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I did consider this, much like a microwave turntable, but thought it might end up being a bit cumbersome. It needs to be something that will move relatively freely or Mrs NSS simply won't be able to turn it from a seated position.

Had never heard of a slewing bearing but they look to be a potentially ideal solution ?

Found this https://www.sdslondon.co.uk/furniture-turntables/turntable-360-degree-450-kg.html?campaign=196461189&content=193655401383&keyword=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8syJio2d3gIViLHtCh3HKgbaEAQYAyABEgIq__D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds but not sure how durable it would be for outside use.

Cheers Jeremy, but as mentioned I estimate loading to be 150-200kgs.

We have a Growmate pyramid greenhouse like the one below. The glazed section lifts and rotates above the base and one section of glass lifts out to allow access to tend the stuff growing inside. Unfortunately, Mrs NSS is no longer able to get down on her knees (or get up again if she does) so I want to raise the whole thing up to a suitable height. That would of course be relatively easy, but I would actually like to make it so the whole thing, base and all, can easily rotate too, thus allowing her to sit in one position and turn it as needed to access each segment. Effectively, it needs to sit on a large 'Lazy Susan', but one which will cope with a total weight of perhaps 150 to 200kgs. Any ideas as to what I could use without having to spend a small fortune?

We were I believe the first UK residential installation. Retail cost of rectangular units was circa £800 per m2 and shaped units (we have 3) were double that but we negotiated a substantial discount. Not sure what impact exchange rates will have had since then but, if your budget can accommodate it, SageGlass is such an elegant solution.

Google SageGlass. It works for us.

How much money did the first architect take them for, designing a £500k build when their budget was £250k and then they spent more on several additional iterations of drawings before getting a new architect.

Appreciate it's too late for your build, but those kind of costs make the SageGlass solution we used a viable option for anyone facing similar issues and for whom it's early enough to factor in.

That's not a garage, it's an aircraft hanger! ?

We've got 15mm throughout.

@lizzie it was about time you had a bit of good news!

Thanks Lizzie. Yes, there are inevitably ups and downs. She's learning to enjoy the good days and endure the not so good ones, but she's her worst enemy in that she tends to overdo it on the good ones and then suffer for it!

Hi Lizzie, really sorry to hear your new home has not had the positive impact on your health that ours has had for my wife. Feel bad for getting your hopes up when I first reported how much better she's been since moving in, and just hope things take a turn for the better for you soon.

Agree with all that, but there are exceptions. Mrs NSS for example spent chunks of her childhood in oxygen tents and bandaged from head to toe due to chronic asthma and eczema. Her allergies have always been bad but she has become allergic to an increasing range of 'things' and her reactions more severe despite being a child of the sixties (so exposed to all the same things you mention).

I don't think anyone is knocking them for trying to do the best for their family, just questioning how they've gone about it. As someone whose build was all about creating the right environment for my wife and her chronic lung and allergy conditions (not to mention multiple other serious health conditions), and as I said over on the other thread, obsessing about low voc materials is irrelevant if you then create so many dust traps.

Not sure what to make of all that. Obsessing about low voc materials seems irrelevant when there are dust traps everywhere you looked.

Never watched it but it sounds like I've not missed much!

I'll be watching tonight's episode with interest. It's billed as "Britain's first 'healthy' house" and that's quite a claim.

Looked pretty good from the opposite side of the valley.

Our towel rads are on loops from the UFH circuits but also have electric elements. We leave both valves open all year round and seem to suffer very little 'leakage' of heat into the UFH when using the electric elements.

I was approached with a view to having our build covered on 'The House that £100k Built' (think that was it's name). I just laughed and asked whether they'd actually looked at the plans.

Yep, I ordered enough for the next 2 years from them last week ?

Can't really comment ref the noise and whether changing the filters will address that, but I guess it's possible if the filters are particularly clogged and the fan is struggling as a consequence. As for cost, you don't mention which MVHR you have but you might want to look at www.topswtwfilters.nl/en I've not used them myself but believe others on here have. As for health implications, if the house was designed to have MVHR then it's not only poor air quality that could result if it's not running as designed. How much that could affect your kids is hard to say but, for example, if they suffer with asthma or the like then it could be detrimental.

Hi @lizzie, I've not done any measurements here but totally agree re changing exhaust filter to G4 and, as @JSHarris says, it takes a while for a new home to 'settle'. We've been in ours for 10 months now and the benefit to Mrs NSS has been remarkable. For 18 months before we moved in she nebulised twice daily. In the last 8 months she's used it twice, in total!