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Larch. Just about to get onto the cladding now.

We just charred the front and edges.

We Shou sugi banned our cladding also, which saved a sweet 10k. Terribly boring, but only about took us about 50 man hours from what I remember.

Very exciting. I'd initially budget at the very least £3k a metre squared and not allowing for any spendy finishes. This doesn't include fees. It might be worth getting an engineer engaged at the planning stage given a lot of the wall will be retaining.

Any advice as to how much would be realistic figure for our electrics please ? Our build is 235m2 and so far we've had a finger in the air quote of £22-25k and I presume the go away quote of £31 k

Thanks Nick. That's a great reference. Good to hear that you used 25mm deep, presumably without any issue.

@Nick Laslett @Chanmenie Hi both. What size batons did you use please ? The spec says a minimum of 30 * 50 mm , but I've already bought 25 *50 mm...

We are looking at around £3k a square metre now. Back in 2019 / 2020 my spreadsheets were at about £2k a m 2. Materials were the big thing that got us.

You can see the webs from the interior.

WE We will be using Larch and going vertically. I believe the elevation of the site is about 165m. It's quite sheltered. Not got the time to do a sketch at the moment.

Yes. But the tricky bit is that the blocks haven't always been put in the same way up and when a new block starts this throws off the pattern

We are using Izodom - 100mm EPS on the exterior, 25mm vertical batons, 25mm horizontal batons and 20mm cladding.

Yes, it's ICF. With our blocks there's no way to visibly tell from the exterior where the webs might be and I'm not sure the web spacing inside is uniform enough to be able to measure out where they might be. I'm now wondering if we could find them with a stud finder 🤔

We are struggling to get an answer as to what screws we can use to fix the batons for our cladding. We have 100mm of external insulation. Does anyone have any advice / view ? I was planning on using these. https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/products/7-5-x-180mm-timco-multi-fix-concrete-s crew-zinc-and-yellow-00180tcon

I'd not really got as far as thinking about drip trays yet. I'm still pondering about how best to do the external window seals.