DragsterDriver

makes you wonder what will happen? Will it become too expensive to build? I've mothballed my company so I can build my house but I’m thinking current increases have added thousands on an average loft conversion...not to mention on my build ?

We have major shortages of aggregate and cement, insulation etc has had a massive price rise

Some of the private firms are sketchy, I did a few jobs with Aedis ?, but now I find our council building control best. If you want to cut corners deffo use a non local independent- they’ll let you get away with murder.

yeah, bal/Mapei primer. Personally I’ve never had plasterboard fail because it’s tiled and sealed properly

It takes me a week to provide a quote, what I have learned is when to say I can’t fit anymore work in, and recommend another builder I trust who has More staff and can accommodate more projects.

Isoquik is 6 weeks turnaround

Morning! I think that was somebody else’s drawings? The site has footings already in place for the previous potton home that was never built- I was hoping to raft over the top of them for ease of build. excuse the sleepy sketch but it’s a U shape bungalow, you can see the main road behind which has an embankment and the original founds had pad and ringbeam along that elevation. If I can buy the insulated sections uncut I’d still have a raft design with the flexibility to alter footprint slightly if needed

overthinking is the home of the internet! you’re quite right- I could lap 50/75 easy enough. I don’t want passivhaus standard just very good a raft would be better tbh but strip foundation is quickest

thanks! That’s really helpful- I’ll look up galaxy

yes! there is discharged planning for a potton bungalow on the plot so there is a ‘fallback’ position which helps massively. Water is on site, shared septic tank with neighbour, electric on site from the abandoned build in 2004. I could at a push modify the original plans a fair bit on ‘S96 and S73 applications’ apparently which although not ideal would get me out of jail if I’m in the brown stuff. I’d have gone the mobile home on site route 100% but sadly I’ve two teenage kids PLUS my old Mum lives in our annexe. it was an impulse idea that’s snowballed... edit: somehow I’ve used many text sizes ??‍♂️

which lift and slide doors do you have? I’ll go triple glaze due to the proximity of a dual carrogeway.

thanks, I’ve dropped styrene an email to see what their lead times are on components regarding the build- I wish I had an actual ‘build thread’ where I could lay it out better. the situation is that I’ll complete on the plot in around 3 weeks but my architect hasn’t submitted my planning yet- he will this week even if I have to kidnap him but that’s already a 6 week delay if planning actually perform on time ?- what I can’t do is then wait on lead times for a manufacturered eps raft kit- I really have no idea what their timescales are ‘because covid etc’. Maybe I can get a typical detail, as long as the footprint of the place doesn’t change too much. I have 12 months bridging against my home in which to build the new place but I’ll market mine as soon as I’m out of the ground and move in whatever the condition but it’s all a big old risk. I am a builder so I can work fairly quickly full time on it, but it’s not the best impulsive idea I’ve ever had...hence a strip footing I could have pulled out and concreted in days with me stick building rapido. Again, I have a mate who can build the kit but I just don’t think I have the time to wait. Edit: building reg plans I can work on a building notice which is handy.

Thanks! that’s what I’d like in an ideal world- not sure how I’d be able to resolve not having the premade eps formwork L shape?

Thanks I’ll keep an eye on the blog for the non basement area will you have courses of block lined with eps rather than the preformed eps formwork?

what sort of design do you have? That’s the sort of alley I may be heading down. I can easily get dug out and concreted ‘to dpc’- and lay EPS as a slab if designing and ordering a kit is problematic.

it’s that sort of scenario I dread- but without final Plans and paying for calcs I won’t know delivery ?

That looks amazing!

the danger is planning changes = new footprint, new calcs and design of raft. Having said that depends on when Kore or whoever can deliver if it was a designed raft?

cheers I’ll have a look!

If his work is good and productivity decent there’s no drama. Decent labourers are £150 a day around here. actually most trades charge per day not per hour so breaks are covered.

Morning! was the cls vac vac treated or anything similar? thanks

I would prefer an eps raft/slab but- waiting on planning permission and then turnaround time on a slab design and delivery could be financially crippling- I really do need to ‘hit the ground running’. I have easy access to plant and groundworkers/bricklayers who owe me favours ? for a timber frame bungalow with cladding- no external masonry- has anybody built or seen detail for traditional strip footing with a concrete block plinth and thick eps slab internally? it’s the need to ensure continuity of insulation by way of an upstand linking to the timber frame. https://imgur.com/gallery/QuPdVgC apologies for the sketch quality- I woke early thinking about bridging loans ?

If you have deep pockets and no knowledge of building or contractors it seems a good bet if the architect is taking full legal responsibility. Everything in writing, all the time. I would do this if I had proper money.

Probably. It’s not a hard job but it’s invasive. Internal walls need reducing in height, chemical plates, new joists, boarding, skimming, electrics moving. etc.

2m is plenty unless you’re 6’7” tall. I’d say most I do are 2-2.1m.