Kitchen Pricing

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This is a job we have been putting off for a while, have been looking in shops around the counties at various kitchens, i eventually rang a local lad to come out have a look at it measure it up and price it for me! He gave me a design, and me being a quantity surveyor could not resist but send it out for pricing, went e-mailed it to a few kitchen places flat packs and manufacturers and got my price comparisons together, we went to waterford city then last weekend to a place called kitchen world, have some nice stuff in there showroom and i got James the guy there to price our design Including granite worktop to kitchen and island and the utility room sinks and taps included included he came to €14,800 he asked what would he need to do to get the business, and i told him to give us the utility room for free and he dropped his price to €13,300 and was throwing in a free Bosch double oven. I told him to give me till Monday so i could look at my prices and i would give him a shout, i contacted him Monday and told him i had 2 quotes from his competitors of €7k and €7.4k (for just kitchens) could he match that and i would take the granite at our previously agreed price. We have agreed to purchase the kitchen from him for €12,350 including the free double oven!
The best price i had received from a kitchen fitter was €10,250 this did not include for any sinks and just a standard formica worktop, this means I'm getting the granite worktop sinks and double oven for €2,100!
www.kitchenworld.ie
http://www.kitchenworld.ie/vienna.htm Thats the finish we have chosen

On going works

Things have been hectic between work and the house lately,
External works
We have the septic tank and percolation area completed outside, all soil has now been moved off site and the gardens are ready to be landscaped, the well has been drilled and lined hit water at 90feet, they have it lined too,(€2,500) so just come back to fit the pump! We have the front fence done as well, waterford FRS very good work, 6x6 rails and 6x6 posts €22/meter, bought a ranch style timber gate from a local timber yard at €580. The house has been scratch coated and we have a finish coat to the gable and the front of the house, the rest of it is beaded just waiting for good days to get it finished.
Internal Works
The lads have been slabbing the downstairs the upstairs is now complete in terms of plastering and is drying out well, hoping to get the painter in up there next week to give the whole lot an undercoat before we second fix anything. Downstairs is almost completely slabbed and 70% complete in terms of scratch and hardwall, have 4 plasterers there all week. Im hoping all plastering will be complete this day week! I have a security alarm crowd on site too burgolarm, €2,500 for the lot with text message relay!

External Works

The garge is now at lath and felt stage and is looking well, we have had to get rid of the idea of having an upstairs though unfortunately. The windows and doors arrived last thursday, ended up going wth munster joinery 24 windows and 5 doors golden oak wood grain PVC windows and teak doors €15,000.
We had planned on going with the swedish aluclad windows an had paid the deposit, when the sent through a revised quotatio 120% greater than their orignal, so i had to cancel it! Place is looking well ow though, soffit and fascia is gone up too black colour house and garage cost €3,500

On going works

The inside of the house is ready for plastering and it has commenced up stairs with the hardwallto the master bedroom, paying the plasterer on a day rate so, ill let ye know how that turns out!
So far it is looking well, as it is still drying out, we are hoping to use oak doors and frames so i asked the hardware to supply some bad or damaged pine we are using these as the temporary frame, so it helps when it comes to fittig the expensive stuff later on!

Progress/Its been a while since my last post :)

Its almost two months now since i last posted here, things have been hectic, got an electrician on board the local lad €7,700 seems like a good price to me the other one was returned for €14,200! The house is first fixed for plumbing and electrics and we have all internal studs up, we have used foil back slabs in the entire house just to offer that extra bit of fire protection. Between the studs we have used 4" of rock wool; and between the rafters we have used 4" of king span there was a lot of itchy days for the lads fitting all of this!! On the ground floor we have used 6" of rock wool between the joists and the upper floor and all ceilings are slabbed now also, for a bit of extra insulation to the house we decided to buy the king span slab panels with 37.5mm of insulation on the back and we have fixed these to the internal side of all the external walls! They cost me €22 each and we are using about 80 of them! The electrician recommended a chaser for the walls did the whole house for €350, i had planned on doing this myself but he had all the right gear, definitely worthwhile paying for it, id have been a week at it with a con saw and would probably have had no lungs left! :)

