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2 layers and stagger the joints. Less pathways for heat loss.

You really need a drawing for this from the engineer either your timberframe engineer or another it would really depend on what load it is carrying i definitely wouldn’t put a steel post onto the sole plate, however if the steel was substituted for a group of timber studs then they would go onto the sole plate, so it needs more clarification from the designer as to the loads imposed on them.

You would probably move your joists closer together to carry the load so probably 400mm centres.

If you have no experience with this sort of thing try and find a local carpenter to work on day work, tell him your situation and use him to help with the complicated bits. Start with him for say 3-4 days and leave you to fill in easy bits for a couple of weeks then get him back again for 3-4 days. On your own you will be lost, sorry but you need to be realistic.

Sand cement plasticiser. Ratio dependant on quality of sand and strength/ colour you want stronger for ground level below dpc, weaker for above dpc. Lime is just another thing thing you don’t need to worry about unless you actually want it to change the colour of the mix, depends what finish you are after.

Pull the rubber out of another (same make) and swap them over. As Tommy Cooper said JUST LIKE THAT. Get a warm bucket of soapy water and get some of that dusty crud from around the rubber, clean the groove before inserting new cleaned rubber.

I did exactly this in Australia and intend doing the same again, there is a company called buteline from New Zealand who I think do all the bits as you need to supply a brass threaded wall plate to project through the wall for the isolator to screw to. Let me know now what you find as I’m keen to do the same as I cannot fathom the ad hock way it’s done over here.

She didn’t call you old did she, bloody cheek of her.

I personally would just do it and wait to see if any ?hits the fan. But then again I’m a bit reckless.

Carry on @AnonymousBosch looking good for an old un.

I cannot comment on your case, but you need to clarify the height it cannot be 1.8m/2.0m its either 1.8m or 2m i believe the old 6foot or 1.8 was the height you could go up to without needing planning except as Dave says adjacent to a highway so that 200mm could be important. I had an issue with a fence adjacent to a highway, they wanted me to submit an application when I showed the exact location was approximately 1.2 back from the highway they said i didn’t need planning.

Don’t forget plenty of lubricant said the actress to the bishop.

As a really rough guide piles and a ringbeam could add, £25,000 to the cost, minus what you would have spent on foundations so let’s guess £10,000 so £15,000 extra that amount shouldn’t really kill a project. Basing this on what mine cost plus 2 others on here that did piles at roughly the same time as me and their cost was very similar.

Yep 10, 15 ,22.5 bend just to correct yourself the bastard bit is you won’t know what you need until you lay a straight length of pipe in, as a couple of degrees out over a 6m run will have your straight run trying to get out of the trench offer it all up and try a few bends. Is that a coupler on that pipe, if not then surely that pipe is around the wrong way.

So just as a safety precaution I pulled this thing apart could you pair shed some light as to why this might have gone pop if its chinesium shit then fair enough, I just want to make sure it won’t burn the house down. Should it have tripped the breaker??

Bloody hell it’s annoying nothing seems to last more than 5 years.

So I came home last night to the wife moaning we had no hot water and the timer had stopped working now this emersion timer has been in use for about 5 years, do things like this only last this long nowadays or I’d there something killing them ?? our timer on the heated towel rail is playing up as well and that’s about 3 years old. I don’t remember it being cheap. Any thoughts.

My piling company did all the calcs for the piles, I had been quoted £5,000 for piles with a raft on top. We used a hydrological company for flood risk and drainage, I don’t think a SE will do this.

Use the 100mm staple it on top of batten, if you cut it it frays.

How did you get consent to build on there.

Just get the standard one from the local builders merchants, ask which one they sell the most of.

All sites stopped here a fortnight ago and I think they must be thinking of being shut for a while, as they have all put temporary window coverings up in the openings, I think if it was only for a month they would leave a timber frame shell open but they have blocked them all up and run house wrap over all the temporary frames. Regarding work ore it’s not just if a bloke can stay 2 m away from his mate i know a few families that he wants to work but cannot go out as they have lost all child care, if the wife works at the hospital and her mum and dad normally baby sit then that has all stopped i read about a lot of lads who have taken over the home schooling.

What he really meant was, i haven’t worked for 4-6-8 weeks so when we are allowed to go back I won’t really have the time for all the stuff I have booked in, I wonder who I can get rid of. I know a few lads who are really panicking that anymore than a month off will start affecting work booked in for 2021.

Depends who you are and how you like to live are you an old fogey who likes a separate dining room or a young couple young kids likes a big open plan kitchen diner. The house we are building doesnt have a single wall downstairs to separate kitchen dining living it’s all one big space, but that’s us. How do you want it to work for you.

That’s right, no legal need for a warranty unless you sell or to satisfy a lender.