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  1. MikeSharp01
    Looks amazing, welcome to THE forum.
  2. MikeSharp01
    Looks good Dave - loads of interesting cuts - bet they were a mission.
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    Halifax might well deal with you directly. It is a bank after all so won't have any of the hangups a building society would have. They may ask why you have bypassed the broker and you can then tell them.
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    Does that mean the flat bit has to be 600mm wide? As I read it provided the flat bit, a 200mm wide and deep beam in my case, was no more than 300mm from the peak then you were OK.
  5. MikeSharp01
    I think the regs say they need to be placed no more than 600mm from the peak (150mm for heat sensors) so if you have a flat bit then it, if my reading is correct, should be on the flat bit at the peak.
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    Most of these are simple to solve, remain well outside the relms of environmentally friendly building in the round and seem to me to be stretching your argument, already it seems to me erring on the side of thin and perhaps even somewhat lacking balance, a little too far. In some senses I am with you, we may not get our build certified, but the credibility of the model is none the less sound it seems to me. Additionally you can probably, with a little tweaking / extending, take your original bunch of data idea and apply it to any research / development / profling / financial situation provided after you have validated against the original data it continues to work when presented against more recent data in this way you do have a valid model. This in the same sense that Newtons laws remained able to fit the data until we got mixed up with new data on a different scale, quantum, in such places where Newtonian physics do not apply or have limited application. So what the PHPP does is predict how a building will perform given a number of inputs and provided you stick with the units and scale it is not a bad predictor, although perhaps not as absolute as Newtons laws (where they apply).
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    You have a big choice now, you can go for tracker / fixed / offset in all kinds of combinations. Watch out for fees as depending on how long ahead you are looking and what circumstances, including personal, you see ahead the fee / lower fee / no fee equation can get a bit fraught. You may or may not be thinking forward to helping the kids as this can have a bearing as well because, among other things, the longer the fix the more the early repayment charges will be etc. One thing to bear in mind is that if you choose a fix then at the end of the fix period the provider is usually obliged, check, to offer you the chance to move to any of their other products without complications of applications etc. Also if you go for a fix try and get them to max out your repayments so that you end up with the smallest possible, you can afford, outstanding amount at the end of the fix that way you are making the most of the interest rate.
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    Thanks Jeremy. OK so I have two 4m Strips which is about 4.8A in total fed from both ends I can get away with 2.4A in the return and 800mA on each line (assuming they are wired as three colour signals and one return [0V] connection). I think that means the DEF STAN 16-2-4A cable I have should be fine, I think I may have some screened stuff somewhere but I suspect not need. Will bring it down and pull it in on Monday.
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    How much is a fair bit these days? Better get the cross section right, was working on 500mA @ 24V = 12W per colour / 1.5A return but could be way out.
  10. MikeSharp01
    Just got to pull the last few cables through in the Garden room and I have two lengths of Ceiling wash RGB LED lighting I need to feed. My plan is to run a multi core cable to each of them and have the controller in the systems cupboard. I am not sure of the number of cores I might possibly need as I have yet to choose the LED product. Also as this is a test bed for the main house I may want to change it. Anybody got any experience to share?
  11. MikeSharp01
    Well done @recoveringacademic, is it beer o'clock - don't worry I will buy my own?
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    Yes but that is not the point is it. Even if the model has its flaws, and it does, it addresses the key issues consistently and levels the playing field with a set of reasonably transparent calculations and associated underpinning assumptions. Some things cannot be argued - the more air tight you make it the less heat it will loose. the more insulation you use the better the U value and so lower heat loss, etc. Connect this to those consistent assumptions about how much hot water a number of people will use alongside all the other assumptions and you have a model that is consistent. So if you want to leave the hot tap running you can that won't make it any the less a passive house just a wasteful one.
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    Think you need a 110 AAV as it has a toilet feels to me like 50mm won't vent it enough for a good flush but I am sure someone who knows for sure will be along shortly, frustrating if you cannot hide it though what about having 4 - 5 50mm AAV's in a row on a prefab manifold you might hide them.
  14. MikeSharp01
    They do base the certificate on the reality rather than the theory in the sense that they use the as built details to validate it. Only long term will you actually 'know' what is what.
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    If you can get better than 4.8% then why is everybody not doing it. I suspect because it's not regulated, we perhaps have not adjusted our ROI meters back a sensible return over a slightly increased period to allow a business to florish and we have forgotten that if a thing looks to good to be true then it probably is to good to be true .
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    Watch this and be moved by what we can do, how far you can go in 40 years if your are travelling at 40,000 miles an hour, notice how insignificant we are when seen from 20.8 billion Km away and then ponder our stupidity - I think therefore I am just a little worried.
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    Or perhaps not as it has taken over 2000 years to pick up the pieces the last time the son of a god wandered free on the planet.
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    Come Wednesday commeth 'da man' again as the new series of Grand designs starts. I have no doubt we will chew it over here. It does seem that Kevin can be a bit short sighted in not controlling the message in enough detail, while being so far sighted as to want to sort out our housing crisis - well a corner of it anyway. @JSHarris has pointed out that he should probably not try to compete with the big housebuilders - dead right they are truly awful so one might argue that anything, albeit somewhat flawed, has to be a step in the right direction. What he, Kevin, needs is help - not cash but genuine support in trying new ways forward. I have a good mind to write to him, point out build hub and get him some help.
  19. MikeSharp01
    Another day another dollar well £50 million if you are Kevin mcCloud. You cannot help but applauding his drive and wish him well with this venture but you need to be knowledgeable investor and its a risk but at least it might move things forward. On the other end of the scale your man from Redrow mentioned on the Today programme this morning that once brexit brings the flow of EU tradesmen to a stop building in London and the SE will also stop. Perhaps if instead of short term profit they should have invested in making 'trades' sexy and lucrative for bright kids who don't want 'pure brain / talking work' and then offered them an apprenticeship and then paid them well. The levy was never big enough to allow the CiTB to get any traction in schools and across a society, establishment, that has driven a wedge into our society around a degree for one half of the population and not provided a positive image for trades on the other side for which there is clearly a demand - some body get a grip. Rant over.
  20. MikeSharp01
    Connect is the last thing you want to do with him. Shocking idea!
  21. MikeSharp01
    Given the way it has tracked across the floor the small Island of damp seems to reinforce the idea of it coming from above and dripping in one spot but the remainder does not. If it is driving it could get through the block work run down the inside and under the DPC below the sole plate. What is the detail for the containment of weeps through the block work? Does it get direct out of weep holes or is it handled in some other way?
  22. MikeSharp01
    Thanks Jeremy, looks like the way to go.
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    ASBA is a community or RIBA architects, you can only call yourself an architect if you are RIBA registered, who just specialise in house building so I guess you would need an RIBA architect who is linked / associated or otherwise pays homage to the goals of ASBA.
  24. MikeSharp01
    Ok .75 of a bottle of Malbac later and I now wonder if perhaps - just perhaps we might hear 'go on punk make my shed.' (To bouglarise somewhat.)
  25. MikeSharp01
    Ok so will forget the tilt it is a windage nightmare anyway. So think I will go EPDM under the cells and tiles round the edges. Cheaper that way at least. Thanks all - another problem solved! ( the dreaded exclamation mark again - Trump style.)
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