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Hoping so, Barney. Will post again later.

Finally arrived and going in today

Ours is 15mm flow and return, and yes there does need to be a condensate drain.

This is the type we have http://www.aircon.panasonic.eu/GB_en/product/aquarea-air-radiators/

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).

@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).

Yep, and that was before Brexit hammered the exchange rate.

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And you may well be right Dave, but that will be for expert investigators to establish. I'm not saying it's a subject that shouldn't be discussed here, nor that speculation about cause is not justifiable, but it seems to me that we should be responsible enough to refrain from pointing fingers at specific companies/products for fear of defaming innocent parties. My point however was that I was shocked that the discussion had not been prefixed by expressions of sadness/sympathy for those affected (be that victims, their families/friends, the emergency services, etc). Six degrees of separation. Let"s hope nobody reading this thread is closer to this tragedy.

Shocking. So many speculative opinions, so few expressions of sympathy for all those affected.

I wondered where you were going with that post until I realised you hadn't capitalised the S in swedes

@craig, yes we are indeed in a residential area, and I quite understand that we need to respect neighbours, but I fail to see why it needs to be so stringent. I applied to the LA planning dept for the restriction to be relaxed on the basis of internal work only, involving no use of power tools or hammering, etc, but got a flat refusal (and our neighbours would be on the phone to them like a shot if they saw us on site out of the permitted hours).

Got to say I'm amazed how many of you are seemingly allowed to have work ongoing on Sundays. We're only allowed to work on site from 0800 to 1800 Monday - Friday and 0800 to 1300 on Saturdays. No Saturday afternoons, no Sundays and no Bank Holidays. We can't even push a paintbrush inside the house out of the permitted hours.

More of the first side done (will need a tower to finish the last few pieces) and have started the opposite side today.

Have moved around to the back today.

Whilst our master bedroom is upstairs, we have (as closely as possible) replicated this downstairs so that we can switch to ground floor living if/when it becomes necessary. We also have gone for wide doors everywhere, no thresholds internally (Karndean flooring throughout), flush thresholds on all external doors (including onto patio/deck), lowered kitchen worktops on handleless cupboards, no wall cupboards, eye-level (actually slightly lower than normal) ovens with slide and hide doors, a four burner hob with all four arranged in a single row so no need to reach across to back burners, midi height fridge and freezers (no point having fulĺ height if you can't reach the top shelves), inward opening windows with the handles positioned low on the frame, low tray walk in showers with low level shower controls, simple push button privacy locks on the bathroom doors and a fully open plan kitchen/dining/living space.

Likewise, in fact my wife's health (and our advancing years) has heavily influenced the design, inside and out. We intend this to be the house we live in for the rest of our days, so it was imperative that we considered how it would adapt to meet our changing needs as time passes and health/mobility deteriorates.

Sorry, but can I ask what's wrong with having a ramp/level access? We designed it in from the outset and cannot imagine why we'd want to replace it with steps and, as mentioned earlier in the thread, many of us may need such access in years to come (never mind for visitors).

Should be having our Sageglass commissioned within the next few weeks so will finally find out whether it will control the solar gain as effectively as it 'says on the tin'.