Nickfromwales

Anyone experienced and competent, you meant to say

Yup.

SELV covers up to 50v iirc.

£30k is a lot of dosh for mediocre work and then having the house damaged too is just shocking.

Close off one UFH loop at a time (one per 24hrs) and then reopen and close the next one along, and keep going until you’ve proven the leak doesn’t stop when a particular loop is isolated (remember you MUST close off flow and return tightly or the test won’t work, so righty-tighty for flow gauge and the blank caps on the lower). Best to start there, but as above this needs finding asap as that’s a good few litres of water at least being pumped into the fabric of your new home. Fingers crossed that it’s finding its way to ground somehow, waters good at finding a way out, if one exists.

Usually to get higher DHW flow rates, or possibly somewhere to bin off some excess solar PV.

What’s the timelines? Pool went in before the ‘side’ extension or after? Do you know the size of the excavation that occurred for the pool, and ground conditions? Is the new extension to be 1 or 2-storey? You may be able to do a piled (screw vs percussion) foundation to completely remove the need to excavate, other than for a foul pipe if there’s need for drainage. You’ll need geotechnical survey doing by the foundation contractor or independent to see if that’s an option, plus you’ll need to know what services lay beneath, historical records for mains sewers / gas / water and so on. I’d be asking a ‘pool expert’ if you’re better off emptying the pool during these works, or half emptying it, or leaving it full etc. That will likely be a good SE, one who’s done pools before. I have a very good SE I can share details of who’s very well versed in ICF / pools / basements, PM me if you get stuck. For a covering, do a good job as you don’t want any damage to the pool whatsoever. 4x2 timbers across the width and 18mm OSB sheets to cover the pool. Make some uprights at each corner and midpoints as necessary with hazard tape strung between them to act as a guard rail, and a BFO sign saying not to walk on it and swimming pool below etc.

Yup. Just off for 30 seconds and back on should do it.

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The inner leaf always does the heavy lifting. Outer is just for a rain screen.

Erm… wouldn’t this still be a block inner-block outer cavity wall to sit atop the cavity of brickwork? If so, the joists would be toothed into the inner leaf? The ends of the posis would be designed to have timber stock set into the ends of them, to sit on masonry robustly, and the top chord would just be ordered long, to fly over, and be cut as desired.

Crack on.

Doesn’t sound terrible tbh, but I’m just not a fan of SIP’s vs a proper timber frame blown full of cellulose. Have you read the small print twenty times? Usually you’ll be responsible for a lot of stuff and you need that costed out before you take one more step forward, so you have a high level project cost. I was going to ask about the promised AT score, but I’m assuming 1.0ach or close to?

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Whoa!!!!!! We could be sued for defamation if you abuse a member in such a derogatory way, and I think you should……… ………oh, hang on. Did you say @Pocster? Sorry, yes, he’s fair game. Fill your boots My apologies. 😂