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I’m just fitting my windows so I thought I would share this info. If you are after a better quality low expansion foam look at the products made by ILBRUCK I’m using their FM330 and it is on another level compared to the normal crap. Same price as all all the other brands if you buy a box. Thats all.

Are they insulated? i would avoid too much contact with the metal in the pozi joist, I know they have rounded edges but I would still try and avoid contact in case of vibration and wear on the plastic.

Can you do me a favour and buy a broom. ?????

I suppose this all depends on your budget, and what you want to end up with. If you repair what you have there it will always be a bit of a compromise. If you want a nice workshop with heating good light and a flat floor you would be better off flattening that and starting again. I see no reason why you won’t get consent to replace it with a better built and better looking building.

Is this what you mean.

Be very carful with the community infrastructure levy, if this is not going to be a self build for yourself. Have a good read before you even put a spade in the ground.

+1 to stick them down.

It’s a funny old world, when I got quotes for mine I thought transport would be expensive, so I looked for local firms. Then I read on here that I could have got them cheaper in Ireland including the transport, so I think the best thing is just send your plans off to two or three companies and see who you like. Concrete products are very cheap in Ireland.

How high is your water table, any chance if you leave it you might get water coming up, or that it won’t drain like it is if water table rises. If you answer no to both then why not leave it alone. I know someone who installed a shower in an outbuilding with no drain just a pipe out the wall into the field next door.

Have you tried IRONMONGERY DIRECT. or one of the other online screw suppliers,

I’m not sure if you realise but the cut does not need to be accurate as the cut face will not be seen, it is the end of the brick that will be laid as the face.

Go and hire a brick cutter with a sliding table popular make is a clipper, it will have a wooden bed inside a steel tray, you screw a piece of wood down so each brick sits at the correct distance, water sprays on the disc, you will cut hundreds of them in a day. Probably don’t need to cut all the way through, 1/3 through and tap with a hammer.

I have recently had my windows measured and the surveyor said that they now require 30mm above any large openings for sliding or bi fold doors as they are getting too many call backs due to the openings settling. We have left 15mm in the width, 7.5 mm both sides and 15mm in the height. These are for windows the company are fitting, I have allowed less for the ones I am fitting as I am happy with a tighter tolerance.

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Exactly, how can your engineer spec a floor without knowing which floor supplier you would like to use. I got 3 quotes and each one was different as the beam manufacturers have different sized moulds to make the size of beams they like, we had a 100mm wide beam as span was 5m, other companies only had a 50-75mm wide beam so needed to add more beams for the same span. It is ok using an engineer for this but if he specs a certain type of beam how does he know it fits with your budget, engineers spec to cover their backs not your wallet.

I went out for a drink with 2 very reputable builders last nigh, both fully booked for a year. They said they are pricing at £1500 a m at the moment, for shell only, so wind and watertight with first fix electrics and plumbing, second fix joinery. But no kitchen bathrooms, en-suite, tiling etc. They said they are getting asked for this more and more as people are finding prices out of their reach, so it gives them the opportunity to finish as and when they can.

Your engineer is an fool. have you been to the beam manufacturer to get the calcs done properly. As said earlier they will add in a couple of extra beams and alter the spacing down to 215 or one block at 440 then 215 then 440

All I can say is I fitted the mcalpine one and was reasonably impressed with it.

Not sure I like this idea, but not sure if I’m wrong. Doesnt your treatment plant work off natural bacteria breaking stuff down, where as a chemical toilet relies on chemicals to break stuff down, wouldn’t tipping these chemicals into a new treatment plant affect its performance. Anybody more knowledgeable out there.

Your best bet is to look on e bay, facebook, look out for a job lot of bandstands and boards from someone local who has just completed a project, I picked up 6 bandstands and 10 boards for less money than just the 10 boards.

@Tom's Barn treated sawn 25x100 got it in BPS IN CIRENCESTER, really nice lads, the branch manager Wayne has been to site a couple of times, he’s keen on new business. Raised seam roof. In the pic of the stainless mesh I also covered the edges with sikaflex to stick it down because of the gaps created by staples. You could have come and had a look a week ago, but it’s all covered now.

They will only be half as good.

In 35 years of doing one of the most dangerous jobs we have in this country, the thing I always considered to be the most life threatening thing I did every day was. Drive my car to work. I know we are saying woodburners are dirty, but c,mon we aren’t all dropping dead because we sat by the fire in the pub last night.

According to our letting agents, a woodburner is the biggest selling point in the English holiday rental market, the second is a hot tub.