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  1. Russell griffiths
    Being I am half way through my icf journey, and being involved in construction for the past 30 odd years i would say this is something a diy house builder should avoid, it is als something I would say 90% of English builders will struggle with you would need a very good company to handle this, the proper system to support it while you pour the concrete will be immense and far beyond what your average builder will be used to by the time you have got them used to the way it should be done the time and trouble is not worth it. Tell me what are the benifits that outweigh the agro, I can’t see any.
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    As @PeterW said really, have you got to fit a cavity tray ? if so buy a roll of the dpc you will use and just roll it out on top of wall, put a couple of bricks on it and that’s done, core fill your cavity up to the height in your design, and then back fill both sides of the trench two jobs done and no need to buy that sheet.
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    No practice needed just fit them it’s easy all you need is to follow a couple of rules. Get a towel and sit it on the floor beside you this will ensure you keep all the plastic bits out of the crud, keep everything grit free, clean everything spotless, the rubber o rings hate grit. Cut pipe clean and square remember to install a pipe stiffener, in every end of pipe. Mark pipe with a pen at insertion depth to ensure correct insertion lubricate O ring, lubricate pipe end Remember to put locking collar, nut on before installing fitting. Try to use a plasson spanner I have found these far superior to adjustable grips If you haven’t got the correct spanner just get on with it it’s not the end of the world, just don’t over tighten.
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    Any reason you can’t backfil your trenches, if you are up to dpc level you won’t need to go back into them.
  5. Russell griffiths
    What’s it for ? thicker may not be user friendly, if you need to fold it in corners neatly it can be a bugger to work with.
  6. Russell griffiths
    Very interested in the I beam walls, if I had done timberframe this is what I wanted to do, I joists just for the roof now
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    Is that all, come on I’m bored stiff sat here pictures of the big hole please picteres of progress c,mon c,mon I’m about to kill one of the in-laws if they ask me another stupid question about my polystyrene house.
  8. Russell griffiths
    Grp roof on our current place, was trying to avoid doing this as I want to knock it down, but it decided to let go in a spectacular fashion on Boxing Day two years ago?? i did this with only the wife helping in very far from ideal conditions in January i think grp and all trims came to about £700.
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    Budget? £1500, new joists at 400mm 18 osb, torch on felt or my choice would be grp or corrugated steel sheets with no joins minimal fall needed, my last choice would be those bitumen sheets, keep them for the wood shed. Why can you not put a wall plate on top of walls with 150mm x50mm joists on top strapped down to internal wall face with steel strap, this way would create a 200mm deep facia that you could trim with the same metal trim and provide a nice finish.
  10. Russell griffiths
    As I’m working on my build with just me and a mate, and only 3days a week it is going to go up very slowly would you set it to just take a pic once an hour? or what do you think.
  11. Russell griffiths
    In the first pic these bars are not just pushed into the wet concrete, they are actually resin set into the foundation, and the concrete poured around them. Random placing of rebar was dictated by window openings and small pillars of wall between windows. Has your structural engineer not specifically asked for anything, i put 16mm bar at the sides of all openings and at 1200mm spaces, if a small pier 3-400mm I have 2 vertices as you can see in first pic. We have just just done our first pour at 2.7m above ffl and installed 12mm bar at 1m centres around the whole perimeter, but changed this out for 16 mm bar at window reveals for the second lift. Hope that makes sense.
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    @mvincentd could you not have a custom folded metal trim stuck down onto a cement board your pic didn’t actually show a door cill our last place had a vertical cement board under the cill that was rendered, we then had a horizontal cement board laid on a small fall, this was pushed under the door cill and on top of the waterproof pan, on top of the horizontal board was an exterior grade floor tile cut into a strip to match the width of the sticky out bit. No pics im afraid as my old laptop has gone boom. Can you take a pic and do a little sketch.
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    Without actually reading your links @recoveringacademic @newhome Can you put it into Luddite format for me what am I looking for ? Do they film all day and it gets compressed down, or am I after something that takes a still shot every 15-30-60 mins. Please avoid technical mumbo jumbo in your answers as you know I’m just a thicko cheers russ.
  14. Russell griffiths
    The fencing contractors by me are moaning that wooden tanalised posts aren’t lasting 5 years if it was my place and I was going to stay for 10 years it would be concrete posts.
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    I can just about work the camera on the phone so that’s a no.
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    I Thought I would do a little montage of pics, showing this summers progress.. another day on the sofa and I think I will go mad, I’ve been allowed to venture down to the garage for an hour, before I get summoned and told to be polite to more bloody relatives descending on us.
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    First point, do you need to go 7 foot, this is not standard and will mean buying non standard parts 9 foot posts are not standard and will cost more than 8 foots which are standard 6 foot feather edge boards are not standard, they are normally 5foot 6 inch to allow for a 6inch gravel board, or 5 foot to allow for a 1 foot concrete gravel board. I would go and find what is available and price it up, I would think going taller will add a reasonable amount to the overall cost. To build a good fence you should allow for a vertical short post that sits in the centre of the bay, this comes out from the ground and props up the lower arris rail, this prevents sagging, which will happen. I would soak the post bottoms in creasote, as the watery crap they use today is no comparison to the stuff your dad used
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    It will depend on any joins in the length of a sheet, if you can go from ridge to verge in one sheet then it shouldn’t be a problem.
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    I’m thinking of having a cement based board, made by a company called rockpanel, this will go on the vertical eps, then a layer of cement board on the horizontal eps with an exterior grade tile mounted on that to form an extra cill i had this on a previous house and it worked very well, unfortunately no photos as I have lost thousands when an old laptop bit the dust.
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    I think what he was inferring was the angle of the top of the eps, it should be cut at an angle down and out, all window rough openings should be like this as well this is to prevent any water Ingres from running inwards, everything should have a slight fall outwards, you then form a pan out of a waterproof membrane to fully seal up the opening.
  21. Russell griffiths
    If your somewhere remote it would probably pay to use materials that are available locally no point specifying something you can’t buy can you find some second hand double glazed windows and a door no point making a horrible environment just because it was cheap, window , door, pile of 4x2 , pallet of plywood, lots of rock wool insulation, electrics should be no problem for £3000
  22. Russell griffiths
    Hi, we are in Cirencester, building in icf, have a good company for topo, and lots of contacts for the tree clearance. Russ.
  23. Russell griffiths
    I would think you would need to bring out the bottom cord of the posi joist by 50mm to incorporate that 47mm wide channel then ply over the entire face and then plasterboard the thing you will need to pay attention to is the junction between the balcony glass and the angled piece going up the stairs, as bringing out the balcony bit will alter the size of the panes coming up the side of the stairs. You will need to pay attention to the quality of this work as the force exerted on the top of that glass as somebody leans on it will be fairly large.
  24. Russell griffiths
    I can’t see any building regs issue apart from the width.
  25. Russell griffiths
    Should this not have been done before the doors went in. I thought it would be standard practice to have a 5 degree slope on a cill with a cill pan installed and then seal window onto cill pan.
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