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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
if I was gonna build, TEK panel'd be my choice I think ... quick and massively OTT on the thermal requirements

 
Quattromike

Quattromike

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My Sis and Bil are building a house for themselves and they went the durabock route. Seems a good enough system to use but time will tell I spose
 
Canal Navvy

Canal Navvy

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went around Berkeley as a teenager with school

It is quite apt that part of Berkeley is now a school. The facilities they have there are jaw dropping, I'm sure it's the way to get our country back on it's feet 🙂
 
Bob

Bob

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🤔 Where do you chase cables and pipes into walls
when internal walls were built with stammit board which is the same as this they had special boards with holes from top to bottom and you use to cut out a electic box and hope you find the holes stammit boad was made from wheat straw and if it got wet it would start to grow .
 
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Brendan

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🤔 Where do you chase cables and pipes into walls
Similar sip panels have a pre built cavity on the internal part of the boards (full width) , so internally all you need to do is run your pipework and cabling then install your vapour membrane and plasterboard. Floor joists also tend to be the engineered webbed beams so easier for routing stuff too.

Think cost wise it use to be north of £100 per m2 bit probably north of £150 now
 
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Smiffy

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I don't know how it would compare price wise but my brother has a small log cabin made by one of the scandanavian companies
It's all tongue and groove 100mm timbers and slotted together in a couple of days

My dad wanted an extension and took one of the pieces of tongue and groove down to a sawmill and they made him some
I think he went for 150mm width
Don't know how that equates for thermal properties but is good enough for the scandanavian winters

Think it was pontralis that made them for him as an experiment and where going to look at marketing them
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Similar sip panels have a pre built cavity on the internal part of the boards (full width) , so internally all you need to do is run your pipework and cabling then install your vapour membrane and plasterboard. Floor joists also tend to be the engineered webbed beams so easier for routing stuff too.

Think cost wise it use to be north of £100 per m2 bit probably north of £150 now
never seen this before on fleabay ...... be cheaper direct from Kingspan
 
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Rob65

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if I was gonna build, TEK panel'd be my choice I think ... quick and massively OTT on the thermal requirements

What happens when mice chew ya membrane, damp gets in and all ya OSB turns to mush?

For something as expensive as a house, think I’ll stick to bricks and cement thanks.

No reason it can’t be super insulated and the big bad wolf can blow as hard as he likes, it won’t fall down😀😀.

I have also heard stories about mortgage companies being warry of timber framed houses, so what they would make of low quality flakes of wood glued together (OSB) and foam as structural components I’m not sure.

As for how to recycle the materials when it’s demolished - I think that will be worth watching for a laugh.
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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My uncle moved to Sweden about 20 years ago...was over there one year doing some work for him...drilled 20mm hole through a wall ...out poured a mountain of sawdust...that's the internal insulation.🤣 Must burn well.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
What happens when mice chew ya membrane, damp gets in and all ya OSB turns to mush?

For something as expensive as a house, think I’ll stick to bricks and cement thanks.

No reason it can’t be super insulated and the big bad wolf can blow as hard as he likes, it won’t fall down😀😀.

I have also heard stories about mortgage companies being warry of timber framed houses, so what they would make of low quality flakes of wood glued together (OSB) and foam as structural components I’m not sure.

As for how to recycle the materials when it’s demolished - I think that will be worth watching for a laugh.
would depend on what you skin it with I'd've thought Rob ? ... also fairly sure it's resin bonded OSB not water based adhesives ;)
 
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