matthyde83

planners?? already has full planning and BC confirmed earlier they will happily deal with it on site. q is will structural warranty want more…

How about this…

ok thanks… one of the decisions I’m trying to make is SE or not. I also don’t have a warranty in place yet (starting Feb). Trying to get ahead of myself as much as poss!

In response to all of the above... Masonry build 150mm cavity BC understood using the crushed hardcore and seemed ok with it (obviously this is just a call and not an actual decision when it comes to it) Drive has already had tonnes on it from when we built garage so stoned up really well. Can definitely use some under new terrace to rear of house but I'm sure a lot more than that will come out of the bungalow. Understood on finish floor height and work back from that, no problems there. FFL will be same as existing bungalow so need to take out what's there down to whatever level we need.

I'm due to start my build in February and I'm facing a few dilemma's that I'm trying to solve now.... Looking for POV and advice please. We are demolishing an existing bungalow to make way for a detached house build. We've previously built a garage on site (last year) so know the ground conditions pretty well. We are on a red clay with lots of flint. We had to go 1.8m in one corner of the garage build to reach chalk, 1-1.5m in other areas. Down one side of the site we have a mature conifer hedge (not lelandi!) but it will probably be c.2-3m from the new house. Few questions... 1. Foundation design or not? BC were obviously happy for a traditional slab for the garage with no prior design work. 2. Builder recommended crushing demolished bungalow and using under a traditional slab rather than ship away plus allows him to use his mini lifter on site to move materials as it can drive over a slab. Thoughts? 3. I've spoken with BC that we used for the garage and he said he's be happy doing on site but said warranty provider may have a say in whether we design in advance given conditions and they would be more stringent than him?