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I'm managing to keep the build ever so slowly moving forwards so a new entry in my blog at the usual address www.willowburn.net Look for the entry "Air tightness detail upstairs" which not surprising is lots of photos or air tightness membrane and tape. Lots of tape. I can't believe how much air tightness tape this house is consuming. Fortunately I found another few rolls going cheap on ebay. Also before I could do the membrane upstairs I had to lay the proper chipboard flooring in all but the bathrooms (separate more complicated issue as those will be wet rooms)

From age 16 at work I would regularly carry two 25kg (56lb) test weights often over quite some distance. I'm now 50, and probably only in the last two years have I learnt NOT TO! Now I just carry one at a time and use a trolley whenever I can. I've slipped my disc badly twice and spent a fortune in the chiropractor. HEED THE WARNINGS! Or don't and when it feels like someone's running a Stanley up the back of your calf, you have "leakage" issues downstairs, you actually cry when you sneeze and can't crap for a week because the signals aren't getting through.....don't come running to me! (Happened to a "mate" of mine... )

I think you are all (with exceptions) being a bit harsh to B52. I should think he has gone to the trouble of starting a brand new thread about this to try and be helpful, by sharing something he had to use in his professional life. shame on you all...... that said I am going to steal this picture for work tomorrow and generally tap it whenever I need to lift anything if all the lifters are twisting more than 45 deg a bag of cement on the floor becomes a 5 man lift.... or 7 if it's more than 8" away

If it's an opening window, I understand the wedge at the bottom goes at the hinge end, so the weight of the pane is taken at the hinge end. If you put the wedge at the outer end, the weight may distort the frame. The top wedge goes at the opposite corner.

Would have had some ice before trying any of that stuff.

Ready made kit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Insulated-Garden-Studio-Office-Room-Pod-DIY-Self-Build-Kit-Bespoke-SIPs-Panels-/222302350517?hash=item33c240acb5:g:UlQAAOxyBjBTT9wY DIY http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Structural-Insulated-Panels-SIPs-Self-Build-for-Garden-Office-Studio-Garage-/201916449561?hash=item2f03288319:g:6E0AAMXQ1d1THXL1

@JSHarris published a simplified cost spreadsheet for his project here, from which you could generalise a skeleton of items, @Russell griffiths http://www.mayfly.eu/2014/04/part-twenty-nine-some-details-that-may-be-of-interest/ That list contains approx 100 items so could be part to a good basis and a checklist from a different angle to your own to fill in some gaps. I expect there will also be something printed in eg House Builders' Bible somewhere. If you end up with something that is comprehensive it would be a good structured checklist to put on BH. Ferdinand

I should add, the sinus problems that have plagued me through much of my adult life have largely gone away since moving into a house with MVHR.