Russell griffiths

Don’t put a fixing behind the back panel, you will never know it’s there and will never be able to remove a cabinet if you need to.

I did block n beam with standard concrete block and insulation on top, I looked at all these insulated types and concluded that they had two many faults. harder to construct being a major one, standard block n beam is very fast and easy. cost also, if buying a large quantity of blocks you can get the price right down. the only upside I can see to these insulated systems is the height you gain, if you only need to put a 75mm cap sheet on then you save 75mm in floor build up, but that’s hardly a big issue.

Do you need a drain to go in there for the cylinder ?

Your bead is too big before you hit it with the Cramer tool. I bet you’re picking up a lot of wastage on the tool. smaller bead push firmer with the tool lots of wet wipes.

Morning I’m in Cirencester first question. Why electric showers. would be my last choice, unvented cylinder and nice thermostatic mixer shower will provide good shower pressure and loads of hot water.

The wife has just finished our vat claim i will see your 161 invoices @Benpointer and raise you 1057 invoices anybody had a larger amount than this.

I’m not sure I get what you want. you get a self build insurance for the new build and keep your original house insurance on the original house. what has the building work in the back garden got to do with the original house. are you splitting it into two plots ?

If I was pouring a slab in this weather I would have rolls of hessian stacking in an old bathtub of water, an hour after the final trowel up i would cover the slab in the damp hessian. the picture is just ring beams, but it was 28 degrees and the hessian cost pennies compared to the cost of the concrete the pump and the labour. cheap insurance really.

Imagine concrete but the aggregate is like pumice or volcanic stone, very hard but lightweight. they use it a lot in void filling after pipeline work. it can be cheaper and easier to muck away everything that comes out of a trench and import in all the backfill because it doesn’t need compacting, it just pours and forms into all the irregular shapes of the hole.

I thought there are a few void fillers that don’t need compacting and are very light and can be pumped. the days of barrows and compacting in layers has gone for these large fills.

If you have lots of glazing I would not be looking at the lower end price wise.

I like your idea, pumped in from outside, leave it 300 mm below the floor level then break out the floor and remove then insulation and a concrete slab on top.

I don’t know what build method you are proposing, but if it’s a new house and you have failed the sap then you need to go back to the beginning and start again because something is very wrong. you either have an architect who thinks it’s 1960 or you have chosen a poor build method, How are you thinking of building this thing. please don’t say brick n block with 100mm cavity and 75mm mineral wool insulation. we all started somewhere, c’ mon show us what you got.

IMHO it’s 6 foot without planning.