durisol build in construction and another about to start

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Well.....we have continued to carry on with the conversion of my daughters Cow Shed using Durisol blocks and fortunatetly we have a really good builder who is also a friend which helps. He has been amazing. We all went on the day course and he also studied many hours of internet content before starting so that he was totally familiar with the product. 

Converting around stancions wasn't easy, if we could have taken it down and just built with the blocks it would have been far easier. Cutting them and keeping the insulation around the steels was difficult but he managed it. Not realising that the ground level at the rear was as high as it was meant re-jiggling the design somewhat with lounge window being shoulder height, not being terribly amused with the architect and his idea of how the rear should have looked! He got sacked a long time previously, daughter and l got to grips with Auto cad and did the alterations to the drawings for both projects ourselves, not easy. 

Due to the ground height meant more foundations once the engineer saw what was necessary, she also has been a marvel having not come across Durisol blocks before. 

After applying copious amounts of water based bitumen type product (we bought the wrong stuff previously, it would have eaten into the insulation) lots of this, sheets of that etc.... the ground has gone back against the newly built wall. O'h and we had to get new steel beams inside to hold the roof up as the structure only holds a tin roof at the moment. This has been very handy keeping off most of the rain (we did have swimming pools earlier on this year and spent hours pumping it out or using buckets....AND it kept the sun off this week, especially yesterday!

We are now ensconced in "The Silo's" you tube video's (if your bored with the telly) "How to turn 3 metal silo's into a house". Aplogies for the music on one...my own composition...more like an Indian restuarant theme! Pic 1. Natalie starts demolition July 19.Pic 2.The rear elevation.Pic 3 block and beam insulated floor, front door and kitchen /dining room elevation.. Pic 4 Steels being craned in. This end will be all glass. We have had 2 pumped pours but some of it has been filled by hand because (a) the crane wouldn't be able to get to the inside walls easily and Terry the builder was concerned about filling 170 blocks and having them move with the weight of the concrete going in. If your going to use Durisol blocks and have any queries, please ask, between Terry (builder) Natalie (site manager and order person daughter) or me....(Resin top installer and composer of awful music) please ask away, we will try and head you in the right direction (brick or poured concrete...hahahaha).