OUR CONCRETE WAS CANCELLED

[@daviddoyle5480]

Superb content as always, I enjoy the explanations to meet architects specifications & building regs. For two guys predominantly doing most of the work for this daunting complex build… I take my hat off to you both. I couldn’t do it, however I’m pleased you guys can.

[@Yaketyyak21]

Seen the finish result on instagram ,amazing job,well done all..

[@UnfittedNoise]

An astonishing amount of work for the prep, the postponement was ideal. Nicely done.

[@darwinsfish]

Worth watching to see Maggie doing the stepping over the grid 😊.

[@hjc355]

Finally, the floor is prepped. Insane amount of thinking and problem solving to ensure the levels are correct. Attention to detail is so impressive. Hope the pour goes perfectly. Fingers crossed.

[@jimbo9310]

Good luck you two. Wishing you all the best on the day of the pour. Looking forward to seeing the next episodes 👍😊😊😊

[@StuffIMade]

really enjoying this channel, looking forward to watching the concrete pour. excited for you!

[@TedJones-z2i]

you have done a lot of back breaking work there fella going to be great to see all your cancrete going in another good vid fellas

[@yellownev]

Whenever I'm working on my little workshop conversion project and I get despondent on progress. - I think of what you are doing and the sheer scale of it - well done all involved very inspiring !!

[@TheCSTutor]

So much work for what looks like it will be a great result! The OCD in me just wishes you hadn't placed the chairs in so randomly 😂

[@johanornestedt3250]

I watch mainly because it makes my project seem reasonable 🤣 I am over my head now moving a bathroom but this is just crazy. Very impressive work!

[@viewer.86]

Haha so true. My project is maybe a 6th if the size and I feel so much less alone watching these videos 😂

[@alanreeves459]

Another great video 👍 Definitely had the concrete gods looking down on you causing a fortunate delay 😂

[@viewer.86]

No chance you'll be able to find the soil pipe locations in the slab with a metal detector. The whole floor will ping the detector like a xmas tree 😂

[@ColinDH12345]

So many negative comments. For goodness sake. This couple are sharing with you their journey through life, doing a lot of work that they would have to pay professionals for. If you don't like it watch something else or start your own channel and share what you are doing.

[@modern88dp]

Do you need to consider expansion in the concrete at all? Will it crack in future at all?

[@Muler3627]

I'm curious with these plastic chairs/risers - is there any risk of these (and the rebar) floating within the pour?

[@noelkealey]

It’s going to take an age for hot water to arrive at taps in the anex or will you have a separate system? Did you add a drain in the garden room (wash the dog, boots, vegetables etc?) You guys are putting in a huge effort, I hope the pour went well. The door detail is so important to get right at this stage, hope you’re happy with it.

[@terrymorton9941]

Impressive. Nice job.

[@AndrewArcher-k6y]

While you were doing the pool you should have dug a really nice wine cellar 🙂

[@xs732]

They poured the foundation yesterday at my house. I put AustroTherm XPS 5cm before pouring the concrete.

[@onnokonemann9326]

Please please pressure test all that pipework. Nothing worse than having to cut open the floor after everything looks pretty

[@inh415]

could drive trucks over that floor with all the reinforcement. i guess its needed because your going for polished concrete finish / no floor coverings ontop?

[@GlennBroadway]

You should watch the film Locke with Tom Hardy before you do the pour.

[@SteveHainesCounsellor]

What an enormous area! 🥵 How many cubic metres of concrete are required there Tim? 😮

[@richardmurgatroyd9707]

What size thermal store are you going to be installing?

[@H2Dwoat]

Hi, are you planning to use solar heating vacuum tubes to assist with ‘charging’ the heating pipework?

[@inh415]

not worth the cost vs extra solar panels and battery storage unless you are very tight on roof space. battery storage also allows flexibility with time of use tarrifs

[@H2Dwoat]

@ hi, I don’t no enough about relative costs to refute what you said but it doesn’t ring true for me. Any chance you can point me towards your source as I would like to understand this better. Cheers.

[@inh415]

@H2Dwoat my source is me. When i looked into it about 18 months ago a 450w solar PV panel was about £150 (now they are about £60) I struggled to find trade pricing for solar thermal vaccuum tubes, but IIRC an array of 20 tubes or so with a max output of maybe 2kw was a few grand and you would have another grand or so for a new hotwater cylinder with an extra coil for the solar thermal, extra pump plumbing and more expensive installation vs solar PV. It may of been worth it a few years ago before solar PV got so cheep, but now a few grand will get a significant amount of extra PV pannels that are more flexible/usefull for more of the year. Battries are also getting pritty cheep, last i checked about 5kwh for £1500ish so with a low heat demand property, running a heatpump from battery storage can be viable to maximise the use of solar or the very cheep timeofuse tarrifs. I have a pair of 3000lt insulated tanks im looking to sell if you think solar thermal and thermal storage is worth it. Good to store hundred KWH or heat.

