Russell griffiths

I believe you will need fire rated downlights downstairs, find the ones that don’t need a hood.

I’ve seen some stuff, but those chimney caps are hilarious 🤣

You might work on those houses, but do you live in one and pay the heating bill. I thought you wanted to improve your house, not make it the same standard as the shite being turned out by the mass house builders. the non breathable stuff will act as a good vcl but very little in the way of insulation. im afraid if you want better you need to consider the stuff the mass housebuilders turn out to be very poor. we have some of the worst housing in Europe. if you want to build something better, stay here and ask more questions and do more research. aside from that have you had a look at the condition of your wall ties if your place is one of the first cavity walls built, corroding wall ties can be a problem.

Be careful don’t believe the manufacturer, look at independent research. it would be the last product i would use.

I think you will need to forget the small fridge, maybe turn that into just storage, the fridge and freezer could just be off the shelf built in units, and then you need to get busy with your carpentry skills.

That must be one of the earliest cavity walls around.

You could, but get the flooring guy in to give you a spec and see if there happy, it’s the fussiest trade I’ve come across.

As above just buy built in fridge and freezer and build cabinets to suit. all mine are built in and I have cut large holes in the service void that comes on the cabinets to allow more airflow than is required. (I hope ) ps, Pinterest is a ba##ard, cost me thousands.

Don’t do a bloody thing until you have a LVT contractor, then let him do everything, as soon as you touch it they won’t warrant any of the work they do.

If you look at all the YouTube videos on how to pick a euro style cylinder, and then the link to buy the tools, I’m afraid you can only do so much. with the scum cutting off bike locks in broad daylight, until the courts start locking them up for a longtime you are just waiting for it to happen to you. there’s absolute scum everywhere and it should be totally legal to shoot anybody you find on your property.

I think this is the problem, if you haven’t chosen your top coat the go to system on bare plaster is cheap contract Matt thinned down. you then buy you top coat and it says not to do that. you sort of need to know the finish and work backwards.

I’ve got a couple of newly plastered walls that are not giving me good results when painting them. so I did a bit of YouTube research and then phoned 3 different paint manufacturers technical help lines. the old school method has always been to mist coat new plaster with a diluted cheap emulsion paint, normally contract Matt or wickes cheap white rubbish, dilute it down slap it on everything and then away you go with your chosen top colour coat. the problems seem to be occurring with the new breed of washable scrubbable matt paints, they give good cleaning properties but you get the trendy flat Matt finish that a lot of the in vogue colour schemes call for. these new paints will not stick properly to contract Matt and need an appropriate primer used as the mist coat. somebody was having these problems a while ago but I hadn’t really looked into it then. look into better mist coating or pick your top coat first and go from there. just don’t buy some cheap white and start slapping it on. hope that helps someone.

In England you can build under permitted development for planning and a building notice for building regs, 3 inspections maybe 4 and your ready for sign off. 🤪

Why use a 65 when a 150 is really not expensive, don’t be skimping on a couple of quid.

Internal sliding grilles. ugly but the only thing I know that works well.

I have two septic tanks and one treatment plant, we don’t use anything different than standard stuff you buy in Tesco, we try to use minimum bleach down the toilet. that is it.

It would be classed as a conversion not a new build. so building regs for conversion and vat rate for the same. if you apply to knock it down and replace it, then it will be a new dwelling. we used an excellent planning consultant in Cirencester, pm me if you want a number.

A lad on here called @Patrick bought his own machine and did it himself, he then sold the machine. have a look around there’s a second hand machine out there somewhere being used by self builders.

Only having a brief look but is your drawing scale way out. according to the drawing, the eps upstand and bit that pushes in is wider than the sips. however in your pictures the eps bit that inserts looks to be 50-75mm wide. im really not happy with that eps standing above the sips kit without it being fully waterproofed, any water getting through the aluminium flashing will be trapped against the sips kit.

Not in this country, but my house in oz was piled foundations with the short piles only 600mm deep before hitting rock, we drilled into the rock and resin fixed starter bars into the rock, the pile was then poured and anchored to the rock by the starter bars. as the house got wider each pile was slightly deeper as the rock sloped away. it’s very common over there to scrape the soil away and secure steel posts to the rock.

Some manufacturers say you don’t need to land the end of a sheet on a joist, as long as you stagger the joins. look on all the fixings instructions for different makes.

You lay the sheets across the joists not with them.

I thought about the amount of bags needed and thought he would need 4 blokes to do this, two mixing and two laying. seems like a lot of hard work when you could just pump it in.

The upvc arch formers look a bit naff in my opinion. I would also worry about getting them sealed to the windows well. im also not liking the window placement and would want to see it set further back into the warm part of the construction. all depends on what sort of house you are trying to build, one that just passes building regs or something better.

I looked at them then dismissed them, don’t remember why it was a couple of years ago.