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  1. Russell griffiths
    Telephone, can you pull a tight string from the caravan to the pole via any local trees hedges, it really doesn’t need to be fancy, tie a few markers on it to save the digger swiping it. Obviously needs to be high enough for a truck to get under and tip. Water would be very dependent on your site layout you could bury it correctly right up to the house ready to go in with a cap on the end, then have a tee off to your temporary home which once removed could become an outside tap,
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    Having to vent under a block n beam floor, someone mentioned to me a round vent connected to a round tube instead of the rectangular telescope vents that are standard, anybody seen them or know where to get them. Google just brings up lots of round vents you would use for a soffit. Cheers russ.
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    So I learnt something new today i had the surveying team out to do a rough site layout so I can lower the levels for the piling rig everything ok so I asked them to check a peg I had banged in with my finished floor level on it it was 45mm out. WTF After a minute of trying to work out what was wrong it turned out that due to poor signal from their GPS they where working with a 40mm tolerance, this is standard practice unless they are told they need to be more accurate. Im actually talking about height above sea level here rather than accuracy between to points.
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    What you want is the closest company to your plot,mine can be on site in under 10 mins from there office putting the pins in for the piles is very straight forward so any good site surveying co will be more than capable so look for the closest they will all be reading the same drawing, and if you have a copy you can follow with a tape and check a few, I will be?
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    I suppose this all depends on what you value your time at and what you think is expensive we are having piles so have to drop levels to provide a level area, surveying team are on site tomorrow, estimated to take about an hour @ £75 we are then having them back to plot the pile locations once the piles and ringbeam are in they come back again to stick a nail in at each corner location 3 site visits estimated cost £350 if you are piling has your piling guy not specified that pile locations will be set out as per drawing before they come to site it worked out cheaper for me to get my surveyors to plot pile locations rather than him do it. Im an ex brickie and I wouldn’t want to do mine, I suppose it also depends if your house is fairly regular or has lots of in and outs.
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    Having just read this lot I wonder if @TerryE has a pic of how he finished his upstand to his eps. Many thanks.
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    Morning all has anybody got any views on threshold design when using ICF blocks, standard footings not insulated slab and a block n beam floor. I have my own thoughts using marmox blocks under the doors floor will have concrete topping on top of insulation would like to reduce any cold bridge from concrete core of ICF blocks and concrete floor topping i brought this up on a recent training day with nudura and they seemed to think it was unnecessary and to just run the concrete floor right in to join up with the concrete core of the blocks, as they said the heat loss cold bridge from the core was minimal. Thoughts please.
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    We had everything you mention on our site, we are also a sssi. By the time we put in our application we didn’t have any. months before our application when the bats had finished nesting we foamed up every nook and cranny and washed the outside spotless all shrubs trees cut down and back hard, abiding with any regs, the grass mown very short then I put up a reptile fence around the build site we then had a full ecology survey carried out, they found NOTHING on site ,they actually declared the site was boring and of low importance. Perfect, everything we did was fully legal, I did not remove anything that we didn’t have consent for looking at the rest of our site I know that within 6 months of work finishing it will be back to the jungle it was. I think you have to manipulate the situation to fit in to fit in with you.
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    You say you will need to push it back out why can you not pull as well as push. Tie a pull cord on the end of the track pipe and poke it inside the duct power float over and dig it out when finished one pulling, one pushing.
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    Not sure what you want the ducting for. To be honest I don’t think I have ever seen 110mm soil pipe in one. Is your invert level correct looks fairly deep for being the highest point if you are going to tap into the vertical pipe I would use the correct fitting not a boss strap most pipe penetrations you can put a foam sleeve around as they exit the slab, this allows for a bit of wiggle room and to get a fitting on if needed.
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    That is very similar to how are sliders were, but I seem to remember the lower bar was to stop having to have the whole thing toughened glass. Will try to find a pic. I personally found the sliding window a very good idea.
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    What we are looking for are sliding windows, we had them in our last place but finding it hard to source here, very easy to restrict opening. The only thing would be that like a patio door you will end up with a fixed pain aprox half way across Another idea is a servery window, but again not common over here we think we are going to have to source our windows from Canada.
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    What does he want you to use under damp course then.
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    One wife is enough, my poor head couldn’t cope with another.
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    It’s not only about the cost of adjusting the opening verses a different door. Wont a taller door look odd compared to any others. I would bring the head down to match, very simple job in a timber frame. If the opening is already there it just need a couple of noggins and slide the door lining in.
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    I don’t think they are talking about ICF in general its because you have a basement the correct method is to place a batten in the concrete before it sets, then spray the surface with a retarder this stops the top couple of mm from setting too hard, when the concrete is green you pull out the batten and power wash the surface of the concrete to expose the aggregate. The indent left where the batten was gets filled with a water bar, and your next pour adhered to the aggregate I think your basement is only 3 sided isn’t it, so with a good French drain and dimple mat you probably have nothing to worry about. On a different note it’s funny how structural engineers differ in my icf system he has not specified any starter bars and I have asked him twice.
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    At least it wasn’t a dead horse somebody flytipped a dead horse on my bonfire, down our yard, didnt half give me a fright when I pulled back the old tarp.
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    I think this is a perfect use for this product, but I wouldn’t fill a raised bed completely with it.
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    Ere mr @Onoff do you reckon you can knock one of these up.
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    Well spotted. ??
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    I would be careful of it being too rich. We built raised beds at our last place and filled them with all manner of goodies, we grew some really strange veg, round carrots.....??? on talking to the local old boy allotment expert, it turns out it was all too rich so everything was trying to stay near the surface i did a job for a lady after this and sourced 10 ton of just standard screened soil, she has had a fabulous garden ever since. I would avoid any screened soil from a skip company it normally has to much glass in it. Try a local quarry, ours has some lovely as dug screened soil.
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    I’m contemplating the same thing at the moment, the only thing about it people don’t like I have been told is it can be a bit awkward to bend neatly. Anybody got an opinion.
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    If you have a hole and feel a bit open, go and buy a sheet of glass bigger than the hole and silicone it on while you wait for another. I ruined a brand new window with brick acid, i was washing the new concrete floor to provide a good key and splashed it up the glass, never noticed for a couple of weeks.
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    Very impressed, top shelf stuff right there. Even a can of wife beater, to aid thinking. ?? in my mind I can do stuff like this but I’m really just an amateur wood butcher.
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    I use lumps of banana, bit strange dropping them in the loo and running outside to see what pipe the shoot out of.
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