This weeks work

Ok things are really kicking ahead at the moment, rang my plumber yesterday asked him to pay a visit see what he thinks and when he wants to start.
Im trying to get an electrican on board too and again there seems to be very few locals in the trade, i have one local pricing it, and a guy from home who works with the lads all the time, so we will see how that all goes!
Spoke to plasterers also the weekend one lad that i worked with during summers at school and college and he will come down from home, we are also thinking of bringing on a second plasterer that works with the lads, both are excellent platerers and i will probably pay them a day rate with my father and harry on site tending them they should finish it in about four weeks.
I must scud the house next weekend a messy job will take the two days to complete the outside of it!
The three lads are on site this week they are forming the chimney cap today to pour that, completing blockwork and internal studs and laying window cills so i can get these measured and on order.
Im hoping to get them started at the garage blockwork towards the end of the week, and once i have the house scudded hopefully the three lads will fall back on scratch coating the house we will pay the plasters to do the finish work then, so will save a bit of money there!

Progress of the build

Between work and the site now things are very busy, not able to keep this as updated as i have been keeping it, another week down and the roof is lathed and felted, velux windows and lead are on site, awaiting a delivery of Slates on Thursday these have caused a slight delay, so order early if you need; i ordered them a week in advance wanted them Last Friday or this Monday, but the ship is only arriving Thursday!
The carpenters are off site this week so i have my father and harry at completing block work, and laying all the window cills, and the other lad is erecting and laying out all the timber studs upstairs things are really flying at the moment, the carpenters are back on site next Monday to start the slating, i will hire a teleporter for the day to load out the roof will save on the labour associated with it €170 a day for the teleporter, we will put a few pallets up on the scaffold too.
I was there at the weekend and my Mammy Sister younger brother and my other brothers girlfriend came to site, myself and my brother filled the chimney with a lime cement and sand mix, and the three girls cleaned up and gathered all the bits of timber thrown around the site, all it cost me was a free dinner to all :)

Scaffold to the build

We were using the lads scaffold all along bandstands and a few 9 foot towers that we brought down from Limerick. We decided in order to make things safe speed up work and allow the lads continue there work on site to hire a scaffold contractor to supply and erect scaffold to the entire perimeter of the building, this will allow the lads easy acces for latting felting and slating make things safer and speed up the operation it's €2,500 for a month and €200 a a month for any extra hire after that! For the time we will save with the lads working on blocks and roofing instead of erecting scaffold and transporting it all down form cork i reckon the extra costs associated with it s quite small.

Roof Pictures added to slideshow

Have added the first weeks work pictures to the slideshow are worth a look.

Roof End of Week 1

We were working out at the site on saturday myself dad, and my brother finished blockwork to the sunroom and progressed works to the internal gable looking out to the sitting room floor. I decided to buy a 9 x 9 pine beam to use as the lintel here and make a feature out of it. My father started blocklaying the external gable yesterday, and the carpenters were at the stud walls and cutting out the opes for the velux windows. They asked me to buy some OSB board for the backing of the studs to provide sound and noise insulation and also offers better integrity, i got a further 60 sheets to put on the plywood deck to cut out noise transference and foot traffic to downstairs. Pictures below represent one weeks work for the carpenters.

Roof Works Continue

The roof shape is now complete and all rafters are up, the two carpenters are flying out there. My dad has the conservatory nearly complete. I have only two recent pics i did not want to be disturbing the carpenters so here are two of me doing a bit of block work yesterday!!!! Im just in from there now was cleaning got 5 rooms done, it was well overdue a clean out! Have updated the photos in the slideshow; in the toolbar, and ill get a good few pics the weekend of the roof.

Roof Progress

The place is really starting to take shape now Monday and Tuesday was taken up doing the wall plate joists and plywood to the deck along with the noggins for joist support. They also made up a temporary stairs which makes things very easy for access would highly recommend this! Yesterday Wednesday they started to erect the ridge and the common rafters so we now have the complete shape of the roof valleys and ridges and internal walls inside. Photos to follow on, i called in last night on the way home and got nabbed by my dad before he left to start building the gable wall so we can get in the steel girders for purlins today/tomorrow. Built them up to the height needed last night. (Amazed at how many cars slowed to a crawl when passing last night i think people are only starting to realise the size of it now because it has always been hidden behind the mud heaps!)

The two carpenters are on the hourly rate and i am also putting them up in the local hotel so they start in the morning at half 7 and finish at 8 in the evening they are getting great work done and im still saving a fortune in comparison to local quotes. My father has been blocklaying the conservatory and that is starting to take good shape now too. He is going to concentrate on the gable wall now today, we got the two RSJ's on that welded together to give it extra strength and the blocks will be starting this morning there is probably three days blockwork to complete the house yet and the carpenters have really steamed ahead now so the blockwork is falling behind.

