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So, hoping someone will learn from my experience - I have had the week from hell dealing with EDF trying to get a temporary building supply to the site. Just...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm about to launch into my second self-build having finally received planning approval for a 4,000 sq.ft. house ( yep just the one!) on...
The joiners are in on Wed to start putting floor joists in place. I can only assume (being a newbie at this) that the brickies will need something to stand on...
My neighbour has just constructed a stable in the middle of her paddock, and thinking that I know a bit about electrics asked me how to light it. It's too far...
I put down ply, OSB & scaffold planks (etc) on my joists, to stand on while I built the walls up. Once the roof was on, I took all this stuff up, and let the...
A small 12v wind turbine, and 12v carvan lights would seem to be the answer. Solar PV is IMHO to expensive for what you get. Maplins solar panels make only a...
Hello Craig I used 18mm Stirling Board, aka OSB (Oriented Strand Board) for my temporary floors and then used it as the first layer of my stud walls. The...
I would use either shuttering ply £12 a sheet off e bay or scaffoolding boards, We used the old joists from the garage we demolished which did the job, we...
Hi I have used solar lights for several years in my caravan and have never had a problem battery has always remained charged powering two 8W foresent tubes,...
Hi, I'm looking at different solutions for achieving mains pressure hot water - has anyone come across an impartial explanation of the options? Phrases like ...
For mains pressure hot water, several options Mains pressure cylinder (heat store etc ........) Low pressure cylinder, and some sort of heat exchanger to heat...
Richard Have you checked the FAQs? Much discussed topic so should be something there. Link is at the bottom of all group e-mails. Rgds Peter ... From: richard ...
Just put up my trussed roof, only to tear of the the ticket on the last truss only to find that the loding was 435N/m2 compatred to 1500KN/m2 as the drawing...
That will not significantly strengthen it unless you also put some ply on either side to effect connections in shear rather than tension of the glue It should...
Thats a huge error margin. I'd go back to the architect/engineer and see what they say, you may be able to lighten the load with different tiles for example. I...
HI I will look into putting trusses at 300mm or 400mm centers if they will not budge on it being thier fault. Yours James ... may be ... you ... buy ... the ...
if you go with less than 600mm intervals, 'could me a lot more work cutting insulation to fit ... if you plan on having any between- trusses .. no probelm if...
I will go for 300mm centers unless they remake for free I could use 100mm plystyrene does this meet building regs? Found this link for an affordable house ...
There is noting stopping you building your own timber frame on site, except maybe time. I did all the carpentry on my roof, with zero previous experience of ...
Gus wrote in dig.6289 ... My builder tells me he cannot legally obtain yellow gas ducting -- black or white yes, but not yellow. My 'leccy new service has gone...
Surely not roof trusses? If I could make them up I could adopt the ones with the wrong angle? Just cutting the webs which which I guess and in compression and...
Why not ? A decent Chopsaw and a suitable jig, and you fly along at it. I would think the bigger problem was not damaging them as you dissembled them to change...
Yes the load requirement was on the original paper work, some how they have reverted back to lower loading on these second set of trusses. Will be ringing them...
... The nightmare of my floor - ive relaid this engineered oak 7 times, and had to have the marble floor and dodgy screed by caber floors of camberley smashed...
There is a product called "Thermo Board", which is pipes in chipboard, which you lay onto your joists like a normal floor, this may work. I'd phone some...
Thanks Colin I've almost made up my mind to go with a well-respected local company, who use Vaillant and Worcester - he's suggested the Vaillant 831...
I need to get 2x22mm copper pipes through a slate roof, in a way that does not leak, does anybody have any ideas? Is there some special piece of building...