[@jimstelfox6120]

Where will you position your thermostat for the underfloor heating, I have a 33 sq M conservatory and it being in the sun plays a lot to where it is. At first it was in full sun at the end of the day, now it is positioned in the shade but still in the conservatory which is open to the kitchen, because the sun hits the conservatory at the end of the day ( from 12 noon ) it’s still too warm to kick the boiler on at 23 0C. So on warm days and cold evenings there is a delay in the floor getting warm making it cold when it’s needed, how do you propose to regulate all your rooms with having big windows in some of them.

[@inh415]

temperature sensor will be outside if the system is designed right and the heat pump run on pure weather compensation. - the water temperature is set by the outside temperature basically. With very low water temperatures ( flow temp) and in relatively open plan buildings it will self regulate, as when the inside air temperature is close to the water temperature less energy is transferred, and vise versa. rooms with higher heat loss should have the closer UFH pipe spacing to compensate. add a bit of balancing on the manifold and then the whole system could run without any TRV or room thermostats etc. its the most energy efficient way unless the building is low and intermittent occupancy.

[@__lancaster]

It’s going to take absolutely forever for that slab to heat up.

[@colinchick2692]

He has already said that it will in a previous video but once the slab is warm it will stay warm.

[@__lancaster]

@ Anyone who has lived with a slab heated this way knows that it's painfully inefficient and annoying to live with. Something he will have to discover for himself. Major mistake not cable tieing the heat pipes to the underside of the rebar.

[@gowithbazza]

Once your house is complete how much value would you put on it it's in the point of when you pass do children will inherit it how much value will I put on it if the government want 20% of it

[@williamwales6619]

Lo Tim, methinks you will need to go fur a wee lie doon as we say up here. Way to much thinkin involved for one man. There used tae be an advert on the tele way back in the day when it all got a bit much, a rocking chair with a man sitting on it with a short measure in hand and a Cigar in the mooth. Relax. Later 🙃

[@gowithbazza]

I can't remember what it's called but there's a type of concrete that has a fibre in it that makes it much stronger than standard concrete check out Tom lamb he's a former but he understands all this aggregate stuff because he used to own a quarry I need be able to explain the concrete to you in far greater detail

[@TheRestorationCouple]

We used structural fibres in the mix as it's polished slab so wanted to minimise any cracking.

[@breakz187]

JESUS!

[@hallga2]

no nothing?? then there must be something??

[@Whos_boots_are_those_shoes]

If you go less than 75mm coverage over mesh you run the risk of it showing in the finish

[@wiktormichno6886]

This isn’t an issue with the power float, bigger worry is the insufficient overlap of the mesh, wonder how bc was happy with that

[@Whos_boots_are_those_shoes]

@wiktormichno6886 less than 400mm overlap? . Ah yes it's a polished floor

[@wiktormichno6886]

@@Whos_boots_are_those_shoes yeah, looks less in many places, even assuming the doorways will have the cuts, there was many more mid room

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Cuts every 4.5m along the open area. Everything else lapped like it should. Plus we had enough fibres in the concrete to pretty much replace the rebar.

[@garytaylor2914]

Too much talking by far sorry

[@JL-lm8jn]

If you guys shortened the massive amount of talking in your videos (not that the info isn’t important, but just condensed to hit the key points) and focused more on adding quick shots of the actual work happening (which you're already doing, but rather in combination with my earlier point), it would make the videos a lot more digestible. :)

[@pauljones3473]

I like the format keep it up. Be watching since you started.

[@boardandbeard]

I like the format. Ignore this guy.

[@berendbotje6629]

​@@pauljones3473ditto!😊

[@Flat-Five]

Yea keep the format, just shots of doing stuff but themselves would be pointless. It’s great to have the info and thought process too so know what’s going on and learn a thing or two.

[@je8277]

Just watch 2x speed

[@jamesfarrer5087]

Anyone else finding the channel becoming harder & harder to watch? The whole premise of IYC DIY is now lost a little bit with this build... well beyond the cost + scale of your typical DIY project. I still refer back to lots of old videos for tasks I need to tackle so I will enjoy the back catalogue some more whilst watching + clicking through the current series waiting for the internal fit out where I'm sure stuff will become more relevant again :)

[@Whatsthepointingoats]

I'm learning a lot, it might be useful one day 🤷

[@stum8374]

It's still DIY DO IT YOURSELF TIM,JO

[@UnfittedNoise]

@@jamesfarrer5087 tbf I'm learning also, always wanted to a do a self build so a lot of the details can be key.

[@chrisb2630]

This is how I came across the channel, interesting seeing such a build be documented so well

[@robgullen]

Nope - still absolutely gripping stuff for me - yes, it's beyond the norm but still very watchable. [I have been there, in November last year, so have a real view of the SIZE of the place!]