Russell griffiths

Pictures and a drawing needed really. kingspan or pir would be the last thing I would use, hard to fit well, expensive i would make the frame deeper and use a rigid rockwool batt of some sort. are you removing the plasterboard.

Well I’ll be buggered, I was told a couple of years ago that I needed paperwork of some sort to show before it could be purchased.

I thought that as I was typing it yesterday. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Months and months of research by the time you have found a plot, you should have the build method set in stone in your head.

Show us some pictures and what your looking to do, then give us an idea of how much you are wanting to do yourself. a lot of people on here are doing loads of work themselves, it’s the only way to keep the costs under control. if you go for a main contractor doing 100% then I bet it costs more than you ever imagined it would.

I would not do this job until the house is built, al, you will do is end up with a swampy mess after everyone has driven over it and put scaffolding on it. keep it 4-5m back from the house site.

I wouldn’t think your location would have much bearing on cost, the windows don’t come from down south unless your thinking of Dover, as most of them come in from Lithuania. the fitters just travel around the country so that shouldn’t have much bearing either. if you can accept the windows directly you will save a big chunk, you will need a forklift to offload though.

How come nobody is checking you have the dispensation paperwork to allow its use. is it another government idea that nobody is policing. im still buying it, but I know I shouldn’t be using it, according to the new regs.

Do all your neighbours hate you ?.🤣🤣 could you park it around the back of one of their places in exchange for some beer tokens.

Hire a machine for a couple of weekends get your pad down for the static caravan, get some services run to it, hire a septic tank that sits under a porta cabin. move into static buy own digger put in sewage treatment plant off hire septic tank. or buy a trailer and take your digger home with you.

With your wall that has 5-6 boards on it, I’m afraid you need to get faster and level up all the boards at once. so a two bag mix in a big tub, get all your dabs on fast, then slap the bards up and use a 3m straight edge to level all boards into each other at the same time, also plumbing them as well. you won’t need to go to the gym that night.

Do not put a small excavator on site until you live there. especially as your neighbours don’t exactly like you. 😂😂 mine is insured on my self build policy, but I’m not sure about an empty site, I wouldn’t.

You will struggle to buy red now, unless you have a friendly farmer near by.

Depends what it is, plastic, wood, or aluminium do they do facia, a lot do it badly, I would get a facia company for upvc and a carpenter for wood and a metal roofer for anything, er metal.

Who is paying for a broken window. I would not consider a digger anything like gentle enough. Use the digger for what it’s for, dig out that soft ground and replace with type 1. a few grands worth of glass is not something to mess with. what do they weigh out of interest. my 4.8m sliders we lifted in with 5 blokes and suction cups. having now done some sums your 2.6 x3m is 7.8m of glass. my 4.8 x2.1 is 10.08 of glass so they could well be liftable by hand. depends how high they need to go, we had to lift from a pallet crate up 300mm onto the door step, i would not have wanted to lift them 750mm high or more, I think if I did I would have used the telehandler and suction cup frame that you can hire. our window company quoted to use a glazing robot, I declined and said I would lift them myself, when the fitters turned up I asked them about the robot and they said they prefer to pick them up by hand.