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It was always my plan A as its more easily DIY-able than that quantity of concrete and easy to fully insulate - although I don't know what I would prop it on nor how easy that would be to level as a first timer. but for now a concrete slab is the line of enquiry.

?‍♂️ Round here, money does not go far.

I know, our house has downstairs timber suspended floors.

I was asked if a timber floor would hold 20 people...

This sounds like a proper job and therefore will not be cheap. What price would you expect for that? Dig out founds mix and pour 0.7m3 concrete lay 200 bricks dig out base eps/dpm Mix/pump 1.5m3 concrete and level (I also have doubts about the competence of the screeding too) I think I would be lucky to see change out of £2500 Is there a slightly less thorough option? (This is why I have previously favoured a timber frame base but her indoors is not having it)

There are some threads on this sort of thing but those look at a more complicated design. Extra floor loading or higher insulation spec. Im looking at a 4.15 x 3.3m log cabin, 45mm walls, DG windows, approx 1t weight on supplier details I was intending to insulate the floor and roof My wife has a preference for a concrete slab floor and I am keen to prevent this being a large heat sink There is scope for 25mm PIR floating floor on the slab but I would like to put something in the slab as I don’t think that will be enough. I am not trying to build a passive house just making cheap simple gains. The slab would just be the exact size of the cabin. What I am interested in knowing (and what I need to specify to a contractor) is the slab build up. It’s fairly easy to say something like 100mm compacted hardcore, 100mm EPS 100 and 100mm concrete but are there any details to be aware of? Should the insulation be tapered down at the edges so there’s thicker concrete? (But 1t mass over a 14m perimeter sounds like very little load even with extreme load cases). How would you protect the EPS edges without a foundation wall? I realise there will be a cold bridge around the edge but 14m x 100mm = 1.4 sq m of cold bridge vs approx 13sq m of floor insulated. Doesn’t that make the significant difference?

Tuin sale ends tomorrow. I think we’re going to order the smaller one that is under 15 sq m internal floor area. I am still keen to build a kit myself despite having no prior experience. The base is still up for debate for how and who will do it. Going to start a thread about the base.

After a painful gestation this is complete. Having to replace all 11 existing fence panels as well as half the posts was not cheap (we paid someone to do it) so we’ve ended up with standard vertical feather edge board. It’s like something from the West Bank but (and this is counter-intuitive to me), our garden feels bigger with this massive barrier on one side.

Rangemaster Atlantic Kube It has been in use for 5 years. The right hand side is the sink we use, the left hand side normally has a draining basket so most of the surface is much less scratched to give you a good comparison

Only the tip. And to think I had resisted making offensive bath tub gags for days. I thought you were going to mean black internals which may have been naff but don’t see anything wrong with black externals in the right setting.

In my first floor bathrooms I like to think of this non-lagged pipework as UFH.

Gives me flashbacks to the rubbish late 70s ideal Mexico floor stander in the appalling rental we vacated in 2015.

I meant the boiler

Christ, that looks prehistoric

Having ditched the micro-office we’re going ahead with a bigger build. OSB covered trestle to Trestle is 5m wide and the planned front face of a decent sized garden room.

That’s far too good a job ? What’s that flooring as well? You’re just showing off now.

Thanks, that’s useful to know, I was fishing here to see if anyone had experience of this issue. Might just have to go back to the original proposal ?‍♂️

That’s quite a risk to take with an unknown outcome. I would prefer to meet my obligations and be able to tell anyone who objects to mind their own business.

I know about the 15sq m limit. But what does non-combustible really mean? Class 0 fire resistance? And what is the process of getting a log cabin to meet it and be checked? (Is it worth the hassle)

Slight problem. We would like to build a log cabin with a 17sq m floor area within 1m of the boundary. Due to the triangular boundary we just can’t get 1m clearance on both sides. Should still be fine on being permitted development but what are building regs for a log cabin? Is it just class 0 fire performance or are there other considerations? Insulation?? Structural considerations? Will a wood treatment meet the class 0 requirement? Would a large window prevent the facing walls meeting class 0?

Shuuuuuuhsh ? but the tuin sale is on.

Well... now is probably the time to bite the bullet and register.

Someone has discovered she can’t do the washing up and then expect a cup of tea ?

I get a similar issue with safari on my iPhone when using Twitter. Doesn’t happen for weeks, then every couple of days it won’t load Twitter unless I use a private browser. Then after a day or so normal safari works. Like Zoo here I should probably be using the relevant app instead of a browser. I don’t “fix” the problem because it’s annoying to lose the browsing history.

If you read the blurb on the blank private browsing page, it’s telling you that private browsing is like using a blank slate every time you access a page and it doesn’t remember any info afterwards. That it works this way tells us there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with safari or the iPad. Just that there something in the information it has stored that is causing a temporary conflict when you access YouTube. You should try clearing the cookies to see if that helps use YouTube on the normal safari page. i would suggest you create an Apple ID at some point soon as this will allow you to use the iPad properly. You’ll likely want to install other apps and at the very least you will need to update the apps you have and the operating system in due course.