Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Construction Basics : Site Boundaries , foundations & progress

Well we've been in the lull period between the finishing of the site works and the house frame going up. The last few wet weeks have not had any impact as the main much shifting was already done.

Foundation will be going in shortly & will include about 400mm of insulation to get the U value down below 0.1. There are a number of proprietry foundation systems out there but the increased cost over other solutions is €10-20k; some of these sytems has potential issues with spec'ing up a high degree of radon protection ( in excess of building regulation requirements) which is a personal requirement

As regards site boundaries, advice is to get a good series of site boundary photos - in detail, including looking into ditches and hedges, before you touch anything on site. This type of information can made a real difference should any dispute arise during the build or later

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