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Has anybody seen the new range of blocks that look like durisol, but have a lot of extra features @Sue B @Tom's Barn

G,day looking for a supplier for our underfloor heating design, pipe, manifold, pipe clips and any other bits you think I need. Cheers peeps.

Just starting to get some layouts done for the ufh what I want to know is how many people have more than one manifold, my thoughts are if I have one manifold it’s going to be a big old thing with a lot of pipes all coming back to it, leading to a very congested floor area in front of the manifold is there a benefit of having 2 or more manifolds to spread the pipework out a bit more evenly. I have designed the house with multiple linen,storage cupboards so I have plenty of space to put up to 3 manifolds if needed. 3 bedrooms all on the ground floor, plus open plan living, dining kitchen. Then an office and bootroom

Have you got an elevation drawing, there’s no reason to not have what you want it just depends if you want to pay for it.

My water table is ridiculously high which has dictated treatment plant height and so has meant high drains. My system has all been designed with a 1:80 fall, try this it may gain you some height. Are you definitely going insulated slab.

Can you not lift the height of the house a bit. Or is it already built.

Get any trees or hedges removed before bird nesting starts, or you won’t be able to do it until August when they have finished.

Can anybody spread some light on the different types of spray foam insulation for instance with some of the closed cell types would you still need a vapour control layer on the warm side of the insulation? Or does this completely seal everything thing up do you still need a breathable membrane on top of your rafters under your counter battens or is there now no moisture that needs to escape trying to work out the associated costs that go with various different insulation types its ok thinking one thing is a good price but then add in £1000 worth of vapour control layer and it all adds up. Cheers confused as Normal.

Grip fill the one in the green tube apply to both surfaces and squidgy about as you put plate down to tear up any skin that has formed on it, as it skins over very fast

I have two internal walls in icf, but both project through the roof and up again i kept thinking how to do it in a different method but couldn’t work out a good method of providing the strength so just did them both in icf, glad I did as it’s solid.

About £40 per block.

Looks like to much money for a few full sheets and mainly off cuts.

Sorted jewsons hire one for £55 for the week.

You can order over length joists @Ed Davies that you then trim on site.

Tbh I suppose there’s nothing to stop you laying an insulated slab that is your structural element, then having a screed on top with you ufh pipes in.

Is that correct in that your gutter and roofline over hang the boundary.

you Probably need to iron what method your going to use before you spend to much time looking into the finer points i spent a good few weeks looking at a passive slab, only to find out that my finished floor height would not allow the build up associated with a slab, we had one structural engineer suggesting that we lay one slab and then insulate and build another slab on top just to get the 750mm height increase we needed. We ended up with block n beam as that suited our site issues probably better to get ground surveys done and engineering to establish how you going to do it first.

Not with you. What floor build up are you looking at.

That’s exactly all they do,

Nope. If you go beam n block you want to keep the ufh pipes out of the way, otherwise you will struggle to put your propping system up with all the screws in the floor. Each prop in the pic has 3 screws in it. If you go for a slab your pipes for ufh will be in that, @willbish came up with a method of fitting a scaffolding board to the floor, screwed in carefully selected ares to not hit his pipes and then the props sit on that. I do believe, please correct me if I’m wrong.

Chipboard flooring laid on roof battens, screwed from the top down laid on sand to iron out any undulations paint with very cheap gloss paint and throw sharp sand on the paint to form a non slip surface. By April it will be ready for the skip. I know this works works as I had to install a temporary path to a public toilet, whilst a new path was being built, had hundreds of users over a week.

Jewson was on my list of places to call today ??

If it was a 1000 I would probably hand nail them i have just had a rough add up and I think there’s about 5600 of those twist nails to go in.

It’s not just that it fires into the hole precisely, it also fires the correct nails, don’t be using framing nails to fit your hangers.