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How exciting! This is exactly why I have documented it all to inspire and give confidence. Best of luck and if you have any questions please get in touch or leave a comment :)

Haha still here just had to get it finished lol. Thanks for watching matey

Hello mate. 3250 mm high 7320 wide and pitch of 39.3 degrees. They were at the maximum span you could have I believe with supporting walls underneath. Absolute no brainer though for getting the roof built quickly and effectively.

Thanks mate appreciate that because yes your right it did take thinking outside the box and a scaffolder with balls of steel, to overcome the huge risk of losing a truss ! Thanks for your support 🙏

We have moved in now.. was rush rush so had no times for videos, i've recorded lots though still !!

Carl_jarrett_singer. That’s my insta. No probs mate dm me any questions and I’ll try to help you 👍🏻👍🏻

Hi Luke, good question the principles obviously exactly the same I would say if you aren’t rendered on the existing and can easily access the bridges then air bricks on the outer skin with a vermin mesh would be perfect but you’d need to have top and bottom ones I’d imagine on the original wall. Also I’m not at that stage in the videos yet but the new timber wall would also need to have a form of cavity which is done by batten and then render board over the top.

Hello mate. My only regret is not putting it out to tender before I started so I really knew for sure. Unfortunately I’ll never know for sure now but I’d say Labour from start to finish would have been 200 k I reckon if I hadn’t done any of it at all. I would say though I definitely think I’ve doubled its price when completely finished 👍🏻 it’s an expensive build materials alone and my free labour. I’ll do a break down video one day.

Cheers buddy hope your well ?

@@Transformityourself yeah bro all good this end, doin same been building stud walls for my car port. Not quite the same finesse as you’re doin but they’re looking good. You’ve done a Good tutorial here though mate

Cheers yeah trying to make it easier for people to attempt stuff themselves. Easier said than done a lot of the time lol. Glad your keeping busy

Hi mate thanks for watching and the comment. Yes I did I cut it down to suit the height that I wanted the meter box however you could just position the box in a position where you don’t have to cut it down alternatively just slide some of the stick into the box.

Amazing thanks so much for such a prompt reply. If only there were more people like you sharing how to do this stuff! @@Transformityourself

Thanks for watching 👍🏻 yes it did work well for us as halve way through I found that we needed another steel on the front as the wall was dodgy. I called the designer he agreed it needed a steel and got the calcs from his engineer directly. I guess it helps as they know how each other works. I would say though, my build couldn’t really have been any simpler from a design view. With vaulted ceilings etc I can’t say I wouldn’t have had the same problems as you. Also I was building it myself and not a builder so any issues I found or queried, I could deal with them directly before they became an issue.

Yeah it felt like it too at the time mental mate !! X

Thanks mate. Yes, I was quite happy with the safety .

That’s very interesting. I never need an excuse to spend money on tools however I’m at the stage of the build now where money is non existent 😂😂 the mrs would kill me. I’ll do some research on that though as it would be great when I build the extension eventually to have that. I found the extending stabila one very heavy to use lol

Thanks Chris. I have the likes of Robin Clevett, mr a builder and build with an and e, all channels on here to thank for being able to build this. Literally taught from TH-cam. However I agree my engineering background helps massively. Whether I could do it full time I don’t know. The trade get a lot of stick for their quotes nowadays however balancing time and pride of work against earnings must be very difficult. As it’s my house the pride and accuracy is there obviously however I really understand now the difficulty of balancing it all as a career. Everything takes FOREVER

Anything’s possible mate. Hardest bit was man handling them vertically from the delivery lorry ! Thanks for watching and great that it helped you, that’s the whole point of these videos !!!

Thanks fella. How you doing ?

