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I used aqua base render and mesh then a black acrylic render on top. covers the first course of Nudura brilliantly.

Any good track shop will have the dimensions just from your machine make and model. Look online they normally have a drop down menu for different makes.

Did a job for a neighbour last week. took the excavator round on the trailer. two days later I had to bring the digger back, so being lazy I thought I wouldn’t bother with the trailer, but track it 200m down the grass verge, 20m from my drive I have to nip acros the road to my side. Can you guess when the track came off, yep the last 20m right in the middle of the road. oh how I laughed.

Tracks for your machine will be £175 each roughly changing them is a half hour job. Having a spare track is one of those things that you will never need, until the day it snaps and the water board is coming the next day. You can get tracks within 48hours delivered if an emergency. One man job on that size machine.

If your unsure how to replace the track then I would think you don’t know how to tension them correctly either. In which case you are probably running them too slack leading to them jigging about and the damage. You will need a grease gun and a socket set. In the flat panel between the front drive sprocket and the idler wheel is a hole ( probably full of mud ) on this hole is a 19mm nut with a grease nipple in the centre, this is how you tension the track. Swing the arm arm of the machine round and push on the ground to lift the track off the ground, take a pic and put it up, I bet the track hangs very slack. To adjust it up you fit the grease gun to the nipple and pump in more grease, as you pump you will see the idler wheel move out and the slack in the track lift. Get some pics and report back.

Not as simple as that, it’s actually a very big hole, so mid size excavator, lots of spoil to take away, gravel or concrete base, install tank, gravel or concrete surrounding. that’s just the tank, it then has to discharge somewhere, either a ditch or you need a drainage field. so loads more digging and drains and gravel. I did mine myself and I think the quotes I had were fair. good ground and a ditch to discharge to will remove a lot of cost.

Plus labour to install I had a quote of £17,000 all in. just another cost. not really a problem there isn’t a house within a couple of miles of me connected to mains drainage. it’s certainly not a deal breaker.

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. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