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The natural philospoher wrote:
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What strikes me about this thread is that build time is usually a
time
of needing to cut costs, not to splurge on everything you dont need.
I
would therefore take a 2 phase approach. Work out what you ideally
want, but only put in the things that need to go in, plus the things
that will enable the rest to be put in some other day.

Yes, but yu need to put everything in teh walls and teh ground that
you
might want at a futire datye, in there now.

Well, yes and no.

Theres no need to put wiring in the walls as when you eventually wire
it, if you do, it can go on the surface hapily enough, or better, in
easy to open 2 channel conduit.

Theres no need to put water supplies in walls either, they can go on
surface ok.


And you DON'T want to have to e.g. hange windows.

In an ideal world youd do everything at initial build, but I suspect
thats not the way to get the best for ones money. The way to get the
max is just to make the basement shell and leave it unused, spend the
rest of the money above ground. That means not putting in wiring, light
wells, windows, plumbign, anything. As long as openings and lintels are
there in the structure its straightforward to convert it in the future,
as and when time and funds are freer.


So all pipes and wires and drains, have to be right for now, and for a

long time to come.

I cant see why.


And it helps to put ****loads of insulation everywhere. (except round
the founations, which is ********, put it under teh floor)

It would, but it costs at the very time you need to be cutting back on
outgoings. Extra insulation could be done later at basement conversion
and plastering time, battens rockwool and PB.

Insulation under the floor can't be done afterwards. Insulation in walls
can't be done aftewards either. Rimming the foundations can.