Triassic

I was thinking I might write a blog, how do I start?

Having shopped around I found that Arcon were the cheapest for what I needed.

Yes that’s s the thing, Sikaswel. Ys us I have a grove for it to go in, I’ve also been told to use a gun applied adhesive to stick it in place.

I need to install a hydrophilic water bar in the joint between my floor slab and basement walls, I’ve tried all the local BMs but none stock it. Any recommendations where I can purchase it online.

Is it too late to walk away?

My brother had just bought a German kitchen complete with cooker, hob and build in microwave. Only 12 months old £500 cash. There are bargains, you just need to be good at finding them.

Lead time is around a week. They have a warehouse full of the stuff, the delay is delivery.

I’ve just ordered my ICF Blocks. I then get an email, you’ll have to pay before delivery, here are our bank details, no mention of other ways to pay. Oh and by the way, as this is a part load there’s a delivery charge of £250. The annoying thing is that I’m now being made to wait for delivery as they’re awaiting another order to make up the part load. So I and someone else are paying a part load premium. A nice little £500 extra profit for the ICF company.

Here is the manufactures web site http://www.itms-plast.cz/galerie/

You’ll have to put a link to the booking web site here, no doubt some of us might want to book it. Written whilst sat in an Edinburgh tenement Airbnb, I’d never been inside a tenement before, the room are large and the ceiling must be 14foot high. Yours looks very nice by the way.

A mate is a gig electrician, he gave two Golden Tickets to an Ed Shiran gig to a young couple who turned up outside the stadium just for the atmosphere.

The concrete pump guy is a one man band, he set up and pumped the concrete on his own, My foundation was 25.5m2, the previous day he’d pumped, placed and finished an area of 58m2. He’d pump, levelled and finished my concrete wi5nin three hours, he then came back three hours later and power floated it all to a smooth finish. He came highly recommend as a very hard worker, he was, If you look at the above photo of the concrete pump you’ll see how far away he had to park, we had around 20m of extension pipes on the end of the boom pump.

Very nice work, well done!

What a horrible job, wear a dust mask! Never again, I’m getting it fitted in the TF factory.

Great idea, I have some space under the kitchen units. What would I need? Anyone got any design details?

145mm of Kingspan inside 150mm Timber Frame, walls and roof. 300mm in floor.

Only trickle vents at the moment. The cabin is only 35m2. Open to suggestions.

Remember he can’t force you to use welsh slate he can only specify colour anD texture etc, not the source. You are free to get slate from anywhere within the EU.

Since we moved into our air tight cabin we’ve noticed a slight Mould problem around the places we remain stationary for long periods, behind the headboard and above the Work from home desk (the wife sits here for the best part of nine hours per day). Any thoughts on what’s going on and the cure?

I was also wondering about the cost of Nu-lok ?

I as also thinks by total build cost plus value of the plot. to be honest im not even sure CHT is applicable, as this is as your last home before you left.

Good question, I’m also wondering the same thing! Hopefully someone will have the answer, where is @JSHarris?

Does this help https://www.expatinfodesk.com/expat-guide/nationality-specific-information/british/selling-property/

In also used XPS as it was cheaper. To get the site level we started by wackering in the stone drainage layer, as we did the various layers we checked for level across the area using a laser. We then blinded the area using sharp sand, to get an even layer we used 25mm roof battens as screeding rails. Again this was wackered down, a final level check was carried out and any low spots filled and wackered. We then installed the insulation layers and the radon barrier. Our concreting guy checked levels around the edge of the raft and he commented that there was only one low point, about 5 mm low, As the concrete was poured he checked levels and racked the concrete about as required. He then put a final finish on the concrete using a magic screeder , this is a vibrating aluminium float around 3m wide. Once the concrete went nearly set he power floated the slab. Now the slab is set I checked levels and it’s within 5mm all over.

My basement is in a hole, so no chance of it sliding out. Where sliding is a consideration a keel is introduced in the middle of the foundation slab.