Recent content by Spjg1997

Ah! It was an incorrect model, he sent me an updated one - my bad. You can see it’s a 50mm screed etc. in the updated attachment. When you say Stihl - are you referring to a concrete chainsaw? I was of the impression that it would be more efficient for the heat to only have to travel through a...

No plans yet - at the moment it’s the old cobbled garden. Depending on how the door threshold works out then I am planning an aco drain running into a soak away followed by a small resin patio

I am thinking about the build up order. To me it makes more sense to layers it 50mm liquid screed 100mm insulation with UFH Thin DPM 100mm slab Thick DPM 50mm blinding sand 150mm compacted hardcore Planning on using top of speed fit insulation so that the UFH is mainly heating up the screed...

Thanks, Notch. The drawing was done by a friend who is a QS to scale floor to ceiling height. The insulation will sit on top of the slab and the underfloor heating will be covered by a liquid screed. In terms of the DPC, I was going to cut the foundation down and lay 3 courses of bricks back...

sorry the stud work is a temporary door to keep the rest of the house secure. That is where the back doors will be. I didn’t think I could fit a back door directly onto the footings?

Yes that’s the foundation poured to FFH (in error). I’ve dug down 500mm and am just about to building it back up with type1, sand, slab etc. I am going to chip out the footings that stick into the room enough to be screeded up to and then most of it will be concealed by kitchen unitsw etc...

If only he had rung me to say this I would’ve gone back and chipped it myself. It was a take the money and run job. A big lesson learnt, and sadly I only realised my mistake when the roof framing was in

It probably more the fact I wasn’t thinking. It’s a mistake I’m trying to fix

I agree mate. In terms of knock on effect - all I can think of is having to drop it, rebuilt with a lower DPC and then lower the garden 150mm below that. Anything else?

The DPM is probably 3 course too high. Thats because I have poured the footings incorrectly to FFH. I am comfortable with the build up and starting that today. Big questions is am I able to lower the footing at the back door in anyway? It would involve cutting it with a grinder or cut off saw...

Hello, First time post. I have put my questions in bold as appreciate this is a beefy post. I convinced myself and everyone else that I could dig and pour footings on a rear single story extension. Long story short, when the brick layer said “fill her up” I genuinely filled the footings to...