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Everything posted by Russell griffiths
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As Simon said, that looks like the wrong bead. don’t confuse plater beads with dry wall beads. you will hate me but I have literally just cut up £4-500 worth of drywall beads as I was fed up with tripping over them. I didn’t think anybody would buy them so they are waiting to go in the bin. if you are thinking of jointing your house yourself i would seriously reconsider this. I was going to do mine but stopped and had it skimmed, I have previously jointed a whole house with another two guys with all the proper tools. stupidest idea I’ve had.
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Get some wooden pegs. peg out house location, peg out patios and driveway. peg out heights of all these finished areas, dig out the top soil and use all that concrete as a sub base below the drive way. the topsoil you skim off where the drive is going you can put where the concrete came from to turn back into garden. it’s all about planning. tree waste just burn it. or you will need a roll off skip, nobody will chip it if you moved it with a digger as it will now be dirty, if you stacked it neat and tidy then hire a chipper and chuck it through, only good for clean branches though not grass or shrub mess. my sites 20 times bigger than yours and I haven’t had to remove anything from site apart from two loads of muck that came out when we did the treatment plant as it was horrid clay stuff, and a load of concrete that was over 450mm thick that just didn’t fit in any holes.
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My view based on a friend who owns a fair few buildings like yours that he rents out. offices, you can build these to a very high standard inside the main building envelope, so easy to heat. I would fit air conditioning units in here so you can cool in the summer and heat in the winter. fit Solar to offset the cost of running the air conditioner in the summer. the warehouse space is a different ball game, forget the u values of those sheets, unless you build this meticulously it will still be a draughty warehouse, you will struggle to get any form of sensible amount of heat in it without it escaping out of every roller door, or roof to wall junction, the floor is one huge cold spot sucking any warmth from the building. either an oil or gas hot air blower system is the only thing I know that will heat that amount of volume. or a big biomass boiler and thermal store.
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Deflection design for posi joist floor
Russell griffiths replied to SBMS's topic in Floor Structures
Go for the best, don’t skimp on the main structure of the house. better of forgetting the expensive toilets and build the structure better. -
What causes new skim plaster to crack in stud walls?
Russell griffiths replied to SimonD's topic in Plastering & Rendering
Poor stud work, out of alignment so boards bending to compensate. wet studs drying out poor boarding, not cutting around doors just butting up. boards not falling on studs correctly not enough screws. the list goes on and on. I boarded mine, to the letter, it couldn’t have been done any better, I have minimal cracking. but I definitely have a few in places that i really thought wouldn’t have, it’s a bit of a bastard really. it just depends if you have a few or a lot. -
Conversion budget - where to begin?!
Russell griffiths replied to terrilorr's topic in Costing & Estimating
Pictures needed. are you adding new floor level, or is it all ground floor. -
I’ve fitted 18mm osb then fermacel on the walls in my plant room. know as it’s being fitted out I’m finding I’m still unhappy fixing into this lot with heavy expansion vessels, so I’m using hollow wall toggle fixings that will drill through both sheets and then open out in the stud wall cavity, I can actually hang from the brackets I’ve put up with just two fixings in.
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I’ve had 4 plasterers on my house. 3 of them did a day and I’ve never had them back the fourth lad is the best I’ve ever come across, different gravy. I think you have had a shit one, if you know roughly what you are expecting then you needed to be there. mines from Coventry and travels about an hour if that’s any good to you.
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3 bathrooms + guest WC - how much and from where?
Russell griffiths replied to Indy's topic in Bathrooms, Ensuites & Wetrooms
£4000 per shower room £5000 for the shower/ bathroom, excluding tiles. -
Not needed, just mix up a small amount of the tile adhesive and pre fill over the screw washer dents just to bring them up flush.
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Are you plastering it or just jointing compound on the joints. I’ve just had some jackoboard plastered and we fully meshed the entire board, like you would when thin coat rendering. it was a lighter gauge fibreglass mesh, came in 1m wide rolls.
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replacing asbestos cement soffits
Russell griffiths replied to Del-inquent's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
Run the horizontal batten the full way around the house, not just little bits, you can add a batten front to back as well. -
Light refurb/renovation & building regs
Russell griffiths replied to Roger440's topic in Building Regulations
Why can you not draw up some pictures of everything you want to do, window, wall insulation, roof insulation, blah blah. put in an application for bc approval with all inspections, £4-500. as far as I’m aware there is no time limit to the work, so put the windows in and get them checked and signed off, then two years time rip all the floors up, get them inspected and signed off. all under one building regs application. or am I missing something. -
replacing asbestos cement soffits
Russell griffiths replied to Del-inquent's topic in Roofing, Tiling & Slating
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Our water is so hard you get a scuddy line in the toilet bowl.
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No they do a sort of re jig, blast themselves out, it can be noisy and can also deplete water pressure im told. im not worried about noise, so I want to be able to alter the time it does it.
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Looking for recommendations on a quality water softener. things it must have. Hi- flow ability to time the re -gen cycles I don’t want it kicking in randomly when I’m in the shower and stealing my water. quality more important than cheap n cheerful. what we saying people.
