matthyde83

They aren't cheap but I think have been great. Yet to see how much difference they make thermally but the must do! Great at door thresholds too. Another benefit we've seen is it stops the blocks soaking up water from the floors. They'd have been saturated with the amount of water we've had in there until the roof was on.

Sorry for delay. We got them from Ecomerchant

Nice - just been looking at them...

Do you mean Fakro? What about airtightness?

Hi all - do people have recommendations for roof windows in a more airtight build? I'm looking at various options for 6x 550x780. It seems that Velux, Fakro etc. have ventilation built in, which we obviously don't want...

Just ordered €2k of materials from Latzel... thanks all for the recommendations

I understand the skepticism. However I think it depends on the complexity, knowledge of the market, relationship with lenders etc. Ours is not the simplest case and I’ve found having a broker invaluable. Their fee in comparison to other things is tiny (at least the bit I am paying, obviously they get a fee from lender too) and so much work is done before they get anything. I’ve been talking to them for about 8 months about the financing and pretty sure all I paid was £400 until another £400 at offer.

Give Marc Gibbs from Mayflower Mortgage Brokers a call. I have found him amazing with self build options. Just about to complete on our self build mortgage (mid-build)

This looks great Gus and exactly what I need tbh. Someone interested in the job! We’re slowly working things out but I really need some SE input. For instance turning the trimmers designed by the SE into cranked beams because of the outside plate height and supporting the valleys on the large gable front and back as being a lower plate height means they need to finish about 300mm inside off the supporting wall. I’ve sent you a pm…

This is what I have...

Questions/solutions we (me and builder have) We've amended roof pitch to 40 degrees all round Cranked trimmers, can they pick up the hips and therefore remove the need for flitch plates Can we support the large valleys on cantilevered steels, they will end about 250mm off the inside of a supporting wall

Yup... HELP!