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A little bit of progress this week, despite the lung. Almost all the guttering is up, two of the four downpipes are in, just waiting for some more bits to be delivered. The roofers should be back in mid week once some more tiles have been delivered. Loads of celotex has been delivered, so we're not too far away from starting on the ground floor underfloor heating and screed.
Long overdue update 
The photos are a bit big but bear with me.
The window for my study broken through:
Old toilet window bricked up and the other blocked up to give some much needed strength under the area the steel is sitting on.
Concrete slab poured under the stairs after being excavated.
Bricky nipped back and put some of the headers under the upstairs windows.
Landing opening now fully cut to size and extra supporting bricks put in
Lintel lowered as we had it in the wrong place.
Remaining roof tiles delivered, the pallets were seriously bending and creaking under the weight, about 1.3 tonnes for the bigger ones!
20 tonnes of sand delivered for the floor screeders and 80 bags of cement
Wall broken through and finally the ground floor of the house becomes one space!
More floor concreted and ducts cast in them
Picked up an absolute bargain here, we've had no end of problems with the 6 foot deep manhole next to the drive, every delivery we have had has been a battle to keep the truck from falling in it! It's a brick chamber with the top 6 inches below the surface of the drive. Somehow I managed to pick up this 10mm thick steel plate, cut to size and forklifted into the van for £20!
1200 guage DPM laid over a bed of sand
Celotex laid over the top
UFH manifold temporarily boarded to the wall
First bit of pipe laid
Useful tools!
More laid
Even more laid!
6 of the 9 zones installed and the perimeter insulation installed, plus in screed thermostats set
A few tiles on the roof, all lifted by Ryan the tiler's labourer by hand up the ladder in one day!
Ducting back to the consumer unit for where the island will be, cable for the oven, lighting circuit and a ring main.
The floor screeders will be here on thursday and friday, which will be a relief, it's pretty awkward working on top of layers of plastic and celotex and everything has had to be moved upstairs.
The photos are a bit big but bear with me.The window for my study broken through:
Old toilet window bricked up and the other blocked up to give some much needed strength under the area the steel is sitting on.
Concrete slab poured under the stairs after being excavated.
Bricky nipped back and put some of the headers under the upstairs windows.
Landing opening now fully cut to size and extra supporting bricks put in
Lintel lowered as we had it in the wrong place.
Remaining roof tiles delivered, the pallets were seriously bending and creaking under the weight, about 1.3 tonnes for the bigger ones!
20 tonnes of sand delivered for the floor screeders and 80 bags of cement
Wall broken through and finally the ground floor of the house becomes one space!
More floor concreted and ducts cast in them
Picked up an absolute bargain here, we've had no end of problems with the 6 foot deep manhole next to the drive, every delivery we have had has been a battle to keep the truck from falling in it! It's a brick chamber with the top 6 inches below the surface of the drive. Somehow I managed to pick up this 10mm thick steel plate, cut to size and forklifted into the van for £20!
1200 guage DPM laid over a bed of sand
Celotex laid over the top
UFH manifold temporarily boarded to the wall
First bit of pipe laid
Useful tools!
More laid
Even more laid!
6 of the 9 zones installed and the perimeter insulation installed, plus in screed thermostats set
A few tiles on the roof, all lifted by Ryan the tiler's labourer by hand up the ladder in one day!
Ducting back to the consumer unit for where the island will be, cable for the oven, lighting circuit and a ring main.
The floor screeders will be here on thursday and friday, which will be a relief, it's pretty awkward working on top of layers of plastic and celotex and everything has had to be moved upstairs.
Edited by Muncher on Sunday 7th October 19:32
Looks like its coming on a treat! Your a brave man doing all of that without any windows fitted yet!
Did you do the underfloor heating yourself?
Ive been working on mine a year now, and you have just over taken me, and you've been in the wars haha! Think I need to pull my finger out!
I'll hopefully be getting the underfloor heating down in the new year!
Did you do the underfloor heating yourself?
Ive been working on mine a year now, and you have just over taken me, and you've been in the wars haha! Think I need to pull my finger out!
