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this is a forum for those who hope to build a house or assist someone else to build .
PLAN A .
buy some of the new industrial portal frame shed kits for sale like on euro auctions for 3-4000 euros .
some of these are even fully galvanised ----- cut them to size to fit the plan which you have drawn up by paying a friendly structural engineer to print you a copy of a plan which you submit the height and width and length and floor connections for the cross pieces and 10 seconds after you input these figures the software will spit out a plan which will specify the thickness of the h columns and even space the cleats in the roof for the purloins .
you then have your steel cut to size and welded and you pay a structural contractor to erect the portal frame house after you pour the pad and let him set the bolts in their foundation as that is his job .
you erect the frame which includes the cross members for the poured concrete floors on the first and attic level and he bolts his concrete shuts to your upright steel and pours concrete between his shuts and you use coarse old timber as framing inside the shuts where you have doors and windows to fit and when the concrete is poured and your walls which have mesh in them hardens you simply knock out the wooden frames and you are left with the doorways and windows .
you hire blocklayers and supply them with the drawing and the lintels for over the doors and windows and they erect the block walls around your house .
you have wavin pipe lengths left in the poured walls and block walls to fit your electricals and plumbing and data and power .
you get your shed builders to put shuts up for the floors and you pour your floors with mesh or buy flooring with mesh already made and you simply lift them into place .
they then fit insulated panels to your roof as per an industrial building and your house is finished .
the electrician comes the plumber comes and the window and door man and last is your plasterer who finishes the concrete walls and windows and makes everything look smooth and nice .
turn on the heat and paint the house yourselves .
there are a large amount of used solid wood kitchens going for a song buy 2--- sand and re lacquer them and make them fit and use the leftover cabinets in your utility .
upstairs in the attic make a sound insulated room with plywood and face it in flooring lengths ,
and i have bought pallets of new flooring in auctions some weighing a ton or more for 100 euros per pallet some flooring has been damaged at the end by a forklift -- simply use the damaged ones where you have to cut and trim one anyway.
much of it was left over after a job and is not enough to do another and you can use all of this to panel the attic roof with wood effect and to clad the plywood room which holds all your tanks for your plumbing --at least 3 tanks required and the remainder is your giant office and gym and store of files and family items and floor the bedrooms and other rooms with the stuff some of it has a10 year or more warranty.
buy at least 4 tons of the stuff you will use it all.
plan to have a balcony either end of the attic with a large double opening patio door and now you can use a forklift to lift up the gym equipment -tanks furniture etc to the attic level and you can sit out on one balcony in the morning and sit at the other one in the evening in order to work in the sun if you wish .
you would build this house in no time --it would be bullet proof and quiet and warm and you would have 3 floors .
it should not cost you 240,000 for 3000sq ft home .
the field is another matter .
i have built 2 houses in my time and done a lot of learning on both.
today so called engineers /architects are charging 20,000 for their involvement as one of them told me recently.
this is wholesale robbery .
some other tips .
put a heavy 63 amp relay on your electrical board and a blue plug on the wall for welding as you will at some stage fit your own stairs made of wrought iron steel .
put a cheap round aluminum ducting from the outside wall vent under your floor to the liscannor stone hearth stone which you drill with 8 holes wine bottle cork size -now you can simply put corks in the holes and meter the air required --now you have an fresh oxygen supply for your fire or stove and you can close the windows and keep the heat in .
put three times the cat 6 cable you need in each room as you can give each child fiber and a desktop if required and also fiber to their tv and also access to the gate system and cctv on their screen and cctv in their room and other rooms and if they are worried scan all the cameras outside and at the gate and also the calving cameras in the shed all without getting out of bed as they maybe be alone in the house at times .
the house should have foundations at least 2 ft more in width and 2 ft more in depth with plenty of mesh as this is the cheapest thing you can do and raise your house completely off ground level by at least 3 blocks to keep it dry and it suits a house to be elevated from the ground .
put more than one earth in the ground and put generous sand around the chimney flues to stop cracks in the walls .
use heavy large diam pipes for the plumbing and insulate the house as well as you can afford -use foil backed insulation for the north side at least and then pour the granules around the insulated panels before the floor and roof go on .
as it will cut 1 third off your heating bills .
make sure all the concrete is to spec as flooring is different from foundation spec and when he is digging the foundation dig a trench in the middle of your house and put serrated drainage pipe in there surrounded with pea gravel and pipe the pipe to a lower level this costs buttons and will drain away water under you house and keep the damp out for all time .
your sewerage needs large wavin pipes from the last chamber at least 3 used and you get the large brown pipes and slit them every foot all around the pipe with an angle grinder for at least 30 ft from the last box in your system and set them in small stone and you will never have a problem.
in the corner inside the h of the upright steel put a 4 inch wavin pipe on each corner up to the attic from ground level now your house is future proof and you can add cables or plumbing as you wish to any part of the house in its future .
see what you make of this and let me know if you have any tips yourselves .
