Russell griffiths

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.

I got my planning by arguing the extension to an old building argument but I made a scale model of the bungalow plus all the extensions I could have under pd i then made a scale model of the new house all models where brought out to play at a site meeting with planning officer, with my planning consultant present, council guy looked at it all and new he was on thin ice, I told him I was fully prepared to start building all the extensions, but what is the point of that if I can knock it down and start again, he agreed and we got it. My planning cost £14,600 all in. The planning consultant was invaluable as she kept my over enthusiastic tongue in check. It sounds like you need to instruct this planning consultant oh and buy a gag.

There is an insulation compathat will cut and trim anything you want. Cant think who it is though.

Have you priced up normal xps and get it routered out.

Nope.

Do you have a drainage layout drawing its not that expensive all the pipe and fittings if you buy from an online retailer, but if he has priced it from travis Perkins as he thinks that’s what you would do it will cost a fortune. In an emergency I had to get a fitting from travis Perkins it was £24 the same part online was £8

This could be a silly observation, so bear with me if it had a round waste would it not have a fall to a centre point, so if you change to a linear waste will the pre formed falls not line up very well.

I will just add my thoughts i can see exactly why you want to. But the question have you felt a 500m roll or looked at the size of it, having just laid 260m of 32mm I can’t imagine what a 500m roll feels like, I would think 500m would be the max you would want to go and it will be a job for a couple of strong lads, not something to do with the wife on a Sunday arvo.

Hi @bigreadie I’m afraid I did all my Groundworks myself, however we did use a piling contractor SEVERN BORE PILING who I can highly recommend if that is what you end up doing. If you give us an indication of how much you can successfully do yourselves, and a brief idea of what you want to build and the level of finish i think there are a number on here who could give a good ball park figure for what it is going to cost you.

Those prices look ridiculous, I would do more research, a number of members on here have gone for a foundation and frame as a package. I remember a topic on here recently about insulated slabs and I believe the figures being chucked about where £120 per m so that should have your slab done for £17000 as long as no funny ground conditions for what it’s worth my footprint is double yours and my foundations up to finished floor came in at under £40000, that included piling and a very substantial ringbeam due to very poor ground. I would like to think at 140m you should get a foundation and frame package with a roof on it for £100,000 easily. My personal opinion I would look at something better than sips panels.

OMGG. Your first link was better you need to put up some pics to show us what you have preferably with a straight edge in the pic

Clear and precise answers from mr Harris as usual. ??

Depends if you want to pay too much cheapest quotes I got where around £1200, labc £700

Is @recoveringacademic implying we all need to diet.

Yep had a brief look, but the rental or purchase cost of the seeming tool is a bit off putting.

I think @scottishjohn you miss read my question, I can find loads of tools, that is not the problem what I asked was what tools anybody had found useful when they did their roof did they find that the left handed food whisk made purposely for stirring angel delight was the precise thing needed to form the left hand fold on the eaves over hang. Thats is what I’m after, I have loads of snips, just looking for something that was invaluable in the fitting of raised seam panels.

We used to use dial before you dig on jobs, would that show what people want to know, has been 15 years since I last used them, do they charge now ?

Pre made panels, looking for decent tin snips, duckbill pliers, and anything you found good for bending bottom hems and other bits and pieces.

If you have a good Groundworks team who are familiar with reinforced concrete then it seems like a no brainer asking them to use something they are not familiar with will rock the boat. And ICF is not cheap to buy, I would go traditional route then waterproof the outside and insulation on the inside.