Dave Jones

wouldnt worry, as long as your house isnt new it will be leaky as hell anyway. If you start to fill up with condensation come the winter just buy a dehumidifier and leave it running 24x7. There are no trickle vent police who will raid you dont worry, they are all too busy tacking the pro-noun abusers on twitter.

as long as the U value and depth are the same as the roof. e.g lower U value (more ££££) can be slimmer as long as end result is same.

asked the bricky today and he said just muck.

your right its a mountain of paperwork. Same as the new EPC regs where the builder has to document key junctions and provide evidence, geo tagged or no EPC. I paid the guy who did our SAP to do ours. More wasted cash .....

skim the wall?

make the upstand wider externally. still takes the same size light and has full level of insulation.

if your bricking it up you can just morter the joint. will look better.

google recycled.

upstands should have the same level of insulation as the roof. 99.9% of chippies totally ignorant of this fact including yours.

30% drop in performance from 0.8 to 1.2, pretty bad.

the lads who did ours commented on how many newish grp roofs they are replacing due to cracking. could be they were all poorly fitted. EDPM much more forgiving in every respect. Not to mention its green as well.

not rocket science ask any kit builder to supply you at the m2 rate of blockwork and see the reply.

interested in this also, had a large price from internorm. 10% off it would pay for the roof.

its all relative. £50k on a 700k site is peanuts. £50k on a 100k site is painfull.

because double the price isnt double as good.

they all the same, internal bars kill the U value.

who would have though rubber was stretchy. lol

its virtually guaranteed grp will movement fail before EDPM. EDPM also greener being a recycled product.

EDPM superior in every way including fitting, the warmer it is the softer the rubber!

all i will say is they get soggy as buggery when it rains... They are still the least worst option though.

interesting. is there really that much load though ? Looks like maybe a pack of bricks above the cutout, same in blocks on inside. A share of the roof as well. The corner is still there taking most of the load and assume the floor joists are still sharing the load with the other wall. Fair enough they should have dropped a scaff plank or 2 under the acro's. Doesnt look that bad though ?

i wouldnt. kitchen down first then run flooring into the legs, covered by plinth. guarantee you have no issues with movement then.

go for 300mm EPS. cheap and good bang for the buck. You have the room already. simplify your buildup. trench block + concrete common then beam on top.

just looks crap. built into a stud wall is soo much cleaner.

very very bad year for pollen, my eldest is really struggling. the hepa+uv filter on the mvhr will be a godsend.