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The ones I have seen are thermally broken with a slide in rubber/urethane type material. Separation distance doesn’t really matter as the heat or cold cannot jump any gap from one piece of aluminium to an adjacent member. @Iceverge, that’s an interesting and useful comparison.

Nothing wrong with doing that

Unless it’s a composite lintel, then it shares the load with the soldier course. however, perforated should still be ok

What? Nearly 6k/t that’s ridiculous

Cheers Peter, I was just writing something similar

As it’s a garage I can’t see a problem with this

I like Mapei stuff, had a small area to do this weekend just to level up about a sq metre of old wall, stone, concrete and thought I would try Srewfix no nonsense self levelling … Carefully tamped it level with a float and when I came back .. arrrfggghhhhh! it had haunched up into a ridge across the middle … much scraping later it sorted it, luckily wasn’t fully cured!

If the basement is going to be classed as habitable then you will need to include flood prevention … unless you are on a very steep slope and the basement is self draining. assuming it is underground then a sump with pumps and alarms, this will also have bearing on the floor make up

Nothing wrong with wall plate on top of lintel …. Depending on overhand you may have to be careful of door catching rafters/eaves if applicable

Possibly floor paint with sawdust added to give it a non slip texture

Flat level bedrock around 600mm below the surface would be a be a foundation dream, but would then be a nightmare for drainage/inspection chambers etc.

Haha, that’s why I said better, not good lol

How high is the deck likely to be?

That looks much better

A slope is generally not deemed a fall as the slope would break your fall and slow you down. I don’t know of any specific dimensions but I would have thought a low level deck then 600mm before a slope would be fine. how steep is the slope? Material? Any obstructions on the way down?

150mm without mesh is fine for most things if the ground underneath is stable. Our yard is done like this and often has 20tonne plus point loads and 100tonne on 7 axles

Big difference

As above, you will be surprised how much space can be taken up by old d&d.

If you loose a couple of fingers do you start counting in base 8? ?

We do a lot of railway stuff and they don’t like stainless fixings. The platform furniture that is all polished stainless and fixed with bzp or even self colour threaded rods is madness and looks terrible.

Haha, reminds me of a job a good few years ago, stainless steel conservatory for lord and lady Sainsbury … bloody nightmare job, part of snagging was that it made a big noise and shook when you slammed the sliding door open! .. we put a couple of rubber blocks in so the door bounced back …still shook the frame (approx 4 tons of it).

Expanded PolyStyrene. Nothing special needed for upstands. A quick search on here will give a myriad of information regarding the various types of insulation available.

25mm insulation, might as well go for Eps and service lintels just use basic concrete ones or cast in situ while doing the founds

Hello and welcome, that looks like an awesome project.