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You must have a purlin under there, surely just re read it, do you mean span, as in wall to wall, or do you mean 7m from wall plate to ridge i struggled to find any timber longer than 6m unless it’s a telegraph pole.

If your span is 8m then you need to look at what product you will use as rafters you certainly won’t be using solid timber, so it will be an engineered product. If you don’t use a blown in product you need to look at how you will fit the insulation, you really don’t want to try and fit pir between I joists as that will be a ball ache of a job to do well. You will need a blown product, or something squishy to fill the awkward shape of an i joist. My i joists turned up today, and apart from the cost I can’t fault the product.

Our bc have stated that a fire escape window be fitted to our downstairs office, when I asked why he said it could very easily be changed to an extra bedroom, so it ensured that any work being done without planning would still meet building regs.

I think I’m right in thinking you have hand cut your trusses, so even though you have used the word truss they are not the engineered version direct from a factory. So if you use those Simpson ties that are very thin I would have no problem cutting a 3mm deep notch but if they are from a factory DO NOT cut or notch any part.

No don’t do it, it will look shite.

Evening all having just finished my second concrete pour in my icf walls I thought I would post up a recommendation of the company I have used for the pumping. 100% happy with the service I received and Kevin the owner operator knows icf very well so new exactly how we should tackle the job. Kevin told me he travels north as far as Worcestershire, east to Reading, and all over Somerset and Bristol areas. Kevin draycup. 07713974541

Any reason you can’t do this yourself Is there no storm drain that goes to the river.

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.