How easy/difficult was it?
Who did you use? Would you use them again?
Kit/bespoke?
How did cost compare to traditional methods?
I am interested in doing this. I have applied for permission to subvidivide my garden. We are going to move into the new house if we get it - so we want to build it to our specs, not just to sell.
Nick.
SIPS? Single in line packages? those teeny chips used in computer boards?
Isn't that carrying recycling a bit far?
Or did you mean SIPPS - self invested pension plans..?
SIPs - Structural Insulated Panels
Some links for your perusal :)
In message , NickW writes
Some interesting stuff, do you have an idea of the cost over traditional building techniques?
Also make sure you can find someone willing to give you buildings insurance at an affordable price.
Sounds good to me, but have no info for you - sorry.
Drop the heat pump, too expensive and not needed. Build the house of SIPs, as thick as possible. Once superinsulation and air tightness is reached no full heating system is needed. A small in-line duct heater battery can be installed in the Heat recovery ductwork (uprate the ductwork). Solar panels can supplement DHW. Spend the money on insulation and air-tightness not fancy machines.
Go to the UK_selfbuild forum on Yahoo. They are the ones to ask. There are far too many plantpots on this forum.
SIPS are about the strongest buildings around.
why are you dredging up posts from 4 months ago?
Just saw it and he still may be looking.
Said weeed ;-)
Dave
PatnDope, you are into weed?
Has to be a definition of disappointment... you wait all that time for an answer, and when you finally get one it is from dribble.
That's put the kibosh on it then.
filled with asthma inducing foam. No doubt that explains a lot about drivel which I don't want to know.
The structure looks like the stuff first engineered in Finland, so an holiday there might be worth investing in. The I beams are compressed waste from the mill that prepares the rest of the house with the best bits of the trees.
It certainly is a green house. The thing with such designs is that you can not cut corners and if you are doing the build yourself, the tendency to bodge along might land you in trouble.
As with all prefabs; expert, experienced help is a great investment. I would pay extra to get an overseer of some sort who really knows what he is doing. The savings made in getting a great job done quickly, more than pay for him.
Essex is near Suffolk isn't it?
If you don't know it is best to stay quiet otherwise you yourself to look a bigger idiot.
Especially if you can't parse a sentence.
How about you shutting the f*ck up when you know nothing? For the avoidance of doubt this would involve you joining a trappist monastery.
Please eff off as you are a total plantpot, many on the group think so:
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