Thedreamer

Exciting times.

I will be looking forward to seeing your project progress. When are you planning on breaking ground?

Although our journey is coming up to ten years. We never had a planning battle which is so tough when your just at that start. Well done for sticking in there and hopefully the next phases will run more smoothly for you.

Hopefully it will be a nice dry August and your have some other jobs to keep you busy for the next month.

Didn't realise that trestles had such a bad reputation. Our house is a room in the roof design and the trestles have been perfect for painting the walls. I'm just about tall enough to paint to soffit level. Once we have house finished I want to have enough scaffolding for one gable end and four trestles for painting/clearing gutting etc.

Pretty much the same circumstances as us in August 18. Although we attached the dry verge before the slating commenced and had also constructed the barge boards and soffits. I couldn't decide what to fit. From my research I came to conclusion that if you fit thick slates (we fitted cupa heavies) then it could distort the dry verge fitting. In the end we went for one that was designed for slates and battens and this gave us enough room to get the slates in. If I'm on the scaffolding I can see the bumps where slates overlap but this is not visible from the ground. Have a look at my roofing entry 1. Also I felt my barge boards and soffits were a bit boxy went fitted although we have block and render in places which have reduced this a lot. But from a practical point of view these overhangs are quite useful as they act as a umbrella around the house to keep the rain away from the walls. Although you will get a less rain then we get here on Skye.

Thanks @Redoctober. We are pretty flexible with the moving in date. Ideally it would be great if we in before the end of the year, but we stay with my wife's parent just up the road. So the longer we wait the more we can save and do ourselves. But we will need to move in at some point. The site was originally rough sloping croft land on my wife's croft, it look some imagination and vision back in 2009 on how it would look once cleared. I updated an earlier entry blog in 2019 regarding some of the pre work we did. https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/blogs/entry/334-preliminarydesignfinancing/ I hope to put up some photos/next entry once the last bit of scaffold comes down as it now pretty much painted.

Have to be very careful on putting the shell up and then borrowing against this at a later date. 1. Some building societies can have rules on borrowing on land/property which is close to family agricultural land. Although the land can be seen as being an asset realistically if in an agricultural environment it can be reviewed as being risky if the bank had to repose. 2. Also borrowing on a shell can be seen as being risky by a lender. You would need to ensure that you have inspections by a professional to provide assurance to the lender. Not many lenders in Scotland if that is where @Amateur bob is based so these are from my experience in dealing with lenders in Scotland.

If building in the highland, watch out for sites on peaty ground.

Yes that makes sense.

What's the metal rail on the roof? Never seen that before.

Looks like everybody is feeling the heat. It's been in the low twenties today in Skye and I been up on the scaffolding doing a 10 hour painting shift.

So far I've got to first fix and taken four cement bags to the tip. We don't have any neighbours around so we tend to burn any offcuts. I try and recycle as much as possible, we have couple of outbuildings where lengths of timber and other bits and pieces can be stored.

Depending what your classify as foundations. I prefer the term groundworks: clearing site, muckaway, structural foundations, initial drainage (inspection chambers/soil pipes/surface water pipes) creation of access, bringing services into the house, creating ground floor (slab/beam and block).

I would ditch the broker. Your limited in Scotland and even more for Highlands and Islands. We went with the Scottish Building Society the amount we could borrow was not huge but will result in the mortgage being low. If this was not feasible we would probably have revised the design (smaller, less complex) and invested to ensured our SAP met the ecology lending criteria. I'm at first fix stage on a self build on our croft on Skye. I keep a blog here that might be of some interest.

Thanks for the replies. The upstairs is a room in the roof design. We have been limited by ridge height because are building in a special scenic area. Therefore can't lose any height from additional plasterboard layers. The house is split into three sections. At either end it is attic trusses where I have 200mm depth for the joists. I think from reading the above I'll scrap the loft insulation idea, so is it worth fitting 2 x 100mm acoustic insulation, just 100mm acoustic insulation or even put in 100mm acoustic insulation and the 100mm loft insulation underneath as well? The middle section is partly vaulted and open plan so less worried here. Upstairs I plan to fit carpet and a good underlay. Chipboard has already gone down. For the resilient bars, do these consist of two types one for floors/ceilings and second for walls?

If my attic trusses are 200mm deep, how far should I fill these with sound insulation? The Knauf website suggests that the 100mm spares loft roll that I have will not have sufficient acoustic properties but would two 100mm layers not do the job?

Looks very smart.

I see so the entire land mass is on the move because of tectonic plates? At that rate not really an concern to us. But I can see how it would be an issue to other coastal plots.

Yes the green field across the road is our croft.

No not our Loch. Waterfall just increases in flow when water levels are higher.

Not worried myself as we are 60 meters above sea level and our loch hasn't changed since the last ice age. The self builders constructing the passive house in Portree moved to Skye because of the environmental concerns. There is a video that runs about forty minutes regarding their decision. https://portreepassivhaus.uk/video-reports/

@temp I envy you if your painting smooth render. I'm painting our roughcast and it's almost like applying an additional render layer in it self. We gone with a paint that's a bit more expensive and made on Skye. We have tried where possible during the build to help local businesses. http://www.isleofskyepaintcompany.co.uk/

We have 40 breeding ewes and the payment for wool is minimal. As you mention it much more to get a shearer in then what you get for the wool.

I've completed the survey.