Cambs

Green Building Store supply Ultion with the doors that we have just had installed. I didn't know anything about them so had a look at the website and was quite impressed.

Yes, I have a Brinno TLC200Pro. Here's a link to the time-lapse video

I’ve got an older one of those and has come in handy one a number of occasions. On our last build we had ClosetMaid shelving in 3 built in wardrobes. Was great for projecting a level line round three sides of the room to get the shelf pins aligned. Took about 2 minutes from getting it out of the case to having the line ready for use. Used it last weekend to get a level line either side of a window opening. I’d buy another if this one failed....

Not a full basement, just a (very expensive) metre deep hole in the ground. We had a planning restriction on the ridge height, so decided to dig down to give us the ability to get two floors into this space They put a ledger board up at the end of day 1 and then dropped the floor cassettes on to the ledger board the next morning, before putting the dwarf walls up for the second floor The roof panels are the same basic construction as the wall panels, just a different thickness - from out to in they are membrane -> wood fibre board -> iJoist + Warmcel -> SmartPly Propassive airtight board. Both walls and roof were pre-insulated.

Here's a time-lapse video of my timber frame going up this week. Team of 3 from PYC arrived on Monday and did the sole plates. Started erecting the frame on Tuesday, which is when the video starts. Lorry arrived each morning between Tuesday and Thursday with the panels and was unloaded and offsite in less than an hour, so minimum disruption to neighbours. Three and a half days to complete and I now have a fully insulated timber frame, with all internal stud walls and intermediate floors, up all bar a couple of small dormers. They'll be back next week to finish off and install the windows and doors. Very pleased with what PYC have done so far. Apologies for the wavy branch in front of the camera - didn't notice it when I was halfway up a tree setting this up ? Camera was a Brinno TLC200 Pro. PYC Timber Frame.mp4

One O'Clock and only a couple of ground floor panels left to do. They're flying through it... All panels fully insulated with Warmcel, and lined with Smartply ProPassiv. No insulation to do (apart from the intermediate floor) and panel joints ready for airtightness taping.

So far so good, nothing damaged and they have already started lifting the panels off the lawn and getting them in to place. I'm doing a Brinno time lapse of the build, so I'll post something up at the end. Even the dog is not stressed by this..... but then again, he's a retired guide dog and not much phases him!

Timber frame started arriving today from PYC. Frame up this week and probably into early next week. Windows from Green Building Store installed by the PYC team next week so, all going well, watertight in a couple of weeks. At last, it's finally happening!

There are also these. We used them on top of our slab to minimise thermal bridging http://www.marmox.co.uk/products/thermoblock

Wholeheartedly agree with JSHarris. Our last build had rooms in roof with PIR and it got really hot in summer. Our build currently underway also has rooms in roof due to planning constraints and we are going with vaulted ceilings and Warmcel cellulose insulation, so this one should perform a lot better in the warmer months.

I found this site useful for comparing the durability of the various timber species available as cladding https://www.tdca.org.uk/timber-cladding/cladding-wood-types/

I was speaking to Vastern a few weeks ago about fire retardant. They send it to Tilbury in Essex for the fire treatment. Freight cost between the 2 sites was £420

Golcar passivhaus by Green Building Store, methinks.... they have some good case studies and information on their site under the ”Free Resources” tab https://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/golcar-passivhaus-ground-floor-foundations/

I’ve got a section of blockwork where I may have to use something similar. Looking at this product: https://www.blowerproof.co.uk/ which has been mentioned in a few posts in the past here. Looks to be a possible for DIY application.

Here’s a link to a sketch of the Tony Tray http://tonyshouse.readinguk.org/tonytray.pdf

There are a number of shading calculation tools here that might help https://susdesign.com/tools.php

Green Building Store have done a few barn conversions to Enerphit standard. Lots of resources on their website about IWI. Here’s a starting point: https://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/lower-royd-radical-retrofit-its-a-wrap/

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Green Building Store have done a few barn conversions to Enerphit standard. Lots of resources on their website about IWI. Here’s a starting point: https://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/lower-royd-radical-retrofit-its-a-wrap/

I’ve bought one recently but haven’t set it up yet. I seem to recall reading somewhere that if you have it set on a timer then it creates one video per timer cycle i.e. one per day. I’ve had a look in the manual to try and verify this but I couldn’t find anything. If that is the case, then your one frame per hour for your 8 hour timer cycle would explain your tiny videos. You need to make sure that you cancel the timer rather than setting it from, say, 0000-2359 because that would still give you one video per day of only 24 frames at one picture per hour.

A similar product was featured on this season’s This Old House Project - the Jamestown Net Zero house. It’s in the first segment of the show. Looks like it’s from the same supplier as the one mentioned above. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/airtight-house-jamestown-net-zero-house

Good progress has been made over the last few weeks. Now completed the excavations and all of the footings were poured last week and have been left to go off. Groundworkers return to site tomorrow to do a percolation test for our complex soakway set up - this is due to the sunken section of the building and then we'll get the brickies in to start building up. The good news is that they found exactly what was expected when they dug out for the foundations - solid limestone at about 1.5m down which gives us a good base to build off. Here are some pictures ...... View from the top level down to the sunken area Detail showing how the retaining wall between the two levels will work - red lines are for the retaining wall and yellow lines are for the house. The square yellow box is for a pier to support a column. Nail driven in to mark the exact position..... The muck in the foreground will be removed and will eventually form the sunken patio

@Cambs What was your reasoning in Using Storma to do your building control please It was one of the warranty company’s approved inspectors, so was driven by the choice of warranty company and my desire to combine building control inspections and warranty inspections to hopefully reduce costs.

There is one more in the UK that I am aware of - Thermofloc (from Germany) used in the PH15 Timber Frame system and also available to buy from them and lots of other places. https://www.phstore.co.uk/thermofloc-cellulose-based-insulation

Yes, looking good so far. I’m told the excavation was just about finished today and the archaeologist didn’t find anything of note - hooray ?. The soil is not clay and the underlying layer of limestone seems to be draining ok.