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I would get two cans of illbruck fm330, squirt it in to every little gap and fill it proud of the rafters, then when it’s gone of cut it flush.

Depends what distance this pipe is traveling across the house if the bathroom is on an outside wall you can lift the pipe up in the layers, it doesn’t have to be under the type 1. if the bathroom is in the middle of the house you need to consider the structure of the floor above the pipe. lift the house higher

To knock down a burnt out shell of your house, then get the foundations inspected then re build your house to the spec it was using a principal contractor to do the whole thing will be £700,000 all day long. just because your going to build it cheaper using your head and a bit of carful planning doesn’t mean the insurance company can do it like that. if you suffer a total loss you don’t want to be under insured. have you had a quote to build the whole thing with zero involvement from you, it bet it will be £600,000.

You want your first ic as high in the ground as possible, if your bathrooms are on an outside wall this is easier, if a bathroom is in the centre of the house it will get deeper as you cross the house.

Lengths of cls, spiked into the ground and screwed to the facia then board it in 9mm osb.

I used guttercrest, the quality was spot on i also liked that they delivered it in their own van so no courier problems.

That picture is only showing half the story, the flex in those hollow steel sections will be immense. that staircase will have a glass balustrade to take the flex out at the far end. im obviously not a structural engineer, but just look at that picture, there is not a hope in hell of those steel outriggers holding a man’s weight if he was to stand on a single tread at the furthest point from the wall. be carful of pictures taken halfway through a job.

Do you need to be accurate with your posts you normally pack them up with steel packers and then grout underneath them.

What’s that. .?

Stop giving money to fat people to sit at home all day. there money problem solved. the amount of fat lazy dole bludgers over in Tenerife a few months back was staggering. my place doubled in value as soon as we got planning in place, it has since doubled again with a house on it. at least by the time I come to sell labour will be a horrendous memory.

My cills have welded upstands on the ends to prevent water running from the sides and into the fabric of the building, you can’t weld the green coat without damage to the coating.

No, get them folded in aluminium and powder coated in the colour of your choice.

Nerdy dork alert!!!

Whatever you think it needs over engineering Massively I witnessed a large staircase that had a complex curve in it nearly twist off the wall as the temporary bracing was removed. there are some serious forces at play with cantilevers, and there would be nothing worse than a bouncy staircase. steel support structure buried in the wall for me, or a 140mm solid block wall.

Nope do nothing, Natural England have no money, no staff to either enforce anything or anything else for that matter, it’s just like making more laws but not having a police force. the only thing it is doing is making it increasingly hard to get new planning permission, unless you want to build 2000 houses that is.

Silly old England again. we live in the largest catchment area in the country that is not on a mains sewer, hundreds of houses everyone with its own septic tank. Natural England have just put a blanket SSSI status on the area covering a few thousand acres.

2 down pipes and very very little fall even dead flat, you don’t need much fall with modern aluminium gutters or high flow gutters. the weather in this country is changing, gone are the days of 8 hours of drizzle, now it’s. Big fat rain drops, these people specifying this stuff need to stop thinking it’s 1886. Australian regs are an outlet every 6 m, you want the water off the roof not sitting in a gutter unable to get out. we are starting to get more tropical big weather events. I would never build anything again with either hidden gutters or box gutters, recipe for a disaster.

The water from our graff tank is clear and completely odourless, it’s not likely to bung up your drainage field unlike my other septic tank which is horrible.

In this weather you can happily stand and soak the blocks with a hose pipe before laying, just soak the stacks of blocks while the mixer is getting loaded up.

Following this one.

Wrong blocks, you will not get a good bond onto celcon, you need to use a weak mix as the blocks are so weak the mortar ends up stronger than the blocks. a free standing wall will not have a lot of strength until the wall plate is on and it’s loaded with a roof structure.

@gavztheouch dont do it, you need a full length rack that extends out to the front bumper with vertical bars going down to the bumper. if you have 2m overhang out the front the wind will whip them up and snap them. I do this regularly, but my timber yard is an 8 minute drive away, so worth taking the punt around the back lanes. you would not believe the loads imposed on that timber if doing 50mph.

Both, why does it matter, unless you remove all the slabs on top then dig down the back and waterproof it correctly you are not going to fix it, the best you can do is tart it up and keep it looking fresh. having it re rendered won’t fix it.

When I did the costs on mine it was £3000 extra for pir over eps. that’s a good chunk more than a few hundred pounds.