the first part of our extension milled with an alaskan

[harvey b davison]

That is stunning chris, please keep us all upto date with more pictures. Hope you dont mind me asking, but how come you have ended up living in the middle of a forest in a timber house.

[offgridchris]

harvey, we wanted space, freedom, simple but busy living and we found the house in the local paper. the plans are on a google sketchup file. if you want a copy then let me know.

 

does anybody know anything about roofing and fittting velux windows and stove flues?

[harvey b davison]

 

does anybody know anything about roofing and fittting velux windows and stove flues?

 

velux windows fit inbetween the roof joists. a standaard roof has joists at 600mm centres giving roughly a 550mm space inbetwwen each joist. You will need to fit bearers top and bottom of the opening for the window. You will then need to fix the fixing brackets to the window. You then fix the window into the opening and fix down into the tile lathe. you then retile around the window and finish off by fitting the flashing kit. It is a straight forward job, just check the instructions as you go.

[agg221]

does anybody know anything about roofing and fittting velux windows and stove flues?

 

For stove flues, have a read of Part J of building regulations (the official version shows up as the first item on googling the above phrase). It's important as it's inspectable (I presume you are needing to get your extension inspected?) and there's a lot of detail on heights relative to existing and new roof and particularly with regard to proximity to windows.

 

Alec

[delabodge]

after many months the oak frame went up yesterday. all done with an alaskan mill, using wood from our woodland. cant wait to finish it and knock through.

 

mate what a wicked build, looks great, dont fancy opening the exsisting bedroom window though?lol, looking forward to more pics,,keep em coming!

[slack ma girdle]

For stove flues, have a read of Part J of building regulations (the official version shows up as the first item on googling the above phrase). It's important as it's inspectable (I presume you are needing to get your extension inspected?) and there's a lot of detail on heights relative to existing and new roof and particularly with regard to proximity to windows.

 

Alec

 

As long as the chimney is about a foot higher than the top of the roof you should be fine. If the chimney is not comming out near the apex of the roof, you will need at least 3 feet sticking out of the roof. If you need more then it will need extra bracing to support.

[offgridchris]

thanks for the reply's. got the rafter spacing to 600mm and they are all in.

[offgridchris]

a few pics of the "finished" conservatory. more to do but we have moved in and enjoying the light and space.

[MikeTM150]

wow thats seriously impressive!!!! Brilliant job!

[Paul Smith]

Very cool!