@@Transformityourselfall good pal, freezing outside so struggling to get motivated, but cracking on with car projects instead. You’re makin great progress- will be a spacious house when it’s done

Yeah it’s not exactly warm in the house either 😂😂😂

Hello Guys, Just a couple of questions, How did you keep the 2 long walls straight and plumb They need to be fastened and braced to the floor at least every 2.5 meters with a sturdy method to stop bowing of the long walls, meby you have interior walls to divide the rooms on this floor space, but you will have difficult time if the walls are not braced and secured, The first TRUSS that was placed should be located flush with the wall framing members, also its much easier to sheet this truss prior to hoisting into position, Also a spacer piece 38x150 could be fastened to each truss before its lifted into position, this is where there a ridge board would normaly be installed in a cut on site timber roof, Anyways i see that you fellas are not afraid to work and thats a good start, 😃😃

Hello mate. Yes there were no videos whatsoever so I thought I’d document it. Some of my earlier ones show the method of fixings the walls to the bungalow walls which again I couldn’t find anything anywhere. Will you have to underpin? I was lucky and didn’t need too

Great questions. To start with all walls front and sides were braces diagonally to 8x2s screwed into the floor joists. Basically every 3 m or so I think the other videos you can see them. What we then did once we had a few trusses in position we temporarily fixed then trusses in the place through the wall plate with 150 spas screws so the trusses then acted as braces if that makes sense. Once all the trusses we up I then we braces and plumbed up again where suitable. The spacer piece would have been a great idea and would set the main trusses, would have been no good for the mono trusses though obviously. I’m not sure what you mean by sheeting the first truss up? But we positioned the first truss 50 mm in from the inside wall edge to account for sole plate on the gable wall. I’m not sure we had to do this, I think this is mainly done for brick built gables ?

Thanks Dad :) x

Hi mate. Thank you. I’ll be honest it would have much more sense to do that especially as I temporarily laid osb over the new floor when I built that anyway. I guess I was just eager to get the roof off lol. Thanks for watching and your comment !

Essex, UK, my garage.

Hi dad thanks :) yep everything has expansion to some extent and has to be accounted for x thanks for watching

Thanks mate. There’s so much too it ! Insulation wise it’s maddness. You’ll see eventually lol. Thanks for watching again :)

Thanks mate great to see you back watching another video 👍🏻 hope your well.

Enjoying the journey mate, good to watch a project making progress!!

Thanks mate really behind where I want to be but everything takes so long !!!

I know mate lol. I’ve actually just finished the final soffit !! Videos are well behind ! Needless to say I’ve blown the budget twice and had to borrow more and that’s with me doing everything except render !!! Nothings cheap.

Send me some photos if you want.‘would be good to see it. My emails on the bio page of the channel

Thanks for the watch and the heads up fella ! Hope your well.

Top work mate, already looking forward to your progress

Thanks buddy. It’s getting there. The videos as you can imagine are well behind the actual progress. New video coming soon though 👍🏻

@@Transformityourself I’ve just built my son a house and appreciate the hard work that goes into it.

Wow. How long did it take you ?

Hello mate. Thanks for watching. What email address did you email too? Not got it yet? Cheers

@@Transformityourself Hi tryed the one on your profile but will resend it from my other account as looks like gmail wasnt happy

Thanks buddy videos have slowed down a bit at the moment as Im trying to get the roof sorted now and it’s just been rendered. I can confirm it is a house now though :)

Hey thanks for watching. No im not a builder at all I’m an engineer 😂 was just most confident using timber compared to brick :)

@@Transformityourself you’ve done amazing!

Thanks. New video coming soon :)

It’s the future!!

Your right now I’ve gone deeper I can confirm , how can you tell ?

No problem 👍

Good morning. I guess every employee is different but I did dig as far as I had too and they didn’t even bother checking any of it. They came and fed the cable through the trunking i laid but didn’t even ask for photos. I’d already back filled it at this stage too. So I wouldn’t worry to much. it needs to be deep enough that it’s safe and not at risk of general contact with any future excavating though.

It was fun until I crushed my finger lol 😂 the fun stuff starts after this video….rebuilding. Hope your well mate

@@Transformityourself Ah yeah, saw that, hope it’s healing ok! Yeah, all good here thanks, keeping busy with lots of music 👍👍

Yeah obviously I’m well ahead of the videos, got 3 walls up almost and 2 3rds of the floor. Killer work on your own in this heat

Thanks mate. That was the easy bit, building it takes forever

Thanks buddy, it’s hard work but loving It

Cheers fella

Yeah it helps dad with doing it quickly and safely

Yep weren’t too bad with the mask but took about 12 hours over two days all in all

Weathers a little worrying but yeah can’t wait.

Cheers mate. I’m going across diagonally now for a water main 😂😂😂. I’m a little more confident now

Thanks fella

You changed your name ? X

Just the beginning mate. Wait until the roofs off and there’s no going Back lol

It was! Great to see you here pal.