Big Neil

There's even a screw on/off top if you feel like giving them some air.. On a serious note though, but a bunch of cheap wooden stairgates off ebay or wherever, then you can screw them all together and down to the floor, and there are multiple openings then as well...

If the kids you are thinking of are anything like my 3 and 5 year old, nothing less will hold them. Pad the bars if you must i suppose....

whereabouts in the country are you?

Moist!!!

should I have added that this isn't an advert? I just wanted to find if anyone knew anything about either the product or the principle of Cement substitution.

Peter - that is superb - thank you very much. I will try and digest on the bus on the way home

Anyone here used this product? It has been a while since i looked at it, but my understanding from speaking with the producers is that cem-free is an additive/activator or whatever one might call it, which can be used in conjunction with GGBS as a 100% replacement for OPC in concrete. If not this then has anyone used a concrete mix with a large percentage of slag or I guess it could be done with ash?

Thanks @ProDave. So there might be a saving if there is an integral garage where one edge of the garage is near the centre of the house, but otherwise, the idea is try and be clever with the spacing. So maybe UFH manifold for downstairs in cupboard under the stairs and maybe in the loft for the upstairs rooms. Silly quewstion maybe, but other than having a shorter pipe run, what reason is there to centralise the cylinder for rooms (UFH aside) using hot water? I guess i get it for the UFH, but i can't see why it makes a difference for hot water outlets..

with you Pete - obvious now i look at the picture again.

So have you replaced the plastic with copper? If so what was the reason. Was plastic just wrong for your setup?

So lets say you have either an integral or attached garage. Does it make sense to plan in some space within it so you have a wall with everything on. Sort of like a dedicated plant room but just a wall in the garage. Everything this is, water cylinder, consumer unit, UFH manifold at least for the downstairs and maybe other bits i haven't thought of. I'm just thinking in terms of saving inner space where possible. Likewise how many of you guys have wired all your telecoms/network bits to a little patch area likely in the loft, and then do with access points to get wi-fi signal in the living areas?

are there pictures on your blog sir? That is pretty!!! It's not at all what I had in my head, but i like it. I just imagined there would be one big pipe in (the supply from the mains), then one row of blue and another of red (hot and cold obviously) with various pipes going to outlets. Can you clarify for me please what I see here, from maybe top to bottom and left to right?

What now Forest? Will i be able to see boobs in HD when the kids have gone to bed, without things freezing?

Hello all, I'm interested to know if anyone has used manifolds for distribution of hot and cold water, whether primarily for a reduction in intermediate joints or otherwise. also if you didn't, was there a particular reason why?

Interesting that, ii'd never really thought of fibre overhead, but i guess it makes as much sense as power or phone.

Slight thread hijack maybe but sort of relevant given the topic. Does anyone have any direct experience of the cost involved to 'Fibre-ise' a house. So in this case that would mean laying a line from the cabinet mentioned, to the house in question, for fibre to be an option, and in order that anyone along the route could then connect to that line?

Well done for getting on board. Enough of that lets be serious rubbish - let people have inefficient renewable energy systems - let the walls crack - Let the wrong drywall screws be used. There's so mush-room on this forum for everyone to get involved.

Knob...not a mushroom variety, just what my wife called me last night when I told her about this thread!

bloody well done that man. Honestly though i don't think we should carry this on much longer, we don't want to cause any truffle for the moderators!!!!!!!! <iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/FXo3Din7pWybK" width="480" height="192" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/FXo3Din7pWybK">via GIPHY</a></p>

I maitake a little more time before posting on here again BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM

i know.. I should Button it.

@Ferdinand OY-ster'er. Stop stirring. you have no Morel (s).

was thinking something like this https://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/product/manthorpe-g912-joist-seal-48mm-x-100mm-translucent-white.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAt4rfBRBKEiwAC678KcjBxveTrh3hG-s_f4hNIHcnxh49q4Yn9ls9Y3noA64_uHRT0pzX1hoC6F8QAvD_BwE

Thanks Mr Bish, i'll take a proper look later but i've got the details up now. I figured it might just need a metal/plastic sleeve to protect the wood from the concrete, if it was just to be sat on top of the wall prior to the second pour.