scottishjohn

so 4 bedrooms --you have got or are going to have kids ,which will become teenaagers with cars --where they going put them >you staying there along time you say Me I would build it deeper less wide and give enough space to drive to the back to a garage, that is a real one that you can actually get a car+junk in /man cave ,at the back of garden? which could also be convertible to a granny flat / student at some point , your garage now will be like most, just a junk room cos its too small to get a car in and open the doors to get in and out of it easywith shopping bags ,etc --guessing by the proportions of the door . Is this going to be self build?if so an even better reason to build garage at back FIRST with a bog etc .as site office and lockable tool shed minimum2 1/2p off street parking spaces required- by our local planning you look short on that

can we have a front view you seem to be cramming a very large house on that plot -- no garage or space to come round side of house how many bedrooms are they other houses in drawing real and factual ? Main roof shape looks odd to me and why have sloped roof at rear right up to upper windows,maybe making the rear roof flat and making it a walk on sun area from large upstairs window ,glass barrier balcony etc would add some style ? and in that location will such a size house be over developing the plot -which means it will not get best resale price ,cos of its location how much is the plot --how much budget for build --what is average house price on that street less than that should be your target price to build it

to me looks like you have added extensions to an exsisiting box shaped house --not part of an actual design

thats cos they have permo frost -or big swing in summer/winter temps --so sips gives the insulation to the floor easy Isaw that video a while ago

silly question --has no body used the concrete lego blocks to build a house .LOL works out at£130 sqm --600mm thick wall -then whatever you like for insulation on inside and clad or render outside just stack them with a bit of foam in each layer -- build it in a day ready for roof suprised no one has made a 200mm thick version would 1/3 of the price with specific rebar lintel blocks as a build system - all you would need is a loader started me thinking when looking at lego blocks or gabions for retaining walls --gabions far more expensive

that was common 40 years ago and you had a layer of chips on it to act as something to stop the water evaporating quickly to stop felt overheating -usually -meant to hold up to an inch of water before it drained off my petrol station is like that --and after 20 years it had grown a self seeded roof garden -just had to weed the big things out now and then and now its nearly all sedum --never leaked

all the reasons given here is why i would not use a rubber roof . GRP does not puncture . just cannot see the attraction of a roof that can puncture local hotel had one and the crows would swoop down and pinch left over food from the tables outside --then fly up to roof and then eat it involving lots of pecking . -you guessed it -- they pecked holes in the roof it was replaced with a grp one --problem solved

LOL-- --sounds like a plan

but maybe a home +2or 3 rental apartments !!! with a view to die for nothing fixed in stone --excuse the pun --yet or maybe a home + cafe +antiques shop sitting out on the courtyard admiring the view house and huge man sheds many options

I wll --but the downside is if ido not use all the foot print --then iloose it --can,t come back later to planning to get it back -well not easily -as it is it should not need full planning as its a rebuild of an exsisting house

think you got idea about this job -- I need to get money back ,where ever I can to to build it hence when its all finalised i will putting parts of the site,which all have very good potenial up for sale probably after I have got outline planning for them - notgoing to be a quick job-so have plenty of time to do things cheapest and best way to get the desired result

you mean make concrete ones -- YUK and then it will cost me more

a few legal s to finalize --hard work dealing with a multi national ---but yes its basically done

I may look at that option . can,t see any stone merchants anywhere close --but worth a few phone calls . tha advantage of doing what i am proposing is I keep the original look to the house and get money back as well

no idea ,i,m not a stone mason ,and i wll have neough to do --will looking to move them on as they come off the cropper and just to make it more interesting there is at least another house and lots of other ruins that will give up cut stone . the project is so big i get the feeling that i may be buried there before i get finished .LOL Iwill post up complete project area, 70 acres, in the future which includes at least 3 other lifestyle or biz oppertunites ,which i wil need to move on to fund this build views from all are to die as they are all elevated, across the estuary - from this house i can see across isle of man and to Ireland no problem.

you get the right machine its a few seconds a block to do - so no and again it would be a smooth finish,sure if some one wants that then they could get them trimmed with the wire cutting machine

worth posting the size of them to russell --should easy enough for a man of his capabilites and determination to use them

too expensive and a rough finish would look better for most applications ,as thats how they were done originally. we have one locally. but you are talking about £100 per cut on a 1m x1m block --and lots of little ones would be more labour intensive he is quoting £40 per sqm to split them --but with such an amount --ithink i can sell whats left and get money back his guess -- for cut blocks s/h was £40-£50 sqm -so mulitply that by 900 and its alot . could be good or bad(maybe no market for them ) --but i cannot find anybody selling reclaimed regular sized -4 cut edged blocks granite blocks --only the random stuff still trying to work oput best way to tackle the job --,but everyone i speak to says drop it and start again . good facing bricks will be around £64-£70 a sqm and you can have a real granite outer wall for same or less! The granite was used for liverpool docks and part of the thames embankment and london bridge ,so I am assured i think they will sell very quick --but who knows--maybe that price is too cheap --always open to a deal -- hers a picture of the house in the 1940,s -- hidden by trees now and no roof --just walls Kirmabreck House old.pdf

self powered is what i was thinkiing --

cos all being well -I will need to split cut granite blocks to re use them as an outer wall on new house --but no rush --just looking for things see no point in using 9"+ thick ones for cladding --but 4" will be fine and managable wright for me to work with and other halfs i can sell-- about 900sqm in the old building so for someone wanting to extend exsisting granite house or wants make a real statement ther must be a market for them

must be one that can split granite --

I hope not cos my project will be even bigger .Lol## but think you maybe a bit optimistic

4?5months in AUS while its winter here would be fine

10-1 on its at an edge in the flashing area

I take it that will be why there are no sandstone cliffs next to the sea?