I'll hopefully be getting the underfloor heating down in the new year!
Yeah we've done all the underfloor heating ourselves, the only thing we haven't really done is facing brickwork and some of the more tricky bits on the roof such as the lead.
It's pretty straightforward to lay, but a fair amount of work, a few days for the upstairs but on the extension, 2 days for the ground floor to get all the pipe work in. If you haven't bought it yet I can recommend a really good company for the supply of the kit.
We are 10 months in, but only 5 months since the grant of planning permission. It's starting to get a bit cold and dark now, hopefully it will be a little less draughty once the windows are in, but we can't order any of the doors until we know the finished floor level of the screed, hence the urgency to get this down.
I am told all the pipe is down now and the pressure tester is on showing a constant pressure so the floor screeners can start a day early on Wednesday.
It's pretty straightforward to lay, but a fair amount of work, a few days for the upstairs but on the extension, 2 days for the ground floor to get all the pipe work in. If you haven't bought it yet I can recommend a really good company for the supply of the kit.
We are 10 months in, but only 5 months since the grant of planning permission. It's starting to get a bit cold and dark now, hopefully it will be a little less draughty once the windows are in, but we can't order any of the doors until we know the finished floor level of the screed, hence the urgency to get this down.
I am told all the pipe is down now and the pressure tester is on showing a constant pressure so the floor screeners can start a day early on Wednesday.
Very good. Im impressed! ive decided to get a company in to installed the heating and screed for insurance reasons.
We have decided to do it the other way. We installed the bifold doors so we know the height to work to.
We just need to decide on what floor finish to choose so we know how much screed to put down.
I'm waiting on electrics quotes still for a full rewire. Could you send me a DM on prices your expecting to pay?
Thanks!
We have decided to do it the other way. We installed the bifold doors so we know the height to work to.
We just need to decide on what floor finish to choose so we know how much screed to put down.
I'm waiting on electrics quotes still for a full rewire. Could you send me a DM on prices your expecting to pay?
Thanks!
CSJXX said:
Very good. Im impressed! ive decided to get a company in to installed the heating and screed for insurance reasons.
We have decided to do it the other way. We installed the bifold doors so we know the height to work to.
We just need to decide on what floor finish to choose so we know how much screed to put down.
I'm waiting on electrics quotes still for a full rewire. Could you send me a DM on prices your expecting to pay?
Thanks!
Provided the system is pressure tested prior to screeding and whilst screeding I think it will be as safe as houses, the pipe is extremely tough, the only danger is kinking it when it is installed which is obvious.We have decided to do it the other way. We installed the bifold doors so we know the height to work to.
We just need to decide on what floor finish to choose so we know how much screed to put down.
I'm waiting on electrics quotes still for a full rewire. Could you send me a DM on prices your expecting to pay?
Thanks!
Are you after a price for the electrics? If so that may not be entirely representative as my uncle is an electrician supplying the kit and we're installing it and he's signing it off.
Yeah true, just worried about what if, same reason I've got a sovereign approved rep doing the tanking rather than myself is the insurance garantee!
I'm just doing all the donkey work to save on labour and time! I got quote roughly 7k for UHF and screeding of 150m3 and several zones with wireless thermo stats. That sound reasonable?
If you can ask him how much it would cost for normal public would be interesting for a comparison?
You lucky having a family sparky! I need one haha!
I'm just doing all the donkey work to save on labour and time! I got quote roughly 7k for UHF and screeding of 150m3 and several zones with wireless thermo stats. That sound reasonable?
If you can ask him how much it would cost for normal public would be interesting for a comparison?
You lucky having a family sparky! I need one haha!
CSJXX said:
Yeah true, just worried about what if, same reason I've got a sovereign approved rep doing the tanking rather than myself is the insurance garantee!
I'm just doing all the donkey work to save on labour and time! I got quote roughly 7k for UHF and screeding of 150m3 and several zones with wireless thermo stats. That sound reasonable?
If you can ask him how much it would cost for normal public would be interesting for a comparison?
You lucky having a family sparky! I need one haha!
