MikeSharp01

Someone told me that the trick with Howdens is to get the quote from them for everything you want then sit back and wait for one of their deals to kick in that brings the price down that bit more. It would have worked as we should have done that for the garden room kitchen but took too long deciding if we really wanted the style when the offer was active. (You need an account so you get the offers)

I have access to one - I spend a day a week on it. It belongs to a very old friend who cannot use it any longer so I go and help him out.

Ok PM me when you are ready to send the oak over and we will take it from there.

Here is a celebration breadboard I did this week but cocked up the clamping and on the last cut it moved, pain in the butt, its 295 diameter, - will do another shortly. (The 130 is their total lifespan)

The picture you gave is fine for the fly, the machine will scan it, and for the text just let me know the font.

I can do it if you want Jeremy.

Welcome, some of us are a bit uncouth but entirely well meaning, and always keen to do the right thing, if a little long windedly at times.

Not the batty bats of Farnham surely.

Welcome to THE forum. Sounds like a great project. Looking foward to hearing all about it.

Sorry - my bad. Not sure why I used 11m.

You will need intermediate chambers as you can only go 11m (IIRC) between chambers so maybe thats what the architect was thinking as these chambers will have covers and perhaps you won't want them in some places, eg the middle of a lawn!

Why, one asks probably knowing the answer, would anyone buy a dedicated programmer when a PC, brought a fully functional windows 10 laptop fr £167 last week, and some of THESE which had A-D converter for sensors can control the whole house so much more flexibly.

Depends how far back they have to go. If the meter is on your property you can do it yourself as everything after the meter is your scope anyway, provided its on your land. If on public land then they will charge you but you can do all the uncovering work your side.

How much power are you expecting to draw and how long is the run? PS 25mm2 is 25mm diameter.

@SteamyTeaThat graph is for Ammonia refrigerant, do they use that in domestic systems,? / does it matter much what the refrigerant is anyway I wonder.

So - taking the hint, it looks like it makes best sense to oversize the ASHP unit to keep the noise down? Ours will be right beside the public footpath and I don't want comments about the noise.

All the best, take care and see you around.

Yep - but we will still stand back and look on in awe at the tidiness of the job and it's so much better than the one the gentlemen numpties who did the original @newhome system managed.

Ecology have a reasonable track record but are a little expensive. However they do know what they are doing in this market space. There are other lenders, mostly building societies, but digging one out would perhaps need a broker. See if the broker can find you a mortgage at a better rate than ecology will offer including the 1% fee, if they can you are quids in. If not the go with Ecology. PS Virgin money, Halifax, Nationwide and Hanley all do them.

Well we have 1400 (ish) members so to have £50m buying power each would have to be spending about £36k which it feels like I spent last month on muck away, type 1, peashingle and EPS. So over all our projects say spending £200k on average the buying power over time of the people on here might be as much as £280m - makes you think doesn't it.

Welcome to THE self build forum. Sounds like an interesting project all round. You purchased green belt and got planning permission - how? There must be piling companies who do this just a case of finding one - someone will be along shortly who has some insights.

Architects have professional bodies all of whom have complaints procedures. You could loil them up and see if making a formal complaint would have the desired effect. The PB will know what constitutes unprofessional behaviour - which this looks like it might be from the insights we have been given, and will take up your case if it looks like it to them. At the very least they will inform the architect which might have the required galvanic effect.

Yes, radial plumbing is the way to go if it can be arranged efficiently - IE put the manifold as close to the active middle of the system. (By active I mean demand led activity rather than run length as your kitchen taps will have many short duration demands while the showers will have occasional long demands and the bath very occasional very long demands and losses in these latter two from longer pipe runs are easier to tolerate, IE you can wait a little longer for the hot to come through, where as in the kitchen you want it NOW!.)

Ah - the glory of the sub edit.

If they are proper architects and you engaged them to create acceptable warrent drawings then these are clearly so full of holes you wonder what they were doing. Anyway just get them to fix it all at their expense.