Roof Work Commenced

The carpenters and my father and crew started on site yesterday, the father and one of the lads were supposed to start laying blocks on the garage but all five of them fell in doing the joist work some pretty long and hefty timbers there, they wall-plated and joist the entire house yesterday will plywood the deck now today and start setting up some of the common rafters and ridge.

Pricing the roof

Well when it came to this aspect of the build i left the carpenter calculate up a cutting list for timber required for the roof and sent out the list for pricing to 8 local suppliers. Prices returned varied from €8,750 to €10,800 as per the pricing list on the Google pages link in the tool bar items 14 and 15. I spoke to the local hardware who i have been using all along they were second cheapest and the hardware at home had asked to price it they came back the cheapest i negotiated with both of them and the hardware at home were very keen to win it, and so they did. The timber was delivered on Friday along with all the nails and felt. I have also been negotiating prices with slate suppliers and i priced the thrutone with the hardwares for the roof. None of them could match Capco roofing though and i am buying a natural Brazilian slate Novo Black with a 25 year guarantee for €1.53 per slate excl vat.

Progress

Well myself and my father were working on site Thursday and Friday and completed the block work to the house, got the girders in the sitting room up too. The tracks machine was on Site thursday and Friday and we opened the proper site entrance moved the security cabin also stoned the new driveway put in the duct for esb services filled the base to the garage and poured the concrete in the floors. Got the delivery of the timber for the roof Friday morning

Blockwork to house practically complete

Further to my last post, when i was working the 15th and 16th, the lads came back block laying 1 block layer 1 laborer for the 18,19 & 20th and myself and my father worked there on the 21 & 22nd all the external walls are now complete we have a few internal walls left to do so i am taking tomorrow and Friday off work and myself and my father will hopefully finish it! I have the tracks machine booked for tomorrow also and we will fill the garage base with stone, radon and insulation, we must also move the storage container and open up the permanent site entrance. We are running to a tight schedule in order to have the blocks complete for Monday morning when the carpenters arrive.

Weekend Work

Well the jollylady was away for the weekend so i decided to dust down my trowel and lay a few blocks went out Saturday morning and the day turned out to be miserable ended up laying about 40 blocks and abandoning ship at half 2, went home to watch the rugby soaked to the skin laying blocks and then a bad loss to England not a good day!
Went out again on Sunday morning and it was a much clearer day; was laying the internal walls so finished the master bedroom the dining room and the kitchen! (Not bad going working by-youself drawing blocks and putting up scaffold) Its a great feeling to be able to do a bit of work on your own house ended up there until half 7 Sunday evening!
Went out yesterday and gave the place a good clean up swept the floors removed the broken blocks gathered up the bits of insulation/plastic prevent stuff blowing cross the country!

Plumbing costs/ Getting a plumber on board

Plumbing is something i know very little about, im Hoping to learn more in the coming months :)
Once we had decided on the method of heating the house, i contacted a few local plumbers one of which was highly recommended i sent him off the drawings and told him in a cover letter that it was going to be oil heating, underfloor to three rooms main bathroom ensuite and kitchen we like the feeling of a hot tile floor!!! What can i say!!! Pressurised system, super condensing boiler located in the garage and 6m2 of solar panels the radiators positioning and quantity were at his discretion with heated towel rails in bathrooms!

He sent me back a detailed quote on the spec and sizes and quantity of all associated plumbing works, i also went to a second plumber recommended by one ofthe other Quantity Surveyors at work he specd the whole set up also and quoted me

The prices returned were:-

Local Guy €21,500
Work Guy €27,500

I decided to go with the work guy as he seemed to spec it better and was supplying everthing with the exception of the sanitary ware he is also experienced at converting to metric for clients who buy there sanitary ware abroad!

Getting a carpenter on board

Right, as im not local to the area i did not know any local trades, we had to track down some carpenters. Got a few names from locals met the carpenters and gave them the drawings to quote us for first and second fix of the house.
The three prices returned were:-
1. €24,500
2. €25,000
3. €28,500

One of these carpenters was in school with my girlfriend we were hoping he would do us a favour, the prices seemed very expensive to me, i realise it is a big house but at the same time €30k labour only seems very rich! We had another guy called to site last week looking for work and he quoted me €17,500 first fix only

The rough split on costs was €18k roof of house
€3k roof of Garage
€5k second fix

The solution i had to this was to speak to some carpenter's in my hometown; Bruff in Limerick.
I decided to deal with one of the lads who does a lot of work for my father and to pay him on a daily rate 2 carpenters @ €60/hour all in.

