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Yes, and made a very tidy job of it. I'm waiting for the velux windows & flashings to arrive (and the tie bar), but we should be ready for inspection by mid-week, which gives me a couple of days to finish preparing the sub-floor, ready for concrete. So brickies are back tomorrow to...

Like this? There's a SS tie bar to go across the base of those common rafters too, as it will be a vaulted ceiling. He'll do the hip rafters in the morning: I've got no intention of telling him how to do it! :wink:

The drains were approved by the Building Inspector this morning, so I'm backfilling tomorrow, then preparing the sub-base for the floor slab. I'm hoping to be ready for concrete by the end of the week, but I've got chippies starting on the cut roof construction on Wednesday, and don't want to be...

100mm is the height (so 100x100mm) required from the finished blockwork, so that we can match existing internal ceilings when we break through. The original finished height on the plans was incorrect (!) as it didn't allow for matching the actual existing height, but assumed a normal 'new build'...

Two different builders merchants have looked at me as though I just farted when I asked for C24 timber, suggesting that almost no one uses it for roofing. They want to sell me C16. I know that strength is the reason why C24 is often specified by designers, but that the actual difference is...

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Just unconventional: that's all. But no, there's no way to get a digger in now, and anyway, hiring one for the day would be a sledgehammer to crack a nut - there isn't that much to dig - and we've done it by hand. The drains pass through the foundations in four places, and each was shuttered...

The brickies lapped in 600mm of the DPM material all around before building up the blockwork off the DPC. It's currently neatly rolled up and taped out of harms way with brown tape, and once the floor is fully prepped, I'll lay the rest of the DPM with a big overlap and then tape properly before...

The drains run directly across the back of the whole house/extension right next to the foundations, so rather than excavate for both, and then have to shutter off one side, we decided to do the drains after the foundations. We have deferred the job until after the walls have gone up rather than...

The walls are up, and the joiner starts work next week. I'm now looking for a roofer, and hope to be watertight in three weeks. The glazing company are measuring for doors & windows today, so we'll be secure, soon, too. I just need to sort out the floor! I'm nearly ready to backfill over the...

I know this is a naive question, but I'm puzzling over one aspect of my roof design (meeting the chippie on Thursday, and would rather not still be puzzling, by then!)... It's a hipped roof, to a side extension, having front, side and rear planes, but the rear plane extends across the back of...

Interestingly, there's nothing in the written specification that accompanies the drawings to indicate the use of a VCL. I'll ask the question. The bricklayers are working from tressles & boards, but I assume that I'll need to sort scaffolding for the carpenter & roofer?

As before, b***** off. I didn't claim to be a Project Manager - you get paid for that. I'm managing my own project - there is a difference, you know.