Grand Designs: another good programme

The man who built a Finnish log cabin last night. I missed the start, did he just nail the beams onto breezeblock piers?

Another interesting program in the Grand Design series.

Bruce

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alfonso
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it just sat straight on them...i think they were probably concrete blocks though, with holes and reinforcing rods through and filled with concrete.

Steve

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r.p.mcmurphy

you think correctly... although he did set 2 out out by aboout 200mm, but the guy from the company supplying the house said it would be fine

it's funny how there is never, or rarely, mention of the BCO coming to check things out, would he have been happy about these 2 pillars ? after all they are supposed to support the house.

LJ

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in2minds

Well if I win the lottery I'm having one built. It looked great

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Pilbs

the outside it looked like an oversized wooden wendy house like you get from a typical garden centre.

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RedOnRed

agreed. the roof would have looked beter if it was turfed and all that wood inside would have done my head in after a while. a few rooms done out in plaster would have lightened it up a bit and made it look less shed like.

nice plot tho

RT

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Anyone else notice the rather ugly unconnected 28mm pipes running down the surface of the wall to the wood fired stove? That was supposedly going to provide hot water and heating. Must have been a change of plan.

That though begs the question, if that was the original plan, why weren't the pipes concealed?

For keen DIYers I could see the lack of flexibility of this type of construction with regard to re-wiring, re-plumbing etc. could be rather frustrating.

Tim

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Tim Downie

Hmm, the only thing he mentioned was about the fat black pipe which was exposed to dissipate as much heat as possible into the house.

G.

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Gerd Busker

I'd think I'd go for one of those cool 'HUF' houses. Lots of glass and angles. I thought that one last night looked too much like a sauna

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Ed B

I thought somebody mentioned underfloor CH, but the master bedroom looks to have a radiator of some sort:

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Nick Finnigan

Here's teh web site

groovy...

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Ed B

they'd run out of life before the relevant authority could be convinced. Having sat looking at the brochures for some time, I reckon they're competent, but the architecture is a bit, well, arrogant. It shouts "look at me: I'm a wacky house!" at the world, which I think I'd tire of after Not Very Long.

The GD I've always liked was the one from S1 built by that ex-director of Wilkinson Sword (sort of Z-plan with an atrium in the middle, if anyone else remembers). His statement that when you start building yourself houses, you get the third one right, has stuck with me since then and been confirmed as a good rule of thumb by an acquaintance that runs a company specialising in providing advice to self-builders.

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Sam Nelson

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I noticed the boy's room did as well. Could be the u/f had faults in those rooms or simply not enough poke.

Does anybody know the U value of that newspaper stuff. The roof only seemed to have 6" of it which wouldn't meet the regs for Rockwool, yet he was hoping to heat all that space just from a single wood burner.

Also is it okay to have the chimney exposed to touch like that ?

Good programme though. None of Kevin's usual gloom and doom half way helped too.

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Mike

I wondered about that too:

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0.040 W/m C which seems similar to rookwool.

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Nick Finnigan

"Mike" wrote in news:d4rauj$sbc$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk:

Perhaps the amazing boys' toy in the woods put him in a good mood? If you didn't see that, it was a machine that plucked, stripped branches and chopped into pieces whole trees. In 30 seconds. Anyone got a link - preferably to an animation or film of it?

If the James Bond producers were watching, expect one in the next film.

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Rod

Lidl, next thursday, only 59.99. :)

It was a deeply beautiful bit of kit.

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Ian Stirling

I saw one of those lurking in the woods in northern Sweden once. Didn't realise quite how impressive it was in action though. The moment on it's bearings when it swings the tree to the horizontal must be incredible.

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Mike

I missed the program, but i`ve followed up on the pics - what was the build time for the project ?

Cheers

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Colin Wilson

The stem falls mostly under gravity, it's the skill of the operator in moving the boom whist the rollers run it along the stem and start measuring and crosscutting that makes it look like it's all under machine control. If he gets it wrong in soft ground the tree gets pile driven.

AJH

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sylva

I was thinking when they filled the wall cavities - won't it compact down in time?

Owain

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Owain

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