Russell griffiths

I have found eps to be about a third of the cost of pir

I did watch that the other night and thought that the yanks had gone about this in a strange way, i joist and celotex would do exactly the same.

I carried out my own soil survey, with a mini digger and lots of common sense, maybe you could talk to basement construction companies and have them do a trial hole to see if they find anything scary. Have you got a rough ball park figure for a basement, in that location, my thoughts would be the costs will be the highest you will find anywhere in the country. You will also need to be careful of not overspending. This is coming from a former north west London resident, who built the most expensive end of terrace house in the street.

Sorry mate, I think you have just had a lesson on life. Take the grand and be a bit wiser next time.

Come down and grab the digger and dumper, I’m in all day.

Change it the subject, is there a reason you haven’t got joist hangers on those joist ends.

It shouldn’t be parallel sided it should have a step in it. 4inch cast is a lot smaller than 110mm plastic.

like this one.

That link does also not look right, you did ask for cast to plastic, and not just a cast coupling.

They used to come in one size fits all, now you can get a hundred different sizes. I have used one one that has an inner flange that sits on top of your cast pipe and then the plastic slides in and also touches the lip, I would think you have one slightly to big or your cast is a bit small.

So now we have established your farmer Giles, you should start to think how to apply your farmer discount code. Groundworks clearing the site, I bet you have a digger or a front loader, I bet you can find a corner of a field to put the spoil. Ca ching. You just saved £2-3000 in muckaway costs. Water, I bet in the past you have run a good few m of pipe around the farm, simple isn’t it, so you can install your own water supply. Electrics, so you have 3 phase on site, perfect. So you are about £10,000 ahead of someone with little knowledge living in suburbia. What does the main house look like, would you like to match it or go completely different. You and the misses must have a few ideas knocking about.

Walk into the local office, talk to head of bc and tell him your thoughts i have found mine to be perfectly approachable and very helpful.

No idea I plucked the figures out of thin air while eating my lunch. Have you worked out what you want to build yet.

Can you imagine the heating bills.

Perfect, so you need to build the best possible home you can, if you think you will be there 20years end up having kids who won’t leave home. I would build a 4 bed 2 bath house as a shell, install a £1000 kitchen and just finish one en-suite, no. Internal doors skirting, flooring, build it to the best standard you can. And finish it at a later date. Planning, architect, building regs, warrant £15000 foundations,floor £12-18000 timberframe £50-65000 roof £15-20000 services £3-8000 brick skin £12000 plumbing £8-12000 electrics £3-6000 then move in, so you need to find £30,000 on top of your savings its time to start designing, come on what you waiting for

Ok so now we are getting somewhere, so it’s a family farm and you need to stay local to run the farm. i will ask some more questions how old are you? are you married? any kids? How long till mum and dad croak? my friend has just built on his dads farm, under some agricultural thing he got planning easy, but it had to stay under a certain size and also cost very little. I think it is about 100m and cost him about £120,000 to build. But this is why you need to answer the questions. He is 40 years old and single, his mum and dad are 70 years old, he plans to run the farm brother not interested,the plan is he will live in the small house for a few years until one of the parents croak, he will then move into the main farm house and the remaining parent will move into the small one, he will then find a wife as they will all come running when they see he’s a rich farmer with a big house. You need a plan, just because you have a bit of land doesn’t mean you need to build a house. why not put up a nice log cabin for £60,000

No you are missing the point you can build for £1000 a metre but is this what you want, £2000 a metre gets you what you want. As as I said before that you are not answering what is this house for??? why do you want to build a house??? a couple of answers to make a good profit and sell and move on or it’s a home for my family to live in for 10-15 years both answers will have implications on your build cost you need to answer this first i am hoping to come in at around £1000 per metre, but I’m one of only a few on here that will build it myself with no outside help, apart from electrical and a bit of plumbing there is is no point you spending £2000 per metre and selling at a loss, you need to look at why you are building if your family are giving you land you will make more profit by getting planning and selling to another self builder as plots are like gold dust. I could have built a nice family family home for £120,000 on my plot, but that would be stupid, the plot it sits on is worth many times that so it demands a good house of a certain spec, building a grand design thing on a corner plot in down town Beirut is stupid you need to think why and for what before you go any further.

I think what you put around your timberframe is down to the final finish. If you want brick then use brick if you want stone then use stone if you want render, then blocks with render, not a silly board that you render onto if its timber cladding then that can be fixed direct with battens

Ok. Hadn’t thought of frost.

You can get a plasterboard bead to create the shadow gap.

cavity closer system for nudura. Tape the inside and outside and I cannot see a lot getting through there.

Why would a brick slip need to meet a British standard.

Nope just full pp. topo survey flood risk survey contaminated land survey architect planning consultant ecology survey landscape designers, photos you can spend it real quick if you try.

I thought a pre app was about £500 if your not prepared to do that I think you should walk away now. My planning application cost £14,600. Why would a building company do an application for you.

I used a door as a jig on my last place placed between the jambs with packers, then screwed to the door lift the whole lot in place, and fix, when all screwed in remove the door and put it into the next frame. Is that what you mean.