I reckon that they will have a lot of it done in 4 weeks at:-
8hrs/Day = €480/Day
5Days/Week = €2,400/Week
4Weeks = €9,600

Even if it runs on by two weeks ill still be making a considerable saving, and i also know the quality and workmanship im getting.

Progress in Pictures 2

Progress of works/ Next items on the go

The weather has been miserable all week, the lads were on site from Wednesday and the progress is coming along well. Another week will finish the house it will only be my father and Harry on site next week so we will be down a blocklayer. The builders holidays are kicking in monday week and we have paddy's day and good Friday this wek coming also, so its a three day week for the lads next week and hopefully this will complete the blocks that need to be done on the house! It is mostly internal walls at this stage so they wont be long going up, i was out there today laying a few but unfortunately i had to give into the rain! Ill try again tomorrow if the weather is any better!
The plan from then is (subject to completing blockwork by next thursay) to get the blocklaying gang 2 blockies 1 labourer and the chippies 2 of them on site for the 31st of march. This will have given the block work the week to settle and the carpenters can start straight at the roof, one of the blocklayers is a chippie by trade so what im doing is putting three carpenters on the roof work and my dad and harry will be pouring the floors to the garage and starting on the block work for it also! They can also be laying the window cills in the house. The place should start to take real shape after that then!

The view on a clear day last Saturday

Mortgage 2nd Cheque

Have requested the second mortgage cheque yesterday, contacted my engineer told him how much i need. He sent the cert of to my solicitor and mortgage company. The solicitor sends the mortgage company a letter on my behalf requesting the amount recommended by the engineer and the cheque gets approved and posted to my solicitor! Where hopefully i will collect and lodge it next Wednesday and get a few more people paid!

Back to work

Yesterday was a washout again, they are back on site this morning and are only going three to four blocks high due to the power of the winds that are there! I have been just speaking with them on the phone and apparently the other pier of the front door is after being damaged also after the wind and with the structure already after being badly hit last Saturday there was very little support there!

Progress/Mishaps

Well i have updated the slide show things are going along nicely, today i have had to cancel the block layers the weather is miserable, and the forecast is not great for tomorrow either. I had stuff ordered from the hardware on Friday and they said they would deliver on Monday unfortunately they came on the Saturday and knocked the wall at the front door when he was reversing out!(pictures in the slideshow) I met the boss man of the hardware on site yesterday and told him it will cost in the region of €2,000 to fix, although id prefer not to have to fix it! Will have to take the lintels down and demolish and build back up so there is materials the days labour in reinstating it and the original dayswork for putting it up, as well as the time lost!
We were hoping to have the blocks to the house complete by this Friday but the weather may have shoved that back a bit!

On going works steel prices

The 8 girders can be viewed in the slide-show now €1400 delivered by heiton steel! I was working on the site last weekend my father had asked me to clean it up, its one heck of a big house when you have to sweep the whole lot of it god help the jollylady!!!! :)
I must organize more stone and a tracks machine and try to get the garage floor poured and commence the blockwork on that!

Accident/Minor incident on site

On Monday evening this week with the wind and the rain/sleet/snow coming down the lads had decided to call it a day and while packing up there stuff heard a loud bang, the internal corridor wall up six fresh courses and lintels came crashing down and took the previous four rows with it; along with a section of the opposite corridor wall! 300 blocks in total pictures in the slide show!!
It was an unfortunate incident but at least no one was hurt they cleaned it up yesterday and there was no major delay with it, it should be completed again by today. They are laying an average of 520 blocks a day (2 block layers one lad tending) and hopefully will be finished the house this Thursday/Friday!
I ordered 12" blocks to close the cavity at wall plate level, 6" blocks to make up levels at window cills (block on flat wall) 6" soaps for all other window cills!

On going Progress

A few issues that have cropped up in the last week, once we decided to go with the window supplier, my brother (architect) blog now added to the tool bar, I'm starting to set a trend!!!http://domusarchitectus.blogspot.com/ decided that to get the best results and for architecture purposes to make the windows multiples of .675mm this was fine on the windows that had not yet been found laid out by the blocklayer/my father; on the ones he had laid out it took a bit of persuading to talk him around into altering the block work but hopefully this will have a positive effect in the long run!

