Russell griffiths

Can you take one of your small buckets to the local welder and get a hook or plate with a hole cut in it big enough for a shackle to go through welded onto the bucket.

So I could be wrong it does happen on a regular basis, but someone's maths here is not correct, how much concrete are you planning on putting in the skip on that dumper? Do you know what wet concrete weighs? Looking at your layout that looks like a complicated setup with all the trenches every were. In my opinion you must get a huge amount of that concrete poured straight in, or you need a pump, 1 small dumper and 65cube could get all out of control reel quick. Have you got a pic so we can see the layout easier.

Just to change the subject a little you say your having 65m delivered. Are you going to put all this in with your dumper or can you get the trucks up to the trench so you can shoot a couple of loads in straight of the truck. Unless im mistaken 65 m is a big amount to shuffle about in a small dumper. What are people's thoughts.

Have a chat with the ufh guy, I have the same problem spinning in my head. My thoughts are that if a pipe was 150 mm from the face of an internal wall on both sides you would have a gap of 300mm plus width of wall between pipes. If your setting out is ok I would think that's loads of room to get the wall in the middle

That looks like a big gap for sealant, can they not use a nice trim over it.

411 L bars. Climb on back of truck cut strapping throw on floor. Send truck on its way. Pick them up put in barrow. How big is your digger. I would be very careful picking anything up with a small digger as the lifting capacity is very low.

If you have started I don't think I would raise the issue.

Bit of an old topic @MikeSharp01 if you have that many nail to put in sheeting you really want a COIL NAILER. not a framing nailer. Couple of reasons why. That amount of nails needs putting in quickly or it will take forever. A gas powered framing nailer will run hot and start to play up. Second to achieve good racking strength the nails should not be over driven a frarming nailer is very awkward to achieve this and you will end up with over and under driven nails. Also has the SE said what type of nails. On the last frame I put up we were not allowed to use the nails that come in a strip for any racking board and all nails had to have a full head.

I think if I was paying anybody to build a house for me, for a very small percentage of the overall cost I would insist that I employ a completely separate building inspector.

Not sure if we have strayed away from my original point i dont care for rainwater harvesting and actually think it's a crock. But if I say I'm going to have it will it keep the know nothing planning fools happy ive done some rough sums and it won't cost a fortune so willing to tow the line if they think it's important.

Not my place Dave, group of houses about a mile up the road, I popped in to see who had made the frame and had a nosey around. Plot of land £300,000 plus £500,000 to build them I really feel for the poor sod who will end up with this. Not sure if I can inform someone.

Yep it's a piece of fibre board. This is a 3 storey house. Build cost £500,000. The second beam is a monster top and bottom flanges 20mm about 9m span with 2 other beams coming into it at the midway point.

What's your opinion on this? If you look closely there is one beam on top of the main one in the photo, out of the shot there are 2 more beams running into the large one that is stacked on top of the one in the photo. So in all there are 4 upstairs walls sitting on this point. Do do you like it?

Don't understand @recoveringacademic Do you mean it gained you brownie points or not to bother

A couple of things to think about if you lack a bit of concrete experience this is is not an afternoon job. Get the first truck on site at 8.30 am then the second straight after do not be ordering it for 11am you need to get it n quick smart rush about like a madman and then have a breather as you will need your 2 hour hardening window to get all your bars in. Be prepared. Get all your bars and spray a line on them for insertion depth, mark a fill line around your trench. Make yourself a tamping thingy make sure the dumper has diesel get a tarp ready for the road or driveway make sure you have batteries in your laser if you have one. Good luck.

This is the bit I don't understand. They found nothing a big fat nothing. Said the site was quite boring with nothing of any interest. I will read it again.

Evening all. We have had a full ecology report done and all seems fine. We have been advised by our planning consultant to provide a method statement on how we are going to mitigate any risk during construction to any protected species on site. Now ive just paid £1400 for the bloody survey I really don't want to go back to him and give him more of my dosh to do this method statement. Anybody done one or got any links to where I could pick up some pointers. I used to write up loads of method statements for work related matters so I'm used to a bit of waffle I could just do with a point in the right direction. Cheers russ.

Ok so I've just read through the other thread on rainwater harvesting and I have my opinions. So the reason this has just come up is the company carrying out our flood risk assessment and rainwater mitigating measures has suggested we tell the planners we are going to flush the karzie with rain water as it will give our GREEN build a bit more clout. Now personally I think this is a load of BS and don't agree with the whole water reusing thing at all. So so the real question is did anybody use water harvesting in your planning to gain a few brownie points or do you not think it carries any weight. Cheers fed up russ.

Just wanted to say a big thanks to @IanR for pointing me in the right direction of Cullen Timber Design. Thanks buddy.

Could anyone recommend a company for this. Cheers.

Has anybody made a complete checklist of all the parts that went into your house or would you know where I could find one as I want to start breaking down the costing side of things, so I can see how much of it I can't afford. Cheers russ.

Right I think I was wrong. After reading all the good reasons for a pop up plug I can see the merits. We don't have any kids so had never considered safety an issue. Learn something new every day.

I think you are off the mark a bit here. The string is to keep them upright until the concrete starts to harden it is not to support them. It looks on your drawing that there is no reo in the trench so that means there is nothing to tie the starter bars to. I would mass fill my trench and level it, go and have a cup of tea and a biscuit, you will start to feel that the concrete is getting firm. Grab a bar that you have already pre marked with the insertion depth on it, plunge it in the concrete and wiggle up and down push down to desired depth and let go. What happens next. Answers on a postcard please. It falls over and gets covered in crud. Remedy. Go and have another tea and come back in ten minutes. It stands up on its own like a soldier outside Buckingham palace. Repeat436 times. Perfect. You cant push it in. Oh shit you shouldn't have had so many biscuits.

Js has hit the nail on the head. The reason for all the questions is I will probably end up building the frame myself or at least buying a standard frame and improving on it. Last week I was on a site where two houses are going up,I decided to be nosey and go and have a poke about, from 200m away they looked like a fairly cheap frame 150mm studs with some Kingspan stuffed in, well on closer inspection I was horrified with the build quality, I didn't say anything and chatted with the lads putting it up, I asked a few questions and told them I was about to submit my planning and was just doing some research. They both chuckled and said they wouldn't buy one of these, they're crap. When you are dealing with a company with Swedish links in its name you would think you were buying a quality product, how wrong you are, be careful out there. Just as an add on, both these houses have a build cost of over £500,000 that does not include land price. I was concerned so much I have even thought of trying to find the purchaser to warn them.

Bugger me I only want to build a wall,