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.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
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Good Progress. A lot of euro's go under ground.
Indeed they do, €35k or so but it has to be done! That house will never move anyway! Will be putting up all costs to this stage at the weekend!
Jayzess
Jollyman,
You are doing some job on both your sites (website and building site!). I am building a similar sized house and am at a similar stage to you (and similar cost also!).
As a matter of interest, are your hot and cold water piopes buried in your subfloor? I didn't put them in whilst I was pouring the subfloor just before Chruistmas and now itappears that I have two choices (a) get a kango hammer and create crevices in my subfloor to lay down the water pipes; or (b) lay them on top of the subfloor and cut around my lovely TF70 insulation. Interested to know what you did or plan on doing?
We are planning on the kango hammer route at the moment, we will then tidy up the subfloor and put down our TF7-, followed by the power float around the insulation (another option here is to get the blockies to lay a row of the internal walls prior to floating).
Will keep in touch as our houses are similar sizes (mine is 400 sq.m) and garage is 63 sq.m.
My pipes what the plumber said and my father and engineer agreed was that we have 6" of subfloor under this we have our kingspan insulation. We have no pipes allowed for yet. We are putting in timber floors in the entire house apart from under floor heating in kitchen and downstairs toilets there will be a 3" screed going there. On the floors there will be 3X2 timbers and the pipes will be incorporated between the conc and the finished timber floor.
As for chasing your own floors with a consaw and kangoo this can be common enough practice sometimes the builder leaves four by twos in by all the external walls and pulls them out once the concrete is set this leaves channels for the plumber to run his pipes, i realize this does not help now but i have said it anyway!
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