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MikeSharp01

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    I am a retired academic of 35 years, I have also run a couple of businesses (engineering) and had a short stint as a TV presenter - at the moment I amuse myself building a new home for my other half and I in East Kent.
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  1. If you are comfortable power down the diverter and then open the immersion and remove the live wire, wrap the open end in tape and close the immersion cover - wait to see of the problem goes away.
  2. Yes the technical guy I have been speaking to took me through all the details and advised me on flow rates, silencing, back pressure calculations etc. Really helpful.
  3. Any long term issues with the Titons, we are just about to order the new 4B eco plus?
  4. Plus one for Envirograf - they will help you if they can they will ask you for such things as the surface material - in your case OSB, the fire rating needed and the area to be covered, they then work out the amount of paint and sell you that amount - they won't sell you less and will specify the number of coats of paint. Then once you have done the job they will send you a certificate you can shown to building control. It feels like a faff but its certified work you can actually do yourself. We have used it on all the structural metal work in our build - very limited amount to be fair. They will even give you stickers you can put on the finished surface warning people not to strip it!
  5. If it were insulated on the top as well then it would be a Thermal store of sorts then maybe it would be useful but as they are, By design, open on top to heat the house they are all but useless. Although you do have a load of mass at 20deg to play with if that helps.
  6. We are all sorry for your loss Joe
  7. Can you actually get inverted hangers like that? You will need to pack the Web out to the hanger so you can get the full support to the sides of the hanger. Is there any insulation on the outside of the vertical beam the rafter cones down to. If not you could insulated along the outside edge with some pu and get a better overall performance for the overall detail so you don't need to worry about metal hangers.
  8. What proportion of that is appliances? We are deciding appliances now and will get to the final layout around them, ours will be painted doors so we can maintain them and choose nearer the time. I think we now have the floor tiles chosen so that sort of defines everything and as you say it's a mine field with the other half.
  9. I had no problems during yesterday, didn't post much but read a lot - I was only on via my phone but for chunks of the day it would have been on our Wifi at the build.
  10. Or as I prefer keep it stupidly simple.
  11. Great idea and the large housebuilders will need jump even further than they would if they had allowed the earlier attempt at it..
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