Russell griffiths

Yes I doe’s create a bit more waste. suck it up your building a million pound house, not a persimmon #pileoshite.

@ToughButterCup you can be my bitch anytime🥰

From memory, it’s been a while. Beco does not have any nylon fixing points. So fixing internal or external boards or battens is a drama. also temporary props are a pain to fix in place. in my view a very outdated Icf that hasn’t bothered to progress.

@WiltshireLink i would take the hit with the deposit and find a better build system. having worked on one of Jamie’s builds you are better off without him. his knowledge was woeful and he had no idea how to build a good house. he was only in it for the pay-out. Find a system where the salesman doesn’t actually try too hard to sell the product. they should show you the product and let you work out it’s good and bad points.

Why do you have a cavity if you were going with icf, just fill the cavity in and proceed with Icf blocks from there.

If you where going to build in icf then carry on, building with Cellini blocks is going backwards massively. calm down, stop for a week and talk to some other Icf suppliers. im sorry if you have lost any money, but not building with isotex will be a massive relief once you have found an alternative product.

New build, front door and back door. Should locks have a thumb turn lock for escape in a fire. Im sure I read that the security regs state something about no keys to be kept in locks beside a window or something. Can anybody point me to this one. Or what are the regs regarding thumb turns. Both my doors have turned up without thumb turns and both doors comply or comply with the new security regs. Would like a bit bit more info before I talk to BC or the door company.

I think everyone needs to read the high hedges act a bit more in depth. Its not as simple as just calling the council. It can take months and months to get the council to intervene, then the council might charge you for the privilege to come and look at it, then you might find you don’t like the outcome. Its far from straightforward.

Anything electric will be awful. Petrol one like nod picture is about as small as you want to go.

Timing wise you might have missed the boat this year and will need to wait until September when bird nesting has finished. Regarding the neighbour, why not go and talk to him and get his feelings about it. Who's hedge is it ? i have a lot of shared boundary hedges, sometimes it is easier to pay to get what you want rather than waiting for someone else to do something. You have a few months to get thinking.

The one I watched being installed, the hardest part was getting it off the pallet and in position, just added water connections and plugged it in, hour later and the ufh was getting warm.

I’ve been aware of this system for a while, I can only see it being good to fill up small holes rather than 50mm gaps left by your standard builder.

Is there a party wall agreement in place ?

So if you are above ground level you can just core hole through, you will need to calculate the square mm of a 100mm vent and compare it to an airbrick, you might need to add extra. As for the wind noise, you won’t hear that in the house, you will have a dpm lapped against the inside Nudura and taped on, then your insulation which should be a good fit and even foamed at the edges, then a further thin plastic, then screed, which when dry can be sealed against the Nudura. Not a whisper getting through that lot. This is what I did and part of the method to getting a good airtest result.

Talk to building control. I have ventilated all mine, but a friend down the road said bc told him it was pointless, if he didn’t have ground gasses to ventilate out then vents were not needed. How will you drill through and get the vent to be below floor level but above ground level. whos Fault was it they were missed off, I would not be impressed.

If all those windows divide a wall up into lots of little pillars then I can see the reasons. But 500 lengths of bar seems ott and 10mm is very thin, I’ve never seen anything smaller than 12mm used.

@Andrewb im afraid your question is Sort of how long is a piece of string. your re bar quantity will be dependant on your house design. I have a fair bit of re bar in mine, but that’s because I have a lot of cantilever beams and 5 m wide openings. Anybody with a basement will have loads, anybody with a square box with 900mm wide windows will have very little. Its all Down to the house design and your structural engineers knowledge of the product. At the end end of the day a thousand pounds worth of steel is small change compared to the cost of the concrete, and blocks themselves.

@Nickfromwales Its china plate. Not china mug. China plate- mate. Stick to welsh buddy leave the rhyming slang to the Londoners. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

Think about it all the time.

A few million years ago my site looked like this.

(expletive deleted) your slow.

Go and get some 50 mm wide upvc trims. Cut a little bit 150mm long to use as a bit of a dummy up. Place the trim at 90 degrees to the frame and see what you think. Then stick it at 45degrees to the frame. Have a think what looks best. You could always do this in wood, but upvc will be easier to wipe down.

Does the 23kg a metre sound light.

I would get a metal hand rail fabricated to bc spec, bolt it down to the concrete. After sign off find off bolts and replace with a new tile. some regs are a bit silly, it’s a domestic property, not a library or school. Get that wall cut back and build it as you want it.

Add more where you feel it needs it. Board joins slammy door jambs. Thin wonky bits.