Russell griffiths

@Patrick sarcastic head on. You had a go at cutting a tree down ?? look how that ended !!! sarcastic head off, your piling contractor will want a PIN in the ground on every pile location. You will need to set out the very rough area of your house, let’s say it takes you 2-3 hours. You then clear the site. Then you will need to set up some profiles detailing wall locations let’s say another 3 hours. Then you will need to mark out pile locations, I believe you have 30 of these, let’s say another 2 hours. I am very much into people getting stuck in. But you need to weigh up a few things, how long is it going to take to build this? Are you paying rent or a mortgage? Do you have a mortgage on your plot, all these things will have an impact on cost versus time. You could dig your own clay and make your own bricks, Er no don’t be ridiculous. When I was starting to think about mine I actually considered buying a concrete mixing truck and driving to the concrete plant and mixing it all myself, I even thought about buying a concrete pump. i soon decided this was a step too far.

They came as a package from the i joist company webbs timber in Gloucester it May have been they where cheaper as I had £7000 of timber from them. Never priced them separately

Why is he concerned on the number of penetrations, what is the problem with more ? i have 4 toilets, 1 kitchen 1 boot room all 110mm pipes coming up then 60mm ducts for water main, electric in,electric out,comms in, so 10 penetrations up through our beam and block floor whats the problem?

I have mentioned this before so I probably sound like a broken record, my surveyor came to site 3 times to set out and it cost under £400 no brainier not worth spending your time on it.

We used these nothing like the price you mention. Made by CULLEN bend to match angle and fit any width timber, I think they where about a couple of quid each. I fitted over 70 and didn’t find any problems.

A few things you could do to remove some agro employ a structural engineer to design it employ a surveyor to set out the slab and all pipe penetrations you will need another man, not wife, to help you move all the steel and tie it up if you put a few of these things in place it should be straight forward, if you try to do everything yourself you might feel a bit overwhelmed

@Conor can you tell me who you are getting your self compacting concrete from, I’m looking at doing my floor slab in it in stead of liquid screed.

Any reason you need all these measurements @Patrick I just sent the dwg to the surveying co who came to site to set it out, they came to site 3 times and the bill was under £400 inc vat, it’s a no brainier really as their accuracy is just spot on.

Why not put the pipe in the same time as the conduit, the cost is pennies and it will save any hassle later, the conduit is only there for emergency replacement and will probably never be used as the life expectancy of mdpe is huge.

Have you not thought about an insulated slab. @howplum

Nope, the thing circled is a 12mm anchor stud, with an additional nut on the bottom instead of the J. in this pic you can see a flat strap on top of the pole plate, this is 40mm wide by 1.5mm thick it is embedded into the concrete core, I think you will only need this on a mono pitch with no ceiling rafters like mine as it is there to prevent spread.

I think you are over thinking this, what the bloody hell are you Going to do to create that much water?

Do you have any pictures? can the outside get 100mm bigger?

What did you use to the wall plate for the roof rafters, J anchor bolts? not really sure what you mean by this @Vijay

Pole plate for roof rafters. The metal straps sticking out are restraint straps, embedded into concrete core. Wall plate for roof rafters.

For roof hold down 12mm spaced at 1200mm for first floor pole plate 16mm spaced either side of hangers, very over kill but they don’t cost a lot. First floor.

It’s the pricing that is confusing me, had a quote from rationel that is higher than two quotes from far better quality window companies, you cannot really put them in the same league at all, yet rationel is the dearest.

When wallpapering my dad would always write. I HATE THIS BLOODY JOB then paper over it.

Can you not use a dumper, there cannot be a lot in each pile cap.

I personally would dig around your mdpe to get a bit of movement, then bring it up through the floor into either a cupboard or a void in the wall, then connect an mdpe stop valve then a reducer from mdpe to hep, then onwards and upwards. Bringing it through the wall will require multiple mdpe bends which are bulky and make an ugly fitting, I wouldn’t use hep outside as you will need to insulate it heavily.

How about air source heat pumps, I would say a great deal of us on here are going to use them, they are small so easy to store, a lot on here have gone for the same make. I cannot see how it can work with glass, surely that would be dependent on all having the same window manufacturer, you cannot just order the glass.

Are these tubes your putting in actually 3foot across ?

I take it your not very fond of walking @Triassic can you imagine that letting go and hitting you in the ankle, cannot really see how this is allowed to be sold over here. Looks about as friendly as the toothed blades that fit in an angle grinder. Not for me im afraid.

Post Crete will be a very expensive way of doing it.

roll of wire and a pair of nippers also.