PART L BUILDING REGULATIONS CHAT 🧱👍🏽 

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I love the start to this video………..pure down-to-earth, honest Gold

Nice video lads very good information 🎉

Fascinating look into the regulations you need to follow!

Thanks

Great advice and nicely explained. Keep up the great work.

Another great video, guys.. different, but still the usual entertaining and informative content... "so it's goodnight from me, and it's goodnight from him.."😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

Interesting video Steve and Al, I've been looking forward to this since you announced a while back you were going to do it.

Very informative

Nice one Steve alex 👍👍

Nice video guys brings the essential info together in one place. Just embarking on building a double storey extension and finding the problems of sourcing the insulation and cavity closers. Very limited stock at merchants most have order it.👍👍

I had a viewing of a new build house last month and some of the finished work was appalling; different shades of mortar everywhere, missing weep vents, uneven walls, missing air bricks - just not fitted, broken bricks, loose joinery and flashing wow! I wouldn't go near a new build now. Watching you Steve and Alex, along with Darren at Build, Repair & Restore and others on YT I've learned so much valuable information. Thanks for doing this.

yep same here when i started early 80/s 50mm cavity then 75mm ,agree brickwork first get the bond right and get the blocks to fit ,also back then never heard of cavity closers , and glad they got shot of them twisted metal cavity ties like razor blades sure most blokes have caught their nut on them

Chaps, Well done that was a really good practical over view and working assessment of the regulations.👍👌😁 It is all very well people saying, "Its all a load of nonsense and its full of anomalies," (which it is...) But it is here to stay. The implications of the "Future homes standard," Carbon Neutral & Net Zero and ever changing amendments to Building Regulations will have huge implications for clients, customers and the Industry as a whole. Like a lot of Governmental policy it is well meaning - but maybe not fully thought through and considered yet. So there will be constant `fine-tuning` which will make life difficult for builders and costlier for clients. So Gentlemen, there is a lot more to come - and it will get worse right up to the point that, when trying to achieve and meet the requirements of ever changing energy and emissions targets it becomes nonviable to use traditional construction methods to construct a new homes - or extensions...........Then what.? 🤔🙄😯 What of existing older housing stock...? What about the soaring cost and scarcity of materials...? How can we "skill - up" as a work force to adapt to the new ideas and technologies that are coming....? An interesting and fascinating future awaits....!

Great information great video. I served my time started 1980 and used to get offcuts of timber for window and door lintels from skips and building sites !! .( how times change ) You should send this video to your customers so they understand why extending your home is now so expensive.

Hi Steve and Alex. miss the live tonight.just watched the vid really interesting I haven't done the new reg yet .as you know I build most with kingspan .when I have to put the out side corse up first .I build 6 course brick then two block .so I can get it to touch block .it's a pain but probably the only way you can do it the right way .grate vid lads 👍👍👍

Cool guys - Be good content to run when you're on downtime from jobs. The new regs a good place to start. I did a bit on them in construction course, but know nothing about new updates. Thanks.

We do same as you Steve and on extensions we always do brickwork first. I do think it is a bit pathetic most of the houses we work on have no insulation in cavities. We spent 3k on insulation on the last job. It's fast getting to the point that material costs will make extensions too expensive. Who has 80k equity in their house to build a single story extension.

Men, don’t get lulled into buying expensive foam board for insulation… all insulation of this type on the market in the UK must meet the same standards for thermal efficiency, so all is as good as any make… The suppliers of course will want to sell you the high price boards on which they make bigger profits, but don’t get screwed by this… shop around for the best prices - it all meets the standards or they would not be permitted to sell it…👍🏻

These regs are another issue requiring more expence, same with forcing electric vehicles upon us, all thought up by those who don't have restricted finances,an example is politicians who have deep pockets, all normal folk are struggling now, with no signs of improvement financially. 👍

thanks for the info but it has gone over my head somewhat bob Dylan sung the times are a changing and they surely are ,thanks for the informative video

Have you worked with insulated timber cassettes yet, for walls… the new style timber frame, and with an external skin (masonry or other)…?

Hi guys,great video by the way not much on RU-vid regarding partL building regs. I'm just working on an extension at the moment. I'm building a 100 mm cavity using Celotex TC1090, which you can pick up from Berrys at £13.39 for 450 x 900. This leaves a 10mm cavity. Wouldn't it be cheaper for you guys to go down this route instead of digging your footings at 650mm wide, requiring more material to shift? Then you're using more concrete and having to use 350mm trench blocks which are heavier and not cheap. I can understand in certain situations you can't do this.

great video and explanation guys, I do sub to your videos. I am pissed off however as you yourselves might be. When you build an extension you should be allowed to stick to regs at that time? If not might cause issues elsewhere in the building as cold spots will differ?

here in the usa we deal with changes in building regs evevery year ugg lol

It just shows you how different the ‘rules’ are in different areas ( which they shouldn’t.!), we are allowed to put the mineral wool below damp (225mm min) so we don’t have to put a perimeter insulation around. 150mm pir in floor slab and fibrolite’s are way more expensive than celcon/ thermalites down this way (£22.00 compared to £16.50)… bizarre.!!

Great video, very informative. What would happen if you wanted to build a first floor extension on top of a ground floor extension that was built prior to these new regs?

I just got that you guys look alike!

You need two membrane between pir boards as pir react/soak with concreat. Polystyrene does not react with concreat and is less of water sponge. The backer board contain xps boards, which is better version of polystyrene/eps. Xps is waterproof and is good insulator

you can use 100mm cavity with celotex taped insulation and internal thermal block. I think as many do its all bollocks, none of it is proven other than the air quality in the house is shit so vent the windows? How many 9 inch house exist in england that dont have damp issues built 100 years ago?

It drives me mad when regulations try to modernise an older house to new standards. Surely, it should be just for new builds.

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