Met up with our Welsh Oak Frames project manager Keith at lunchtime, he needed to take a look at the site in preparation for the oak frame delivery. He also wanted to check our groundwork measurements for accuracy and run through the scaffolding drawing’s that Welsh Oak had already provided showing where they required scaffolding and where it would be need to be altered as the Oak frame goes up.
The visit gave me a good opportunity to get some advise on problems I will probably come across once the frame is up, I have to say if I thought it had been easy so far I think I might be in for a wake up call over the next few months and I really need to keep my wits about me as costly mistakes it would seem can be made pretty easy.
One important thing that I realised was the underfloor heating I was looking at from nu-heat in Devon could not be fitted in an Oak Frame because as their drawings showed it should be fitted to the underside of the first floor, this is not possible with the exposed Oak of the ground floor ceiling because there is a layer of Fermacell that layes on top of the Oak beams forming the ceiling meaning the first floor underfloor heating will have to be fitted in trays between the joists before the first floor is finished.
A quick call to Nu-heat and they confirmed they have the tray system and are amending our quote, I would be interested to hear of other peoples experiences or reviews of Nu-heat – good and bad.
The first costly mistake averted!
