Nickfromwales

You can make up (or maybe buy) a union that reverses 3/4” male to a female (3/4” coupler) and then have 2x hep2o manifolds to the same thing, so the first facing up, and the second facing down; the hep units link male > female, and sit in the same direction, hence you’d need to rectify that so you could go male > male or female > female, whichever works better. Obvs you’d have an issue creating the looped feed to both ends, but tbh with good pressure and no 28mm pipework, I doubt there’s any need to create the looped feed. or which will allow you to flip the second one 180°

I thought we were close....but now I feel like I don't know you at all. You stole my OCD, and all the tray, the damage is done. 😭

With loss of dexterity etc a shataf would be impractical vs a Geberit / other “hands free super-loo”. Those wash and dry your undercarriage, however you still need to press buttons on a panel or remote control. Still, designed for folk who are least able or have assisted living.

List them in the marketplace here https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/forum/47-market-place/

Not 45's, use a pair of 15's Just don't tell @Russell griffiths

How hands on are you in terms of heavy graft, 1st & 2nd fix carpentry, boarding, floor coverings etc? @nod is a 1 man army, and multidisciplinary, hence his very low costs. Good to see you’ve gone through an estimator as that’s always a sobering process, obvs with the aim of deleting what / who you can and replacing with your own time and skills.

Tell them they shouldn’t have paid the damaged tiles, end of, and simply ask that they take those back for e free exchange. They’ll whinge that they’ve been fitted so can’t be returned, which is where you say “you should have returned them upon inspection” and stick to your guns. Explain that any which are damaged, further, from no use of a roof ladder, will also constitute damage / defect. Can you tell them asap so the scaffold stays up?

Quickest and easiest thing for you to do is to mix up some drywall adhesive and fill it in, with a bit of DPC laid down first, as @nod states. Leave that DPC long, do the filling, and then cut the excess off when you've skimmed it all. 12.5mm PB with skim is 30 min, no need for 15mm PB as that gives 30 min when no skim is applied.

I would have thought that relates to changes in legislation for commercial food hygiene perhaps, as for domestic nobody would care 2 hoots how / what you strained tbh. That's my only guess!

I've had to install these systems where we fitted full solar window blinds (French company which the name of I cannot recall as it's been a long as feck day) but for Fakro / Velux the manufacturer has made them wind / storm proof out of the box so there's no need (AFAIK) to have any 3rd party controls on those types of units; caveat is that you buy the correct external blinds from the manufacturer of the window / roof light vs a £3.99 one from Ali expiss.

Indeed. Scruffy gits should have offered to clean it up ffs. Go knock the neighbour and tell them its "gloves and bag time" at yours, and show them the mess left behind!!

The secret is to NOT drill in at 90o with the drill bit as you'll have snots of brick which are a PITA to get rid of if you try to do perfectly parallel drilling. So angle the drill outwards (sideways), 5-10o should suffice, so the pocket is slightly wedge shaped. You can try this vs just taking out the nearest whole bricks and then reinstating perfectly cut new bits of brick back in, of course, so let's see how many you do before saying "(expletive deleted) this for a game of rounders" and storming off to the pub. My bet is 2 max, but I'll have a small side bet on the first one seeing you into a straight jacket. Life is short, pick your battles well young Jedi...... and the kicker is, taking whole bricks out CAREFULLY will be a perfectly fine job; you won't find a builder milling out pockets with multi-tools etc, they'd look at you as if you're from another planet 👾 and also if you take whole bricks out you won't have a load of shite fall down into the cavities. Use the force.... ( 👈 LINK)

Plenty of argument to go 3ph these days, but having a decent amount of solar + batteries does become more useful if you can import and export x3 over the same period of time.

Trickle vents would barely scratch the surface!? You’re looking to purge not have a slight breeze Who cares what outside is doing when you’re baking to death inside, so active cooling in whatever form is a wonderful thing for sure. Doors and windows closed, cooling on max, on with the budgie-smugglers. 👊

Perfectly normal for the long edges (tapered) and the butted joints to be holding more skim, taking longer to dry out, and those lines being “visible”. What is not acceptable, is feeling the scrim tape, as this cannot be sanded or painted over, and will be a big problem when you come to decorate. You can see he has over-polished this a bit, through inexperience most prob, hence too much skim has been removed over the tape and it has been exposed. This needs to be PVA’d and redlined afaic, and then ask the guy to play the second set on a bit heavier. Don’t be frightened to speak to him about it, we’re all human at the end of the day, and if he’s a tidy chap he’ll take it on board and up his game a bit. Oh, and don’t put a spirit level against the ceiling again, 🤦‍♂️, less gin more tonic ok!!!

What do you propose for the change in footing of the upper course of block, which would then be straddling the lower, wider cavity?

Yup, it’ll pay dividends. Run the electrics horizontally, in the safe zone, to make like easier, or come up to the outlets from down low and then there’s the least amount of wires to navigate when drilling / fixing bits and bobs.

If a certain volume of air is removed from the property, the exact and equal amount of outdoor air will be drawn in to replace it, via whatever gaps or engineered openings (such as trickle vents) there are. Smells from outside get into my house, same as any house, but with MVHR you get to shut it off in extreme cases whereas I’m bloody well stuck with it. Builders are great…….😌

Yup. A continuous layer where wall units need fixing for sure. Base units not so much, but it’ll be a lot easier if you do the same at the lower level too.

Are there comprehensive pictures of the house being built? The VCL would be my biggest concern, as ventilating internal spaces can be done later tbh.

To be clear, you are being asked to install more fence line between the houses? There’s no need for a physical barrier, just both properties share that access and respect the boundary. Seems nuts to have that dead man’s land between the 2 fences though. Ultimately, it is 100% your own fault for not checking the official deeds and listening to a builder when he just pointed at things, however, if they sold you the property on this understanding and you have it in writing, with evidence, then you could go after the builder (if they were the sellers) for misrepresentation. Are you on good terms with the neighbour?

Rapid EV charging is the obvious advantage, but if you’ve only a modest home it’ll still possibly need a second phase if you want more than one EV charger. It’ll become commonplace for homes to have more than one EV I expect, so this is defo a big consideration for future proofing.

The main issue will be wind catching it, and wind-driven rain getting behind it, so best to get it sorted tbh. Another mass built atrocity? Sorry to hear you’ve had such problems, but it generates more argument for doing the build yourself (next time ).

IIRC, the test is 10 positive + 10 negative, and the score is the average of the 20 tests. Things change, standards move, but the basics remain the same; the devil is in the details and airtightness will always be my #1 recommendation for a comfortable, efficient home, then insulation, then fabric and roof choices for acoustics and decrement delay. Fabric choices can either help or hinder with airtightness, but understanding what you’re doing before you do (or attempt to do) it is paramount, so ask a lot of questions and prepare well.

That was just a random internet grab, so shop around.