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No calling me my my real name. This is supposed to be an anonymous forum.

You should have treated yourself to a HRC loop, and enjoyed zero inconvenience and annoyance; this needs to be removed from the bean-counting of most, as it's just not expensive enough to give two hoots about afaic and adds huge value / comfort. Add in the water meter whizzing around and it's a done deal. Add in solar PV and it's pretty much a zero cost. Stop being tight-arses, people

For the obvious "kitchen / utility units will always at least be there forever" areas, yes, reduce the UFH according to basics. Most medium sized islands I will always pipe under, but more significant sized rooms don't need the 'help' so you can avoid if you choose to.

Nope.

https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/forum/58-structural-insulated-panels-sips/ Post there, and we can get the information flowing I'd disagree with your architect.

Concrete screw the last joist into the concrete floor to lock them to each other.

Thanks for the welcome. I don't have an answer to your question, so I may not! Was suggested by my architect and seems a simple system to have a structure built quickly that I can slowly finish.....

If you have room for 22mm P5 boards, then do the base layer with that. Then go over with a thin layer of plywood as the binder for the LVT to go on to. Set the plywood binder to be higher than the concrete, and then feather the concrete into that with the SLC to get you snooker table flat; you need to be spot-on for LVY as it shows everything when the light is on it. Yes to sistering to get the joists ready for the P5, and use glue and structural screws to do this link, inserting them at a slight angle to use the whole length of the screw. Use resin wood glue, plenty of it, to join the two together forever.

Hi, and welcome aboard! Please post a new thread in the SIP's / timber frame section, and then I can ask you "why SIP's and not TF, or ICF".............

Hello In the early stages of converting a former railway building into a house in the Yorkshire Dales. We will also have a SIP extension. Trying to do as much as I can myself, but I'll pay some people to do some parts. Would love to be in for Christmas 2027, but no promises!

Some might argue that although this appears to be the case in fact the real thing in the driving seat is perhaps vested interest, but once removed, so the vested interests that focus the governments interests. Long may it continue.

Hi, we are going to have LVT laid on the whole hall and kitchen section incorporating the new concrete and old suspended floor. our joists dip into this corner (floor boards are in a bad way as kitchen units have been on top for years) so I need to level up (sister some 5x2 onto the old joists sitting them proud?) you can see the run off from the concrete edge getting larger. i will then replace the T&G with 18mm (or more?) ply glued and screwed. Should I just butt upto the concrete, pass over the top so the SLC can butt upto it, or something else?? cheers

Mine was outside in a high wind load area, plus a massive drop in areas. Face mounted on timber structure.

Spot on. Which is what makes it so hard to justify up front expenditure on batteries, for example, as the market is so volatile.

Thank you Nick.

Legend.

I use the multitool to notch the plasterboard where the brackets/hangers are.

Has the BCO not indicated what would be acceptable? Maybe have a look at metal galvanised stud systems? Might be a bit more expensive, but for a small area wouldn't break the bank.

Thats the right thing to do. Worked as intended then! Good to know of the problem straight away. Though if it really made an impression on you maybe you had the pressure a bit too high

CO2 is routinely injected into oil seams to help extract more, seems an expensive method. That is already happening.

I know I’ll probably be told this is wrong but I pneumatic tested mine and left pressurised while pouring. And then beyond. I forgot and knicked the pipe which was flush up to the edge of the concrete in a rebate I left so I could screed the shower to falls and boy did I get a surprise.

Sorry but I don't understand the question? Are you telling me it has to be SS? The reason I have looked at the one pictured was that I don't see how to use those ties when the brick wall is already in place. But maybe they can be bent and drilled out to work? BCO didn't seem to like the idea of any timber touching the external wall (on the "external" side of the VCL), but yea it looks like the window board is going to have to be part of the stud wall structure/fixture.

Depends how you do it. The first study (paid for by the tax payer) was with Peterhead power station. The whole flue gas was captured. It was compressed and catalytic broken down, to hydrogen and few other products, the waste product re-compressed and injected subsea offshore.

Agreed. Reduction is the first step. But when we can't reduce much more, offset and capture will help stabilise.

That was what I was toying with.