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Posted By: barneyI'm increasingly tempted to pack it all in with the UK and build something and move out there.
bit of a bar look alike with 2 beds, kitchen diner and lounge with the principal rooms facing north east to cut down on the summer gains
Posted By: gyrogearA more bioclimatic approach would be for timber roof structure and hemp or wood-fibre boards.
Posted By: barneyI've got a rough idea of building a circa 7m x 12m single storey pitched roof building (bit of a bar look alike with 2 beds, kitchen diner and lounge with the principal rooms facing north east to cut down on the summer gains. Initial dialogue suggests that local builders would put up a shell in 200mm blocks or 300mm hollow clay blocks and insulate on the inside(usually 80mm insulated PB) - which seems counterintuitive to me - I'd prefer the blocks on the inside and say 200mm of insulation on the outside - clad over with local oak boards.
Posted By: barneyI'm just not comfortable with thin coat renders on EWI
Posted By: barneyI'm still not sure about render over EWI, I have this reservation about defective rendering and a direct water path to the inside - possibly unfounded, for sure.
Posted By: barneyThe 7m dimension fits my preferred 2 bed layout - I wont be expecting many visitors, once I leave the UK, then I won't be coming back. There is for the most part a spine wall that would roughly half that dimension
Posted By: barneyThe local builders seem to like IWI as a simple way to meet the current thermal regulations (R2012) in that part of the world.
Posted By: barneyFor RobL - agreed, which is why I was considering going as far as 200mm cavity wall construction
Posted By: barneyand equally, cavity wall construction is a madness
Posted By: barneyI made a few phone calls over the weekend and a local contractor is perfectly happy to dig out and put in strip founds, 3 courses of blocks to DPC 300mm of polystryrene insulation and 200mm concrete slab and run up to 2700mm in 200mm hollow blocks (filled, and with rebar ties) and a U channel at the top filled with concrete (again rebar tied to the wall bars) to form a ring beam
Posted By: barneyThe local roof lines are worryingly shallow for clay tiles !!
Posted By: Peter_in_Hungary25 -30 degrees might be more of a problem for the PV in the winter than for getting tiles to cope with the low angle
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