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End of day 5. Beams are in for block and beam floor and internal drainage is in and passed by building control. Our BT phone line to the existing house that we were going to get BT to disconnect has now been disconnected by the digger when digging out the drain runs BT were fine about it but...

End of day 4. Most blocks are in and floor beams arrive in the morning. Work on the workshop will start next week. I am a bit unsure if there is much interest in this thread but I will keep it going for a few more days.

The Kity 627 is the part number of the spindle moulder all other machines on the table will have different numbers as the whole package was made up of the machines that the original buyer would have chosen and then all mounted on a table with a single motor. The drill chuck hanging off the side...

Thursday night was a bit restless with the wife worrying incase our resident hedgehog fell into the trench and me worrying in case the trench collapsed. The good news from the wife's point of view is that the hedgehog had the sense to stay out but the bad news was that a small section did...

That is a good point but the existing workshop is 1mtr away from the railway embankment would not have good outlooks over the surrounding countryside and the cost of converting a 1960's industrial building into a modern house would be more than the cost of building a new house on an empty site...

End of day 2. Due to the nature of our soil it has always been a toss up between having trench footings or piled but in the end trench was decided on and although there have been a few problems with a depth of 2.2mts in places all footings are now dug out and approved by building control and...

Thanks both for replies. The wife has gone out from mid afternoon until late and I came home after doing some decorating for a customer with a 10 pack of Carling but I can now only find the empty box. The workshop as it now stands is the best part of 1400sq ft and many years ago I used to run a...

Thanks for best wishes. This was the inside of our garden up until a few weeks ago when the wife and I the process of a complete redesign to make way for the new house. We have moved her rescue rabbits the shed and greenhouse to what was her mini farm and it is now more compact but works...

Well after what can only be described as the most frustrating 18 months of my life our new build house in the garden for us to retire into is finally under way with the arrival of the digger today. The workshop in the background is going to be reduced in size and that is down to me and it has...

I had the same problem with regards to roll length in the end I used cap sheet without underlay it has been no problem and is much thicker than shed felt. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Traditio ... m/p/245200

My take on this is that most advocates of expensive tools seem to be business users and what hasn't been taken into account is that a £600 tool after claiming back the VAT and the offset against tax costs them about £350 so they have not really bothered to look for a cheaper alternative. For the...

Well I for one will follow this with interest as our new build house in the garden is due to start in 3 weeks.

Thanks for advice it was the voltage figures that confused me. I have ordered 1 from an ebay seller and hope that there is nothing else wrong that could have caused the original 1 to fail.

I am in the middle of a job that I need my generator for and half way through it stopped producing power. In desperation I took apart the box that contains the outlet sockets thinking that there may be a fuse in there but found a capacitor that had a hole blown in the side of it. It is a 16uf...

Thanks for clarification of the cost I find that to be incredible and would love to see a picture of said house built from start to ready to move into for a total cost of just over £500 per sq m. I think you have misread my post the £70000 I quoted was not the total build cost but was the figure...

Sorry I misread your post I can now see that you are saying that a 3 bed house is on average 90 sq m floor space. To ensure that I have not misread anything else can you confirm that you have helped project manage a house build from bare site to totally finished house of around this size for a...

Our new house in the garden is due to start in about 3 weeks so I have some experience of pricing such a project. It is 3 bed detached 115 sq m we have tender from builder in 2 stages 1st to watertight shell and second to finish. I is not a simple design but is not over the top in specs and we...

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Thanks for the reply I thought it have gone due to something that I said. I have to say that it would be good to see a thread on here that separates brand names from the actual manufactures.

There was a topic on here this morning about the tool companies that Irwin own that now seems to have disappeared anybody know what happened?