Dave Jones

Due to your lack of knowledge the only things you can check are cosmetic. Pretty much same as building control! When a mistake raises its head it will be much harder to sort as you didn't know it was a mistake at the time. Some of these mistakes will be cheap to sort some wont. You are rolling the dice on having good trades who give a shit and are still willing to go out of their way after you have screwed them down as much as you can on price. Have a pool of cash to cover these (10-20% of total build cost), don't blame the builder and crack on!

not a fan of rimless, saw one that doesnt contain the flush water in the bog. splashed about the place. very unhygienic.

then crack on!

ah so the previous run is now redundant and being replaced with your new pipe? is there a manhole downstream that you can use to rod ?

if no change of direction you dont need one. BUT you are going to be using a Y which means you need the ability to rod the new section. How will you do that without a chamber ?

horrific. They are not roofers. Get a professional firm in to fix it. Small hip cuts, no hip trays, no stop end in last hip tile. Has it been mechanically fixed not just held on by a single clip ? Could come off and kill someone. As for that chimney .....

you could try and divert - if possible, but still nothing to worry about.

dont do this. will mean loads of crap boxing in. Hang them off studwork and lose the pipework in the stud.

also swing the toilet doors to open out not in, wont have hassle with disabled regs and spacing. ref openings, quite easy to do. for example you have a 600 window on the plan, architects do this as they are clueless on how to build normally. 600 / 225 (brick + joint) = 2.66666 bricks. result = looks crap. yes some runs the joints can all be stretched etc etc but just make the window 3 bricks and its 675mm then the cuts are exactly half.

normal. nothing to worry about.

not a fan of doors on the outside walls upstairs opening to nowhere. Most of your window sizes dont work brick, spend 15 mins with the builder and adjust them all to work. saves him time, you money and no crap cuts to look at forever! lot of wasted space on the landing. Stairs need more thought. Fireplace would make a nice feature.

you also dont want 400 centres if your planning on using sheet insulation that is cut between the studs.

good luck with that. digger hire, muck away, stone, pipe, relay slabs. Someone who knows what they are doing to do all that. Be looking double what you are budgeting. Take out the drains insurance with british gas or whoever, live with it until feb. Please ignorance and make a claim.

think about it. truss delivery arrives at 2pm, you have been paying 2 or 3 chippies to sit around waiting from 8am. they get a 1/4 trusses on then that's it for the day. The lorry driver takes them back and you try again another day. Doesn't sound very sensible does it. You (not the driver) offload, stack against the scaff then book in the chippies and a crane and hope weather plays ball.

some osb is not metric so wont work 400/600 centres.

relaying path is DIY job cheaper than moleing.

good stuff, hatefull to get in the ground!

they will check for toughened glass maybe, the rest is not their problem. SAP etc

use sewer pipe will never have a snag pulling cable through. that crap 63mm ducting is terrible stuff.

The regs dont even force you to have a ramp, you can have a step. Disabled access doesnt have to be front door either, can be anywhere. Ask for the section of building regs they are quoting.

not considered spray, im not a fan of it really. ill be taping all the joints prior to plasterboarding paying extra attention to the unboarded area between pozi's to get them tight. I'll leak test before floors go down to track down any leaks.

i did look at that but unconfirmable hanging 80m2 of flooring, bathrooms etc on just a few screws through a ledgerboard. My plan is to encase the end of the pozi as much as possible so the wall insulation is as continues as possible. It really does need an engineered solution as there are literally millions of solid wall homes unsuitable for EWI that at some point will have to be modernised. Keeping an eye on simpson to come up with a thermally broken hanger.

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brick rate not day rate. Massive can of worms when it inevitably goes tits up.

yes this, they overcome the majority of the frame now sitting within the insulation which makes it hard to smash a 100mm conc screw through the lot.