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Joint near the floor.

Tbh a caravan is a bad idea, they are cramped, the door is too small for your average Groundworks team whatever it costs you will be wasted as when you are finished it will need to go for scrap. We have an old lorry body that was free, I just paid to get it collected, it is about 3m long by 2m wide we built a shelf that has a microwave, toaster and kettle on it. We have a small fridge, we then put 10 hooks on the wall that we all hang our coats on. It makes for a good working relationship between you and the guys. I have been both contractor and client and I know a nice site is somewhere the boys will want to be on a Monday, if your site is swimming in mud and unpleasant to be at it doesn’t take a lot to persuade your average brickie to bugger off if offered something better.

Can you sand the flooring down and re, coat when all built in place.

You may find an internal wall may not be load bearing but it may be there as a racking wall, long runs of exterior walls will need internal walls to stop buckling and other things can you imagine building a complete outer shell with no internal walls, it would need to be very stiff to withstand wind pressure and loading from the trusses i would check with the frame manufacturer before getting to intothis idea. It maybe that that they can build in some nibs,and then you continue in steel, but that seems like a lot of hassle.

As Jeremy said Norma setback for architrave is about 5 mm, so flooring should work.

Are you gonna change your user name. Hephaestus. Oh go on. @recoveringacademic

Ha ha, not going to live that comment down am I. Although it was funny if I was going to make this I would make a jig up, if you have thought of this then ignore me. Grab a sheet of ply and draw out exactly to scale your balcony screw little blocks on to mark out all your spacing between bars and top to bottom etc. Cut steel and lay on your jig so all your steel sits exactly on top of there drawn shape drop a chunk of 2x2 across it all and screw down to hold it all still tack weld every joint now you can weld it all up with out it all going wibbly wobbly. or just go and get a chunk of glass cut to go over the door go get them HEPHAESTUS ??☄️⚡️⚡️

Nope been there done that. Machine is sitting on a set of BOG MATTS large wooden planks used in construction projects used to spread the weight of cranes and things.

how much land ya got

Just as a side thought that may not be relevant at all is this a property that is already there, or are you trying to get planning the reason I ask is that track seems a bit narrow for a fire engine so may effect planning.

Take a couple of tiles out, build up a tower to same height of missing tiles, span from tower to missing tiles with a couple of scaffolding boards, span over these two boards with other boards to make a platform.

Do you know if there are any joins in it. Tree roots ??

Your an electrician, can you lay your hands on one of those fibreglass cable pulling things on a roll like the telecommunications guys use. Poke it in have a hunt.

No idea it poked out of the slab a good 75-80 mm

And end up deaf when they are 60 WHAT DID YOU SAY,

Hi will have you checked your preferred water bar against logic blocks i went to see two icf houses both with basements, the water bar poked up out of the slab to high and interfered with the lowest plastic web in the block. Have a check.

Anybody know if dewalt make a quite one. Couldnt stand the racket of the other one.

Hi will if it is only one section at 0.7 m high that is retaining, why not build that bit up and pour it straight away extending slightly into the non retaining part, add starter bars and continue with the rest at a later date work out concrete amount and try to stick to say 5m so just a small truck load get a line pump in stead of a boom as you won’t need it to just go up a metre.

Just sold mine as I couldn’t stand the noise, I cannot see the point in them to be honest, I’m just about to put in 2100 100mm screws into laminated timber and I know I won’t have any problems with my standard drill/driver.

Can you reach it SAFELY from on th roof if so build the tower up and bridge across to the roof with scaffold boards, or a youngman you will need to protect the roof with something soft and then put a board parallel with the roof and then boards on top of these to form a bridge. How wide are the lean to,s Can you put a tower both sides and span across with a youngman board. IF IN ANY DOUBT DONT DO IT.

It genius for this country but years behind the rest of the world you can buy them in oz pre made to set sizes and custom you fit them first and then board down over it you can also screed in it to create falls. They make them in fibreglass in oz to in oz when you build a new house there are a couple of things you are not allowed to diy, one of them is bathroom waterproofing has to be done by a licensed installation team. It’s normally a fibre reinforced liquid applied to the whole room perimeter.

@recoveringacademicJust a thought, if you run out of those dreadful plastic things buy some of these instead loads better, sit flatter, don’t damage face of insulation so much.

IMHO silly idea how will you install cavity closers ? you will end up with lots of 400-500mm long bits, what you going to do with these. A lad near near me has just done a nudura house with literally no wastage ( I have tons of it ) his answer was to adjust all sizing to block sizes so in effect a window must be either 1-2-3-4-5-6 courses high so a lintel sits on a course, as well as the window cill height 1-2-3 blocks from the footing, doors set 1block up from the footing, its very doable, it just didn’t fit my design i should have laid another block all around my footing to save 2 days of cutting the icf to get the correct ffh but you could procrastinate about this for months. 1 course of extra blocks for me would have been about 160 blocks, so buy them and lay them would be £500 or you chop up some polystyrene for a couple of days unless you have costed this to the nearest grand I think it would be hard to pick between the two. Now my angry bit. How many icf houses have you been and viewed whilst being built ? how many pours have you been to and watched. I think the best way to get a grip of this is to get hands on and touch some blocks. I viewed 4 houses mid construction, and went to two pours. I then chose the product I liked it happened to be the dearest of all 3 quotes I got.

I find the best method for me in a meeting is to sit right next to my wife at the hint that I’m about to start ranting she gives me a swift kick on the shin under the table. Regarding our planning consultant, I really wanted a cut n thrust go get them attitude but she used to stand very quite at the meetings, all I wanted was her to grab the council guy by the throat and start throttling but no she stood there in silence then 10 minutes from the end blurted out, so according to paragraph 5 of the town and planning act, bla bla bla bla bla, you don’t really have any reason to object she earned her £5,000 in under 10 minutes my plot of land and went up £500,000 over night if you confident go get em tiger.