Workshop progress

[wcndave]

The pipes for electrics and dust extraction are laid. Concrete coming in a few weeks. Just time to lay this large pile of insulation!

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[Tierney]

Looks nice and large. Although electrics under concrete/screed makes me nervous!

DT

 

[HeliGav]

in italy is electrics underfloor the norm?

 

[wcndave]

We have to build an environmentally friendly house and this includes 65cm floors, vacuum systems in the walls, integrated floor heating, an air exchange system, and all the conduits are embedded in thirty cm insulated concrete.

These are just empty pipes that will have the wires put through them.

For example a children's bedroom has four data cables, two satellite and tv cables, sixteen power cables, one thermostat, underfloor heating and a vacuum system...

This is south Tyrol and it's all German style engineering and very high quality.

It costs about 7 thousand per square metre to build here and the quality is very high.

So although embedding everything underground seems mad,I have twenty five year guarantee and I chose to put the conduit for chip extraction and the insulation in myself whilst they were working.

I'm trying to do some work myself to reduce the cost however the regulations prevent me from much.

My only concern at the moment with workshop is that with most insulated and temperatures from minus twenty to plus forty I might get condensation and tool damage. If I see that level I will have to insulate the outer wall.

The terrace above is already insulated.plus drainage system. When I suggested to the builder that I get some two quid tiles from b&q for terrace (which is seventy square metres) he thought it was a joke and gave me a bill for about two hundred per square metre.

The build quality, and therefore price is very very different here.

That's good

And bad.

Sometimes very bad...


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[wcndave]

I also finished my lumber rack made entirely from scrap from the house build.

http://www.mywoodworkmatters.com/worksh ... n-storage/

 

[custard]

This is south Tyrol and it's all German style engineering and very high quality.

It costs about 7 thousand per square metre to build here and the quality is very high.

Euros or pounds?

 

[wcndave]

Actually it's about 5k and that's euros, but still, it's quite a different experience to the uk.

When i compare to some cheaper homes i've seen built in uk it's a different level, only a shame it's so dear - I had to drop quite a few plans and ideas.

We do have to deal with major temperature variation here so that's a factor in the design.

They've now covered all the electrical, plumbing, data, vacuum etc with 20cm of a kind of rice crispie pudding which is insulating foam concrete. Then there will be insulating panels, then plastic, then a mesh, then underfloor heating, all covered with a sand type material, then some boards and finally the flooring. My house in London just had laminate flooring placed on whatever the substrate was...

Still, it's been a very interesting and educational experience, and one that should be unique in my life.

 

[Tierney]

ahh, so it's flexible conduit - that makes more sense.

DT

 

[wcndave]

It's hard plastic, but flexible yes. Once covered in concrete it becomes less flexible. Just realised that one light switch will be behind door for example, however I can reverse the switch so you turn it on in kitchen before you go into utility room, so not too bad. But you have to check quite carefully. I was not careful enough!

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