epsilonGreedy

Is it a rotting animal smell, chemical or a moldy musty smell or does it resemble a bad fermenting smell like a farm yard or sillage?

About 6% of the internal floor area of my house is within a single story extension that abuts to the main house. Inside the extension there is a small entrance hall 2.5m x 2.5m plus the downstairs toilet 2.5m x 1m. I do not intend to heat this area above 15 degrees if at all. If I could declare this part of the house as outside SAP calculation area I could save a few ££'s on the external door. There is a fullfill insulated 100mm cavity wall between the main house and the single story section.

Also last year another poster revealed that sometimes the designer interiors are created with short term rental furniture wheeled in the grand final visit by Kevin & Crew.

There is a sweet spot for ASHP happiness and your situation might be a long way from that point. ASHPs work best in highly insulated new houses with under floor heating, a larger than average hot water tank helps. Does your un heated house tick these boxes?

So spend the next 12 hours moving everything else in before he arrives then get the moderators to delete this thread pronto.

Can you relinquish 4m to the farm on the other side? One reason I ask is that in English planning terms you have built on agricultural land not zoned for residential property. Once you have reached a legal title agreement with the farmer you will then have to settle this planning transgression with the local Council and handing back a strip of land on the other side of the plot might help resolve this.

Err no. Their security is based on the assumption that should you default on repayment they can force a sale of the house. As soon as they get wind of this boundary error they will know the value of their asset has fallen greatly. When do you think the farmer became aware that your home was built beyond the boundary of the plot? I ask because one way to put pressure on the farmer would be to demonstrate that he allowed residential building on his farm land and that you are both guilty of a planning transgression and so have a mutual problem to solve.

Just the door threshold? These are a typical weak point.

Excellent post thank you. At what size of void would you consider switching from low to full foam cans?

I wish I understood this thread. I had thought that expanding foam cans were used once with some sort of plastic straw in the nozzle and an hour later everything was binned. My first experience of these is coming up because I will be following prior advice from @PeterWand anchoring my electric cavity meter box in the wall with a few quirts.

Yes??? Can you provide a link? GSE is the main low-end option and the material cost is £100 a mounting panel including ancillaries for guess (guess) 1/3 m2. Labour cost for trimming tiles around that plus flashing will be more than running through with an already gauged pattern of slate.

Natural slate typically ranks as one of the more expensive roof covers, which is why I used it for comparison. Even if the cost of the PV panels is excluded from the calculation and we just compare the integrated mounting system/trays to a few meters of fitted slate mid roof, I do not think the claim is true. I only posted today because I read the original claim on this forum 2 years ago and at the time thought "wonderful, I can fit a few m2 of integrated PV and still lower my over all roof costs". After spending a few hours online I concluded that just the integrated mounting system costs a little more than the equivalent area of finished slate roof. Now that I understand where the money and labour goes in a roof, I suspect the differential is a bit larger. I think integrated PV is an excellent idea and I hope that once the mounting systems loose their leading edge price premium and general roofers can quote for the added fitting complexity, then the system will become a lot more popular.

I think the confusion arises because some interpret Jeremy's claim to mean substituting 3 m2 of slated roof with 3 m2 of integrated PV lowers the overall roof cost. What Jeremy might have been saying is that integrated PV is not a more expensive option for fitting expensive PV panels compared to fitting panels on top. Even this claim is a bit dubious when the material costs of the under tray system plus labour is considered.

Your table indicates £85 per m2 for a whole roof which is good and close to my slate roof costs. After obtaining that quote @ £85 per m2 ask the the same roofer how much can be saved by putting in 4 Kw of in-line solar including the costs of the actual panels and watch him walk away laughing.

Someone on BuildHub has claimed that and it might have been Jeremy, but the costs simply do not support the claim by a large margin. Just go and research the per m2 material costs before factoring labour. How much does PV costs per m2, then add in the fancy inline under panel trays.

Take an expensive slated roof at say £2 per slate, £1 per tile to fix and 20 slates per m2 = £60 per m2. Now I will leave it up to you to present the alternative integrated PV costs including the special inline under trays, extra flashing and slate fitting around the trays. I think integrated roof PV is a great idea but roof cover cost saving is not a motivation.

I have read this before on BuildHub but the numbers don't add up.

Both look good at the moment. A grey/green slate or red would match the freshly clad wall wood colour but five years later when the cladding is silver grey? Red pigments tend to fade over time, will that apply to those red tint artificial tiles?

I assumed the architect was thinking 30 years ahead when knee and hip joints are failing. The design is the next best thing to a bungalow with just 3 steps between the lower bedroom and the rest of the ground floor.

Build the house that meets your needs for the next 20 years not the one you dreamed of 5 years ago. Smaller house = less cleaning, heating and more money and/or time to venture elsewhere. Grandchildren between the ages of 10 and 20 will consider a night bunked down on your largest sofa with the TV remote to be an adventure, not an ordeal.

I visited the seller yesterday, the building material is in his back garden and he can ship for another £200. To my no longer completely amateur eye what he is selling is top quality. This would be a non-bid fixed price transaction. How should I handle the payment? My thought is 50% down once he has loaded up the goods at his house, then the remainder at my plot before he unloads. I have never purchased anything from eBay before.

There is an example of this near me on a 10 month old roof, the lead oxide has run down a gully on a pantile roof and it looks like 4m of white alarm cable has been left on the roof. While reading up on the subject of patination oil one tip I got was to lift the flashing and oil the inside lip.

I had bumped into hidden gutters in my research but got the impression they were mostly used for abutments where the cover is a manufactured tile and it would be difficult to shape the soaker around the tile. I shall go for a walk around the village and look for the lead soaker tell-tale kick you warn about. Thanks I had not considered this point. However looking at the following diagram, would the secret gutter not kick the slates as well?

I know of one new build with standard cavities that passed in 2019 with a mid C EPC score. I will be using insulated plasterboard BTW.

I am looking at a roofing quote and I am trying to work out the labour element once material costs have been deducted. It is a small job just 19 m2 and I will be supplying the natural slates and ridges. I suspect the largest material cost within their quote is lead flashing roll. How much lead roll is needed for a 30 degree pitched roof abutment that is 4150mm long i.e. 2m up one slope to the ridge and another 2m down the other side. My working assumption is the flashing will be a standard design using an angled soaker for each 500 x 250 tile all capped off with a staggered length of flashing tucked into regular facing bricks. If my description of the flashing design is not clear I will be following this video