Russell griffiths

Your roof quotes look high. I have raised seam metal, installed myself. Mines huge. 355m of roof, materials came in at around £12-14 grand and I had quotes to fit it of a similar amount. So £24-28 for 355 m. You seem a bit confused with build types, how about putting up some pics of the existing structure so we can come up with some ideas. Your 5000 blocks does not sound that expensive, £1 per block to buy them and a £1 per block to lay, obviously loads of other stuff needed.

I don’t think this happens over here, it’s an American Australian thing. My house in oz was like this, it made perfect sense, but when I looked into it over here it just didn’t exist. Every company for QUALITY products just told me they are all made to measure. I think it it stems from the new build market in England is tiny, whereas the refurbishment market is large, we are stuck in this transitional time warp of things still being measured in feet and inches. There is a tiny market for 1200, 1500, 1800 wide windows. I think the only way to go cheaper is to drive over to Poland and collect them.

I think you need to do a section drawing of the whole structure, so people can understand where and how to install insulation. You could also do a drawing or pictures of the wall build up. Its just not a case of slapping some insulation on your walls it’s all to do with what you have know versus what you need to achieve.

In oz the major house builders will promise bayou a 14 week build schedule, if it’s not finished they pay your rent. But its a completely different ball game, they build so many they have a list of stubbiest that just go from job to job nobody is big enough over here to have a full list of trades just stood there waiting for the go.

Are you going to have a detached garage ? why not get the static and site it near the garage site, build the garage first and use it as a utility area, freezer washing machine wood burner, join it to the static with a lean to corridor thing. Place to dry clothes, keep muddy boots and have lunch on a day when your covered in mud and haven’t the time to clean up to go in the static. I have said it before, look up on you tube a couple called PURE LIVING FOR LIFE. pair of complete dorks, but they built a wooden box on the end of their trailer it houses everything I mentioned and has made their build and life in the van very comfortable.

Nope, sorry, unless you have a main contractor with a fixed term contract, you’ve no chance. Things in this country just don’t flow. Its all, rush rush, stop, just too many holdups to keep all the trades flowing in one after the other.

If you think yours will take less than a year, your in for a shock.

Picture.

Just in case anybody is in the position of needing a certain bend you don’t have. They can be heated gently and made any shape you want. Have had to do it many times.

Yep, in the last year I have had one man on site for two days, that’s it nobody here apart from me. Today i fitted 125 kg of staircase, I did stop a few times and wondered who I could get for a couple of hours to give me a hand. But all in now. Painfully slow but I think I will be £200,000 in front by the time it’s finished

Why not just install a duct with a pull cord in.

TBH that doesn’t look like a lot of glass at all, looks like a fairly standard build. I also don’t consider north to be a problem.

Warm roof.

You will probably find that in the last 50 years the house had central heating installed as well as numerous bathroom changes, every plumber that did a job would have hacked a chunk out of the joists to get their pipes in, sometimes leaving very little meat holding it all together. The loft joists will be in a better condition as pipes and cables would have been run on top instead of through the joist. If you you are going full out loft conversion you will probably be better off ripping all the ceiling joists out and replacing the whole roof, will work out quicker to start with all new or even loft trusses and a crane, will be all installed in a couple of days.

Get it right now, you will spend a long time looking at it and thinking you wish you had changed it. I moved a bathroom from one side of a room to another, so glad I did, looked fine on the plans.

Well done, I bought my first mess when I was 24. Dont get too attached to it, do it up and move on to the next one, 3-4 years.

So stick a block work skin around it. Simple.

You are not going to put your temporary battens in the same place, you just “ scatter batten “ this is enough bits of batten to hold it down no more than that.

Looking in that access hole is any water moving.

Can you get somebody to stick a camera down it. If it’s not in use it will save you a grand having to change it.

thank me later.

You can get seconds of proctor membrane on e bay roll it out and secure with battens, then rip it off and throw it away. You will throw any tarpaulin away anyhow as it will be ripped to shreds, all the pointy tops on the trusses will punch through on the first night. The blocks will not care about being wet, you will see it all dry out in a couple of weeks after the roof is on, you will start to see a change in colour after a couple of days as the moisture pulls out of the blocks. Stop worrying and get the facia on.

It will last a week before being ripped to shreds.

@willbish did this.

Nope. ?? Its all in the plumbers head, I just do as he says, as he gets all grumpy when I ask too many questions.