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tahir
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Mistress Rose
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 20 8:08 am Post subject: |
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As long as that is sorted, then this sort of house makes sense. How do you deal with damp and solid walls? Is there a damp proof membrane below the filling of the walls? I haven't really been able to see as they have been building new houses round here. I also wonder how they get rid of the wet caused by rain before the cladding goes on, as it must have taken weeks if not months on the ones they built in the village.
We had the extension at the back of our house cavity filled, and not that keen on it. Tendency to damp on the north wall, which has an overhang of the roof, so not even exposed to the weather, and if a squirrel gets into the loose infill, it can cause havoc, as has happened a couple of times. The rest of the house is concrete block that are a sort of square 8 shape, so not really possible to cavity fill those. It is pretty good though, as insulation in hot or cold weather is excellent. |
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 4603 Location: Lampeter
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dpack
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tahir
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 20 9:57 am Post subject: |
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building inspection is often self certificated now as BC has had staff numbers cut to almost nothing
when i was doing SD's house i got one at the start to ok my plans for the bomb damage, drainage etc
by the time it was done the whole of the york city council area had one part time BI and basically said if you have done it, that's ok
i have always tried to do effective, long lasting work on buildings but going by how much cowboy and ignorance jobs i have remedied many do not
nothing would get me to buy a new build from most of the larger developers(the household names are top of that list)
a local story, there is a fairly large estate near hear, 1000 or so homes built over the last 25 years or so
about a year ago an unfortunate owner found a vauxhall corsa in their living room
they are not noted for robustness and no matter how drunk you are it should not be possible to drive one through a gable end
however for any story of modern build quality being poor i could probably match and better it with a georgian one, often involving internal supporting walls with no footings beyond a plank and made from rubbish and plaster cast into shuttering and roof designs that seem intended to leak
for period 1880 to 1939 seems pretty good although most need remedials for things that have been done as "improvements" or not done as maintenance
since folk have got double glazing and central heating rather than open fires ventilation is a common issue in even good ones of that period
one of the best modern ones i have worked on was a 1980's scandi house
concrete slab, timber frame, loads of insulation and an excellent heat exchange/ventilation system that could heat a 3 bed house with little more than a handful of twigs in the fire
it was about half the price of the current "english styles"to build at the time as well
good design is not only easy to live in but should last well with no more than basic maintenance
the surviving examples of "heritage build" are exactly that, for every nice tudor house that folk admire thousands fell down, caught fire or became uneconomic to mend |
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Ty Gwyn
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