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And there was you thinking you’d only asked where to put the bath .

Definitely worth revisiting the design again before you press the commit button. You want to be absolutely sure it's right. We made some reasonably significant changes to the internal design that our TF company incorporated into the design and it was a pretty easy task to get the building warrant updated. The building warrant was already in place when we bought the plot and the internal layout modeled on the house that had just been built next door. I found the local building control pretty flexible in terms of changes to the internal layout and we did change one or 2 minor things halfway through too that they allowed us to literally draw on the plans in red pen.

If the window is frosted then you could put the bath in front of it anyway. It will be no different to having it next to a wall and leaving the wall space will allow you space for the cupboard you want. Storage is a must in a bathroom that size especially if you are sharing the space with a woman

I've got a cupboard - it's full and 'stuff' is still everywhere

Personally I wouldn't like the bath or basins in front of the shower but that's individual choice. Apart from the style aspect it may make the bath and shower screen a bit of a nightmare to clean. Can't you move the bath under the window and have space for a cupboard opposite the door? Assume you are having 2 basins?

Mine does. I have to have all of the windows open so I generally only do it when it's not baltic outside, but then of course the room gets hot in summer. In fact I need to do it again but will wait for the weather to be cooler than it is now before I do. I would plan to do this on a day when you can be home, leave all the windows open in the kitchen, shut the internal doors and either sit outside or use a different room. And don't leave any pets in the room as it will be unpleasant for them too.

You are going to change the worktop anyway so take that off and as @ProDave says there should be a gap (service void) down the back of the units.

We went for 2 50/50 split integrated fridge freezers. Not next to each other as there is a larder cupboard in between but they would work side by side as @PeterW suggests. My reason however was that I prefer all the fresh food in the fridge to be at eye level, with the frozen in drawers beneath and easy to access.

You don't always get the best price by buying them all from a single retailer. I would price up each appliance separately by shopping around for the best price and see if that brings the cost down at all.

That style would be ace in a book! It would just need a good glossary at the back! You can't suppress style, it's a unique selling point!

Shh! . Sleeping in it aren't you

That's looking great. Must have been a lot of hard work alongside the ASHP installation.

Damn it! Missed whatever it was you wrote! ?

No, the one across the back where the farm is. LPG and storage heaters is the only heating in that. The new one next door doesn't have an EPC either. They have an oil boiler and radiators.

Nope it’s about 70s / 80s looking at the decor.

You probably need to edit the first post, ie this one, to add a summary of where you've got to and the difficulties you have faced. You can add photos too if you have some you would like to add. Then as you come to do a new entry you need to start a new blog post like the one following about the trusses. Each new blog post to have it's own entry from now on, unless you want to add more info about a post you've already made in which case you can edit the entry to add the new info.

Warmer to live in a tent?

Still doesn’t have my house or the new build next door. The other side has a score of 34 (listed cottage) and the strange Swiss chalet looking house at the farm behind has a score of 21 ?

I tried searching for several roads in my village not using the postcode, still nada. Does it cover Scotland?

Nothing there for my postcode. No reports exist for that postcode

Hey, you are not butting in. The scheme has its nonsense elements from assessment through to the calculations. I dread to think what my score is like given that the RHI calculator goes off the scale lol. It says my heating demand is 26,200 kWh and I know I don’t heat all the rooms but I have MHRV that circulates the air and I used just over 6000 kWh here last year. 26,200 sounds crazy!

I honesty wouldn’t worry @lizzie as if you know that your house performs better than that then that is what counts, not some irrelevant piece of paper. Without renewables you are always going to be penalised in a score type system.

I don't think I have an EPC assessment TBH, I had SAP and U Values that were passed to the council but I've never had an EPC assessment AFAIK. Anyway I just punched my house size etc into the RHI calculator and it says " Your property has a heat demand that exceeds the limits of the scheme and therefore your estimated payments shown are based on this cap" and caps it at the maximum of £1300 PA for 7 years so £9100. Seems that as soon as you say the floor area is 350m2 and the heating is all electric the space heating demand flies off the scale. So maybe the EPC doesn't matter on that basis. Might be worth considering an MSC install on those figures I guess.

Say I wanted to apply for RHI could I say completely terrible things to the assessor in the hope of getting a poor score (well not below a D I think), and then when I came to sell be much more enthusiastic about everything leading to a decent score? Smoke and Mirrors!

They are dependent on Mr Telehandler doing his stuff so hopefully @Christine Walker will add some truss photos later when she comes out of hiding and can report that it's all gone great . Fingers crossed!