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  1. Russell griffiths
    Get a stand at the self build shows, there’s a fair bit of competition though.
  2. Russell griffiths
    Being that you are in bare icf, just hack the foam off and move the vents up, it will all be behind your brick slips, you will also be able to get them to line up perfectly with a full brick that way. winner winner chicken dinner.
  3. Russell griffiths
    i have an area that was going to be 150 down, I now like the idea of bringing it up level with the back door, so 4 vents are low, I’m installing these in my paving area.
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    What difference is it making, they are a bit high, are you thinking the area of level access will cover them, I purposely left ours out in the area of the disabled ramp. yours are probably better high if you are talking about patio area, as you don’t want them underground.
  5. Russell griffiths
    All my planning drawings state FFH at 88.75 which when referenced to the TOPO shows exactly where it should be. you then take a fixed point from the TOPO like a manhole cover, for arguments sake, manhole at 87.75, so FFH 1m above that manhole, give or take a little bit, you generally bang a stake in well out the way and transfer all the crucial measurements to it, so you can then rip the site up and it doesn’t matter if the manhole gets disturbed.
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    Do you understand that if it’s not your principle residence then you can’t claim the vat back, you might also pick up an infrastructure levy from your council, not sure on that one due to the size. Why split the land, could you build it as an attached annex. is 37m large enough for the legal size of a 1 bed dwelling.
  7. Russell griffiths
    And FFH should be defined on your TOPO survey. &nbsp
  8. Russell griffiths
    Have you considered an extractor in a drop down ceiling now I’ve seen those other diagrams, isn’t it a simple job of getting the drawers made with a reduced depth.
  9. Russell griffiths
    I get asked this a lot, as mines been going on for 6 years. but just look at the people asking, got nothing do nothing achieved nothing.
  10. Russell griffiths
    Time to teach the wife to drive on the driveway, not off over the edge of it 🤣🤣
  11. Russell griffiths
    Can you not just put a void between the two sets of cupboards, pack it out with some timber. you would need larger end panels obviously. have you included the service void that is behind your cabinets in your measurements. @torre snap.
  12. Russell griffiths
    Why would you need to change to render. insulate between the studs, then over the face of them on the outside with some form of wood fibre insulation, then a batten and then re cladding. I’ve obviously missed out lots of steps like membranes, but all different systems have membranes in different locations, so there’s no point going into detail, until you start really looking into what you want to achieve.
  13. Russell griffiths
    You really don’t want to buy this through a merchants, go to an online insulation supplier, or sig if you merchant is limited to what they can get, shop elsewhere, I have 3 accounts with local merchants and buy hardly anything from them, insulation superstore or equivalent. definitely ditch the silver blanket.
  14. Russell griffiths
    Pictures and a drawing needed really. kingspan or pir would be the last thing I would use, hard to fit well, expensive i would make the frame deeper and use a rigid rockwool batt of some sort. are you removing the plasterboard.
  15. Russell griffiths
    Well I’ll be buggered, I was told a couple of years ago that I needed paperwork of some sort to show before it could be purchased.
  16. Russell griffiths
    I thought that as I was typing it yesterday. 🤦🏻‍♂️
  17. Russell griffiths
    Months and months of research by the time you have found a plot, you should have the build method set in stone in your head.
  18. Russell griffiths
    Show us some pictures and what your looking to do, then give us an idea of how much you are wanting to do yourself. a lot of people on here are doing loads of work themselves, it’s the only way to keep the costs under control. if you go for a main contractor doing 100% then I bet it costs more than you ever imagined it would.
  19. Russell griffiths
    I would not do this job until the house is built, al, you will do is end up with a swampy mess after everyone has driven over it and put scaffolding on it. keep it 4-5m back from the house site.
  20. Russell griffiths
    I wouldn’t think your location would have much bearing on cost, the windows don’t come from down south unless your thinking of Dover, as most of them come in from Lithuania. the fitters just travel around the country so that shouldn’t have much bearing either. if you can accept the windows directly you will save a big chunk, you will need a forklift to offload though.
  21. Russell griffiths
    How come nobody is checking you have the dispensation paperwork to allow its use. is it another government idea that nobody is policing. im still buying it, but I know I shouldn’t be using it, according to the new regs.
  22. Russell griffiths
    Do all your neighbours hate you ?.🤣🤣 could you park it around the back of one of their places in exchange for some beer tokens.
  23. Russell griffiths
    Hire a machine for a couple of weekends get your pad down for the static caravan, get some services run to it, hire a septic tank that sits under a porta cabin. move into static buy own digger put in sewage treatment plant off hire septic tank. or buy a trailer and take your digger home with you.
  24. Russell griffiths
    With your wall that has 5-6 boards on it, I’m afraid you need to get faster and level up all the boards at once. so a two bag mix in a big tub, get all your dabs on fast, then slap the bards up and use a 3m straight edge to level all boards into each other at the same time, also plumbing them as well. you won’t need to go to the gym that night.
  25. Russell griffiths
    Do not put a small excavator on site until you live there. especially as your neighbours don’t exactly like you. 😂😂 mine is insured on my self build policy, but I’m not sure about an empty site, I wouldn’t.
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