To do mine I imagine around £5-6k if you wanted all the electrics done excluding supply of the lights themselves as there is quite a lot to do.I'm just doing all the donkey work to save on labour and time! I got quote roughly 7k for UHF and screeding of 150m3 and several zones with wireless thermo stats. That sound reasonable?
If you can ask him how much it would cost for normal public would be interesting for a comparison?
You lucky having a family sparky! I need one haha!
The UFH depends on exactly what youre getting really as the costs vary, I'm paying about £4.4k for the a system with 16 zones, trays for upstairs, 15 network thermostats, half with floor sensors, central touch screen control panel, 1200m of pipe and all the other necessary bits. That covers around 210sqm. My screeder is £500 and then another £700 or so for sand and cement plus a large mixer hire.
5-6k, sounds like a bargain! I've had quotes of 25k!
Im currently waiting for more quotes, as I thought that were ridiculous!
I was planning on only installing UFH downstairs as when I looked into the aluminium spreader plates seemed expensive?
When you bought the UFH system who designed the system? Are you using Heatmiser thermostats?
Im currently waiting for more quotes, as I thought that were ridiculous!
I was planning on only installing UFH downstairs as when I looked into the aluminium spreader plates seemed expensive?
When you bought the UFH system who designed the system? Are you using Heatmiser thermostats?
Muncher said:
To do mine I imagine around £5-6k if you wanted all the electrics done excluding supply of the lights themselves as there is quite a lot to do.
The UFH depends on exactly what youre getting really as the costs vary, I'm paying about £4.4k for the a system with 16 zones, trays for upstairs, 15 network thermostats, half with floor sensors, central touch screen control panel, 1200m of pipe and all the other necessary bits. That covers around 210sqm. My screeder is £500 and then another £700 or so for sand and cement plus a large mixer hire.
The UFH depends on exactly what youre getting really as the costs vary, I'm paying about £4.4k for the a system with 16 zones, trays for upstairs, 15 network thermostats, half with floor sensors, central touch screen control panel, 1200m of pipe and all the other necessary bits. That covers around 210sqm. My screeder is £500 and then another £700 or so for sand and cement plus a large mixer hire.
I can't see how it could ever cost that unless the house was enormous!
I got mine from a company called U-Heat near me, they were by far the cheapest and the service has been very good. The spreader plates I don't think are actually that expensive, something like £3 each. All of my thermostats are Heatmiser ones.
I got mine from a company called U-Heat near me, they were by far the cheapest and the service has been very good. The spreader plates I don't think are actually that expensive, something like £3 each. All of my thermostats are Heatmiser ones.
Another update
Screed starting to go down, UFH all plumbed in.
The back part done after 1 day, 140 barrow loads, 18 tonnes of sand and 702 bas of cement required!
Soakaway dug this morning
Lined to keep the sand out and allow the water through.
Filled with broken bricks and covered
Completely covered
Just these two left to connect up
The soakaway is so large we could discharge water from a garage into it as well should we need to.
Next step is to wait for the windows to be delivered and put up some stud walls in the meantime.
Screed starting to go down, UFH all plumbed in.
The back part done after 1 day, 140 barrow loads, 18 tonnes of sand and 702 bas of cement required!
Soakaway dug this morning
Lined to keep the sand out and allow the water through.
Filled with broken bricks and covered
Completely covered
Just these two left to connect up
The soakaway is so large we could discharge water from a garage into it as well should we need to.
Next step is to wait for the windows to be delivered and put up some stud walls in the meantime.
singlecoil said:
I'm assuming you dug that soakaway with a digger, and those guys are just tidying it up?
Of course! Would have taken days by hand! I only had to pay for the morning as I arranged for them to do a job round a mate's house afterwards so the digger and 2 men cost me just £60 Looking real good Muncher, you could almost fit the tv on the wall
Out of interest whats the screed sand cement ratio looks a dry mix & how do you get the screed to level over such a large area? set levels to fill too, then powerfloat???
Out of interest whats the screed sand cement ratio looks a dry mix & how do you get the screed to level over such a large area? set levels to fill too, then powerfloat???
Edited by 69 coupe on Saturday 13th October 21:41
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