Great news Chiz Now get yourself down Brecon way, there’s me, 2 sheep, a ginge and some left over curry
thanks mate. the company used to make all there sips in house,but lucky for me, last month they have realised thats its cheaper and more efficient to buy em in from a specialist. also the supplier can somehow achieve higher insulation values. apparently what was being achieved in house was high enough for an extension, which is what these things are classed as, even though they are detached but not as high as a new build. the boss see's the new spec as a good selling point as well as being easier for him. also he has now halved his work space needed which id imagine saves him a few quid!
tempting as that sounds i have been drinking so cant ride! and i will probably be drinking all weekend!!!
Tools... no, not you lot! just tools in general. ive had to buy a few new tools.. well, mostly justs blades and stuff as shit is hard to get immediately ive spent the last few weeks ordering online everything i think i may need, from multi tool blades to foam guns... my dewalt first fix gun started playing up a few weeks back so i give it to my mate the tool repair guy and parts alone were gunna be 160 quid. my charger is shit and i was down to 2 5 amp batteries. so i just bought a new one for 320 with 2 bats and a fast charger. taking out the bats and charger it meant i paid 190 for a new gun which is what the old would have cost to fix. winner winner! anyhu, i had the last one for 6 years and it never missed a beat, had maybe 3 jams in that whole time and i never cleaned it at all!!!! the paslode i had previous to the dewalt was always jamming, required cleaning weekly and i hated it. my only complaint with the dewalt was the paslode fired faster.. or so i thought. turns out that after 6 years of ownership i never new the dewalt had a bump mode!!! it will fire upto 4 nails a second!!!!!! fuck me its fast!!! the kid that was helping us showed me this, he says all the teams use the dewalt. as i found out, in this style of building rapid fire is a must. i think i put in 2000 nails in 4 hours on tuesday.
im very familiar with kingspan but didnt know they did sips... the company that does ours dont use a rigid insulation and glue the boards to it, they have a jig that holds the boards and pump the expanding foam into em. not sure what the benefit of this is other than not paying kingspan stupid money for rigid insulation!
Good news @chizel , learn how to do it all, then come back to NZ and set up a business here making them, there is a big shortage of houses here and the Gov. has pledged to build 10's of thousands of houses in next few years.
well? no completion pics? ffs, how long does it take to make an annex these days. geeze, tradesmen eh. what they like.
i have to hang it out a lil bit to justify my huge pay packet!! we could make your lil office outta these things dude! you'd be well cozy in the winter decades...
just my usual procrastinating getting in the way. I wont borrow. now I can afford it, the end of lease is getting closer. and now I might be downsizing. maybe swap that office for a small 2-3 car workshop depending on how things pan out.
Nice one Chiz. An ex colleague is building a passive house and is using this system too. However I think he’s complicating matters with certain design features he wants. But hey, it’s his money. But it certainly looks like SIPS is the way to go.
Nice one Chizel! I have worked doing similar kitset type houses, they would go out the door with all plumbing in the walls and draw wires in for the electric. As I found out on the job constructing the walls, you need to be soooo careful to get all of this stuff right so that the chippie standing them up doesn't need to pull walls apart on site. Also me, and I had to do that a few times! Our boss was a cantankerous genius type of guy, if he had a problem with you he would totally blow his fucken top out of all proportion to what was expected and then, literally, 5 min later he was totally appreciative that you were on the job. Look forward to the assembly write up!
thanks mate. with these, all the electrics are run outside the house pre cladding which is a great idea and meets with regs no prob apparently. plumbing is all under floor (as mort of em are off the ground and not on slabs) apart from the likes of the shower mixer and what not but the internal walls are conventional stud work so no probs there.
cheers mate. big relief to have work tbh! just hope we can get all the materials we need, thats a big prob these days. the boss seems to think everything is in hand so here's hoping!
That’s interesting Chiz. Good for you getting yourself together and moving on to a new job.There is good news out there despite how bleak the news reports like to portray it. As for SIPS construction it’s a really good system. The biggest advantages being speed and insulation values but another thing you can do is big spans with those panels. They come in various thicknesses giving higher U-values the thicker you go. The heat retention is fantastic. Then clad or even render the outside with whatever the client wants. The only disadvantage I have come across is the stupid old fashioned insurance companies can get difficult with anything that’s not brick or block built. They even get difficult about insuring timber framed buildings. I know that’s not your problem though. Modern materials are really interesting and used properly can make fantastic buildings really quickly. Although SIPS have been used in the States for decades. Guys, a SIPS construction would make a really good warm garage but bear in mind what insurance companies ask about the structure of the garage you keep the bike in.
as we know, insurance companies are arseholes. this thing about not insuring vehicles kept timber garages is just stupid. most illegal entry is gained through window or doors anyway. if it were to be gained through the walls its probably quicker and quieter the smash a hole in a single skinned brick construction than it is a properly made timber one. probably 90% of houses in NZ are timberbuilt and we have fuckloads of earthquakes over there, most are still standing after all but the very bad ones, like the one in christchurch a few years back. i'd hate to see how well a british style brick build stands up to the same treatment,
all in good time dude! dont start the assembly till tuesday but i will try and take loads of pics. well get my mate to take loads of pics and send em to me as my phone camera has a really scratched lense...
