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Concrete is easy to find, it’s the pump guy with icf knowledge that you want, if they have never done an icf pump job, don’t use them. This is something you definitely want by recommendation, not the local smash it and run crew.

Fook me, don’t touch it, that’s the top of an old nuclear warhead.

£1200 supply only, 240 square m house 5.3m to the top of the walls. On site for 8 weeks.

£87+ vat a cube £600 cash for a 30m pump.

But that won’t work if you put up battens and plywood, you are still going to have to air seal it.

If you want a nice plastered finish why not tape and joint it, my last house was like this and the new one will be also far easier to get a better desired finish than poor skimming finish plaster is not good for sanding and touching up , whereas the new breed of fine top coat board finishes are designed for sanding. The days of seeing taped joints is long gone as long as you know what level of finish you want.

I worked on a house that was bought for 20 million and left abandoned, as it was listed and they wouldn’t let him do what he wanted, so he let it fall down.

No idea, I’m still looking for it in this backwards stuck in the dark ages country. Readily available in the states and Australia.

Yep that’s normal in the grand scheme of things if he was on site 50 mins it’s only another £30.

Instead of your shadow gap thing do you know you can get a special profile to put between the sheets to provide the gap I’m thinking of having this on a wall and a ceiling, but all hidden fixings.

Couple of sets on e bay near you.

I think you buy them direct from the manufacturer i think mine where BLAKES. If they come bent send them back, no different than buying anything really. They really are hard to damage, imagine some of the Neanderthal blokes that use them.

Where’s Ullapool, oh and hello by the way.

If you talk to swift form make sure you mention me and the pics on there website, I have an order I will be placing soon and expect a reasonable discount.

All I would say is it’s not normal to dig your ring beam trench before the piling contractor, he may struggle to get his rig in position with trenches everywhere, he will also collapse the sides of your trench with his rig. Normally put piles in then dig between the piles.

if You do my version, you use a specific hanger that is multi angle adjustable, it does not have a birds mouth, it fits plumb to a timber you have fitted into the web of the steel, you then plumb cut your timber and offer it up fixing it with the appropriate nails. Loads less cutting, but I think the hangers where £3 each.

@Brickie as we are detached and a long way from the road we could put a rear extension, a side extension and a front extension. Not many people can do that as there are rules regarding setback distances from the road i suppose it would look like one big one if it wrapped all around the building.

Can you not raise the steel up so the timbers are plumb cut to the face of the steel, so hiding the steel in the roof.

It will need to be inspected before you back fill it. Bc will soon tell you if he doesn’t like it. Take a couple of good pics and what you are thinking we will soon tell you if it’s no good.

We sort of did this. We wanted to go from 60m to 260m planning was not happy and said they are likely to refuse it, we asked for a site meeting where we showed them the extent that we could go to under permitted development. We explained that we could put on 3 extensions and a loft conversion over the course of a couple of years and there is nothing to stop us. Or knock it down and build a far better constructed new house. What did help was a scale model of the existing house, with permitted development extensions stuck on, then make a model of new proposed. After presenting the planner with these models he started to look a bit beaten, so told us to put it all in writing showing the exact dimensions that we could achieve under pd, it passed a few weeks later. We did use a planning consultant to do a to do a lot of leg work and it did cost a small fortune but it achieved what we wanted.

What ever you do, do not buy a 1 tonne high tip, they are inherently dangerous and tip over at the slightest bit of poor positioning. For £1000 it will be a pile of crap, you will need to spend £3-4000 to get anything decent a 3 tonne dumper is only £150 for a week to hire. I have been thinking about a tractor and trailer, tractor minimum £2500 trailer £1000 again you get what you pay for.

I have a 50mm main that goes into the metre box, it then has about 100mm of 25mm before the metre. Makes no sense at all, but it seems that’s how it’s done.

That will do move on, next job. ??

You have obviously got a Goodun mate. Treat her well. Mine is a cracker as well, I remember being ill in bed and hearing a bang out side I jumped up to the window and she was on the back of my truck unloading concrete blocks. it does amaze me some of the crap wives my mates have. Well done to you and the misses mate. ??

Ok looks like I’m going to put it in then. Nice beech hedge I think.