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I am wanting to screw the deck down to the joists, so may make a bunch of holes in the covering, umm.... these screws, with the two threads to pull the floor boards tight to the joist and glue. https://www.screwfix.com/p/screw-tite-2-pz-double-self-countersunk-screw-3-5-x-50mm-200-pack/726fy

The first floor joists are set to go in next week with caberdek floors. There will be no roof on until mid / end jan. What extra protection can give the floor over the winter months, especially over the xmas break. I was thinking of laying a DPM over it over the break.

Lovely, well done on getting a spot like that.

125mm in 150mm cavity, horrible 25mm gaps.

They look o.k from the outside.

Small tips - Check your order from the manufacturer - Check the delivery note and ALL materials when they get to site to ensure it is what you have ordered. - check the person doing the install knows what they need to do and what its suppose to look like - check the installation. Do all four and you should be fine, do 1-2 of these and you end up with 125mm cavity closers in 150mm cavity walls! FFS. Basically subframes uk supplied 6m lengths of 125mm cavity closers rather than 150mm. The preformed window closers were all fine at 150mm (I checked these). For the bifold openings the brickie put in the 125mm ones in without realizing there was a potential issue or even raising a concern. Only on insecption did I see 25mm of play! Subframes are sending out the replacement 150mm ones foc due to the error is on them, but I have to rip out the old one! FFS

looks good to me, you are probably only looking at +_mm

I have been quoted with two different 9 Kw ASHP's for my build from two different local suppliers, both similar units but based on different parts. This is going to be a non RHI / MCS installation. Supplier 1 (Mitsubishi Ecodan PUZ-WM85VAA) as below for £6.3k + cost for additives and commissioning (another £1k for both) Supplier 2 (LG MONOBLOC R32 SINGLE FAN) as below for £4.5k It seems that the two options are based on different units, the ecodan looks the premium, can anyone help assessing the two different packages, and anything missing out that i need, or an over spec?

Where has the Rw 40 dB figure come from? 44 - 54mm solid core door with jamb and drop down seals will do it, see below https://www.lorientuk.com/acousticsearch/results?dB_min=40&dB_max=44&sort=asc

is there any option to get permission from your local water authority to put the surface water down the sewer. Our earth on our land is very good to build on, but crap at drainage, we were able to get permission from our local water authority to drain into the combined sewer in the road.

Yep, I have used sub frames on my build, mainly so the window openings are fixed and hopefully the windows slot right in.

I am putting a 150mm slab down (with embedded mesh for a garage / outbuilding, its going to be mainly timber with one external wall masonry, the rest of the external walls are going to be timber. a few questions Does the slab need to be the same sides at the wall outline, as below to stop water ingress, is this also the case on the wall that is going to be masonry? any edge thickening required? I going to embed a 50mm twin wall conduit in the slab that comes up within the wall line to get electrics and internet into the building, and run in the timber frame.

Call me cynical but It makes me wonder how many of their invoices were bang on £1300 a month ?

?????? These costs make me very concerned, That planning consultants fee, assuming a hourly rate of £100 is six weeks full time hours. £13k for the architect to draw out planning drawings seems nuts. How have they managed to spend that much on what seems from the outside to be a fairly simple development. Has there been significant back and forth with the council and scheme redesigns?

It is a alcove in a living room, to the left is a toilet. It is a volume builder

This reminds me of the time I was at my brothers house and looking at his renovation work. He had put celotex between the floor joists of a internal floor 'for acoustics'. I had to put him right and tell him if was going to do naff all. If you aren't going to take the celotex out, do the 50mm mineral wool, and two layers of 15mm soundbloc on resilient bars. Edit: if you wanted decent acoustics from the pitched roof you should have done something similar to the isover metac roof system. This can achieve a sound reduction up to Rw 49 dB which is pretty damn good, and I have recommended it in houses with rooms in roofs near airports.

You can only get the location of these from the SE, dont even try to guess or determine them yourself. When is your SE back? I find it very odd that no movement joints are on the drawings. Has your SE got a mobile / email you can use even to confirm there are none.

who needs 240V anyway!

The house is on a district heating system, so i think the rads are slightly bigger than standard if on a gas boiler, but not as big as if they were on an ASHP. From another site today (below) the rad for a flat kit / dining / living, with ASHP heating, it was huge!

not my site, and the more i look at it the worse it gets!

it needs to go in as a phased development with a phasing plan, most councils allow it but some don't (mine didn't). https://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/media/9735/custom-and-self-build-spd.pdf https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/developer-contributions/phased-development-and-cil/

this is exactly the issue i have, that it will be going through a flat roof if i had to have it vented. There is an opportunity for the soil stack to gout of an exterior wall horizontally at high level but i really don't want to do that.

That sounds over kill, the additional insulated stud. Are you trying to exceed the minimum requirements of ADE, what have you asked for? Sounds like you are building something like a robust detail E-WM-27, more than enough for building regs, it should actually perform at min 5dB better.

chain cutter? looks like they can be hired for £15-25 for the day.