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Re: Building extension from scratch - resources?

GrahamS — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:11:05 +0000

> where are you based?

Fife

I thought mcmoonter owned most of Fife? Have you got permission to build in his garden?

Re: Building extension from scratch - resources?

redmex — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:47:36 +0000

Footflaps rate my brickie i can't believe so many posts and i've only reached page 4, the brickie quite rightly getting ripped as he doesn't know a lot from what i can see but not too much slagging for the foundation detail drawer person, fabric mesh 30mm from the top it would probably float to the top and stick through and the depth of concrete at the founds etc. It's quite funny to read so many laymen slagging off tradesmen and how little you want to pay them, there can just as well be a crappy mechanic working on the brakes of your bmw guessing where the bits go or with a few bits left behind in the box
Served my time 35 years ago Advanced craft c&g brickwork and a silver trowel for being pretty good.
Must get back to footflaps thread and hope he survived and learned a lesson

Re: Building extension from scratch - resources?

stevemuzzy — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 04:52:48 +0000

1200 to 1500 per sqm is usually right, in fact i would say its at top end level for fife. Go back to your quotes to see what the big expense is. It sounds like something is taking a lot of time. From your posts groundworks and demo might be quite a bit of it.

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footflaps — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:39:22 +0000

Also, that looks spot on footflaps. How long were you from starting groundworks to getting it watertight?

Quite a gap between starting and finishing...

Originally I wanted to build it all myself, so took a week off work to do the foundations. Then there was a gap of a few months and it dawned on me that I'd be too slow building the rest of it and it was cheaper to pay trades a day rate to do most of it, than me to take unpaid leave to do it. I hired brickie, chippie, roofer. I did a lot of the labouring and did all the fit out, insulation, electrics (alanl of the STW parish helped advise me) etc. I did planning and building control as well. Good learning experience.

STW thread on here covers some of it: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/rate-my-brickie

Re: Building extension from scratch - resources?

totalshell — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:03:37 +0000

to move the gas supply pipework ie pipework pre meter just give your local transporter a call.. usually Transco.. its a set fee of 760 plus vat to move it up to 40 metres..

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cvilla — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:55:44 +0000

Beam and block for GF, first floors harder;) for ufh, so extend rads circuit?
Also have you considered timber frame, worth getting a quote especially in your neck of woods, they should confirm all the timber aspects they can do, so you know what's left.

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TheFlyingOx — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:44:08 +0000

where are you based?
Fife

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wrightyson — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:17:10 +0000

Suspended timber floors don't work well with underfloor heating.

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andylaightscat — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:50:21 +0000

TFO,
where are you based?

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TheFlyingOx — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:29:55 +0000

As far as I understand, concrete is involved whatever we choose. Either as the floor itself or as a kind of moisture barrier below a suspended timber floor. I'm not fussed either way really. Whichever is going to be easiest to add underfloor heating.