Susie

We are waiting to see what it’s like over winter. we are XPS ICF, 200mm insulation in floor and 200mm in roof, triple glazed and a basic rectangular shape so should be very good airtight. We will have heated towel radiators in both bathrooms and wood stove in open plan kitchen, lounge. Add to that were in Cornwall and haven’t had a frost last year or seen snow for a few years now. The back up plan is the Willis system, leaving space and planning this. I designed it on loopcad first then I told Wunda what I wanted.

I have just had a good quote from Wunda. I made a list of what I would need and shopped around for prices buying the pipe and manifold etc rather than a package but found the lengths of pipe I needed just didn’t add up to easy lengths e.g lots of 120m runs and no 80m to add up to 200m or buy 300m but no 60m needed or 500m lengths. Wunda beat my price because they can just cut what I need and send 120m for example. They have also agreed to supply the manifold without the pump for now and we can buy that later.

I have used Newton Hydrobond Self Adhesive membrane on my ICF build. https://www.newtonwaterproofing.co.uk/products-systems/products/external-waterproofing-and-drainage-membranes/post-applied-self-adhesive-waterproofing-membrane/ I did about 50cm of the lower wall, over the join of the footings and below ground. This was because of different ground levels and having 2 level entry thresholds. One wall is rendered and they rendered over the top of it ok.

My BC and architect has also said the door should open outwards as in the green UK documents WC facilities 1.17 d (shown above) mentions opening outwards. The red document you are quoting I think is the from Technical Booklet R NI Section 10 Sanitary Convenience in a dwelling which does seem to allow opening inwards. Does the OP build fall in the NI guidance rather than UK? I am based in the Uk and would love my door to open inwards if possible so guidance documentation I can show my BC would be wonderful.

This became the final straw for us with our builder he quoted for the roof but omitted the cost of the facias, soffits and barge boards, which also were not in the cost for the walls etc. when quizzed on his reasoning for not including them it became apparent that the facias and barge boards are before the roof is slated. We waved goodbye to the builder at this point and the roofer who also had a chippy took over and fitted the the facias and barge boards. the roofer fitted the Velux and the eaves vents. We fitted the soffits our selves after the roofer but note we are a bungalow, we just felt happier ensuring the roof insulation and insect mesh was spot on and our exterior wooden cladding could run up into the inside of the soffit and facia area.

My two cameras are continuously recording on 512gb card then over recording I can get 3-4 weeks on the card but it also records snap shots of events that trigger the camera so if I get a lot of snapshots then I might only get 2 weeks of continuous recording before it start over recording on the loop. it’s all easy to access on the app but you would have to down load the recording or probably swap out two cards to give you more time to copy the recording if your busy on the build. the cameras are good security they track movement of possible humans and cars and in my case although it didn’t track it did record a bat flying around. and a blue tit and woodpecker who came right in front of the camera to investigate the new wood cladding.

I’m happy with my TAPO cameras but have Wi-Fi , as you said there are solar ones and if you have power this one 4G LTE/PoE Outdoor Pan Tilt Cam, 1080P, Tapo C501GW

Going to the store is much simpler for you than me, 20 miles round trip and they only have the rubber bung and can’t get the SP22 any more. I have sourced some white SP22, colour doesn’t matter once in ground who knows but obviously most people prefer black hence why only white is available.

Hi I’m back on this again and have a question about the boss adapters to use in the 3 way soil. There seems to be an image mismatch on the SF website I think floplast sp22 solvent weld is unavailable now and the alternative is a rubber bung but SF website and many others are showing both images incorrectly ie ABS version and rubber. is the rubber bung ok or would it be better to use a coupler instead and solvent weld. Still ok for me to play with the entry to 3 way soil not drilled out the blanks yet.

You are doing great. 🙂 You are much more hands on self build than me. I basically started once the walls and roof were up. I wouldn’t be out of the ground if I had done the groundworks.

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@Nickfromwales is that boss going at existing pipe? Perhaps should have said pipe is female coming out of slab with male just resting there for now. in which case is this what I get. I have the Impey linear 4 just arrived today and toilet and sink arriving Monday. Just so I can play around to get things dry fit, probably take me a month just to do the insulation in all rooms so plenty of time. Then box out all areas pipe will be and fit after the screed. thanks just noticed the <1300mm comment the shower waste to existing pipe is more like 2000mm.

@BotusBuild so just checking I understand a swept T at existing then 110mm across to basin area then the shower, basin and plant room in 50mm to the 110mm But not the other way around all in 50mm coming together at the existing 110mm can you explain why? Thanks

I have 180mm insulation to go down and 55mm of screed minimum so I have worked out the 1:40 slope will get to the drain in the insulation layer but not sure about the coupler that I need.