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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.

The first thing you needed to do @TheMick was explain what you wanted to build, everything revolves around that, the specification for a 3 storey commercial building will be very different to a single storey building in the corner of someone’s garden. Looking for a specification from a website they will be cautious because they think you will fit their sheets to a big barn in an open farm yard. I think you mentioned garage so I presume single storey, 25mm battens will be fine, you can get the mesh online it’s stainless steel fly mesh. Fit your counter batten then fit the first batten right on the edge, you can staple your mesh to this. Use a fixing that is long enough to go through batten and through the counter batten into the rafters that way you are not relying on a 25mm to 25mm fixing so you want a 90mm fixing for the top battens, make sure you buy tex screws for wood not metal look for a vid on how to torque your screws down so you don’t destroy the rubber washers, it’s all in the finger on the trigger control.

Finger jointed timber, is it available over here?? reading the other thread on skirting I thought to what I used in Australia and I remember it being all finger jointed radiata pine I used it for skirting architrave and all door linings, it came pre primed like mdf but as soon as you cut it you can see it’s timber inside. Had a quick google and its all american or australian websites. I really liked it and would definitely use it again.

Reading that both are INTERNAL one using 65mm dot and dab fixed the other 37mm boards fixed to a softwood batten Have you not supplied a specific guide as to what they are quoting for ? this could be where your price differences are coming from, between those two different specs could be £2-4 grands worth of insulation do this a few times on different aspects of the build and you can get vast differences. I think you need to get a set spec done done and get that priced by both parties or your not comparing apples with apples.

I can get it, I’m just trying to avoid people i can go to Tesco and pay at the pump. Poor ol @AnonymousBosch sidetracked his topic, sorry mate.

This is for dumper and digger, digger probably only uses 10 litres a day, but I’ve been sat on it for the last fortnight and will be for the next couple of weeks.

This is how I would do it cover the tops of the rafters with a good quality breather membrane, then a 50x25 counter batten that fits on top and parallel to the rafters then a 50x25 batten fixed on top but at 90degrees to the rafters, fit sheets on top use a ventilation strip at eaves and ridge you want airflow but not bugs. Those battens are 100x25 and are spaced 100mm apart you won’t need to do this, space them how far apart the sheet manufacturers say you need the fixings 600-750mm whatever, remember you won’t be able to walk on anywhere there isn’t a batten. mesh at facia level

I’m putting normal diesel in the digger, breaking my heart and bank account £60 this week already 100mm by the way.