ToughButterCup
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Today's challenge (should I wish to accept it) is to get to the bottom of all of these issues. (This post will not self-destruct in 5 seconds.) It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good - remember? Now that I have extracted more than a hundred single meters of M12 threaded bar with nuts and end-plates (washers) from the grip of the concrete, they are lying on my stillage. Waiting for a project. Well, here it is. Just got to make a couple of phone calls. -
@JSHarris, there isn't a week goes by without me remembering that post of yours (Link to it here for those who are interested:) When I re-tell that story of yours: everyone winces. But it's the repeated re-telling of your particular story, and the telling of similar stories here on BH that, frankly, puts a bit of lead in my pencil. It puts our hiccup into perspective. It's the reality mixed with honesty that hooks you. And so inspires. Then re-kindles resilience. And we all need a bit of that.
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Folks, truly, why the price differential when there appears to be so little real difference?
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Steamy, we're still at the spreadsheet stage. But there's a growing determination to get the job done one way or another. Looking round the Fylde, you can see a handful of housing projects which have (apparently) stalled. HERAS been up for a couple of years and no real progress evident. My problem is not unique. But we do live next door, I can do stuff anytime I like, I am retired with nowt else to do except think and be as creative as I can. I can plan. I can network. I can beg. I can steal. I can borrow. I can earn more money than I am at the moment. Where's the hardship in that? Why it would be as difficult as the average BH member working all day and coming back at night to get on with it Every day I see faces of local people walking past the site green with envy, some sneers, some smiles. How many hundreds of couples would give their back teeth to have my problems? I am very very lucky.
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Thanks for the nudge. Its important to keep an eye on whats new because we all need to set budgets; and as you say, they aren't cheap.
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Why?
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Here's too much detail. But worth the read.
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Right then. Time for a brief discussion with the SE and Durisol with your post to hand so I can sound as if I know what I'm on about... Mindful of @Construction Channel's very informative post, I'll give you a nudge if I may, please. Ian
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My God! Frankly this makes my little fight with some blocks blowing down look minor, really minor.
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Yes, @joe90, thanks. Someone had mentioned that to me earlier this month, but I had forgotten it. So thanks for the nudge.
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Ah, that's genius @Alexphd1. After curing, you've cut away the inside of the ICF to expose the concrete (and some more of the threaded bar), but you had the foresight to embed your threaded bar during the initial pour. Your method interests me because (for different reasons) I embedded M12 bar into our last pour(s) and then took the bloody stuff out again. The process of taking it out again showed me that the M12 sometimes bends a bit during the pour (@Onoff is a bit skeptical about that), and so might well 'twist' (usually upwards because of falling wet concrete) your wall-plate a bit. Nothing a lump hammer couldn't cure, though, I expect. Thinking about it for a bit.... what about cold-bridging? Might your wall-plate (rim joist) be subject to an increased risk of interstitial condensation? Ian
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Hmm, Well, I am proposing two M12 threaded bars (encased in resin) per 500mm going through a wall joist hanger> wall plate (rim joist)> concrete M12 is about double the diameter of any coach bolts I've seen. But I note the architect's reference to SE and Durisol approval. Had you not written your post @JSHarris, I would have missed that. Thanks indeed. Ian
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Wooooaaaah @MikeSharp01, yer not inviting yer-self round fer an Acid House party are ya? Despite how daunted I feel about this task, it's bloody interesting
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So that would be two threaded bars per 500mm instead of 1 per 400mm (but twice the fitting time.... how else is Debbie to keep me off the streets?)
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[...] Rim Joist [...] Glad you told me that because that's what it is. And I've just realised that I'll need to seal the holes made by the screws from the temporary roof batten (or similar) Thanks @Russell griffiths Ian
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Noted. 'Nother phone call to Hillard. Ian
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Good question. Although @Mr Punter has come up with the perfect answer to what I should do with (the now extracted from the concrete) 130 meters of threaded bar....... (above)
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Hmmm, @MikeSharp01, I'll do a little trial first, photograph that and put it in this thread. Do I need to check with the BCO about using threaded bar rather than self-tapping (yes I haven't heard of them either @Mr Punter) coach bolts? Or do I just do it and see if he cares, and if he does, well, tough?
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And I have got one hundred and thirty meters of threaded bar (from the shuttering). You are some kind of genius @Mr Punter.
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Living in a Static Caravan on site
ToughButterCup replied to Stones's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Our LPA (that is the Enforcement Officer) says '... there is no legally defined difference at all between residence [in a caravan] and use of a caravan as a site hut...' That caravan is in use by my neighbours: they have now taken four full years to make no progress at all. Even his Appeal was dismissed. His lack of progress on the existing permission (to build a stable) is even documented on Google Earth (using the Go Back In Time icon). Compare and contrast that approach to the same department standing on ceremony in terms of a Certificate of Lawfulness for our piggery reconstruction: the eaves were 25mm too high over 2 meters of part of the building. Can't take a joke? Shouldn'a started should I? -
July September Beautiful it isn't, but once it's clad with some nice wood (any skips round by yours?)..... Now lets get a roof on and a first floor. Ian
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Durisol is 65% air. Bit like a bird's bone structure. In relation to the bolts that fix the wall plate to the wall.... Sorry @MikeSharp01, how do I run silicone round holes in the membrane that the bolts have come through before fastening the wall-plate?
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I think I have got my head round the principles of putting the first floor in its place (is that a pun?). I have read the relevant guidance (The POSI Joist Handbook) - and see architects note top left below. I have also read the architects note (bottom -right) which shows me I need to use 200 by 50 treated softwood. Here's our first floor And here's how Durisol recommend I attach the wall plate to the wall So far so good. POSI say I must use a hanger (and the architect says so too) because of air-tightness, and that means I need to..... make sure the fixing for the hanger doesn't penetrate the wall (and so compromise air-tightness) or put air-tightness tape over the masonry hanger fixing. Hanger - to wall-plate: I have a strong feeling I can't get away with 50mm screws for the connection between the hanger and the wall plate can I? What size will those screws need to be? Wall-Plate to wall: Self tapping M10 coach bolts at 400mm centers (architects note above) to attach the wall-plate to the wall? The key thing is that they connect with the concrete isn't it, even if the 400 mm centers guidance happens to fall outside the concrete core (i.e. into the 'wood' of the Durisol block? I think I'll probably need to embed the wall-plate fixing in resin won't I - for air-tightness?
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Got it in another one. I refuse to be beaten by this. To strain a flying dictum; at the moment, I'd rather be on the ground looking up, than where I am now, looking down at the ground wishing I'd not taken off. But turbulence happens - often where we least expect it. I, we just have to keep our nerve and deal with it. And try to enjoy it. There is no easy way to be airsick in a microlight. Hence I'm about to hit you all with a stream of 'How do I?' (next one will be put in the first floor - watch this space)
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Got it in one.
