Thedreamer

Just plain old wood joists. Did you use thin strips of OSB and attach with screws?

Sorry should have said it's for our suspended floor. Having a layer of Kingspan and then Frametherm wool on top. Timber is to support the kingspan, which will fit snugly in the joists but will still need some support.

Evening folks, Just after an idea of what type of timber you have used to hold up insulation on joist? And type of screws? Any pictures would be greatly appreciated.

Looking good @Redoctober like the doors

Goodness knows how many times I walked past that corner with the slates. I was expecting roof ladders but I suppose what ever your comfortable with when your working at heights.

In my last post we were waiting on two items arriving from our suppliers: Velux flashing kits and a metal roof to be fitted at the back. The velux flashings arrived first and we were able to make good progress and finish this side. Our joiner then came back on site to fit the metal roof. Unfortunately as mentioned in my Terrible Thursday post the flashing arrived at the incorrect angle, the plan was then to use the lead, but thankfully we decided not to and we managed to get a replacement flashing sourced quickly, which allowed the rest of the slating to be done. Last bit. And then finally ridge tiles. To be honest the roof was a bit harder than I thought. Various different materials, which can all take a while to arrive on site. If one supplier delivers late or supplies an incorrect part it can hold up the entire roof fitting. As with the entire build, except the blocks and concrete the materials are all organised by us, so perhaps it would have been less stressful to leave it to a single contractor. We had a great roofer who did the work in all conditions and a joiner who came on site quickly when we needed him.

A job well done. Have you given it a name?

@Crofter Nice updated profile picture!

Since July, I had hoped that we would have it down before the clocks go back. But our brickie has said he won't be able to start the outer skin until at least next month.

Good stuff, going to have some crackin views.

Yes that useful thanks chaps. We will definitely need to do a similar exercise with the plasterboard on the steel beam. I will also investigate whether we could put some form of fire resistant varnish on the Kerto and then add the timber on the bottom.

Okay, had an idea for later in the build. We will have length of wood which will still on the balustrade on the walk way between the two bedrooms up stairs. Roughly where this chap is standing in the photo. Is there any reason why we could'nt attach a strip of the same wood onto the bottom of the Kerto ridge beam and then leave this exposed? I was thinking oak or douglas fir?

We also saved thousands by supplying our own ducting. This was actually the first tangible job we did connected to the build and has also been most stressful. So glad we isolated the stresses associated were putting in services a few years before we started.

Percolation tests were done in 2013 and although we have clay soil the results were okay. Unlike some plots space is not an issue for us. I am keen to explore the treatment plant solution. The ditch that it would drain into has water running down about 1/2 the year the ditch then disappears at the bottom of a wooded area of the croft. I have building control and SEPA approval for a full soakaway so not too concerned at this stage.

I applied and was awarded a grant from SSE. Definitely, worth doing as it took about an evening to pull some text together and complete some costings for the build (this was in 2014/2015!). Unless you have a straightforward connection you should never accept the first quote.

It should be all sorted now. I believe V want them back but hopefully, they will forget about them.

That's a pain. But I suppose it will be quite nice to know that you have a local material on your house. The only local material is our access road and hardcore on site which came out of the ground on our site. Slate from spain, siberian larch, blocks and timber from goodness knows where it's all a bit artificial.

