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Nice one rodders ??

I would say that is fairly typical of bays, house will have very minor footings, bay will have even less, ground shrinks, bay drops walk along the road and look at all the others to see if you spot any more like it. I would keep very quiet at the moment until you do some more homework @ProDave if you get your insurance co involved in a subsidence claim it could go on for years, leaving the home owner unable to sell whilst a claim is being processed, you then have to sell a property with a subsidence loss against it. I would be very careful before I called them.

What’s a cheat lens.

Went last year, very good show compared to grand designs.

How will movement effect you, gabion baskets have the ability to move a bit unnoticed, however a block wall will show up a crack immediately there is a problem. I say say this with lots of experience on a £50,000 landscaping job I was involved in, the ground was so volatile that we suggested gabion baskets so any minor movement was unnoticed, the other contractor recommended reinforced block wall, we walked away, some time later I did a job for the neighbour and they told me the first time the river burst it’s banks it sucked all the soil out from under the walls footing and it dropped a few mm resulting in a series of cracks I believe it all ended up in court with nobody coming off well. If in doubt let it flex.

I think @Mr Punteryou have your measurements wrong 450mm min height or 450mm min width, not 450 x450 has to be something like 0.33 m squared or something like that. Just sorting mine now and was reading it last night. 450x450 would be a very small hole.

Because you are not mixing the rain in with the concrete the concrete will come in a truck, from the moment that truck leaves the yard that concrete will start to cure by the time it gets to your job it will be well on it’s way if it takes 30 minutes to unload the truck, and they get it all in by 10.30 you could lay bricks on it 24hours later that concrete will be bashed into shape with the end of a rake or at best a piece of wood, the finish will be rough at best and bloody atrocious at worst. you are not going to jump in the trench and mix the rain in, it will sit on top as the concrete cures the rain will just sit on top like oil sitting on top of water, the two will not combine if this was a finished floor it would be different.

I used guttercrest looks the absolute dogs. Cheaper than that horrible lindab stuff.

Mr @zoothorn what are you going to do when it rains when you are getting the timber frame put up, there is nothing you can do to stop it raining in this country, if everybody stopped and waited for it to be sunny nothing would ever get built. Your concrete will set perfectly well even with 50mm of water sitting on top, it is a chemical reaction not dependent on having sunshine on it to make it go off. If these builders are local they will be very used to your crap weather and will deal with it accordingly.

It’s a foundation mate not a finished floor, don’t panic

Go to the fishing tackle shop and buy lots of treble hooks, hang them at face height inside container.

Sorry to hear that mate, I think you are privileged the old bill turned up,I have heard of areas where they just give you a crime number over the phone. They all need their fingers cutting of with a pair of secateurs, then give them no benefits and let them starve to death on the streets. Utter scum.

To varied a question really. Are you looking for a cheap frame to meet building regs? Or a very good design with thick walls to passive house standards. You can get a very cheap frame that the mass house builders use, and then try and upgrade it, or go for the best your budget allows.

here ya go. Picture stolen from nick the welsh wizard.

Have only seen the write ups on the no gas version, looks very good.

Hikoki gun has no gas, battery only.

Nope, complete waste of money.

Yep, don’t buy it paslode or hikoki are the better first fix nailers, the dewalt one has such a bad write up.

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