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Are you @Moonshine comparing apples with apples, a 140mm wide stud with some pir in it is very different to a double stud wall with 300mm of insulation installed.

No need to apologise, we all have our own opinions.

Why not stand there and count them. If you take one off it should have a makers name on the back.

Garden walls around new house, raised flower beds why not knock it all down and see how many come out whole and how easy they clean up, if it takes 10 minutes a brick to clean then it’s hardcore, if it’s lime mortar that falls off if you bang two bricks together, then there keepers.

The way you are proposing looks better to me, you are taping all the joints then covering and going to tape and joint or skim the plasterboard. I can never understand how they think insulated plasterboard is any good, how do you join all the foil faces together.?

Concrete slabs might be slow to warm up....... but you only do this once, once it’s up to temperature it stays on until spring when you turn it off.

Can you not use some of those bricks, or even sell them on.

Getting back to the original question on i joists, I have i joist off cuts that have been sitting in a pile for over 6 months out in all this rain and they look perfect.

Dig it all up, chuck it through a small mobile crusher then spread it all back on the ground then when you mark out your footprint you just dig through it. It seams a bit of a waste but it pays for itself over and over with having a nice working platform and no mud.

We all like different things, I have deliberately never put up my floor plans as I know some people wouldn’t like them, so what I’m building it for me not them. If you like your lindab gutters then that’s great. I personally don’t it’s not that you have crap taste, just different to me.

It’s a good job I’ve got skin like a rhino or I might get offended.

Why not get some eps300 and substitute the insulation under the sole plate with this, just a 300mm wide strip with the pir betting up to the sides of it.

You need the reinforcement to be completely covered in concrete, fixing them to the smooth plastic will not allow concrete to in case the steel, so rendering its reinforcement properties to nil. The steel should be spaced away from the sides to allow at least 15mm of concrete cover. You might be better of winding this steel together to create a wire rope, and then positioning this central in the tube.

If you look back at all Robins videos I think he shows the build up of his roof, he did a video of installing the roof lanterns, not sure if you have any. Robin is part of the skill builder team and does some good carpentry videos.

I do agree that Lindab stuff is horrid and it’s not cheap.

Wow those links are close together @gc100 whats the spacing?

I had mine all bent and cut and fabricated into cages, I could not believe how cheap it was. I had allowed £3-4 grand for steel and it came in at about £1500. It all depends on how precious your time schedule is, I think to have bent all mine up would have been at least an extra 20 days work.

I would disagree with this, you said the other day you thought you could bend 60 links in a day, ok cool but at a £1 a link is your day only worth £60 to you. Mimimum wage is more than that.

Im intrigued now, can you not do it tonight @Charly

Did they cover those solid builds with a bitumen paint before plaster, is that what we can see??? as it does look a bit more solid the more I look. Hope you not going to make me cut my right one off if I’m wrong.

@Declan52 you chicken, just had a thought @Charly is your house poured concrete, ash type construction. As there’s no way I can see that arch being structural it’s far too flat to be structural brickwork, but it could be one of those flyash concrete type mixes where they poured them between shuttering. Take me off more plaster where a lintel may be.

If anybody intends living on site I strongly recommend watching a you tube couple called. PURE LIVING FOR LIFE. look at how they have built an outbuilding in front of the door to their caravan and fitted a woodburner. Be careful not to copy any of their building practices as he is a total dork and cocks everything up, but the shed in front of the caravan is brilliant and will turn a miserable winter into a nice jolly place to be. I actually have the same same situation on our current house, cold miserable bungalow but add a bootroom with wood burner and it’s transformed, dry clothes warm and cosy dogs, non moaning wife.

can anybody say what they don’t like about this. This is how my 3 bathrooms where plumbed in my last place, I would like to do the same again. Tell me why not.

Get a hammer and smash it into the curved bit, I will bet my right one it’s metal mesh with plaster over it, or plasterboard cut to a curve plastered over. So in effect the arch is a dummy and performs no structural function. Go on dare ya.

Depends how bad your weather is, down here I would just cover the top couple of courses.