Ringrose Building

The Grande Finale 🎆🎇

Here's the completed exterior of the Box family extension project, another labour of love from start to finish 🧱🧱💚

Many thanks to all trades involved with this project and with special thanks to my building inspector Ruth Smith and my Structural Engineer Dan in helping me redesign and deliver this project to my lovely clients and now good friends, the Box family in Bottesford.

All materials supplied by Adam Molnar at John A Stephens Ltd 🧱🧱

The next phase of the Box family rear ground floor extension was the construction above DPC level of the masonry superstructure. This consisted of 3.5N Fibolite breezeblocks on the internal skin and 7.3 Stranlite blocks on the external skin with 100mm full fill cavity insulation inbetween 🧱

The cantilevered flat roof structure was constructed for me by my cousin Charlie Duffy. Charlie used 8x2 timbers in 6 meter lengths then notched over the blockwork outerskin and reduced the timber thickness to building controls specifications, to reduce the depth of the upstand/fascia once the PIR insulation and GRP is installed above the roof joists 🧱

Heres the planning of a rear ground floor extension project that I executed and completed for the Box family in Bottesford at the beginning of 2021 🧱

Unfortunately the clients weren't completely in love with the architects design that they'd previously had done a few years prior.

Also the clients had their hearts set on the existing ceiling lining through with the new extension ceiling.

Unfortunately the structural engineer produced a design which composed of a goal post set up with a 300mm flat plate welded onto the top beam which picked up underneath and supported the first floor joists of the house thus creating a bulkhead much to the clients dismay.

The structural engineer (who was soon due to retire even replied with a volatile email to the clients response to his design)

So when the clients approached me and told me their story I told them to sketch me out what they really wanted and so they did.

As they'd already paid out big from their budget on on expensive Architects drawings for a design they just didn't like, I reworked their dream design into something as near as possible that I knew would meet building regs as a happy medium to what building control would require and to that of the clients design preference.

I reccomended the lovely Ruth Smith at to work alongside me to deliver my design and meet building regs requirements.

To speed up the process, I redesigned the steels myself and commissioned a new structural engineer to go over my design and give me the calcs to legally validate my design and installation with building control.

My steel design incorporated a more traditional steel setup with two UB steels bolted together with cavity spacers. The 1st steel would pick up the internal blockwork/ joist ends (which would be notched into the web of the steel) with a boot plate & web stiffeners welded underneath to further catch the underside of the ceiling joists! The second steel would pick up the external brickwork skin and the two steels bolted together.

My half bond facework looking razor sharp on the big runs of the new build rugby pavilion project
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Rugby Pavilion site loaded out and ready for blasting in 🧱💪🏼