Nickfromwales

Give me the slab every damn day of the week.

IR point and see ones seem to give big differences based on the colour or effectiveness of the thing they’re pointed at. That’s largely why I’ve not bothered as largely they’re shite. A good FLIR camera attachment to a mobile phone seems a good solution, or just a cheap Chinese android phone with the facility built in. One of those ‘get what you pay for’ situations methinks.

Sorry, can be done before or after boarding, but I’d do it after boarding and all 1st fix, which iirc is what AB recommend. Doable either way in actuality, but you’re responsible for then preserving the ‘treated’ exposed surfaces until they’re covered.

Defo before skim. However, it can be done after if you’re closing the gate after the horse has buggered off.

Correct. ☑️. I see tapes peeling back and loosening their airtight grip, but in complete honesty I don’t see this happening with AB. I’ll be using / promoting AB on future (suitable) projects without a seconds hesitation. I’m seriously impressed. No affiliation btw, and not on commission wish I was though as I’m sure this will become more and more popular.

To clarify, I’d never assume a slab would be good enough to take to a threshold with zero tolerance allowed. I always assume that we need to build up at the openings (doorways and sliders etc) where you need to be level and just shy of flush for aesthetics.

Only if you use inexperienced (or shite) contractors. You’ll notice in the detail I shared that I’ve allowed for the floated concrete slab to be self levelled, and then feathered to allow a specific level at the threshold (Karndean LVT for this particular clients project) which gives room for ‘human / installer error’. If you’ve discounted a power floated slab, what’s the alternative?

You’ll need to get over this aversion, but directing the right funds to the right people, at an appropriate and controlled time. Look to go 1.5 storeys as to build a bungalow is just such a waste of the same footprint. It’s not much more cost to put rooms in a roof, 2 birds with 1 stone afaic, so look at costing out both options. But for planning I’d go for the 1.5 storey first and see if it gets passed, as the long term resale value for an extra bedroom with ensuite upstairs would be significant, and may be somewhere where you can recover part of the overall investment (in equity). Bungalows suck imo lol. Why use up a good piece of land to only utilise half the potentially habitable space??

Ditto. SIPS would be my last choice, but then I’d just go masonry and simplify.

You’d need to see this for yourself, or accept my ramblings about just how good this is. It’s like pouring liquid PVA into a gap and it being left to cure. It’s nothing like fibres, just atoms of the ‘product’ that hit each other, bond together, and then cure in situ. The depth of the gap / void / crack has the product disappear more deeply into, then as that closes less and less heads in, but when sealed it’s a very good, penetrating seal. It’s like hammering more and more wedges into a gap I guess. In terms of longevity I would only think it would fail if left exposed and subject to mechanical wear and tear, but once covered over it’s there to stay afaic. This has been used for some time in the USA, so maybe search across the pond for reviews / instances of failure or issue perhaps?

Give it to the architect if you want to burn money, or get it near as damn it before doing so and reduce the pain.

Is that the WiFi app? Has it just lost communication?

The truth sometimes hurts

Did they demonstrate how long the 2 loops would each be? For this amount of m2 I would be looking elsewhere as the loop lengths would be crazy long, and the effectiveness of the loop pretty dire; energy disrupted into the slab would soon sap the heat out of the pipe long before it had returned to the manifold. Thos installer needs to be binned off afaic.

5 bedroom needs a system capable of 6 person occupancy. Your ‘advisor’ shouldn’t suggest a system of lesser capacity. Get an air-blower based treatment plant, and leave the coconuts to the good people that make the Bounty chocolate bars .