Russell griffiths

What should I be looking for or asking for in regards air tightness guarantee, so I fit my bloody expensive windows, then have an air test and they leak like a sieve, all sealed correctly around the outside, actually leaking from the opening part. What sort of guarantee did yours come with.

Like the pic but just upstairs, will need a good detail around the windows, but not hard.

In that case, build the timber frame straight up, and get an additional Larson truss type arrangement screwed on the outside, render board and render.

Can you build it out of studwork and plasterboard it, I will include a pic of something I did which isn’t exactly the same but you could pinch some ideas from it. like these walls that where used to separate off the front door from the living room, also the book shelf thingy, you could incorporate this on the ends to store junk that women collect.

Not if you design them out

I work on the principle that if I haven’t used something in two years, then you don’t need it so it goes in the skip.

Do you want, or need the extra insulation upstairs? if not why not just get a frame company to build a frame that steps out seems an expensive solution to the problem, and a pain to fit, 250mm fixings cor blimey.

The only internal doors I have in my entire house are on the bedrooms

Norrsken, a bit pricey.

We had to drop rationel as they couldn’t supply our large windows in one piece, they started to split them into 3 separate components which was not what I wanted.

If I go there I'll certainly be digging a deep hole I can lend you a digger. ??

I thought you where core filling it, so will be plenty strong enough. Get it up get it finished move on to the next job. Remember you have a raised deck to build in Wales.

Why. Just whack it in as it is, will see you out.

I wonder if this could work, could you have heating in the entire slab but add additional insulation under units to keep the heat from rising up under the units. Silly idea. What you think peeps.

Is it not identified in your party wall agreement what limit of insurance you need, and by whom.

Ok mr realist here. Are you sure that A frame will comply with building regs, I have looked at these and they struck me as being more for holiday lets. Do you live in Gloucestershire now, I live in Cirencester and regularly look at building plots anywhere from Tewksbury to Cirencester for the budget you are looking at they are not exactly sought after plots, they are normally infill blocks squashed on the end of a row of local authority houses. I hope you can prove me wrong, and I wish you all the luck in the world, but I think your figures are unrealistic.

Morning all, so I know about not having pipes under kitchen units and stuff, so if I look at my ground floor and have a quick guess I would say 20% of the floor will have one thing or another on it so no pipes underneath. Does this not lead to cold areas of the slab, so making the system work harder as the cold areas pull heat from the heated areas. Would it not be better to heat the whole floor but to a lower temperature. Ta very much.

Well I think you all just pissed on the original posters fireworks. You bunch of meanies.

That’s a fibreglass canopy made in a factory and installed on site. Looks like it leans backwards towards wall. To confirm this get s hosepipe and simulate a bit of rain, see if it tracks back against wall put a spirit level on underside of canopy, I bet it slopes backwards. Re, fit leaning away from house

Looking at your drawing, depending on depths could you not have a manhole in the exact location in the first drawing but outside the building line, so your new pipes run shallow over the top of the sewer, then outside to a manhole, this then drops down into the sewer.

As long as you can rod unblock you can put it wherever you want, there are no hard and fast rules, you need to demonstrate a method that works. With your long house wouldn’t having rodding eyes at the far end be a long way to go, surely your second drawing is fairly simple.

Where are you? I could come and see if it’s any good, or a disaster ??

Not yet, but I’m looking into it.

Common sense should tell you not having any outside rodding access is not sensible. ???????

I prefer your second option. Hate the first version. ??