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Why, if the finish was not specified or detailed then they laid a footing, if the contractor was not told what was the specific finish then he would have laid a footing to a standard finish which will have a tolerance of up to 50mm over 10m.

You will need to cut a hole in your membrane in more than just one place. Every poo pipe water main bt duct going out for any outside services it it has been done like this forever, don’t worry too much tape them up nicely and you won’t have a problem.

Garage floor paint???

You plonker Rodney ?? so 7-10 days to get up to 2.7 high 1 day to pour 7 days to do nothing 5-7 days to put first floor in 7-15 days to build up second floor including gables 1 day to pour 7 days to do nothing 3 days to remove props, strip out window bracing, de nail and clean everything so that’s my take on it. Lots of variables though how big are your openings, we have some reinforcement cages over some windows that consists of 6m long bars with links every 150mm, those took a stupid amount of time to tie up, probably half a day for one cage. So it really depends if your house is a square box with small windows square box with small windows consists of 4 external corners and just straight bars above openings, very little bracing needed. A complicated house with large openings could add another couple of weeks to that schedule.

You need to go on blue peter.

The only thing I would say is buy them all at once so you can mix up the packs as they are laid, if you buy 5 packs and lay them and then go back and buy another 5 packs, I bet you a pound to a penny you can see a difference in brick shade, colour.

You want to delete the term stretch, should be laid with a little bit of floppy ness, to allow for expansion and contraction.

The membrane needs to go on top of the sarking board, or else any wind driver rain or moisture would get onto the sarking board and soon turn it into a mess, membrane on top to protect everything from the elements. It would also also depend on your roof finish, slate tile, metal sheets.

Eye watering is what springs to mind they quoted me about £70

Does this go through the wall and outside can you not go outside and dig a hole and join it there.

The pee and poo separate in the bowl by themselves, you don’t need to do it. Bowl has a divider thing

Oh is that all, I was thinking you where making a new start with a new house using wealthy jacks money ?????

Excellent read, tell us about your user name. Im very nosey.

I just wouldn’t take the chance, question 1 how long do you intend living here ? if the answer to question 1 is more than a quick tart it up and sell it on, then I would run a new water main. That black alkathane will haunt you for years to com, my neighbours main has been repaired 6 times the first time I did it I told her to replace it, 4 years later she has spent more on repairs than a new one actually cost to put in.

Mistakes can only be rectified if spotted, if your bloke only pops in once a week a lot of stuff will get covered up or hidden a lot can happen in a week. He also needs to be hands on checking not just standing in the middle of a room with a clipboard. For example we have a large large steel beam in the centre of the house fixed down with some chemical anchors, for some reason one anchor didn’t set, but by me checking how tight they where I spotted it and changed it, if I had a lot of subbies rushing about it would have been plasterboarded over the next day and the qs would never have known. Definetly needs to be on site very regularly.

You are right a lot of newer designs really miss the old standard correct way to do something, white render straight to the floor may look good on the architects computer, but it will look rough in 5 years time. We are looking to do something similar to the pic.

Our roofing supplier are providing flashings bent to any profile @£14 per m. Are they aluminium or galv coated.

At the speed a build moves on, 1-2 hours a week will be to late to have spotted something, he will spot them but it will be in and then need rectifying. I would think a visit every other day would be more like it, an hour on site will take up 2 hours of someone’s time, I would think you would pay £30-50 an hour so couple of hundred a week, so it’s going to cost 6-10 grand. Just need to work out if if it’s worth it.

Bit of a bodge, plenty of sikaflex.

Oh ok I think I’m confusing it with the insulation you put down and push the pipes into the grooves i think you wanted it for drainage issues didn’t you.

Lake is between 5-7 foot, lake is all ours, neighbour has his own lake, i know the neighbour very well and he loves his system, but it has been in a while and he gets a large fit payment that covers energy usage, so his view maybe a bit lopsided.

Is it me or are they upside down.

@Onoff, the lake is ours, not shared the lake in the pic is a smaller one that we cleaned out a couple of years ago. My neighbours lake has 800m of pipe, he has 4 pipes that are 200m long, 100m out and 100m return to the house, all 4 pipes return to a big manifold in a box in the lawn, then there are two larger pipes that enter the house. His pipe is 32mm. Onoff has has a good memory, when we dug out for the house we found 2 existing footings in the ground that we think may have been from a conveyor belt or something.

Easy peasey

Buy a digger.