Grand Designs: another good programme

[The Natural Philosopher]

He would. The offset from the actual weight was minimal so the bending moment on the hoiuse base would not have been large.

[The Natural Philosopher]

You could esily dry line teh interior once it had all settled if you wanted a conventional finish. As apoosed to a Finnish finish...;-)

[Graham Jones]

Yes a long hard sLOG from start to FINISH but he got there in the end!

[Chris J Dixon]

But the whole house shrinks too, at about 5mm per log. I reckon they won't be going for any full-length curtains then? Do the door architraves have to be deep enough to cover a big gap?

Chris

[Colin Wilson]

What was the build time for this one ?

(i`ll ignore the feeble attempt at a pun ;-) )

[RedOnRed]

In fact, if they'd used bricks and tiles and plastered throughout inside it might have enhanced it a bit...?

[Doctor Evil]

Yes, made it look like a house built by Wimpey.

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[drbob]

Towards the end of the program Kevin McCloud mentioned 7 months.

[drbob]

AFAIK This is pretty standard when the underfloor heating is underpowered. The UF heating is there for comfort and the radiators boost the system to be able to fully heat the room. All the radiators looked to be under windows, normally the logic being this is to prevent a cooler area around the window due to heat loss, but I don't know how relevant this is with those super efficient triple glazed windows.

In the program they showed one underfloor pipe running parallel to each floor joist, most systems I've seen that solely heat from the underfloor pipes have double this density (heating pipe on either side of each joist)

[drbob]

It was blown in which means it is already under pressure (did you see how the plastic sheeting bulged out). This is far more efficient than rockwool sheeting which inevitably ends up with gaps around it that short circuit the insulation. Compaction is less of a problem with such a system.

[Martin Angove]

From (dodgy) memory, the programme opened in June 2004 with the slab laid and piers about to be started, and the last segment was in April

2005 with the family moved in but the house "not quite finished". Allowing a bit extra at the start for preparing the ground and laying the slab and a bit more at the end for tidying up it's probably nearer to a year all told. I believe the erection of the kit supplied from Finland was about 7 months though.

Hwyl!

M.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

What was all that nonsense about the party wall?

I'd certainly be annoyed if a wall I had to look at was extended using the wrong bricks - especially if they wanted to have a fire escape down it which exited into my - or mutual land. And the fire escape *looked* like it was designed to waste as much ground space as possible - and remove car parking space.

Think we weren't told the full story. ;-)

[Owain]

(a) The self-builders didn't do what they said they were going to do on their own diagrams.

(b) the next door neighbours didn't seem to like them anyway. Perhaps they would have liked to buy the property themselves but didn't have the money or were too bureaucratic to get their own bid in in time.

(We don't have a Party Wall Act in Scotland.)

Owain

[Martin Angove]

All discussed here previously, of course. The thread you want is

34 GRAND for a cooker that doesn't work?

From late January 2004. Google and laugh.

Hwyl!

M.

[Mike]

Gulp ! What do you have then ?

[Doctor Evil]

What happens in disputes of any sort?

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[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 11 May 2005, Owain wrote

As I recall it wasn't that. The neighbouring use is an orchestral rehearsal hall, and the main objection was to the principle of residential use of the adjacent space. Regardless of who was there first, I think they expect to have complaints from the new arrivals about noise from rehearsals. My sympathies are with the symphony: given the attitude of those two, it's probably a reasonable fear.

(And given that after 2+ years negotiating about the appearance and materials of the party wall, they just ignored the main condition as to what it was to be built of, I figure the orchestra next door has every reason to make life bloody difficult for them.)

[Doctor Evil]

The orchestra is there first. So, no noise complaints can be entertained from next door. They can have something legal drawn- up stating this.

- Not allowing extending the party wall was bloody mindedness.

- I would not allow the fire escape onto my property. The orchestra has a case

- Using dissimilar brick was silly.

- the wall was a hodge-podge mess anyway, so way anyone could complain is beyond me.

The council may be wanting the area to change over to residential from light industry, so were not on the side of the orchestra, wanting them eventually out.

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[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 12 May 2005, Doctor Evil wrote

They can, but that won't stop people complaining down the line and making life difficult. (Especially if this turns out not to be a one- off, but that the precedent encourages Barrat's or somebody to develop apartments with cardboard walls nearby.)

Neighbourliness is obviously a two-way thing; my reaction both times I watched the program was that even though the information we had about the dispute came from the residential side, it seemed to me that it was

*that* side that made the enemies during the 2.5 year fight for planning approval. (The terms of which they then ignored....)

-snip-

That's possible, but I don't think so -- it's near Waterloo Bridge and the South Bank, and AFAIK entertainment and arts uses are still strongly encouraaged in that area.

[Tony Bryer]

"Lovers of live jazz in London will be horrified by news that the future of music at the Bull?s Head in Barnes, a legendary venue that has played host to a phenomenal array of musicians since the late 50s, is under threat.

That?s because Richmond council changed the status of the area around the riverside pub from light industrial to residential when a block of expensive flats was put up next door. A resident complained about the sounds from the music room ? and now, after

45 years as a live venue, the Bull?s Head has been served with a noise abatement notice."

you this is LB Richmond: "The answer is no; now what's the question?"