Declan52

You playing jenga on your window cill with the way all that stuff is stacked.

I used them on mine and they are great. Mine came with a blue wax on them as well.

It's all about planning. you need to be at least 2-3 steps ahead each stage of the build. So basically you have what ever materials ordered up with a delivery date a day or two before they needed incase they are late plus what trade doing the job booked in. Phone a week before they are arrive to double check all is still ok and then maybe a day or two again. Have somewhere to unload the deliveries and somewhere to store them. And double check the delivery docket before you sign it. Get yourself a big calendar wall chart and pin it somewhere that you will see it everyday, not the bedroom ceiling!! Fill this in with the dates of deliveries and when you expect to be moving onto the next stage of each build. Write it all in as you will get caught out somewhere along the line and be paying for some trade to stand there while you go and collect whatever you have forgot. Above all don't get too stressed out over things when they go wrong.

After working all day in the cold there is nothing better than standing under a red hot shower for ages. If I wanted a timed shower i will go to the local swimming pool.

Dry lining is just a quick and maybe cheaper way of getting a wall finished. Most builders don't parge or scratch coat so Save here. Plus the boards gets generally stuck with a few dabs of bonding so as cheap as you get. Then a decent labourer/ painter can tape fill and sand the joins so Save on skiming materials and the labour bill of a Plasterer. If it's my own house then it would always get skimmed. Lasts longer and looks far far better.

Have you priced up the difference in a scratch coat and then skim against a parge coat, plasterboard and foam/adhesive and then skim. Plasterboard has to be pretty flat as you can only take out 1-2mm with bonding and finish.

Stood back took a look, smiled then moved straight onto the next job.

I was meant to get the air flow unit but bpc couldn't supply me with it so I got the vent axia at the same price. No complaints from me!!!

Pricing a the actual house is kind of the easy bit as you can use the general figures of between £1000-£1500 sqm and you won't be too far away. It's the unknowns that catch you out. What's the ground like as in will be be standard concrete foundations either strip or a slab or do you need it piled. Same goes with the connection charges of all the services as although a house is already there you might get stung if something needs upgraded. First step is getting a rough design done. Draw it out yourself on paper and make tweaks and then use the like of sketch up to make it 3d. Then when you go to an architect or technican or even a timber frame company you will have it refined to what way you want it. Then it's a case of deciding on the build method and by this stage then it's easier to get a better view of the costs involved.

Set three barrels upright like a triangle and put some water in them so they don't move about.

Tasty enough. Blocks are so much better to build. Get them motar boards up higher so you don't need to bend, will make a big difference to the pains in the back.

Taped as it goes through the membrane and same with the ceiling.

Took into the bath and run soapy water through it then let it sit to dry out then stuck the wife's hair dryer on it too give it a good dry.

Same unit as mine. Watch the screws on the front as they are poison to line up. Took mine apart yesterday to clean the heat exchanger and filters. Wasnt that bad considering I live in the countryside. If you hold in the * it goes into purge mode and goes at 100% and even then it's quiet.

Or set the bottom up on a few blocks and make another step out of a few more.

Mine just has the one cable running from the roof straight through to where the meter box is in my utility room. My iboost uses WiFi to connect to the main unit at the immersion do have no cable for it. Mine has the fused spur as it comes through the ceiling is easy got to if I need to.

Kingspan would be the rolls Royce over here but as its the most expensive it's not wide spread although as I got a great deal I used it on mine. Xtratherm would be considerably cheaper so is more wide spread here. They are based in the rep of Ireland but have offices in eng. I bought all my floor and roof insulation from them direct as it was a large order so maybe if you are ordering enough to fill an artic lorry they might be able to ship it from Eire if they can't source it from their English plant.

Just use pir cavity wall insulation as its all tongue and groove and comes in a variety of different widths. All the cavity wall insulation we use in NI is all t&g. Don't think we ever done a house using rockwool batts.

Could you use something like a brick expansion joint buried in the concrete where your internal walls are. Have it set in position and haunched up with some motar/concrete so when you come to cut it out it's only a 10-15mm slice. https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/Fillcrete-Brickfill-Expansion-Joint-Roll-10mm-x-100mm-x-10m/p/837980

Why not just build the garage and then it's done. A few weeks would build and roof a garage. Don't have to plaster it just put the doors and windows in and then it's good to go.

One of these and a hammer is the cheapest route and less likely to damage the window. http://www.screwfix.com/p/roughneck-plugging-chisel-1-x-10/83722

By my reckoning it won't matter that it's getting polished or not. Just follow normal procedure and have the screeders put expansion joints at all the door ways when they are laying the floor. Same goes with the edge insulation have all the walls done so that the floor can move. If you are building stud walls on top I would put an expansion joint under each of these as well so in effect you are dividing the floor up into the rooms that form your house layout.

I used xtratherm for my floor and the roof. As you said it was the same stuff.

Could you get a hold of some bentonite. Comes in pellet or powder form and is what we used around boreholes to seal up the gap around the pipe. Once it's absorbed the water and set it will be sealed for good.

I don't like the phrase saying we are being different/strange or eccentric just because we want to live in a house that is well insulated has little or no draughts has clean air has no mould and above all else due to theses factors costs little run. Surely if you live in a draughty cold mould ridden house and pay a fortune out on energy costs are you not a bit strange. I know the high cost of houses in some areas is a major issue but does everyone not have the right to live in a warm house with no mould and fresh air and doesn't cost a high percentage of their income to run.