Russell griffiths

@IanMcP have you contacted the bloke on here selling the Nudura.

Nudura this is what I used. Downside, pita to get any tape to stick to it, you need to primer all surfaces to get tape or sealant to stick. Durisol. You would need to give me this free to even entertain using it. Isotex. Again it would have to be under half price of the Nudura to make me even think about it. Velox. You would need to pay me £20,000 plus to even get this through the gate at my place. Isodom. I have no experience of this product amvic. One I priced up, but at the time the company was in a bit of bother so I didn’t pursue it, I believe @willbish used it. Beco. Doesn’t have any form of plastic or metal web, instead it is relying on poly webs for its structure, this doesn’t give it any method of fixing to the lock apart from going right through to the concrete core. Very outdated in my opinion. My views are based on having worked on a number of icf builds these last 2 years, not just reading their website or brochure.

If you believe this you probably sat up waiting for a fat bloke in a red suit to come down your chimney.

Waste of time, don’t do it. Insulate the floor as much as you can and fit radiators, ufh will be very expensive to run if your heating the ground beneath your house.

What do you want to know ?? i poured at 2.7m high, and then at 5.3 finish height. Certain areas must be poured as one, if you have a large lintel over an opening you need to pour up to that height and above it by 450 ish to gain the strength that a monolithic concrete pour is for, standard doorways will have very little steel, so gain the strength from 3-400 mm of concrete poured in one go over the heads of the doors, windows. I used Nudura, there is a guy on here selling a whole house worth of Nudura as he has changed his mind, could be a bargain there for you.

I would make her knock it down because it looks shite.

movement joint at every door, purposely set off centre to line up with under the door, so when tiled the movement trim is hidden under the door. This one has a sliding door face fitted to that wall.

This does depend on how much you are talking about overhang wise, and also roof pitch. With a steep roof 30degrees plus you find that the wider your soffit the further the roof line comes down the walls, sometimes coming down as far as the tops of the upstairs windows. Its really all down to your roof and house design. A bit too general to answer without a diagram. I have soffit depths that range from 450mm to 1800mm.

Don’t fit any kitchen doors or end panels the moisture in the building drying will bugger it all up.

Told ya.

Anybody else got anything, help this bloke out.

Bigger is always better.

Have you priced up any materials lately. since I started my project all materials have at least doubled in price. And there are talks that anything aggregate related will have another 20% on it next year. Then you have the labour any good lads are realising that they have been underpaid for years so anybody good is charging top dollar. So to get it cheaper you will get the rough lads. you say that retail has big markup, well you are not removing that, unless you remove the builders merchants. How are you buying your materials unless you buy from a merchant. you can buy blocks from the manufacturer, but you will need to buy an attic load for them to even talk to you. I would be very careful of a spread sheet with costs, as I think on a one off house you will be surprised how many little things happen on site that are not costed, you need a big contingency. then you will find the self build tax that trades will put on, if you build anything that looks slightly fancy you will be hit with inflated prices, as they think you are loaded. there are big savings to be made project managing yourself. but don’t for a minute get the idea that a £500,000 project can be built for £350,000, the only way to do that is either do 90% yourself or cut corners. im doing this right now trying to save £200,000 on the build and the only way is doing it myself.

Are you thinking it should be more or less. If you think it’s less in this current world we are in you are dreaming. the only way to bring it in cheaper is to do 90% of the work yourself or build something just as bad as the bulk house builders.

All I would add is change up your 40mm runs to 50mm.

How did she think you where going to catch it ?? here ratty ratty, come and get some cheese.

Why would you want to leave out the glue or the screws??? save £20 and regret it later, glue the bugger out of it.

I’ve read that one @Onoff but isn’t there a clear diagram somewhere, i just find it more confusing than it should be. But I am a bit slow, not like @nod who is the forum ninja.

Morning peeps, can anybody point me at a drawing showing dimensions of disabled ramp to a door for a new build. Interested in size of flat area outside door and also ramp slope angle. Ta very much.

Vastern timber then.

Astern timber are in the process of building their own kiln for this. they do lots of thermally modified timber. however suppling your own trees will not save you much. if you think a sawmill will pay about £1200 for an article load of poplar, then that is your only saving, you still need to transport it, cut it, then heat modification, then cut again, then transport back. unless you have all the kit to do this yourself then I don’t think it’s an idea. it’s like saying I have a load of clay can someone turn it into bricks for me. the raw materials are a very small percentage of the overall price.

Every reason to doubt them, do not confuse celcon with hebel they are like chalk and cheese. Get a blower test done before plastering or parge coat and I bet you will have a heart attack. A torch won’t show you anything. Any hole big enough to get light through will be a howling gale when you ramp the fan up on the air test.

I would ct1 it, but full bed with no voids so the tile cannot snap.

Ask for a break down on cost and get another quote. A mate of mine in London pays about £5000 for a tin hat on his loft projects and says they are worth every penny.

You know it.