ToughButterCup

Genius. The number of knots I have thrown away 🤪 - not any more

Your post asks the hardest question in the realm of self-building. The more you look at houses (or anything else) the more informed you become. If during that educational process you are fortunate enough to be taught how to look at houses, - or teach yourself how - and what to look for, then the more sophisticated your taste becomes. In other words on continued engagement with the topic, todays fancy often becomes tomorrow's cheap. And engagement is what every single member is here for. As an example, take foundation design. Many of us had never heard of an insulated raft design before building our houses. We would not have known what to look for or why that design is so desirable. Now, just a glimpse of a small piece of EPS300 poking above the edging strip round the base of a house is enough to make us suspect that the foundation is insulated. Fancy if you like. As well as warmer. In this sector, the steeper the learning curve, the wider the choice. That doesn't mean we can't choose cheap, but we can choose fancy on the basis of having sweated the detail of why (to cite a current example) @pocster's choice of Jungheinrich wood to metal screws is a good one.

Bump. The piece of Promat Supalux has been cut to size. Before I fit it, is there an 'outside' and 'inside' to the boarding? One side is distinctly smoother than the other. Rough-side out ?

So come on @pocster which method are you (in your madness) going to use? I recon @redtop's is best ...

@Construction Channel has written about it.... haven't time (like you have 😝) to look it up. Loads of timber to steel screws to put in you see.

Wish I'd thought of that method 😏

Try 'check list' ?

@pocster, by chance this morning I'm doing the same job as you . And by chance I remembered the guidance I downloaded from the manufacturers. Here's (the German version) the company guidance with formulae (FFS)

The tape is on site? If so, why wouldn't you use it? Correctly applied, the tape stops the membrane flapping about. Or have I missed something?

Really nice new CSS file: helps legibility and readability. Well done.

@pocster , your life is just one big long adventure innit ?

Just seen this @pocster my son..... Using a COLD timber-to-steel screw, cover the end of the screw with some spit, spit in the hole, and then try again. The dampness works as a cutting agent Before wetting the end of the screw, there's no real need to explain why you should make sure the screw is cold is there, no ..... ? What-A-Dickhead.

Anyone trying to buy Siberian Larch then? Or was my build one of the last to be supplied?

Here's a list of all the posts that have the term checklist in the title https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/search/?q=checklist&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_in=titles

Morning Derek. Welcome. You sound very sorted out. Please post ideas for your layout here. You never know what the hive mind that is Buildhub will throw up. And, as for stupid questions - there's almost no such thing. Almost no such thing? Is your project over-budget?

You log your teens' hot water consumption ? Honestly? I remember being glad if ours used any hot water at all. But then they met members of the opposite persuasion ....

You are right. But, at the time the house was designed, the idea that Debbie could come home to an empty house, and switch a light on (and off) in every room from one 5 Amp master switch by the main door put a smile on her face. And made her feel more secure about coming home when no other family member is home. That made whatever minor inconvenience a 5 Amp circuit causes in a new build simply irrelevant. The financial saving is irrelevant too.

Mornin' I see you've brought the sunshine with ya..... Thanks. Just in case you haven't found it, this site has a brilliant search section. Here's an example of what it can do - click the link. Apologies if you already know about it. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/search/?&q="knocked down" semi&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy I just pasted the term " knocked down" into the search box . I then refined that search further by adding the term semi Could you keep the sun shining for a few days please.... ? Ta! Ian

Same age as the rest of us then. .... Welcome

We have the 4G version. I've given up trying to get the web version of the performance data out of it - our MyEnergi hub sorts that out though....

Ours are 144 - 146 ish. Some are down to 120 because thats what we needed to do to make them fit. For the life of me, now, I can't tell the difference unless I'm close up. Not worth worrying about.

@Russell griffiths, that looks fantastic : and perfect for you because I hear you are into wild swimming. I can just imagine it ; skinny dipping at dawn and (this time of year) wild ospreys sitting on your roof waiting their chance for a ....

Him, not the room. BUT, try not to cook him quite so much that - since nature abhors a vacuum - he becomes so warm that he doubles as a room heater

Needs a pair of well padded grab-handles on the back of the door, just above knee height. I mean, its a double-activity facility: puke and strain all at once.

This thread is good company: and maybe one we should encourage new self-builders to read before starting their project(s).