So we started roofing a couple of weeks ago. I shout up to the roofer on the scaffolding, yeah I've got all the window flashings kits. For some reason I wander into the storage container. Check the flashing kits and spot that one of the kits that arrived is for M06 which is a window size we didn't even order. Run inside get on the phone and ask why they sent this one, sorry that a cock up on our end. Told you need to go through your building merchant as they placed the order. I then go back to the storage container to double check the rest and then I spot another two are wrong. Unfortunately this was my error, I looked at the picture on this link to get the code and didn't read the description or look at the second picture, yes I know what a plonker, but we all make mistakes. https://www.sterlingbuild.co.uk/product/velux-efl-pk10-0012-single-vertical-combination-slate-flashing-94x160cm Phone the building merchant get the correct kits ordered and one arrives on Tuesday but the other group of two are yet to arrive so I chase them up yesterday and they tell me they have sent them to the building merchant but are for a tile roof. V admit that they were wrong and say that it's going to be next Tuesday before it arrives. Next problem... Building merchant says that we have got your metal roof delivered, great I think. Wander down the access and see from the distance that angle that I gave in a drawing (and some may remember I asked for some help on here) has been ignored. What a waste of four weeks of waiting. So on Thursday night I just stare at the roof, one side can;'t do because of lack of window flashings and the other side can't do because of the metal lean to roof flashing being incorrect. This morning, I wander down the access and see my roofing looking at the metal flashing and it all obvious that it's wrong, show him the goods received note which shows that it should have been 150 degrees. Now decided to scrap the metal flashing and will just use lead which I now have. What a terrible Thursday, Sorry rant over, just letting off steam.

Looks great. It so nice when you can start to look out of the window openings. That crane looks massive.

It's just one chap slating, so it will probably be around the middle of September. Keen to get this done so we can get the brickie back to do the blockwork. I really want the scaffolding down by the time the clocks go back.

Hi @Garry, welcome to the forum. As others have suggested you can't go wrong with the home builders bible, gives a really good overview of a build. Your visualisation looks great.

We started the roofing last week. We decide to go for CUPA 3 heavy slates, these are a thick spanish slate and designed for the weather we get in the Hebrides. Let's hope they do what they say on the crate. The first job was setting out the the various lines using a line and some red brick dye. Our roofer than graded some of slate pallets into different levels of thickness and any rejections. Now my job was to carry the slates up the ladder. So far three pallets have made there way on the scaffolding. Before the first slates were fitted we attached the dry verge strip. I did some research and asked a post on here, but finally decided on the Klober 'S' strip. We had already attached our barge board so I didn't want a 'T' shaped one that would go over the barge and underneath the slates. The 'S' strip is actually designed for slates and battens rather than slates and sarking boards, but because of the thick slates we have used this fits snugly where it meets three courses. Not the best photo but you can see the black strip above the fascia. The plan was to the front first, but unfortunately we had a mix up with the velux flashings so we can only go so far just now. We are however able to do some slating at the back, but we are waiting for our metal roofing material to be fitted which will hopefully arrive soon. Our joiner has prepared the timber for this to be fitted.

Our house is stick build, so I've had to order a fair bit of timber. I just worked on the stock lengths of 4.8m. You always need offcuts for scaffolding or on top of tarpaulins etc. I was surprised how little it costs to frame a property, I think it was around £10k (for all the timber, OSB, sarking boards and breather paper) and £5k was for the attic trusses and the truss grade wood.

Very nice, love the stone and slate.

I think there are a few young self-builders on here. I'm 32 (if that's young!) and wanted to self build for the last ten years. We were fortunate in having a piece of agricultural land available but we had to spend money to make it into a plot (access/levelling off/utilities). Since we graduated we have saved every penny towards this dream. Even before starting anything we had to invest all our money into converting a loft into accommodation at my wife's parents. This has provided the base for us to live for five years and save, save, save. We started with zero savings and will hopefully when finished have a mortgage that will be around £250 a month. We are not building to a passive house standard but we have used triple glazing etc and a good standard of materials. The sacrifices we have made during these ten years will pay dividends for hopefully the rest of our life. We had some days where we just thought it wouldn't be possible at our age, but as I've mentioned before, this forum and ebuild have been great for the occasional question, but mostly for providing me with the confidence that I could do this. The blogs are the best bit. A lot of my generation just don't save hard enough. Spend money on phones, running multiple cars etc. Or just mortgage themselves to the eye balls in a cheap poorly constructed developer house.