Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House

[Giles]

@neph93:

Have you tried using an online calculator? They pretty good as long as you aren't doing anything particularly complex.

Yes, but there are some constraints that I make sure I cater for.  Obviously, total drop is important, but I  also need to build a stud wall at exactly the right place to meet the bottom riser.  I know it's not rocket science, but I want to be 100% certain before we start cutting….

EDIT - Found another that is perfect for what I need - thanks

[Giles]

Scaffold down.  Need to give the bricks a good old fashioned jet wash now.

And Les and I are now dry-lining….

[neph93]

@Giles:

I know it's not rocket science…

Given my maths skills it might as well be.

EDIT: and that brick work is sublime.

[Giles]

Thank you Reuben.  I love it too…..

[Giles]

Stairs sorted…... Thank @neph93

[neph93]

Excellent! Glad to be of service. Any chance of a closer look at the roof masonry visible on top of the brick facade in the first pic? Looks tasty.

[Chris]

Progress is coming along nicely.

[ROman]

I think it looks GREAT….

[RoxRocks86]

Definitely enjoy seeing the progress

[Giles]

@neph93 The coping stones?

[neph93]

@Giles:

@neph93 The coping stones?

Indeed, the coping stones. My befuddled, timber orientated, bilingual head wouldn’t find the correct name yesterday evening.

[Giles]

The lantern is one of the things I have been excited about ever since we had the idea.  Love it….

[Giles]

I've decided to slow things down a bit.  Things are going really well, but I made a cock up with my floor height calcs. so I need to add some more screed else finished floor level will be below DPC.  I don't think it will make a blind bit of difference to the functionality of the building, but it's outside of building regs.  It'll never be noticed, but I may as well do it right.  I need to wait for the current screed to dry naturally (about another 30 days) or put the underfloor heating on to accelerate the drying time.  But that means I have to screw up our current kitchen earlier than I wanted too, so on balance, a slow down is more sensible.

[organisys]

There might be a risk the underfloor heating could dry the screed too quickly?….cracking??

[Giles]

The way I would do it, is have it on at 5 deg for 24 hours, increase by 5 deg for another 24 hours, repeat until max temp reached, then do the same in reverse….

[Finn666]

how thick (in cm) is the screed? @Giles …normally the rule is 1cm screed needs one week to try (without any kinda accelerator that is!).

about drying the screed with turned on underfloor heating, the way to do it is sth. like the following:

25c - day 1-3
30c - day 4-6
35c - day 7-9
40c - day 10-12
45c - day 13-16
40c - day 17-20

for info, if the screed is bound with calcium sulfit, you‘re not allowed to heat it up more than 50c!

[Giles]

Thank you.  45mm.  The standard guide for the screed we have used without the underfloor heating is 1mm per day.  I'm happy with not accelerating it…

[Giles]

I'm being sent a meter to test moisture content, so we can lay the next layer of screed as soon as this layer is dry.

In the meantime, I have a couple of Victorian doors I got off The Bay that I can be tarting up….

[Finn666]

perfect, as well as the meter you get to measure the humidity!
iirc a good figure should be sth. like 1.5%, 0.5% or 0.3%…depends on the screed used!

the doors goong to look nice!

[Giles]

@Finn666:

the doors goong to look nice!

With some elbow grease and these…..