Russell griffiths

If you are building a lot of this yourself i would go and get a rotating laser and receiver most of the trades you employ will have one with them, so if you are going to do away with these trades and do it yourself it will be invaluable. It may seem like a lot of money but you can sell it on afterwards mine comes out nearly every week for some job or another. Ps. Don’t put stakes in your concrete, it always looks rather amateurish, walking around with your receiver will make you feel like your a pro.

talk to the neighbours that needs complete renewal run that pipe temporarily run a new pipe around your build ready for your neighbour to connect on to when he renews his bit.

Would this not be easier if the developers put in the retaining structure surely there needs to be some symmetry between all the walls in the other gardens. Also looks like he already has kit on site and must have consulted somebody before he chopped the side out of that hill.

My quote was £9000 for 206m covering the floor and 96 linear m of upstand.

Isn’t you facia fixed to the ends of the rafters.

Was the polar quotation not for the upstand as well my quote included this.

I try to never comment on these… do you like my house questions, as I think everybody is different and all our lives are different i have never put my plans on here for comments, although I did put up a pic of the model we used for planning, because I don’t really want other people’s opinions but I can’t help commenting on your internal layout, it looks very hard work. Too many doors and walls take the boot room and laundry are they not the same thing, if the wife is in the laundry fighting with a big duvet cover, won’t she want as much room as poss. Something we did when designing our 2nd new build after 3major renovations was to each have a pad of paper and draw each individual room how we wanted them including sizes, we where not allowed to look at each other’s. We based this on what we already had. Did I actually need 60square metres of garage the wife had to have a walk in wardrobe, as we had one in the last place but now seem to live out of the airing cupboard. Getting back to you (sorry) I would combine the boot and laundry, move the dining to the snug, something else i would add, is nobody knows your financial or family position that looks like a big house, have you done a rough costing after we had finished with our design I worked out very roughly that by shaving a couple of bits down I think I will save £40,000 on the build cost. Just have a think what you want to achieve and for how much.

I have been in a panic about delays, but looking back it is me that is actually holding up proceedings have you dug your footings? have you laid the concrete? have you got your floor in? drainage? Services? if you place an order now by the time you are ready I bet a couple of months would have passed.

Have you tried alternative methods for finding some help i have been having nightmares about finding a couple of lads to help me tie up all the steel in my piling ring beam everybody I call is very interested but only wants to price it as a complete job, supply all steel come in with 5-6 guys smash it in a week and leave with £12000 of my hard earned cash, this is not what I want. SO in a fit of desperation I drove onto a large development site 5 minutes from my place and spoke to 2 lads working near a piling rig, they pointed to a group tying up rebar in the shade, BINGO 5 minutes later I’ve got 2 lads who want to work weekends in this good weather, happy to work with me, like the sound of cash, even said they will come and do a couple of hours every night, young lads with young families and a mortgage and even on day work I think it will come in a good few grand cheaper than any of the companies I contacted. Try it you never know. Russ.

What happened with polar wall.

I think you may be over complicating this i bet I could fill a full vertical gap quicker than you could have the caulking gun loaded mix it up and apply just like joint filler hawk and a 5inch wide filling knife smash it in, pushhard to fill joint one nice smooth swipe down or up to remove excess remember your tanking over this not painting it so your not looking for a mirror finish.

Leading on from another question I asked, I am wondering if I am oversizing our treatment plant the new house is three bed all with En-Suite bathrooms, and another downstairs cloakroom we also have an outside toilet in a shed for fisherman’s usage, however there are only two of us going to live in the house, with the occasional guest couple, as for the outside toilet it may get used once per day. So I have gone for a 2-8 person unit rather than the 1-6. The capacity for each unit I’ve listed below, how have you sized yours, and thoughts on mine. The 1-6 person unit has a recommended design flow rate of 900 litre a day and a tank size of 1485 litre the 2-8 person unit has a recommended design flow rate of 1200 litre a day and a tank size of 1934 litre Cheers russ.

If you have any more info on this and the time I would be interested @JSHarris

Top man @JSHarris I was hoping you would comment

The cost of installing it far out ways any saving on your water bill it certainly did when I looked into it.

Ok more info. I have 3 roofs on the house so it will be easy to take say 2 downpipes and split them off and direct towards the treatment plant. I have thought about running straight to the pond, but the route to the pond is directly past the plant, which leaves very little land to run a second pipe past the plant, there is also the distance involved. If I can connect the house side of the plant it will save an additional trench of 30m plus all the pipe, I know the pipe is not expensive it’s the agro of the additional trench and work I’m thinking of. What im thinking is what harm could I do to the treatment plant with this flush of clean water. Cheers russ.

Could anybody tell me why I shouldn’t direct a portion of my rainwater into my treatment plant. I will tell you what I’m thinking. Our treatment plant will discharge into a small nature pond I have just constructed, now there are only two of us in the house so fairly low discharge coming out into the pond, I am concerned about it drying out in warmer weather and thought a flush through of some rainwater will keep it topped up. So what harm am I going to do to all the good bacteria stuff in the treatment plant if they get a dose of nice clean water. Cheers russ.

Is there a reason you have gone with a private company i have been very very impressed with the good service I have received from our local council bco.

I was talking to nudura about them today you would need to call them and find if they have a site near you as transport is evil they are based in Essex quote to me was £1 per prop per day.

Personally in any timber frame structure I would want to form a fully sealed pan/tray type afair, look on you tube lots of examples just a piece of damp course will be no use without having fully sealed corners you should also look at having a slope on the timber frame to allow any water run off to shed outwards. If you look at some of the vids there is one train of thought throughout, at some time you will get water Ingres, so you need a form of protection.

From my point everything you have mentioned will not have heating pipes below them when you get the layout mark on it all the things to avoid and the ufh guy will design around them hope that makes sense. It sounded better in my head than it looks on the screen.

We plan on having shade sails, as we had these in oz. will probably only suit a modern build. Very funky.

Don’t get it on your re bar. Apply carefully.

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