Russell griffiths

I have seen this done on a few builds on here, just check you are allowed to use clipped head nails for your sheathing I have always been under the impression that if it’s for racking strength than a coil nailer is needed as clipped head nails are not the right spec for racking boards, it’s probably an American thing so just check. As for the dewalt nailer i would give it a wide berth, it has one of the worst write ups I have seen in a while, and all my tools are dewalt. Hikoki or the new name for hitachi is meant to be the go to first fix gun.

Funny how they built them with flat roofs, I remember the caretakers place at my old school. Loft trusses and a crane will transform the place in a few days.

I built a deck at my old place and the difference in cost from nails to screws was a £1000 more for screws. As a bloke that owns 4 nail guns I would say look at the gun you buy and if it needs gas or not as the cost can be significant buying all the gas, I have just gone backwards in technology and bought an air nailer for my roof, 3000 nails and it didn’t miss a beat, my gas nailer would have been a bloody pain it suffers with so many miss fires.

Nail gun nails are very standard practice, i Just like to do things better than standard so used screws on all mine, with the exception of any metal brackets that are in a shear load application so the correct nails should be used. I have just put over 3000 nail gun nails in my roof, so I’m not anti nail I just prefer the tight pull together you get with a well placed screw.

Yes, why not, screws are far superior for pulling together but as for saving the cost of a nail gun, by the time you have brought lots of screws it would be cheaper to buy a nail gun. I have screwed all my structural walls as 90mm nails are just not up to the job of fixing structural timber of any size, ok for some light studwork internal stuff.

Not finished thinking yet, thinking along the lines of a plywood box fitted inside the window reveals, and fit windows to that. @mvincentd

I can’t see how that screw in the pic has come into contact with concrete unless it did a 90degree bend inside the wall, surely there is no concrete in that location close to the edge of the blocks. ?

Very sorry to hear that Mike, if you fancy a break come for a visit, russ.

Will be a massive pita to cut and fit, then you need to tape it all up to provide your vapour control, then you need to go over it anyway as I don’t believe it will meet building regs. Loft roll is cheap and easy to install, so is a vapour barrier. Only my opinion obviously.

Sell it on and buy loft roll.

Who is doing your calculations on loading, some of those timbers look small for a green roof. And connecting to the rafter tails looks optimistic. I would install another wall plate on top of your stone wall, then send your new rafters through to sit on plate.

TBH the more I look the more I hate it, will cause you years of misery, you need to create a large volume flat bottom box gutter.

Why the green roof ? cross sectional area of hidden gutter is far to small, make the bottom flat to increase volume, will block up in a heartbeat.

I will hold back on my comments until I put a line on mine tomorrow to have a look.

A friend of mine came to the house yesterday and asked me about self builds and was very surprised when I said a lot of new builds where timber frame. Is it possible to do a poll to to see what construction method people have used. Would it it be possible for one of the mods to set this up as a poll. Im building with ICF, what you doing. Any chance mods, I know your not that busy. Cheers russ. Yea someone did it for me, cheers mods, has given me a warm fuzzy feeling after a rather stressful afternoon. ??

I was going to comment @AnonymousBosch But since you insulated me the other day with your over thinking it comment I think I will refrain and keep my obviously correct answer to my self. Oh sod it, it must be my good nature. I have found with most most things if you make a cock up you end up chasing this cock up on and on, far better to look at replacing something to get back on the right track. I would look at that roof flashing and get one re,made with a larger projection so you can continue your cladding up and finish it under the roof like it’s meant to. Strip iy off and put it right, don’t chase this bodge all the way around as it will haunt you somewhere else. What happens at the corners. Have you got your details correct at ground level. Can you do one of your Picasso style renditions of the bottom. Cheers russ.

Are you talking about the end with the double doors??? if so it would probably have a steel goal post setup, so two posts either side of the double doors with a steel across, then the long steel bolts either on top if you want it hidden in the ceiling or the side if you want it visible. Make sense. .??

I have no experience with this, but my thoughts after doing icf pours would be I would expect the concrete to be air proof so I cannot see what a vapour check on the inside would achieve

I did the full design on mine I started like this. How many beds ? how many baths? Then write down the dimensions that room HAS to be do this for all rooms and keep it a secret it’s like a game, ask the wife to do exactly the same, then sit down and compare answers, add it all up and see if you have similar thoughts, look at hers and laugh at the 40m square walk in robe, then cut out all theses shapes on graph paper and wiggle them around trying to find a layout that works, this works better if you have a scale site plan. Then chuck this lot in an architectural program nd shuffle it all about.

A friend of mine suggested I put a patio door in the bedroom as it will be nice to get up and walk outside, I said I thought it was a stupid idea, he said he had one, I said how often do you use it, he said he hadn’t used it in a number of years as he had actually lost the keys. ??

How old are you, we are building single storey, our last house was single storey, I wouldn’t want an upstairs anymore, as long as you have the room to fit it all in downstairs I don’t see what the second storey adds apart from extra space. Regarding 11 roof windows, that will be a major pain and cause you no end of trouble trying to get them correctly aligned with the roof. Balcony, do you think after the initial honeymoon period has worn off will you actually pour a gin and tonic and walk upstairs to use it, far easier to walk out the back and sit on a nice patio.

Trellis.

Go and have it cut,

Haven’t bought any yet I’m just looking at asking the right questions i cannot get my head around fixing all air leakage issues everywhere and then fit a window that is a bit drafty.

Make sure you order them with trimable blocks on the ends, so you can tweak a good fit in site.