PLAN A .
buy some of the new industrial portal frame shed kits for sale like on euro auctions for 3-4000 euros .
some of these are even fully galvanised ----- cut them to size to fit the plan which you have drawn up by paying a friendly structural engineer to print you a copy of a plan which you submit the height and width and length and floor connections for the cross pieces and 10 seconds after you input these figures the software will spit out a plan which will specify the thickness of the h columns and even space the cleats in the roof for the purloins .
you then have your steel cut to size and welded and you pay a structural contractor to erect the portal frame house after you pour the pad and let him set the bolts in their foundation as that is his job .
you erect the frame which includes the cross members for the poured concrete floors on the first and attic level and he bolts his concrete shuts to your upright steel and pours concrete between his shuts and you use coarse old timber as framing inside the shuts where you have doors and windows to fit and when the concrete is poured and your walls which have mesh in them hardens you simply knock out the wooden frames and you are left with the doorways and windows .
you hire blocklayers and supply them with the drawing and the lintels for over the doors and windows and they erect the block walls around your house .
you have wavin pipe lengths left in the poured walls and block walls to fit your electricals and plumbing and data and power .
you get your shed builders to put shuts up for the floors and you pour your floors with mesh or buy flooring with mesh already made and you simply lift them into place .
they then fit insulated panels to your roof as per an industrial building and your house is finished .
the electrician comes the plumber comes and the window and door man and last is your plasterer who finishes the concrete walls and windows and makes everything look smooth and nice .
turn on the heat and paint the house yourselves .
there are a large amount of used solid wood kitchens going for a song buy 2--- sand and re lacquer them and make them fit and use the leftover cabinets in your utility .
upstairs in the attic make a sound insulated room with plywood and face it in flooring lengths ,
and i have bought pallets of new flooring in auctions some weighing a ton or more for 100 euros per pallet some flooring has been damaged at the end by a forklift -- simply use the damaged ones where you have to cut and trim one anyway.
much of it was left over after a job and is not enough to do another and you can use all of this to panel the attic roof with wood effect and to clad the plywood room which holds all your tanks for your plumbing --at least 3 tanks required and the remainder is your giant office and gym and store of files and family items and floor the bedrooms and other rooms with the stuff some of it has a10 year or more warranty.
buy at least 4 tons of the stuff you will use it all.
plan to have a balcony either end of the attic with a large double opening patio door and now you can use a forklift to lift up the gym equipment -tanks furniture etc to the attic level and you can sit out on one balcony in the morning and sit at the other one in the evening in order to work in the sun if you wish .
you would build this house in no time --it would be bullet proof and quiet and warm and you would have 3 floors .
it should not cost you 240,000 for 3000sq ft home .
the field is another matter .
i have built 2 houses in my time and done a lot of learning on both.
today so called engineers /architects are charging 20,000 for their involvement as one of them told me recently.
this is wholesale robbery .
some other tips .
put a heavy 63 amp relay on your electrical board and a blue plug on the wall for welding as you will at some stage fit your own stairs made of wrought iron steel .
put a cheap round aluminum ducting from the outside wall vent under your floor to the liscannor stone hearth stone which you drill with 8 holes wine bottle cork size -now you can simply put corks in the holes and meter the air required --now you have an fresh oxygen supply for your fire or stove and you can close the windows and keep the heat in .
put three times the cat 6 cable you need in each room as you can give each child fiber and a desktop if required and also fiber to their tv and also access to the gate system and cctv on their screen and cctv in their room and other rooms and if they are worried scan all the cameras outside and at the gate and also the calving cameras in the shed all without getting out of bed as they maybe be alone in the house at times .
the house should have foundations at least 2 ft more in width and 2 ft more in depth with plenty of mesh as this is the cheapest thing you can do and raise your house completely off ground level by at least 3 blocks to keep it dry and it suits a house to be elevated from the ground .
put more than one earth in the ground and put generous sand around the chimney flues to stop cracks in the walls .
use heavy large diam pipes for the plumbing and insulate the house as well as you can afford -use foil backed insulation for the north side at least and then pour the granules around the insulated panels before the floor and roof go on .
as it will cut 1 third off your heating bills .
make sure all the concrete is to spec as flooring is different from foundation spec and when he is digging the foundation dig a trench in the middle of your house and put serrated drainage pipe in there surrounded with pea gravel and pipe the pipe to a lower level this costs buttons and will drain away water under you house and keep the damp out for all time .
your sewerage needs large wavin pipes from the last chamber at least 3 used and you get the large brown pipes and slit them every foot all around the pipe with an angle grinder for at least 30 ft from the last box in your system and set them in small stone and you will never have a problem.
in the corner inside the h of the upright steel put a 4 inch wavin pipe on each corner up to the attic from ground level now your house is future proof and you can add cables or plumbing as you wish to any part of the house in its future .
see what you make of this and let me know if you have any tips yourselves .
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