Yep, I am starting again on monday. It has been 10 weeks for me since I dug my footings. In that time all that has happened has been a bit of subsidence around my excavations and a lot of rust on all my cages and steel, lying on the ground waiting to go in... I got held up a month by geotech engineers and when I finally got clearance, we were already a week into lockdown...
best of luck with it mate. you'll have to share a few pics of what ya up to. changing the subject, i was just texting me mum in Napier. She said fast food is available again and there was a queue of about 500 mtrs at a Kfc she cycled past!!!! madness. all though i do love NZ kfc. i could murder a works burger!!!
Burger Fuel has got in trouble for failing to keep their customers at proper social distancing protocol. Basically they ignored it.
Thanks @chizel great thread. it all looks very quick and DIYable I guess the piles look something like this?
Blumin ek Chiz, I've only just court on to this thread, it brings back memories, I was making and erecting these back in the late 60s and early 70s when I was an apprentice, Chatsworth Estate made them in there own workshops and built them for estate workers, we built complete farms including the barns. I remember going down south to Chevening Park in Kent to build a three bedroom two story house, all built at Chatsworth, we had it up with the roof on in a week ready for the builders to clad the outside and slate the roof, we stayed in a pub in Knockholt. Steve
i can only see the top of the piles sticking out the ground now but id imagine thats exactly what they are. our ones have a maybe 12mm thick by 200.. round disk on top with slots to bolt L brackets to bolt the bearers to. it could be a diy job depending on the diyer! like any job a lot of it is having the correct tools and despite me having an arsenal, there is always something else that would make life easier. the other thing needed is space and a lot of it! just to lay all the packs out in a fashion that makes it easy to access what you need when you need it. we are very lucky on this job as we have loads of space, a toilet block, car parking and a secure lock up on site and close to the build.
I'm loving this. Any chance of details Chiz like how are the flooring panels fixed to the framework and also the L bracket system off the piles? Do you know how the piles are inserted? I guess depth of pile depends on ground type?
Yes half a dozen of us, we traveled down (200 miles) in a Thames Trader van with wooden bench seats in the back, no crane to lift the top storey or roof timbers up. Van like this,
this one will have panels for the roof also. i aint looking forward to lifting those... my shoulders are fucked, lifting any weight above my head is nearly impossible for me. i even had to buy a 10.2 volt driver for screwing of ceilings as the 18v is to heavy for me!
did they used to make those with sliding front doors? pretty sure thats what i was in when the driver rolled it on our sheep poaching mission many years ago.
sorry mate, i missed this. the floor panels have 4x2 inserted around all 4 sides, doubles (which are glued and nailed together) where the panels join each other and singles around the perimeter of the base. we then put 200mm screws through the panels where the 4x2 is, into the bearers. re the pile fixing, it may be hard to make out in the pic, but the discs on top of em have slots on different angles, this allows you to get a bolt through a slot and fix the L bracket before screwing that to the bearer. i will if i remember take a pic of that on monday. i meant to last week but got distracted. as far as how the plies are inserted, i guess they are screwed in by machine? im interested in that also as alot of em are on the piss! not a huge prob but we had to spend an hour with the laser and put in loads of shims to level out the bearers. and yes the depth of the piles depends on ground conditions. the piles are one of the few aspects of the build that are outsourced but the company that does them does the soil samples first and their engineer deals with building control on that front.
Pretty much all as I thought as the piles look all over the place in the pictures. The piles would be better with an adjustable screw top similar to the legs used on computer floor.
These are exactly the sort of place that would really benefit from an air sourced heat pump for all year round temperature control.....
you know that is 100% what i thought of before i had ever seen them. but to be honest, its not the fact they are out of level so much, more the angles they are on that is the pita. still, nothing we couldnt resolve. this though, is why i would have liked to been on site while it was being done. to see if its unavoidable or just poor workmanship.
