Russdl
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We have two completely plain door blanks that will be pocket doors and we want to get them sprayed because my thoughts are that sprayed doors will look better than hand painted. Trouble is I can't find anyone locally who will do it so, the questions are: 1. Will spraying give a superior finish on a featureless door blank? 2. If not, what will? 3. Who can do it in the Salisbury area? Standing by...
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Russdl commented on Red Kite's blog entry in Self Building two in North Wiltshire
Great update, thanks for sharing. Looks like you’re getting pretty good at leaping all the hurdles that spring up unannounced. Good luck with the next stages. -
@Tony K we were left with profile boards with nails in them. String between the nails on two boards defined a wall. Most of the profile boards were set a long way back from the edge of the build, two were tucked under a bush outside of our plot, so they were not affected by or in the way of any of the build process. Line could be strung between the nails at any stage and the position of the slab or house checked.
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We had quotes from both and very difficult to compare like for like with the variations in what is included. Friends of ours went Touchwood we went MBC. Depending what you mean by groundwork’s, I think there is only one company that will do that, so I suspect you’ve already made your decision?
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It seems that I have a ‘little mind’ because this ‘little thing’ pleased me no end! I’ve been itching for it to rain since I put the silt trap in, surely there are better things for me to be getting on with! C1C99E6F-B98A-45DF-9887-6046077BD851.MOV
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@Oz07 it is a raft so I’ll give the flex bands miss in that case, thanks for updating your advice.
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@PeterW bottom of the picture to the top. The 3 soil pipes are the stubs left by MBC and extend 1m beyond the raft foundation. From the IC in the picture it will continue (up) to the corner of the building, hang a left and head to the IC that was the subject of the initial panic post.
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@Oz07 thanks for the advice, I’ll take a look at that those flex bands that I’d never heard of until about 2 minutes ago ?
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I’m at the house end of the drain run now and I’ve connected the 3 soil pipes to to a new IC. Could someone cast there eye over my attempts and critique the work so far? Should I have a rocker pipe on the central drain run? It’s about 2.3m from a connector to the IC - nothing is fixed yet. Ta.
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@Pazzy we did that on our previous house, and just put wet UFH in the new extension. The UFH worked well and of a winters morning people would sidle from the old cold floored kitchen to the new warm floored breakfast room. But watch out, because after a few years the demarcation line between where there was UFH and where there wasn't started to become visible through the vinyl flooring and ultimately started to resemble a mini San Andreas fault.
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@JFDIY Ah, of course, now I think I fully understand Peters post. Thank you ?
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@PeterW’s link above went to a gravel covered long radius bend. Now I know I’m very new to this game but I trawl the internet (for all the right reasons) and read all sorts of guff but I’ve never seen or heard of a gravel covered pipe. Are these useful? What’s wrong with a good old smooth, impossible to grip pipe?
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I was only supposed to test it, not blow the bloody bungs out!
Russdl replied to ToughButterCup's topic in Waste & Sewerage
@AnonymousBosch my turn for the soaking next week ?, if I lay my pipes right. I take it you don’t plan on repeating the air test? -
@PeterW it’s about 24m from that hole to the corner of the house and then about 5m round the corner to pick up the pipes coming out of the house. I suspect the give in the pipes would do it?
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@PeterW just so I’m clear on that. Long swept clay bend from the existing clay pipe to the new IC turning through 90 degrees I presume? Something like the below? What about the extra 15 degrees I need to get it pointing towards the house?
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? I’ve done it again and I’m not panicking anymore! its in the garden, the top of the pipe in the picture is 900+mm below ground level. The flow from the house would hit my left heel and exiting stage right in the existing clay pipe. Thanks for bearing with me.
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@AnonymousBosch you need to get yourself a grave digger, worth their weight in gold, sadly in these trying times he keeps getting called away for his primary function. I dug (well he dug) a hole and found the drain going downhill steeply, which is good, it’s given me a bit more fall to play with. I calculated that I had about 25mm to spare over about 30m. I’ve now got an extra 230mm or so. We found the clay pipe and a connection which to my mind is great so my plan will be to remove the join and the pipe to the left of the join put in a 45, then the IC then another 45 and head to the house. One thing though, the existing drain doesn’t leave the plot perpendicular to the boundary and I’ll actually need a 45 and a 15 bend prior to the IC then a 45 the other side of the IC to get perpendicular to the boundary/house wall for the remainder of the drain run. That means my drain will turn through 105 degrees at that new IC to get in to the existing drain. Will there be a problem with that?
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@Oz07 excellent. Thanks for your help.
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Soz, panic question so gibberish came out. Yellow is the main drain in the track. Herras fence is our boundary. Red X marks where I want to put the new IC. Existing IC on the site is way to the left of the red X and too far away to be practical. New IC would be 1.5 to 2m from the boundary.
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Quick panic question. I'm about to start digging a hole to put a new IC in to connect to the existing foul water pipe on my plot. Are there any rules on how close to the boundary on my side that the new IC has to be?
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No one has asked the question yet, just permission to ask the question.
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Of course you can.
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@dpmiller No, its sat where his old mini used to be I think, that's been relegated to the other, less posh, garage. That's a 4 bay garage with a fifth car up on the lift (left of the picture). I think he's got 8 cars altogether, all of them a bit special and worth a bob or two. Git! I guess I should add that he's a nice git, he did lend me his block and tackle after all.
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I popped round my friends house today to borrow a block and tackle to drag my heavy bath up the stairs. This was in his garage, that’s my fantasy!
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The carpenter who did our cladding was very good and very skilled. What surprised me was that he cut every single board slightly too big, 10mm or so, checked it and then did a second cut that was always spot on. It added a few minutes for each board having to cut them twice but there were no mistakes and the results were excellent.
