The Doozer Family Self Build

onomatopoeia99

If I understand the many hashtags correctly, the new house will use SIPS rather than traditional block + cavity + brick / block? I'd like to do that when I finally get round to extending my house. Looks like it will give more internal area for the same external footprint, as well as going up for faster.

What will you do about the external side of the wall? Render? Or am I being too impatient and should wait for further posts

phoebe1989seb

Following with interest! As we both have design backgrounds and like to think of ourselves as very hands-on, we've always fancied doing a self-build, but so far have stuck to extensive restorations of old houses/extending them where necessary. Not sure we'll ever get round to it now, especially as we love our existing cottage so living vicariously through you, DG.....all the best with your build

FreeBear

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

the new house will use SIPS rather than traditional block + cavity + brick / block? I'd like to do that when I finally get round to extending my house. Looks like it will give more internal area for the same external footprint, as well as going up for faster.

SIPS won't give any extra floor space internally. The advantage it offers is a quicker build once the slab/foundations are in and the panels are on site - The structure could be assembled in a matter of days ready for roofing & cladding.

Doozergirl

getmore4less wrote: »

Going to be an interesting one to follow.

Are you talking to the two that put in the complaints about having a house at the bottom of their gardens?

One, no, but not on purpose. I haven't seen him (I've seen him once in 8 years apart from at the planning committee meting) but he had a nice swear at my cousin in the pub recently and reported us to planning enforcement for not building to plan. The house is engineered, so it's to the mm!

The other ones, yes. He approached me at the local shop and said how good our footings were and wanted to start again. He's also popped over recently to tell us that he's going to chop down the massive conifers that form our boundary and plant pleached hornbeam, which will give us a better view.

Doozergirl

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

If I understand the many hashtags correctly, the new house will use SIPS rather than traditional block + cavity + brick / block? I'd like to do that when I finally get round to extending my house. Looks like it will give more internal area for the same external footprint, as well as going up for faster.

What will you do about the external side of the wall? Render? Or am I being too impatient and should wait for further posts

Yes, it's SIPs. Downstairs you gain a little, but maybe not enough to justify the cost if that was your only criteria. IIRC, the walls themselves are about 192mm thick. We don't need a ventilation gap on the outside because the outside panels are magnesium oxide and don't need to breathe. But we ended up adding another 40mm of external insulation so that the render (yes, mostly render!) doesn't crack with any movement of the panels over time.

Where you can gain is in the roof space. Ours is really sizeable and there isn't a structural wall up there, even into the gables. There's just two steels running from the ground to the roof so we have the maximum space upstairs possible.

getmore4less

Doozergirl wrote: »

One, no, but not on purpose. I haven't seen him (I've seen him once in 8 years apart from at the planning committee meting) but he had a nice swear at my cousin in the pub recently and reported us to planning enforcement for not building to plan. The house is engineered, so it's to the mm!

The other ones, yes. He approached me at the local shop and said how good our footings were and wanted to start again. He's also popped over recently to tell us that he's going to chop down the massive conifers that form our boundary and plant pleached hornbeam, which will give us a better view.

Given the sites previous uses and the positives of what you planned I got a distinct NIMBYwithout thinking feeling from the objections.

Good that one has seen sense and is cooperating on the boundary.

markin

All going to plan, no delays?

FreeBear

The roof is on, just needs tiles. Starting to look like a proper house rather than an industrial unit.

babyblade41

love following self builds..I'm too old for that now as just renovation is causing me to drink far more wine than is good for me.

Would love to see yours but don't do insta thingy

Davesnave

babyblade41 wrote: »

Would love to see yours but don't do insta thingy

You don't need to be signed-in. I'm not, and Instathingy works OKish on my 'puter. Well, I can see the pictures anyway.


https://www.instagram.com/theoldscrapyard/

What progress too! You're nice and watertight now for the winter. :T