NSS
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@TerryE, that's a coincidence. We too used Complete Stair Systems.
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New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040
NSS replied to Triassic's topic in Environmental Building Politics
In 1981 I was driving a 1965 Buick Riviera 425ci Super Wildcat that did 7mpg (on 5* fuel). I now drive a Jag XE R-Sport that averages over 50mpg and I have recently returned over 80mpg on a trip to Birmingham and back. Battery technology will make similar advances, volume production will lower prices, and tests are already underway with 'in road' charging that will make it possible to top up battery levels as you drive. -
New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040
NSS replied to Triassic's topic in Environmental Building Politics
Not sure what all the fuss is about. The car will have evolved enormously by 2040, as it has in the last 23 years. For example, the European Car of the Year award was won, in 1995, by that shining example of modern motoring, the Fiat Punto. -
You could always use.... On second thoughts, I'd better not open that can again
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Might be worth looking at Thermowood. They claim 30 year durability untreated for cladding use and up to 60 years if treated at regular intervals. Half of our build is clad with it and the rest in Marley Cedral Click. One advantage of the Thermowood is that it's very stable.
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Let's just say you're within a couple of grand
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Not as much as you might expect.
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Could have been a lot worse. Glass is UK sourced where as the rest came from Italy. A few more pics
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It's also there to tie the inner stringers to the outer ones. I'll take a pic of the underside when I get a chance.
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It was all going so well, but one piece of glass doesn't fit as they'd not allowed for the architrave on the doorway
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Hoping so, Barney. Will post again later.
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Finally arrived and going in today
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Ours is 15mm flow and return, and yes there does need to be a condensate drain.
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This is the type we have http://www.aircon.panasonic.eu/GB_en/product/aquarea-air-radiators/
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We have a Panasonic air rad upstairs running off our ASHP and it can provide cooling to the bedroom in summer or additional heating in winter (UFH downstairs only).
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@Barney12 for us it was a solution to a problem (or at least a potential one) as design calculations showed that overheating may be an issue. We cannot open windows to purge excess heat as the whole reason for building it is to create a clean air environment for my wife (who has a degenerative lung disease). We have a Paul MVHR but with HEPA filtering to achieve this, so opening windows would defeat the object (and full air conditioning would have been almost as expensive to install and much more costly to run).
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Yep, and that was before Brexit hammered the exchange rate.
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Full price at the time of ordering was circa ₤1k/m2 for the rectangular IGUs and double that for the shaped ones, plus about ₤2k for the control panel, switching, etc, and another ₤2.3k for shipping and commissioning, but I hasten to add I paid nothing like those numbers and you have also to deduct the cost of the glass that would have been supplied by Internorm.
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@JSHarris, the IGUs have a 2-core 'tail' with a flat profile connector which sits between the IGU and the frame. The control cable has a matching flat connector and the cable passes through a 3mm hole drilled through the timber profile of the window frame and then on through the stud of the window opening into void. In our case we then routed the cables in the ceiling void as part of the first fix.
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Yep, it's pretty expensive, but we got a substantial discount for being the first residential customer in the UK. Not sure how easy it would be to retrofit as you need to run cables from the IGUs, zonal switches and a light sensor back to a control panel. Oh, and I should add, our frames are Internorm but those being fitted with the SageGlass were supplied unglazed.
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LOL. And more importantly, the SageGlass will now automatically reduce solar gain when we don't need it, but allow it when we do. Okay, it's more expensive than reflective film, but it was noticeable working in the house today just how much cooler it remained.
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A couple more pic, from inside and outside with the glass in it's fully tinted state. You can see out, but you can't see in.
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Hectic day on site today, so just one pic for now showing side by side panes with one tinted to around 50% and the other untinted. Takes about 3 minutes to tint to this level and about 5 minutes to fully tint (which blocks about 96% of the solar gain). More pics tomorrow.
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Think you'll find that at least some of the current Actis product does hold BBA certification. That said, IF the external cladding of Grenfell Tower is found to have contributed to this tragedy, and if BBA certificates exist for any such products, then I'd question whether BBA approval is worth the paper it's written on.