Window Hunting

Above: Example of a recent house!


Any of you readers from AAM will know the story here, went to meet Margaret Sheeran of Sjodalshus this week and had a look at her sample windows. She has varying types Timber windows with a u-value of 1.3 window and frame, she can also do a timber window with a Low e glass that can bring this down to 1.0 and the same goes for their alu-clad version and all these windows are triple glazed!
I brought a sample from her office to my brothers architecture office he had there technicians look at them, they deal with windows all the time and are very impressed with the alu-clad version. They can finish the outside in a full range of the RAL and NCS colors and the inside can be painted or stained to any color you wish from RAL. I looked at the timber windows in her house (installed 8 years) and they looked immaculate with the original painted finish.
They do the Bi-fold door also and these look amazing, going to put one in our sitting room glass gable wall!
You do have to get someone to measure and install these windows for you but at the price and value for money that is no drawback to us!

Check the Google pages link item 12 for details on costing of the windows!

Margaret imports all her windows from Sweden.

In built Fish tank Corridor wall between entrance hall and Office

I must mark out the ope for this tank the weekend have always wanted one of these i reckon it will look great. Have built the wall as a block on flat specifically to serve the purpose of taking this tank, the wall in the hall will also be clad with a limestone type of slate it should look very well. These are items that are easily incorporated at the early stage as long as you know what you want.

Check out the links!

http://www.walltanks.com/tank_4.php
http://www.kooltanks.com/instructions/jumbo_inwall_instruct.html

Picture of the ope now added!!!

On going works

It has been unfortunate that i have had to take the blog off line, but it has been necessary, was contemplating deleting the entire thing, except that i have put so much work into it.


Anyway progress on site remains good the weather slowed the lads down slightly yesterday but today is looking good again. The ESB are coming to site today to agree the new proposed location for their pole and give us the location of the meter box. The lintels and cills and flu gatherer are due on site today and i must measure for the steel girders to the bigger opes in the sitting room to act as lintels and also two steel girders to act as purlins in the sitting room. Hopefully i can get a reasonable price on these!

Updated Photos Blocks

Have added photos to the slide show, things are progressing well at the moment hope the weather will stay good for us! Should be a lot of blocks completed by next Friday!

Photo Slideshow toolbar

Guys was just flicking through the slide show on the tool bar and you don't get all the photos unless you actually click into it for some reason and view it that way just to let ye know :)

Added some night time photos of the radon and insulation! Must get some pics with the concrete slab in and update it!

New Blogs on toolbar

We have some newly set up live blogs on the tool bar now under the heading of check these out, they should be interesting to follow!

• Watergate-house (AKA Bauderline)
  
• Selfbuild Cork (AKA Claire)
  
• Livebuild (AKA Villian)
  

Along with these new ones we have some very useful old ones that are not long completed from the likes of Yop and Dolanbaker.

Site Progres Procuring Materials

The lads are back on site since yesterday, i don't think that it had rained in the two weeks they were away and it started raining again yesterday just as they came back!!! I have ordered the Window cills going for the chunky concrete ones as we prefer the look of them have used them many times before and they make a much bolder statement with the window am getting them for €6/foot which i reckon is great value also ordered the 6&4" lintels at €1.45/foot which are also very cheap delivered for free from Middleton. They are also bringing down a flu gatherer at €30. Ordered Flu liners today from my hardware man 12 straight and 2 splayed to help achieve a draft and prevent air coming down the chimney! Have a meter box ordered and a hockey stick to suit!

Still have prices coming in for plumbing and roofing, and at the moment there is very little between them all! Hoping to have the block work complete in two and a half weeks get a roofer on board and get the windows measured!

Site hits yesterday...

Had 144 hits yesterday looks like people were looking for some news, work was hectic so never got to post. But I'm glad to see there is a lot of interest out there in the blog! Posts were updated today.

Paying Contractors/Suppliers

Have been going around for the last few days with my cheque book paying the various suppliers and contractors, they are all up to date now so it allows me track the actual spend for each stage of the build. i have an A4 lever arch file going split into five sections and each section within that split into the different suppliers. I have section for

1. Upto floor level
2. Upto Wall Plate
3. Roof
4. External & Internal Completions
   
5. Finishes

Each section within these five have the suppliers and all there dockets at the front of each then are there invoiced costs and receipts of payments for each.

