the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks LIR.....

If everything goes to plan and there are no more hick-ups, once the land is ours.... then the true expense will start, by buying fruit trees and what ever else we want to do there..

I have prob sold my soul to the devil to have the place:rotfl: and there will prob be loads of barriers in front of us... no hope of planing, BUT where there is a will there is a way;):D

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

thanks LIR.....

If everything goes to plan and there are no more hick-ups, once the land is ours.... then the true expense will start, by buying fruit trees and what ever else we want to do there..

I have prob sold my soul to the devil to have the place:rotfl: and there will prob be loads of barriers in front of us... no hope of planing, BUT where there is a will there is a way;):D

A lot looks good though: instant income stream potential and decent fencing....a huge bonus. It all looks pretty presentable. And beautiful!

choille

Congratulations CTC - Hope all goes well.

Still biblical rain here but managed to get some tatties dug .......out of the compost heap, and very good they were too - Pink Apple Firs.

Just packing stuff up to post after ebay, but didn't sell too much, seems slow.............well it is for me at the moment.

kazschow

Please, please, please tell me this rain is going to go away!!!! it seems to have rained solidly since we moved into the caravan here to start our build at the begining of June Hopefully only another month and we'll be in the house though

On a technical note.... could someone give me some advice? I have a steel portal frame supporting the vaulted ceiling and open plan part of my building, the stantions round the steels had to be dug out and repored when the steels were put in way back in mid august, however they've never completely dried, infact when i put my damp meter on them, they literally scream! My problem is my polished concrete floor is about to be poured on wednesday over the top of this. My builders are trying to convince me it's not really wet, and can be sealed in with some compound or other and a DPM put over the top of them. My argumant is the reason they've never dried is they are the wrong mix, too much sand, and we shouldn't put big pads of dpm over as there is then no adhesion between the two parts of the floor. When the stantions were redug, and filled the structural engineer said not to put dpm in as it would stop the two areas bonding, why wouldn;t that apply to these two conrete floors too?

Hopefully one of you smarty folks will be able to help, as I am getting really worried about this, and no-one is taking my concerns seriously

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Kaz... i am no expert... far from it, would it be worth asking the building inspector for advice or someone else to come out and give you a second opinion? or even the building inspector to come out and have a look?

kazschow

CTC, I've not got time to give building control notice to come out

COOLTRIKERCHICK

kazschow wrote: »

CTC, I've not got time to give building control notice to come out

then i would def go to the builders federation then and ask if they could come out to look, tbh even if it cost me £100 plus for someone to come out to have a look and give an honest second opinion, it could save you thousands in the long run, what will you do if they tell you it is too damp?

Its obviously playing on your mind.... go with your gutt instincts....

Lotus-eater

I think I'd definitely do something to get someone who knows what they are talking about, to look at it kaz.

kazschow

Yup.....

choille

Kazchow - The structural engineer is the one to listen to - that's why they carry big insurance as they under write the structural part of the build - their necks on the line if owt goes wrong with that part of things. I take it you have a structural engineer's certificate?And yes it aint stopped raining for months.