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[Apache]

Hello

 

In the early stages of converting a former railway building into a house in the Yorkshire Dales. 

 

We will also have a SIP extension.

 

Trying to do as much as I can myself, but I'll pay some people to do some parts. Would love to be in for Christmas 2027, but no promises! 

[Nickfromwales]

3 minutes ago, Apache said:

Hello

 

In the early stages of converting a former railway building into a house in the Yorkshire Dales. 

 

We will also have a SIP extension.

 

Trying to do as much as I can myself, but I'll pay some people to do some parts. Would love to be in for Christmas 2027, but no promises! 

Hi, and welcome aboard!

 

Please post a new thread in the SIP's / timber frame section, and then I can ask you "why SIP's and not TF, or ICF".............  

[Apache]

6 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

Hi, and welcome aboard!

 

Please post a new thread in the SIP's / timber frame section, and then I can ask you "why SIP's and not TF, or ICF".............  

Thanks for the welcome. I don't have an answer to your question, so I may not! Was suggested by my architect and seems a simple system to have a structure built quickly that I can slowly finish.....

[Nickfromwales]

Just now, Apache said:

Thanks for the welcome. I don't have an answer to your question, so I may not! Was suggested by my architect and seems a simple system to have a structure built quickly that I can slowly finish.....

https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/forum/58-structural-insulated-panels-sips/

 

Post there, and we can get the information flowing  

 

I'd disagree with your architect.

[Pocster]

Would love to be in for Christmas 2027, but no promises! 
 

look you’ve put yourself under unnecessary pressure now .

 

” love to be in for Christmas within the next decade “ . Keep it lite and non committing .

[ToughButterCup]

8 hours ago, Apache said:

....

Trying to do as much as I can myself,

...

 

Good on ya.

 

10 years of DIY in and still enjoying it - mostly. Good for the soul, bad for the heart pacemaker. 

 

Ermmm, BTW , you haven't got a requirement for walk-on glazing have you by any chance? 😑

 

I'm asking for a friend you see. He got very upset (search on this site for 'walk on' or 'walk-on' or 'walkon') about his walk-on glazing and to cut a very long story short, well errrrm, it's reportedly still in his shed . Poor bloke. 

 

With a screename like yours, you aren't a tecchie by any chance? 

 

Anyway - welcome 

[SteamyTea]

Welcome

 

30 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

With a screename like yours, you aren't a tecchie by any chance? 

I like an Indian. Pocahontas is buried in Gravesend, Kent.

 

[jack]

Just say you want to be in by Christmas, but don't specify which one. Job done.

 

I agree with the SIPS comments by others. Do a bit of research in the relevant forum and you'll see some of the problems people have had with them.

[Apache]

On 06/02/2026 at 08:47, ToughButterCup said:

With a screename like yours, you aren't a tecchie by any chance? 

For my sins, I'm a vet

On 06/02/2026 at 09:47, jack said:

I agree with the SIPS comments by others. Do a bit of research in the relevant forum and you'll see some of the problems people have had with them.

Did some reading on that last night and I see some of the issues. Clays at Skipton seem one of the better companies, I hope. Believe their own team assembles. I have machinery on site, other than a crane. Need to find out if my self erected Quick-stage scaffold is sufficient or not. 

[G and J]

22 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Hi, and welcome aboard!

 

Please post a new thread in the SIP's / timber frame section, and then I can ask you "why SIP's and not TF, or ICF".............  

Are there grounds for the OP posting the question: “given the suggestion of SIPs should I trust my architect?” In the appropriate forum. 
 

Not that I’m expressing an opinion, mind. 

[Nickfromwales]

41 minutes ago, G and J said:

Are there grounds for the OP posting the question: “given the suggestion of SIPs should I trust my architect?” In the appropriate forum. 
 

Not that I’m expressing an opinion, mind. 

There are many ways to skin this cat.......

 

You know me..... I'm always expressing an opinion due to my 'lack of varnish'  

[Nickfromwales]

16 hours ago, Apache said:

For my sins, I'm a vet

Did some reading on that last night and I see some of the issues. Clays at Skipton seem one of the better companies, I hope. Believe their own team assembles. I have machinery on site, other than a crane. Need to find out if my self erected Quick-stage scaffold is sufficient or not. 

The scaffold will need to be certified and tagged, for use by others. 
 

What you use yourself has near zero bearing on CDM, but who will be acting as principal contractor? It’s they who have the full weight of this come down on them in the event of serious injury or loss of life.

[Nickfromwales]

To remove ambiguity, @Apache, I’d use SIPs as the very last option before just using brick and blocks to build with.

 

Have you PROPERLY looked into the small print for what’s going to be delivered, and then how you’d likely have to add to / dress it up afterwards to get it to a decent spec?

 

SIPs roofs are also very noisy / horribly acoustically transparent in comparison to a good, cellulose filled equivalent structure. Same issue with walls too, but less affected by rain / bad weather etc as the roof.

 

Find a suitable thread and blow the dust off it if you want.   More replies / opinions / case studies here than you can shake a stick at. 

[SteamyTea]

7 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

shake a stick at

There is also 'stick' build.

[Nickfromwales]

2 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

There is also 'stick' build.

You are like a wrinkly ninja............and we never know when you will next strike, silently, but always deadly.