Russell griffiths

You need to be very careful that you set out so your standards don’t interfere with fitting your soffit and facia, my scaffolding came with a set of brackets that sit on the inside towards the wall to alllow you to build your scaffolding further out but still have a plank close to the wall. If instructing a scaffolding contractor you will you will need to specify your soffit depth to make sure that the inner standards do not get in the way. A quick drag with the digger soon sorts it out though if you build it so close.

What is the flange width they specified i had my i joists for my roof upgraded from 69mm to 96 mm as I asked for the deflection to be virtually eliminated.

I would wait for people to confirm what I’m thinking, but I think you need aTONY TRAY. i havnt looked into it much but I’m thinking of doing something similar with my roof you basically get a strip say 600-750mm wide of your chosen air tight membrane and install this first horizontally around the building at the floor height, you then install all your hard ware and joists onto this leaving a flap hanging down below ceiling level and one poking up above first floor level, you then tape your other membranes to this strip as you finish your build. Im sure someone will have a sketch.

Ok cool, I was envisaging a more office type thing, 600 x600 fitted into a false ceiling affair.

Anybody got a pic of these flat panel lights your all talking about.

Timber will be treated with something, don’t know what yet as I want to try and replicate that picture.

Thanks for that, after the visit to the local saw mill I think I have discounted that idea. Not really what we are after, but I like to use local suppliers so I thought I would have a look.

Thanks both of you, we have a distinct look we are after, the picture shows a house we have based all our thoughts on.

Evening all has anybody got any recommendations for types of timber they used and who they got it from. Had some samples from MILLWORKS just getting samples ready so we can stain them up to do a comparison local sawmill is coming out dearer than some some of the speciality cladding places. Also so interested in any stains or finishes you used. Cheers russ.

What’s the plot worth to you, spending an extra couple of grand and ending up with a £200000 plot is a small price to pay.

that polar wall method looks spot on with your system but if you fancy the rim board sitting on the face of the wall, look at the vid. This is what I did and it was straight forward.

@Vijay all Icf are different obviously, but on a few of the makes I looked at that was not how it was done. I will try and find a vid after dinner to show you what I did. Worked a treat.

I’m missing something in this can you tell us why you don’t just get the pre commencement conditions discharged, and then carry on as normal.

would it be easier to face fit the pole plate, instead of replacing the actual icf the pic is for a roof but would be very similar except for more bolts and different spacing for a floor. If you remove the icf and replace with timber, do you not loose an insulation layer. @Vijay

PICTURE.

Can you pour a strip of floor leveling compound around the edge to bring the concrete up nice and level you can also get a special sanding tool for eps so you can take off any high spots i would want to spend a day on this getting the two as accurate as I could. I found a company the other other day that makes a sill gaskets that have a couple of raised hollow sections that squash down with the weight of the sill, however I can’t find it now. ?

Top hanging would not require a joist hanger, so probably saving £2 -£4 per joist. Ive just had a box of 132 hangers turn up, it can add up. With the face fix hangers you do actually need to nail them on, which sounds simple and it is, but 132 hangers with 14 nails per hanger can take a while. Top hung you cut a spacer block and drop them on using the spacer to get the correct centres. Easy peasy. I think if it was me I would top hang onto all external walls, top hang on to all steels and use a built in masonry hanger into the block walls. If you download the Cullen timber hanger pdf it will show all the options.

There is a high build one that will do that height in one go.

I can’t really say what I paid for my i joists, as I had lots of other timber in with the same order i just remember when i first started looking I priced up a 225x47 timber and it was under half what the same i joist would have been however if you can use a wider but thinner i joist like a 300x45 these get cheaper as the cost is the top and bottom flange not the web. I could have saved £1500 on my roof if I wanted to use a 300 deep joist instead of 220.

What I will say is, have you priced up those I joists thinking this will be a cheap way to build a wall I think is wrong. I have just had my i joists for my roof delivered, the cost of the i joist instead of standard timber was far more than double the price. Looking at an mbc twin twin stud wall, this is a cheaper method, it sticks to standard cls sized timber with spacer blocks. I joists are exspensive.

Just because the field next door is good for strip foundations doesn't always mean that yours will be. You can have rock in one field sticking out of the ground and peat in the next. This is also very true, with my situation I found my closest neighbours had piled, and the house500m away was on piles, and 200 new holiday homes being built where on piles, so it sort of dawned on me that’s what was going to happen.

We have just finished our icf, we went with nudura very happy with the outcome, nudura rep. Steve burgess 07703565594. Structural engineer. Anthony Bartlam 01527835000 having looked through a lot of companies portfolios I can’t see any reason you can’t build what you want with icf.

You may find with lead you get a bit of staining, ask him about patination oil.

I have used aluminium and liked it.

When I started thinking about foundations I walked around all the neighbourhood and looked for anything that was newly built, I talked to all the owners to find out what they had done for foundations, I asked 3 different neighbours and got the same answer from all of them. Why dont you do a bit of legwork, and ask locally.