Declan52

The main issue you might have is getting a company /architect to certify your build once its started. I got mine built and roofed using cash. Went mortgage hunting and like you got turned down by a few as it had already started. My architect was willing to certify the build was done correctly and at each stage once my approval came through he wrote a letter saying how is wind/watertight and built according to the regulations. Had another letter when we done first fix and another at plastered out then the final payment once completed. Another difficulty you might have is site insurance. Get this setup once your ready to start as you might have issues if the house is built and then you go looking a policy. Theres nothing wrong with getting the mortgage approved and keeping your cash for the finishing touches and the contingency fund.

The houses on the last two weeks grand designs used something similar and both looked really well.

Would be a lovely feature in a living room, definitely eye catching!!! Just seems such a waste to fill it in. Some sort of wine cellar, pantry would be handy. On your current plans as they are where would the access point be.

Have you the red straw extension so you can direct it exactly where it needs to go.

I would be using it for a home cinema type setup. Would be perfect. Or how about having it as a swimming pool. How does your house sit on it. Could you move it slightly too try and incorporate it??

Wd40 and let it soak in.

That's the unit I have. Not much to say about it other than it works away. Not much noise from it. Changing the filters is easy. About 10 mins to clean the heat exchanger only because the screws are the devils work.

Take a pic from further out to show the full layout of what's beneath.

Yeah mould coming from condensation so it's how you get rid of that. Dehumidifier would do the same thing I suppose. It would be an easy thing to test to see if it has any effect.

For that kind of money would a few humidity controlled fans not be better. That just seems to take air from the attic and push it into the house and replace damp air by pushing it out through leakage in the structure.

Have you contacted the manufacturer of your tiles to see if they do a vent tile??

New membrane over existing concrete. Bed of sharp sand 10mm deep. Dry screed laid with a fall to an edge . I would mix plenty of waterproofing into the screed. Pavers on top of dry screed. At the lower edge of the roof where any water that gets through the pavers and underneath the screed your going to have to come up with something here to drain any water away. Can you form some sort of gulley here where it will come out of an upturned section of edpm into a pipe and away to a gulley or manhole??? For the drainage on the top you could form a channel in the dry screed using some 50mm pipe and have this running from the edge to where ever you have a manhole or galley.

Price wise what would be the cost in redoing the top by putting in another layer of edpm. Take the pavers and the bedding of and go with some one who uses this stuff on a regular basis. Wouldn't affect your heights either like another layer of concrete plus no more breaking out. Do your upstands and level out where you have broke out the concrete so it's nice and flat. The rubber guys ? come in work their magic and you end up with the rubber sealed around your edges and upstands. But done properly this time. Hard bit is finding a crew able to do this once and leave it leak free.

Still a chance for Xmas dinner in it yet. Might be in a polystyrene box from the spar with you all sitting on scaffold planks but still counts.

What is a standard size window. 900*900?? Would you not be better getting Windows that suit the size of the room they are in. In the grand scheme of things how much would you potentially save?? Think for an extension where you might need 1-2 windows and you could pick them up from gumtree, ebay etc then fine.

So lots and lots of primer and nice neat cuts of tape. Easy!! Not having a dig but yours doesn't look like what's on the video.

Has to be some method of joining two bits of rubber.

Honestly I think take it all back to the top of the concrete and break around each window and continue to remove the upstands as you have been doing. Get your architect to do proper drawings and then do as it's on these for test window 1. Create a dam with sand and fill the hole with water around the test window and observe. Let it sit for a day and if it's good then proceed with the rest. If it leaks and it's done as is on the drawing then it's up to your architect to come up with plan B. Repeat as above.

We have no barge boards. I just overhung the tile sitting on a strip of asbestolux and then plastered up to it. No soffit either, mine is made from concrete roof blocks so have no maintaining to be done. Have black upvc gutters and downspouts and they crack. Today with it going below zero last night and then the sun hitting them straight away they crack real bad.

That's just how it's done in NI. You put a length of dpc up the reveal on the inside of the outer skin. Then you will have a strip of pir insulation cut at a min depth of 50mm,75mm will be easier to work with. Then the block work is returned. You will need split brick or a block cut with a saw to 50mm if you go for 100mm insulation to fill the gap. The red arrow will be the split brick. With 75mm insulation you can just use a normal concrete brick. The cavity in the pic is 100mm.

Can you post a few pics of its setup so those in the know can have a better understanding of what's going on.

It would be block bond if it was blocks being built, exactly what you would build in foundations. Never seen bricks built like that before.

You will need scaffolding to put on the roof and tile it. If the gable is at the side beside the tree you will need scaffold for it as well.

Murdocks have a few yards in Dublin. I guess if you intend to buy a lot from one supplier and are happy to pay a premium to deliver to you then they might. Costs nothing to ask.

Do you mean a builders merchants. There are plenty in Newry, haldane fisher, Mac Blair, Murdocks, jp corry