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@Nick Laslett We haven’t watched it, but that will be a viewing tonight. Thank you. Ellie and I are in no rush on our build so will definitely be keeping wall size down to a minimum before a pour. Also after our training day we found out a 5mm wood screw can help you out massively in between webbings. I think people underestimate the weight concrete has, after shifting 3.5m3 of concrete by hand for our drive it’s opened our eyes and we have since made the decision to get professionals in to pour the slab!😅 @JohnMo that sounds promising for us if you just followed the manual👍🏻

Hello mjc55, Fantastic, what stage are you at? We have attended our training day and put our order in. Hoping to start raising walls up by mid September.

Morning Gus, Not quite sure how we’ve managed to get your knickers in a twist. We are certainly not taking advantage of the BuildHub Ethos. We haven’t asked for followers, likes, subscriptions, go fund me pages or anything of the sort. To make money from YouTube you need to be posting a video almost every week and those videos need to be of good quality editorially wise. If you were to view our page and videos it would be clear to see that our efforts are put more towards the build than the filming in the effort to make money from YouTube (U tube). I really wasn’t telling fibs about my monotonous drone. I mentioned that we are filming our build as it’s so much easier to see a process happening rather than reading about it, our experiences may help the self builder, as we’ve watched many videos that have helped us. We have also found our build method/type is still quite new and uncommon in the UK, so someone thinking of pursuing a build of this type can watch a video on a case study of it all. It’s also documenting it for ourselves to look back on in 50yrs time when we’ve probably started forgetting the reason why we went upstairs for. Not quite sure about ‘getting into bother and back ending it’ but I’m sure you mean well by it. We have a Structural Engineer on board, Build Inspector, Architect and professional trades where we know our own limitations. But thank you for providing us with your day rate in the hope to attract business from anyone on here who is paying more for their Structral engineer. I’m sure the admins of BuildHub would have removed my comment if they thought it was not in the ethos of the site. As I said in my introductory comment, I am here to pick the brains of those in the know and hopefully provide insight if I can… nothing more, nothing less.

Hello all, We are a couple in our thirties who enjoy long walks on the beach and looking for someone to share it with...ooops wrong forum! We are in our thirties and we were lucky enough to purchase a dilapidated 1950's bungalow which sits on a decent plot. We had no idea what we were going to do with the bungalow but it soon became apparent that trying to 'renovate' it was going to be a waste of money as the 1950's construction methods had not survived the passing of time. The bungalow shall be replaced with a modest two storey dwelling with an upside down layout. Planning permission came with its challenges some of these included, a neighbour who on the night our appliacation was live on the planning portal spent the evening canvassing around the village trying to gain objection members, our parish council at first was wary of our intentions, we also had a planning officer who at first glance dismissed our proposal and then more challenges and bumps we faced were caused by our neighbour. So far we have succeeded in them all. (But we do stay on the right side of the rules, too chicken to risk it). Building with Ecobrix formally known as durisol, we are using an Isoquick raft foundation. So far, Ellie and I have knocked the bungalow down ourselves, recycling most of the hardcore for future use by having it crushed, dug the foundations and laid the sub-base ready for the Isoquick to be laid on the 28/7. Living in a static caravan on site and at the moment 18months in... loving it! We have been filming our progress and loading it to Youtube, if you are struggling to fall asleep at night I couldn't recommend listening to my monotonous drone enough! Our channel is called Turning Rosemount Upside Down. Looking forward to picking peoples brains and would love to be able to offer support from our experience also. Chris and Ellie