Ronan 1

Put up a pic where they are detailed and it should be fairly simple to say if they are required or not

Mars bars are the right tool for the job for placing on the insulation. Just use them nice and stable no overturning or damage to insulation.

Concrete with me is about 65 pm3 so £8 per m2 based on a 5"slab then add about £4-5 pm2 for laying it at a guess so circa 12 to 13 pm2 and I can get SMA supplied and laid for £13 pm2 based on a single 80mm layer.

I'm having full Aluminium windows and have values of 1.4 as an average think worst was 1.7 of the top of my head. There tipple glazed too though not sure that makes much of a difference

Jesus I wish they were that quick for me, I'm waiting nearly 6 weeks and still don't have a quote

I don't like the idea of the government banning anything anyway, Its no way to achieve anything. Why don't they make the preferred alternatives the preferable option through correct investment and proper incentives, those that are converted in this manner are alot more likely to embrace the whole eco friendly ethos to their whole build than someone who feels they have been cheated out of their preferred heating option by a government deadline.

Don't mind it touching off the toilet but when it's dangeling in the water that's what annoys me ..????

Can't generalise all construction workers as bad just like construction workers can't tarnish all clients as bad and trust me there are as many bad clients out there as there are builders. You just got to do proper due diligence and have proper communication but I suppose you can still be unlucky on both sides of the fence.

+1 if this is a fully handed over estate, likelihood is the developer has had everything "taken in charge" and has no tie to it any longer and has probably closed the company they set up to build that specific estate.

And how do you propose to rod it if it blocks? That's going to need at least 2 very deep inspection chambers. Dave is right, it looks to me like you are burying some future problems deep !! With the orientation on your incoming and outgoing pipework that tank should have been turned 90 degrees which would have made it somewhat easier. You will need to fill over the barrell of the tank with concrete, I'd use a damp leanmix and any half decent driver should be able to bank up the muck to act as a shutter as he's going along. That hole is nasty looking now but it is nothing to how bad the hole will be IF you have to go back and try and rectify things at a later stage. Get your GW and Machine driver by the scruff and get them to sort it out right for you whike the hole is still open.

If he's admitted to not installing as per spec tell him to get it taken up and start again from scratch. DO NOT accept a bodge to fox a bodge , Its you that will have to live with it

Welcome, there a right few NI self builders on here and one or two up your direction if I remember correctly

I had looked at them and always wondered were they any use or just a gimmick. I might try them on mine next year

As said buying direct from quarries are usually the cheapest route. Just to annoy the rest of ye I'm paying £6.50 a ton ?

You could always buy a few 6m grown trees and plant them. It will cost a few pound but get the job done and dusted straight away. Well you'll have to wait till the correct planting season which is from October to Feburary ish for big trees like them.

When the foreman is back and if he's a good un , have a chat and I'd imagine once he sees it he'd be happy enough to discuss relaying this section it doesn't look very big and won't be a big effort or cost to take out and relay. If it was me or one of mine I wouldn't want a couple of cube of concrete tarnishing a good job otherwise.

Looks like cracking from too warm and not protected after pouring in this really hot weather concrete would really need damp Hessian at a minimum. Don't look like they'll be too much of a worry but I'd war h them and see. If caught early you can brush some raw cement in which will help seal some. Biggest problem with small cracking like them is it's a route for water which can cause larger problems with the freeze thaw affect in winter time

I really like them as per the picture, and it comes down to how much it's worth to you. I'd talk to your builder / tiler and ask for a price as you want it and a price for his suggested alternative and then you'll know what it will cost you and if it's worth it you then the pain of getting right will be on him which I'm sure he will price 9nto the job and if you can't live with the price at least you'll know But I'd reckon it's definitely not going to be cheap

Not so bad, one less unknown

Feck that anyway..... thanks Declan thats what I thought. Thays really going to blow my chances of being weather tight for Christmas

To the lads in NI I was supposed to have my BC paperwork gone in for approval with the hope of having it ok'd very shortly after planning but I've just found out due to "Covid" and now holidays it's still not gone in. As I'm keeping my existing house I'm getting a mortgage to build this new one so I need sign off before the mortgage company will process everything so I am wondering how long BC sign off took from submission so I can chat my blocklayer and give him a more realistic date which hopefully he can do ?

+1

Oh no.... fecking horrible stuff. Did it come from neighbours "managing" it.

Must have been a very bad digger driver on that job ?

Not that I've ever heard of, the bucket of the digger "slipping" whilst digging foundations is fairly common ? I even had my architect talk to my wife after we got the planning last week to recommend a little miscalculation when setting out to make the utility room a bit wider.... I said no as the bloody thing is over 3500 sq ft as is, it is tempting though but as I'll be driving the digger I'll get my way * probably ?