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[Boris]

Hi All, a little bit of tick infested Shropshire is now ours after waiting one year for the purchase to go through.  We are doing a brick clad timber framed house on a serviced plot.  

[Tennentslager]

Welcome @Boris planning granted...did you design yourself or architect?

[Triassic]

Welcome to the forum, I did wonder what you’d be doing post Brexit!

 

plasecshare photos, we love photos !

[Boris]

Tennantslarger,you are in my favourite place in the UK.  We were up there 2 weeks ago.  We used an architectural technician for the initial design, but the timber frame company have changed it a little, to suit their system.  I'll find a pic, I would have wanted something more contemporary but I guess it has to be 'in sync' with the other 8 self builds.

[Boris]

Triassic, it has changed, the ridge height is now a little higher and there is a 4th bedroom over the garage.

Edited September 16, 2018 by Boris

[Russell griffiths]

Hi @Boris

welcome, my personal thoughts having built a timber frame home a few years ago, have you considered a brick outer skin instead of the slips,

you may find it cheaper to get a couple of brickies and put a full outer skin on. 

There is a thread going at the moment regarding the costs of render board and other facade systems. 

[Dreadnaught]

1 hour ago, Russell griffiths said:

my personal thoughts having built a timber frame home a few years ago, have you considered a brick outer skin instead of the slips

 

Interesting thought Russell. Why do you think a brick skin is superior to brick slips? Is it just cost or are there other things too? (Its a topic that I am thinking about at the moment for my build.)

Edited September 16, 2018 by Dreadnaught
SIPS → brick slips

[ToughButterCup]

Tick - infested Salop eh? 

I used to be fit enough to run the Long Mynd race  in the 70s: did it a few times. Yes, I got a few ticks too. I blame the Stiperstones - maybe unfairly.

 

Only a year's wait! Congratulations on speedy progress.

Ian

[Gone West]

21 minutes ago, Dreadnaught said:

 

Interesting thought Russell. Why do you think a brick skin is superior to SIPS? Is it just cost or are there other things too? (Its a topic that I am thinking about at the moment for my build.)

SIPS or slips?

[Dreadnaught]

23 minutes ago, PeterStarck said:

SIPS or slips?

 

Brick slips. Thanks Peter, corrected.

[Boris]

Russell Griffiths we have opted for bricks not slips.  I'm a bit of a dinosaur so the thought of glue sticking and holding what will still be be a very heavy mass was a bit radical for me.

[Russell griffiths]

Ok @Boris

it was your wording clad, that made me think you where having brick slips

[Russell griffiths]

@Dreadnaught

i suppose my thoughts depend on how your slips will fix to the frame,

i am not keen on anything fixed directly to the frame I would want to see a void to act as a drainage plain 

any moisture that finds its way to the back of the slips needs a void for it fall down and out

 

my last house had an insulated frame, then an uninsulated cavity, then a block outer skin, then rendered

 

we all have to make choices based on our thoughts and research, but I would rather have a system where I would be happy standing with a hose pointing directly at my external wall knowing if there is any moisture penetration then it has a path to escape.