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Thanks there's a Eurcocells near me in Colchester so will give them a call see what they have to offer

Hi All In the next few months im going to be renewing the fascia's/Soffits on our current house and putting on new to our extension. Is there anywhere that people recommend for the materials. We have a few trade accounts setup with local Builders merchants but there discounts on there products...

Architect has specified our build to have 100 Cavity with 50mm celotex and a 50mm air gap but ive managed to get 75mm celotex cheaper than the 50mm it is in 1.2mX2.4m sheets so presume it will need to be cut up to install. The wall would be 75mm Insulation and 25mm air gap would that cause any...

The plans state 150mm sand blinded hardcore, dpm then 100mm concrete, dpm 100mm Insulation underfloor heating pipes and then screed

Evening All, Im about to lay 150mm of hardcore for our extension floor base and have been asked if I need Crushed concrete Type 1 or Crushed Granite Type 1, this is then to have a sand binding over the top before dpm and concrete oversite is poured. Which one is the one to use or are both...

I did some research and found this picture online so was going to be similar setup to this. Excuse the chamber being around the wrong way It was just a photo taken to represent what ive got outside..

Afternoon All, Im installing a new inspection chamber and drainage to our extension. A few questions on on this and some photos also. The chamber is going to bed on some concrete(Its not level yet) and then backfilled around it with pea shingle. The chamber is quite a depth so to get the soil...

As some of you may have seen I located a drain and now my SE has given me a spec to ensure its supported in our foundation his description was as follows: As discussed, provide a 750x750 base to rear and bridge with a 600x600 ‘beam’ to bridge the drain and sit onto footing in front of the drain...

Hi All, As I posted yesterday Ive located a Clay sewer in my foundations see picture below its not where it supposed to be. Today ive contacted my Structural Engineer to get his advice on what can be done with regards to the footings. From the top of the foundation to the top of the sewer...

Great thanks for the response that means I fall outside of submitting a build over agreement with Anglian as I fall within there guidelines. I will have to talk to our SE to ensure number 6)is followed also. But all the others are fine. If your proposed works comply with ALL of the below...

Hi All ive located a sewer pipe in the corner of where our extension foundations are going to go. Although the sewer was traced around 600mm further from the excavations. Anyway I've measure the clay pipe and the outside circumference of the clay pipe and it is 56cm any idea what that makes the...

The change in depth will most definitely have a big affect on our budget due to the size of the extension ive posted a picture of the extension foundation plan below. Darker Outline is the current House:

Thanks for all the replies we have a lot of trees mainly at the bottom of the garden over 35+m away which the groundworkers have all said were fine same with the architect and structural engineers. The closest tree is an apple tree around 18m away. We used the NHBC depth calculator app to...

We are in the process of getting quotes for ground workers to excavate our foundations, Our architect has stated on our plans 600mm X 1m for the footings but subject to LBC. We have had groundworkers come in and they have quoted for the whole job in the architects requests but have stated they...

Im looking to purchase 16 Lintels Catnic Lintels these range in size from 900mm to 3330mm and also a number of Concrete lintels is there anywhere people recommend im based in Essex? Thanks

We are soon about to start a big project ive uploaded some photos of now and also an image from the Architect. Currently we have loads to do before construction can begin were moving Gas and Electric supplies its a nightmare. But we have now been talking about the roof material now do we go with...

Hi All, Can anyone recommend any suppliers of GRP kiosks (im located in Essex) as I need one to go outside our house for Ukpn to install our supply into? Thanks

Hi All, Were about to start a large extension and have contacted both UKPN and cadent about relocating our meters to outside the house so we can demolish the existing side of the house and extend. UKPN were great surveyor came out and was so helpful even saved me some £££ from his survey...

So we are planning on having a side extension on the house and as such one side of the house has go to come down to enable to new extension to be built. As such our current Consumer unit and Power into the house has got to be moved from the side of the house thats coming down. UKPN have come out...