Progress/Lack there of...

Well its been a week and a half since the floors were poured and I'm finding it hard to get the father back, the frost yesterday morning put them off once they looked out the window! At the moment there is nothing happening they are supposed to be back tomorrow morning and i have everything they need on site insulation blocks cement wall ties dpc and so on, i must go scudding my uncles house for him this Saturday and hopefully will finish painting the post and rail at my own place on Sunday with Jolly lady!!! Have the blocks laid out and stacked for the lads starting tomorrow and the father will set out the block on flat sitting room wall for me ill build this at the weekends and leave them concentrate on the fast work. More progress pics with floors in will be posted soon!
Still receiving prices from carpenters and plumbers will post a spreadsheet on the results once all received.

Self Build/Ikea in Belfast

Well our trip to Belfast went fairly well, left at 7 o clock Friday evening and had booked a room in the crown plaza in Dundalk for €75 for the room for the night arrived there at 11! Would highly recommend the hotel is a beautiful place and very reasonably priced.
The Sat nav came in handy and brought us right to the door of the kings hall for the building expo, got some great info and paperwork there plenty new products and i have people returning quotes to me on several items. Also met a truss company truss world i must send them some drawings of the roof they will spec and price the exposed trusses for the roof in the sitting room.
Found some beautiful stairs there, think we are going to use that design and get a local joiner to make it up for us! Also the stone cladding panels looked very well and we are thinking of putting this on one of the walls in the sitting room to make a feature of it!
The prices up the north were 5 to maybe 10% cheaper than down here ans several company's were prepared to do deals down here!
Henderson garage doors had a display there got a very good price on there new insulated draught proof up and over automated door.
After the expo we headed to Ikea i had been looking forward to seeing this place with all the talk i had heard about it, we started off on the wrong foot with the sat nav bringing us to a dead end down by Belfast's docks thank god it was bright cause id say its a scary place by night! I don't know if it is Ikea's website or the sat nav that was wrong but we had typed in the postal address from their website! We eventually got there with good old fashioned sense of direction head for the airport you cant go too wrong!!!
When we arrived there, there is a four story car park dedicated to the shop and an open air car park further back all were full its a wait just to park, when we got inside i was very disappointed with the quality and design of the majority of the furniture and me and the jolly lady certainly wont be making any purchases there she was even more disappointed than me!!!! The place was busy but negotiable and it was the stuff that was more off putting than anything else, to add insult to injury we left and it took the best part of two hours to get back to the kings hall where the expo was on, it's on the road home. The traffic was absolutely crazy!

Garage Plans

The garage plans have been progressed by my brother "The architect" we are hoping to incorporate a 1 bed apt in the upstairs of this as can be seen in the plans.
Click on the googlepages link in the toolbar on the left to view. If anybody is looking for an architect he is newly qualified he would be more than willing to have a look at it! Contact me through the blog for details.

Self build home and rennovate show this weekend

Our valentines weekend away is a trip to Belfast leaving on Friday to head to the show on the Saturday we are also going to take in IKEA as part of a scouting mission.

http://www.selfbuild.ie/selfbuilder/exhibition.asp
http://www.selfbuild.ie/selfbuilder/admin/uploads/exhibitors_belfast.pdf

Be sure to get your tickets on line if you are thinking of going, will get them for half price.
Unlike the last show that i canceled to go to a stag, ill post about this one next week! :)

Update on Budget Tracker

Did not foresee all the costs to this stage and some of the problems which we ran into, it has been an experience already, with plenty more work ahead of us; floors in and complete starting to pay suppliers now our final account to this level is circa €46k!
View the budget tracker in the link in the tool bar it gives all cost details and reasons why we have went over budget and needed various materials.

Floors Poured

Well all went to plan and poured the floors yesterday ran out of radon so that caused a bit of a delay i had not allowed enough for laps and leaving it run over the walls even though i ordered 60sqm more than the floor plan size.
32 M3 of concrete to the floors and they were still being power floated last night when i got home from work so gave my dad a hand we were home for 9!
Let the site sit now until Tuesday and get two loads of blocks dropped on the base then. My dad is on site this morning finishing the block work to the garage.
I must start pricing pre-cast concrete company's for supply of lintels and window cills. Order DPC wall insulation wall ties, chimney flues and flue gatherer.

All in all things are going well fingers crossed.

The Progress in pictures