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I wondered if that’s why the top room was presented as an office - because surely you’d need a fire door otherwise. I liked the cladding design, thought the overhang was clever. Loved that his grandparents got to see it built - no sad GD bits and little jeopardy, made a nice change!

It looked to me like they were running electrics under the false floor. Or maybe just put sockets on the internal walls?

What are the pipe centres that you have? 150mm is the target, so how far out are you?

I will forgive you, may just take some time.

The manufacturers of one system I saw pre-drilled service holes vertically, every 300mm iirc, and you ran cables in those. Personally, I could think of no worse a home to have spent my money on. Not watched it, as GD gets right up my nose tbh.

I wired a house that was built with the internal walls finished in OSB. That had to be painted with some expensive clear fireproofing material. My question about tonight's house is gosh the staircase looked narrow, how was that allowed? And with the walls made of solid CLT panels, how do you route cables to sockets?

That looks really good, I have done a real wood parquet and it was hard work keeping it straight as each block was slightly difference size(as wood is), I guess lvt is just keeping the angle correct. I have fitted a SPC and normal, the SPC does feel difference and it is not supposed to expand much I think it's a 12m run. It has been down 3 years and no problem but only has 1 french door onto it.

Its great, isn't it

Anyone watching the GD episode tonight on the wood house? how on earth is the fire protection achieved on an all-wood lined building (all CLT) - 3 story too (protected stairwell?)

This is the only LVT I have installed so cannot comment on other products. I did buy some replacements but as yet have not replaced them. I plan to glue or use double sided tape on the replacements.

@BotusBuild this is the inspiration I need. Looks amazing! How did you set out the alignment? And tips for do’s/dont’s?

Is it just the click style floating LVT that cannot deal with direct sun beating down on it? We’ve gone for a Glue down LVT in a SW facing living/dining/kitchen area. The installer did use the Uzin KE 49 HT adhesive as we have UFH as well underneath.

In our kitchen I fitted 60sqm of Parador Rigid click vinyl SPC solid core with acoustic underlay, 6mm x 457mm x 914mm tiles on caberdek. Great quality product out of the box, a little awkward to fit together due to the size, planks would be easier. Fully floating with expansion gaps and skirting fitted later. However in front of a south facing 3G 4 metre sliding door the tiles have buckled slightly across the width of the tiles and do lift (0.5mm ?) on very sunny days, enough to feel a tiny pop when walked on. This product cannot deal with full sun.

I think sigenergy is the most popular inverter on their network and they have over 300k users. So extrapolating, i think there must be thousands experiencing issues at least one time

always love a "done in" photo mid-build.

Thanks for the code and enjoy the ££:) Can't beleive they let you withdraw the credit as soon as it's there.

Yes. It looks fecking brilliant

I think it should be possible to have standard single wall black flue pipe into the chimney. Hetas installers will check the chimney is suitable for solid fuel.

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Glad you did it though? It looks good to me!

I did that in a room about 6x8m. It nearly killed me 😁 To answer OP, no gluing, expansion gap around edges. Used trimmed tile edging to cover the gap.

Stone Plastic Composite. Probably all the same stuff.

Happy to oblige. To be fair I’ve a big history of making people laugh, especially on the build. Shame it’s usually either at me or me work lol So I’ll be nudging into my ninth decade, and therefore one replacement = 30 years so that’ll see us both into our android staffed in orbit care facility. Like Wall-E but with fewer cocktails and more meds.

@Super_Paulie What’s SPC?

Hmm that's interesting..... With my 115 Litre old tank I'd have to heat the water to 60 deg C (was my legionaires cycle once a week) for it to stand a chance of a long soak in a bath that makes Mrs Alien happy (That would be initial fill and a couple of top ups) which would pretty much mean I got just enough warm water left for a shower. With my new 180 Litre tank I'm doing it to 55 Deg for her bath night (I'm just doing it earlier to allow for a longer heat soak) and she had her normal bath with top ups and I had a shower and then we both had showers the following day and still didn't run out of HW Rest of the week we heat to 45-48 Deg C I'm thinking I might drop it to 50 Deg for bath night and maybe move to a once a month "60 deg sanitisation cycle" - temp isn't going to be much different to daily target and it uses a fair chunk of energy to get the tank up to 55 compared to 48