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Oh, and while I think of it, one big advantage of Actis over, for example, Celotex is that it is so clean to work with, which if you're doing it yourself as I am is a real bonus.

I wasn't suggesting the post had been altered to dispose of a particular statement, merely to indicate that my reply was posted in response to JSH's post, not PeterW's. And my point about 'bashing' and potentially libelous statements relates to the use of language in relation to multi-foil insulation such as "snake oil", "their mis-selling", " "what can only really be called an open lie" and "they fiddle the tests". Those comments may have been directed at products/practices that were in use years ago, but the inference is that the same is true today. Scandia-Hus recently constructed a new show home using the same spec of insulation that is going into mine, and in February they used a thermal camera to see how it was performing - see http://www.scandia-hus.co.uk/news_items/adelia-show-home-thermal-imaging-survey-results As for sound insulation, if you live near a busy road, or under a flight path, then noise insulation will be far more important than if you live, as I will, in a very quiet residential area. That said, I've been amazed at just how quiet it is in our house already, and that's with much of the H-Control layer (which is quilted layers of foil and fleece) still to be added, never mind the plasterboard and much of the external cladding.

Here we go again, bashing anything you haven't used yourself. Edit: this was actually posted in response to JSH's post below, which he seems subsequently to have removed, edited and reposted. Sailing close to libel rules?

I love marmite. In the process of self-installing now. I'll post results pics when I get a moment.

Don't know how it would compare price wise but our 150mm Actis Hybris plus 45mm Actis H-Control gives a u-value of 0.14

Surely the problem with fitting such film to reduce solar gain is that you reduce it all year round, thus losing much of the potential benefit during cooler periods of the year.

Sounds like a nightmare Dave but is £800/mth really all you could get? We get that for a two bed flat in Portsmouth (and I know someone who pays that for a parking space in London!).

Had my head in our spreadsheet last night. Wish I hadn't though as I always have a restless night after seeing just how much money we're haemorrhaging.

We have the Twintec which is, I believe, virtually identical to the Harveys machine.

Cheers all, and looks can be deceiving, DJF, the outside may not look too shabby, but the inside is a different matter!

Afternoon all, and thank you to whoever validated my registration (I never did receive the email). Anyway, whilst strawberries do not grow on trees, there is such a thing as a Strawberry Tree (Arbutus Unendo), and the very large one on the front corner of our plot inspired the name of our new build - Strawberry Tree Lodge. Progress is slow but I'm getting there. Indeed, if I don't get there before Xmas I'll either be dead or divorced!