. There are a decent amount of them blue dots show the pattern thanks

Just looked at lunch . Have multiple hairline cracks in mortar plaster starting to come vertically down from the ceiling along the walls also. They may have been there for a while, don’t know

Blocks were ground floor approx June 21, precast July 21, blocks upstairs July august 21… outside plaster Jan feb 22 , inside plaster den /March 22….

Hi all. I have some questions about plaster cracking in my new home. I attached a doc outlining the issue. I have added photos which I hope help. Some photos may not portray it accurately so for clarify , all cracks are hairline or minutely wider than hairline . Bit of a long post but I really appreciate the feedback as I did during the build.thanks Cracking.pdf

Sorry for all the photos. Might not express myself properly when describing so a picture paints etc… thanks

Never had UFH before so I presumed u would feel some warmth from it… is it a sign that it doesn’t get heated that often? thansk

House is 1.5 storey .. 9 roof lights upstairs…rooms in roof… Total outside area …. That’s ground floor slab …95m2… back wall - approx 12 x 4.5 - 54m2 … front wall— 12x 3.7 — 45m2.. gables — 30m2…ceiling —- 50m2… so approx 285m2… I think that’s what you asked?..

Thanks all. I’m a little puzzled by how the system operates still . My plumber is a bluffer if you ask me. so, I’m using 40kwh a day average, my stats are set to 20 downstairs, it reaches the temp and clicks off… yet my main kitchen living room polished Concrete floor is never warm!…so the temp in the stat stays at 20… I’m assuming the compressor kicks in every now and then to keep it at 20, yet the floor remains cold… the plumbers advice, turn up the thermostat…. I said to him there is nothing wrong with the air temp in the kitchen living but the floor is always cold / not warm… in my head I’m think that’s because the house in keeping the heat so well, the stat doesn’t call for heat so often , therefore it doesn’t get the chance to warm up…if that was the case tho… I wouldn’t be using 40kwh a day!!!!

Remarkable difference

Hi. No stove. Didn’t do Airtightness test yet, but very confident it’s excellent . surface area is 190m2. In mid west Ireland .