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Right on Sister!

But, Gary, thats what you find in the average teenager's bedroom - well it was for ours......

Similarly, a quick chat with 'the boys' most Monday mornings, a smile and Christmas bottle works a treat.

Treat it as both. The issue is in any case structural. As such, why bother to ask an SE (Structural Engineer) to become involved before you have double checked the listing issue with the relevant authorities? You might need to phrase your enquiry very carefully indeed, I suspect. For example, you could enquire about repairing the ceiling and listen between the lines ...

I'd like to think that's actually the case. But its difficult to evidence.

How to Lie With Statistics. Published by Penguin Books. Been in print since 1954.

Start with a spike. Watch the thing for a bit: see what happens. If necessary, move the spike. Repeat. Then C40 ( ? ), rebar, all bells and whistles, plastic sleeved hole, hole drained ( so the post rusts more slowly) Make a footpath to the rotary line such that you dont get dirty feet , and a small plinth so you dont need to stoop so far to get the wet washing out of the basket. Keep a set of replacement pegs under the plinth. (Overthinking again Ian?)

Hi! Well come on then , show us whatcha got.... piccies / pdfs please! Or are you a bit shy, maybe?

Wilkomen! Essay? Essay! You wanna see some of the stuff that people post. That @Onoff bloke for example: 80+ pages ......

Because if eventually all goes pear-shaped, he cant be blamed......

Have a look at this list: it should help.

ICF? Its not the answer to every problem, specially not if you lay them in the nude.?

@Roz I would suspect the tradesman is trying to save you money: fitting the barge board later might involve more labour. Its as well to check here, though. I'd wait for other folk to offer an opinion before deciding ... said he cautiously. Well, I'm hardly expert am I? Chatty, yes, expert, no.

If it can't be fixed after the slates, I'm stuffed @Roz .

The book (and the online version) don't go into all that much detail Gary.

That's a bit cheaper than I would have expected. (NW , Lancashire)

Sleepy-eyed, I read Wench vs piles Wench every time......

I could do better myself, Lizzie. Says it all......

'... sounds more like...' and that's the thing we can't be sure. There's a lot of hubris in the ICF world, add to that poor practice - which in the case of ICF - you can sometimes get away with.

Hmmmmm. Not sure about that. On my build, if I knew that there was to be a longish gap, I always built a lot of rebar into the original pour to key the next layer in. Durisol do not make any statement about long gaps between pours. I wholeheartedly agree with @jamiehamy's comments throughout this topic. I have seen two separate whole walls (one internal, the other external) rocking to and fro (not on my build but at a pour to which I was invited) because an inexperienced pump-man had not fitted (or been directed to fit) a 100mm restrictor in the final section of the 'snorkel' . The sheer volume of concrete falling (in that case just under 4 meters ) made the wall rock a good 100mm left and right of the center line. I did not stay to examine how much the variance there was in the final line of the wall. The person supervising the pour was very experienced indeed. The owner was not present at the pour. I pooped myself. There was no burst. I went home sweating : two years later, although healing, the memory of our bursts is still very raw.

Hoots mon! Dont do it: there's only wailing and gnashing of teeth in self-building. ? But hard as it is, it's equally rewarding, and the welcome here as warm as the job is difficult.

How to put this? Ermmmmm, mind if I hold on too? It's really difficult to get some trades to come and work, unless you're in their networks.... so here are we with exactly the same problem. Slightly different starting point but essentially the same problem. I've forgotten how many times I have looked at Clive's thread ( @Onoff ) about his ablutions. Let's try and get ours done before he finishes his, eh?

The relevant information. For us the sources of that information were[ the architect, the ground condition report a few photos a quick annotated sketch the technical details of the build method The initial design needed input from the architect, the ICF producer and the ground condition report. During the build a few hiccups occured so he needed a sensibly produced relevant brief. We learned that SEs that specialise don't over-design, and so save you money. In one sentence in a letter one SE saved us £16000: in another instance later in the build he over-specified , and so would have cost us several thousand pounds: the eventual solution (supplied by a specialist ICFSE ) cost a few hundred. There's a moral there.... find a specialist. Good luck Ian

Cheeky boy.... ?

Thats all that needs to be said. Put the guy with the GPS / Total Station in touch with the architect. Thats that job ticked off. Loads more for you to be getting on with....