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Just ask how they are dealing with sealing.

As long as the pipe is fully home. I've seen miscuts used that should have been done again. The risk is when the plummeting solids hit the bend at the bottom, forcing it downwards. But if that is properly bedded, again no issue. It's good to understand the products and to seek reassurance where necessary.

Never mind. Found the answer.

Can someone explain how to test the calibration? Surely to measure at both ends you have to be certain what you’re measuring against is perfectly true?

Well he is an Electrician .

I’ve used about a dozen tubes of Orcan F already. It all feels a bit dodgy to me. It seems to be water soluble, it doesn’t seem to set, it doesn’t seem to be particularly sticky. Is it really just low quality gunge? Besides apparently winning lots of prizes PriClima’s blurb says ‘The adhesive joints created must not be subjected to tensile forces.’ Does that mean that if a crack widens up (cracks often do this, duh), all bets are off? I’m using it to ‘seal’ joins in a ply skin right now.

I’ve done exactly that, thank you!

Hi Kelvin, Just a quick question if you don’t mind, did you managed to zero rated any of your borehole commissioning or works for VAT? thanks in advance

Apologies to jump in on your conversation with something completely different, but I was wondering if anyone has commissioned a new borehole and successfully zero rated the VAT on the cost?

I turned off the ufh and let the flow and return pipes to cool down. Then I turned the heating on in one of the rooms. The boiler kicked in. The return pipe became hot first. Did this three times and on all three occasions the return pipe became hot before the flow pipe. When I left it on for a while, the return pipe appeared hotter than the flow pipe. The thermal camera was not useful so used tmy hands to feel the heat in the pipes. So it's clear the return and flow need swapping. Will see what the heating company says next week.

If you study a female - female coupling when mated to the respective pipes, there is literally nothing for "passing material" to hit on it's way past.

Hi, and welcome aboard. Where is home for you then?

Do what I did, make it clear to the planners you want it to stay and in my case they agreed the 'van could remain but not for habitation.

As per title, is there any way I could explain to the company I am buying the door from that I need them to use the proper system to wind/water proof the door installation instead of using pure white sealant? I really do not understand why this is a case still, in this day and age. So how does it work in the UK? Is this known practice? Gladly they knew about Marmox Thermoblocks and we are going to fit them under the frame, but I want to go step forward anyway. Any advice? P.S. Hello everyone, long time reader, finally set myself up with an account

Less plot and professional fees etc...? Any indication of plot costs in your catchment area would be helpful, and how hands-on you plan to be?

Welcome to THE forum for people like us. Well 3k per M2 is not a bad figure, so yes. On question 2 I have no idea.

Unless the developer did something stupid, the chances are that if it's been standing for a couple of hundred years, then you'd be unlucky if anything major happened in the next 7. And if it's minor, then it's not going to be quick & easy to get anything fixed under the warranty anyway. In short, it wouldn't worry me - but if you're not familiar with buildings & what to look for, think about getting a Structural Engineer's report.

I was planning on leaving the inside finish as is (would prefer not to reskim etc). Preference would be to insulate in the loft space

I see that the rules say not to ask anything specific here - but let’s just say that my biggest question will be affordability/finance. There’s so many variables and such to discuss - but before I begin to try to find plots or get ahead of myself in any other way, I suppose it’s worth getting some quick preliminary answers to 2 very broad/hypothetical questions: From start-to-finish, can a 2 story, 2 bed, 80m^2 house (including land and every other expense) be built on a budget of £280k in the West Midlands? (Tamworth/Sutton area) and 2; what’s the maximum LTV that someone can realistically get when self-building? I.e. how much cash would I need, at a minimum? I currently live at home with parents rent-free, so there would be no pressure for things to move quickly either. I know questions like these are like asking “how long is a piece of string?” - so I do apologise, but before I spend all the time in the world researching this self-build stuff, I kind of need to know if the idea is a non-starter to begin with!

72.5mm insulated plasterboard chamfered top and bottom and screwed through the existing plasterboard into the rafters. Foam either a good low expansion foam, tape and skim the joints to wall and ceiling. Don't bother taking down the existing plasterboard. No space gain in the room and will create an enormous mess.

How long do you plan on living there @CG100? If >7 years then as @Mr Punter says the warranty will have expired. BUT what if you need to sell it in the next 7 years? You’d have a more limited market.

Not seen that, looks absolutely perfect. Id be struggling to reach down to foam in the gap between plasterboard coming up from the room, sounds as though applying this it would expand and fill it. But in principle this would make sense putting PIR here?

I appreciate that I'm dragging this post back up. But from looking at this and others on the same subject I'm not sure on one aspect of this. I would like to site a ‘static caravan’ likely to be a stick built insulated lodge which meets the terms of being under the caravan act. This will be built to live in during the build as a family of four. Then post build it will be of incidental use ie. An office/store/extra bedroom etc. The one thing I am not sure on however is that the barn conversion that I will be working on will have permitted development rights withdrawn. My understanding that siting a caravan under the caravan act is very separate to permitted development but has anyone else got any thoughts. It will be with the curtilage/ garden. Thanks for your help!

I take a polar opposite view. Everybody should be able to vote. Even prisoners. Votes determine the government, and the government should always be accountable.

gapotape looks great. expensive though. Needs foaming in at very least imo. Airtight.