Russell griffiths

Can you tell me why you put a link up that is in German. Good god man I struggle with English.

@Taff, it doesn’t flood, you don’t just fill a tank from the house the house goes to the tank in the top at the top of the tank on the other side is an overflow that goes back to your sewer at the bottom of the tank is an outlet to a pump, supply electric to the pump and bingo all done. The downside is it’s cheaper to just turn on a tap. Until the water companies start charging properly, it’s just cheaper to use the mains. There have been a lot of topics on this on here, and unless it’s something you feel strongly about financially it doesn’t work out.

@Roger440 near you I think mate.

So if you need a 300mm deep plate, you need to go and buy 300x 47 kerto, I was going to suggest making it out of 25mm ply but by the time you have brought 25mm ply and glue you might as well buy the proper thing. Do not use osb. Sorry to be harsh but just go and get the right thing, trying to make a 300 board out of 2x 150 is a recipe for a mess, most roof truss manufactures will stock it or your floor joist maker. Use the 150 for strong backs in your floor joists when you do them, stack it up and weigh them down. You could just just buy some 300x 47 timber but I suspect in this weather it will warp unless you can find some already dry stuff.

Go to a timber merchants, not builders merchants I got mine from a roof truss company.

Getting back to @Vijay issues I think I would chuck the wobbly wood over in a corner and buy a couple of kerto beams, i think with your system it could really mess you up if you need to fit your next channel on top and it twists.

@scottishjohn I didn’t swap out anything I fixed it all in and then poured the concrete. However I didn’t use solid timber, I hate it, it’s rubbish. I used kerto beams which are a glue lam but for structural work not for show, so they have a rough unfinished surface not ready to varnish. Very good in long lengths with no twist or warping, I think I had some 8m long.

@Vijay can you not use a kerto beam instead of solid timber. Its like a big plywood gluelam. My pole plates are all kerto beams, straight as a die.

@scottishjohn how Vijay describes it is exactly how it’s done, why would you drill the concrete if you don’t need to, I fixed all mine like this, far cheaper, no drilling and no expensive bolts, just threaded rod and a nut and washer.

so if it’s a pole plate to take your floor joists can you not fit some floor joists as well to keep it all true.

Why not run your rainwater pipes to the pond, then have a pump back to a couple of taps placed around the garden. Will require a power supply for pump. I had a house on a terraced plot and managed to get a 5000ltr tank on the high side and the vegetables on the low side so I could water under gravity rather than a pump, but that depends on your garden layout.

Small size sheets 1200x 450 maybe, cannot remember, with a rebate edge all around so they lock together, sort of. You can stick it through the table saw with a bit of melting and dust.

Can you fit some 150x25 instead to hold bolts in place and stuff, then strip these off and fit your 50mm stuff later

Not really sure what it cost, I just bought one pack of 80mm for under my door threshold. Its kingspan greengaurd.

I have got some XPS 500 I’m going to use that underneath it for support, it only sticks out 60-70 mm so not a lot, it’s very tough stuff have a look at CHARLIE LUXTON videos he sits his big windows on them. When you look look at the radius of a car wheel it will have very little contact. I did think of not having the angle at angle at all and just putting a polyurethane sealant on top of the xps.

@tanneja are you better of not keeping the heat out by design either larger roof overhangs or brise solei (spelling) i have designed in 1600mm roof overhang where I have a few windows and these last few days I haven’t noticed any sun penetration through those windows.

I think I’m going to do something like this, I haven’t put a lot of thought into it but it’s sort of what I’m thinking.

@tanneja if you put @ before a users name it highlights it and sends them a notification @bluebirdnick

Nice looking place, they don’t build them like that anymore

I wouldn’t, what if your floor choice requires the wood to be glued down and it won’t stick to the paint. Why not look for some cheap vinyl and lay it in the crucial areas, the money you spend on paint you could spend £200 on some cheap carpet off cuts in the bedroom and a vinyl square in the kitchen. I fully carpeted a whole whole house with carpet from a skip that was being taken out of a big hotel in London, we lived like that for a couple of years.

It’s the highly knowledgeable members ??

Well you bought it.

Hadn’t thought of lintels ??

You normally get cracking at a window, I would run them up the sides of there if convenient.

I think we talked about this before, I seam to remember a fibreglass upstand to separate inside from outside, I think it’s what I’m going to do, you can drive over it but minimal cold bridge.