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Superb. Exactly what I am planning. Did you put them anywhere else? Did you try them in any ceilings (I am tempted)? I wonder did you use a lighting designer is this your own inspiration?

Wow, that looks great, @lizzie! @lizzie, in the second photo, what are those linear recessed lights? I am after something just like that. And is that a sun pipe?

Oh, are they crappy. I was thinking of copying @lizzie and using those on my build. Why crappy?

And try this link for your personal email settings: https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/notifications/options/.

I have had the opportunity to drink beer much older than that (more than 10-years in fact) and it has been fine.

Impressive progress. My plot will need piles so i'd appreciate the chance to visit on the 17th July, if that's possible.

For ease of reference, (current) list of timber-frame companies exhibiting at NSBRC https://www.nsbrc.co.uk/exhibitor-search/?category=Timber+Frame.

Would that be the BCO officer selected and paid for by the developer/builder?

Yes, appalling. When the party that has a vested interest in a pass chooses the one to be tested I think that it is a stretch to say that testing is done on a sampling basis. The sampled one clearly is not representative of all. An awful state of affairs.

+1 me too.

Hi @Brad, welcome to the Board. I would welcome some advice. Sent you a PM.

Welcome @Tosh. Impressive progress and an exciting journey ahead. Maybe consider starting a blog?

@readiescards is that an enthalpy heat exchanger?

https://www.sunamp.com/fully-charged-live-2018/ Includes a link to a downloadable brochure on the new range.

Welcome, @IAMJAMESMANNION! You've come to a good place.

That's a fascinating insight! Shows the margins for error that a structural engineer must by necessity allow.

SunAmp's official announcement of their UniQ range is nigh. Its next weekend at the Fully Charged Live show…

That might fit with what I was told then. That margins are tight on the windows themselves alone, even if they are concealing a discount from you perhaps its not huge.

@ultramods when I visited a certain timber-frame manufacturer recently, I discussed the question of window pricing and discounts. The sales person said they make most of their margin on the installation part not the windows themselves. I am not sure if that's fully true or just spin. Its probably a combination of both. I came away with the impression that I would be following @ProDave's approach for mine. Negotiate my own window price and take it to the TF manufacturer. And if the TF company wont install my chosen window, which is highly likely as that manufacturer had only a single preferred supplier and refused to install for anyone else, then I would contract the window supplier to install. I am hoping that in either case that its a design-and-install approach which simplifies the VAT. And in each case I am handing off the measurement/specification risk to one or other party. I am not sure if this is a good approach but it is my current thoughts.

Following this discussion with interest. Tempted by a cheap DC only PV setup for my passive build with an electricity-only solution for space heating and DHW. Have a shaded site but might be able to justify some east/west panels.

Wonderful news! Such a beautiful house, and country setting, which I have had the privilidge to visit. Well done Moira and Henry!

For a bit of bank-holiday fun, tell us the one feature of your house design, or future design, that is your favourite — the cherry-on-the-cake, the wow-factor, your pièce de résistance, your pride-and-joy? Choose anything at all: on show or hidden away, aesthetic or structural, thematic or specific, real or imagined, present or future, sensible or just plain silly.

In my (limited) experience, coordinating with sub contractors is part of an architect's usual standard product offer, their bread-and-butter. He seems to be reacting in this vein. By all means, tell him that you will do this yourself and he should provide you with the needed files to do so. Once you have the files, what you do with them is your business so long as you are using them solely for the project as originally intended, and not, for example, setting yourself up as a retailer of said plans to third parties, which would infringe his copyright.

@ultramods its an ambiguous email from your architect. My reading of the email is that it says that they wont provide info to third parties on your behalf (without being paid to do so). They are not however saying that they wont give such information to you, which you can then give to the third parties. I am currently engaging an architect. From my research, I think that CAD files are a grey area. But I will be stating explicitly with mine at the time of engagement that I can have all the drawings & files I wish.

@epsilonGreedy these videos are pitched at my level too. Will be watching them for my much needed education, with my marketing sensor tuned to high gain. Thanks for posting.